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Bolt's sprint double (20 August 09:27) |
| Jamaica's 100m champion Usain Bolt added the 200 metres title to his list of achievements on Wednesday, winning the Olympics final in a world record time of 19.30 seconds. |
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Vijender in SF (20 August 09:27) |
| Vijender Kumar made sure of another medal for India at the Beijing Olympics when he beat Carlos Gongora of Ecuador in the quarter-finals of the 75 kg category in the boxing competition on We... |
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Sushil Kumar wins bronze (20 August 09:27) |
| Kumar beat Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov 3:1 in the 65 kg freestyle event at the Beijing Games on Wednesday. |
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Kenneth Haywood flees, but mystery stays (20 August 09:27) |
| Kenneth Haywood, the US national who gave the Indian police a slip, remains a mystery. Rediff's Matthew Schneeberger investigates. |
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America's top-paid young CEOs : Forbes (20 August 09:27) |
| These 15 wunderkinder are making serious bank running some of the largest public companies in the US. |
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Just 1 medal? Mittal wants more (20 August 09:27) |
| The two-year-old Mittal Champions Trust, set up by the world's richest Indian Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, is not satisfied with the results at the Beijing Olympics that yielded just one medal from... |
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Live | Vijender wins, assured of medal (20 August 07:55) |
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India post nervy victory in 2nd ODI (20 August 07:55) |
| India registered a three-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in a low-scoring second ODI to level the five-match series 1-1. |
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'Musharraf's exit is an opportunity for India' (20 August 07:55) |
| India and Pakistan have a real opportunity to take relations forward after the exit of President Pervez Musharraf, feels Adrian Levy, co-author of Deception: Pakistan, the United States and ... |
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View: What Prachanda as PM means for India (20 August 07:55) |
| If Prachanda is prudent and mature, he won't let relations with India be marred by anti-India posturing. Will he be able to do that? India's long border with Nepal has seen an unusual growth... |
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Live: Jitender Kumar loses in quarters (20 August 05:58) |
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2nd ODI: India beat SL by 3 wickets (20 August 05:58) |
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Single agency should tackle terrorism: Kalam (20 August 05:58) |
| Advocating a national campaign to eliminate terrorism from the country, former President APJ Abdul Kalam has suggested a single agency for gathering and dissemination of intelligence. |
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'Bengaluru blasts case will be cracked soon' (20 August 05:58) |
| State Home Minister Dr V S Acharya said that the government was committed in its fight against terror and it is only a matter of time before the Bengaluru serial blasts case is cracked. |
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Mob sets Jammu BJP leader's house ablaze (20 August 05:58) |
| Unruly mobs set on fire on Wednesday to the vehicle of Jammu Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ajay Jamwal and tried to torch his official residence in Gandhi Nagar area, eyewitnesses... |
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Scientists grow blood in a lab (20 August 05:58) |
| Now, a team in the United States has created red blood cells by exposing cultures of human ESCs to a sequence of nutrients and growth factors -- this turned them first into haemangioblasts, ... |
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Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins bronze (20 August 04:07) |
| Kumar beat Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov 3:1 in the 65 kg freestyle event at the Beijing Games on Wednesday. |
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Du Toit swims marathon with one leg (20 August 04:07) |
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LIVE: India inch to target (20 August 04:07) |
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North Karnataka emerges as terror hub (20 August 04:07) |
| North Karnataka has emerged as the hotbed for terror activity, according to intelligence sources. The recent operation by the Gujarat and Karnataka police in which two doctors were picked up... |
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Narayan Rane paints himself into a corner (20 August 04:07) |
| The Congress party has not only cut him down to size in the latest re-jig of the organisational wing but virtually put him away. He does not know if he should attend the weekly cabinet meeti... |
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'India's moon mission in October or December' (20 August 04:07) |
| India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, according to noted space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisat... |
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Brahmos hopes to clinch orders worth $10 billion (20 August 04:07) |
| After successfully working on the contracts for the Indian navy and army, the New Delhi-based JV is now poised to expand in the international market and some of the contracts are already in ... |
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LIVE: India 17-2 at break (20 August 02:29) |
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Special: Du Toit swims marathon with one leg (20 August 02:29) |
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'Lightning' Bolt could do a Carl Lewis (20 August 02:29) |
| Jamaica's Usain Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday. |
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View: Who will be the next PM? (20 August 02:29) |
| One reason why Sharad Pawar may be rooting for Manmohan Singh is to earn his goodwill, and the backing of all those forces who support what Singh stands for, and paradoxically of those insid... |
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'He has defined Indian cinema' (20 August 02:29) |
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Curfew imposed in Jammu after fresh violence (20 August 02:29) |
| Curfew was clamped again in Jammu and the army was deployed on Wednesday after violence erupted late on Tuesday night leaving 40 people, including nine policemen, injured.However, the curfew... |
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Musharraf denies reports of leaving Pakistan (20 August 02:29) |
| Amid intense speculation about his future after stepping down, former president Pervez Musharraf has denied reports that he would leave his "first love" Pakistan and settle in another countr... |
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Trade bandh: Bengal, Kerala come to a standstill (20 August 02:29) |
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LIVE, 2nd ODI: SL lose 6th wkt (20 August 11:46) |
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Olympics braces for BMX debut (20 August 11:46) |
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Cheerleaders (20 August 11:46) |
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Sharath Kamal loses in 2nd round (20 August 11:46) |
| Achantha Sharath Kamal surrendered 1-4 to Austria's Chen Weixing in the second round of the men's singles at the Beijing Olympics. |
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Obama slams McCain for backing Musharraf (20 August 11:46) |
| Maintaining that the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan are the central front in the war on terrorism, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has slammed Republican rival John ... |
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'RTI is a powerful tool in ordinary citizens' hands' (20 August 11:46) |
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Travel scams that you should avoid (20 August 11:46) |
| Being caught up in a travel scam is enough to ruin a trip. We identify nine travel scams that you should avoid, from hidden resort fees to counterfeit merchandise to identity theft. |
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--> 2nd ODI: India win toss, elect to field (20 August 10:00) |
| Jamaica's Usain Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday. |
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Olympics: Kamal loses (20 August 10:00) |
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Vijender, Jitender want to win it for Akhil (20 August 10:00) |
| Akhil Kumar's wound may never heal but fellow pugilists Vijender and Jitender believe they can at least ease it it by winning their quarterfinal bouts on Wednesday. |
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'NSG nod to India-specific waiver unlikely' (20 August 10:00) |
| Despite intense lobbying, it is unlikely that the Nuclear Suppliers Group will approve an India-specific draft waiver to conduct nuclear trade with its members during a two-day meet schedule... |
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'I cannot imagine an India without Bollywood' (20 August 10:00) |
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Images: Billionaire college droputs! (20 August 10:00) |
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Left unions hold India to ransom, once again (20 August 10:00) |
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Special: Terror's new faces in India (20 August 01:30) |
| According to the Gujarat police, Muufi Abu Bashir was present in Ahmedabad on the day of the blasts. It is not yet known where he was from January 2007 to March 2008, when he allegedly took... |
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India's oldest man dies at the age of 139 (20 August 01:30) |
| Born on May 28, 1870, at Rajgarh in Rajasthan's Alwar district, Habib Mian had been suffering from fever and a bout of dysentery. |
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BSP has another VP; Maya keeps suspense on (20 August 01:30) |
| In an obvious bid to leave everyone guessing on her political heir, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati appointed a second national vice-president o... |
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Images: In South, star-gaze at political galaxy (19 August 11:22) |
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Argentina beat Brazil (19 August 11:22) |
| Argentina forward Sergio Aguero scored twice to help the Olympic champions to a 3-0 win over Brazil in their semi-final on Tuesday.
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