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For the third time in ten days, heavy rains Tuesday disrupted normal life in the country’s commercial capital.
Waterlogging was reported from many low-lying areas of the city like Dadar, Khar, Santacruz, Goregaon, Malad, Kandivli, Andheri, Jogeshwari (western suburbs), Byculla, Mazagaon, Sion, Wadala, Vikhroli and Ghatkopar (all eastern suburbs).
According to the Weather Bureau, the city recorded [...]

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Washington, May 29 (ANI): Consuming red or white meat does not raise the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, says a new study.

The large study, conducted by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been published in the International Journal of Cancer.

A number of previous studies have found that eating [...]

New York, Feb 25 (DPA) US stocks made their strongest gains in a month Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that government action could pull the US economy out of a severe recession by later this year.
Testifying to the US Senate Banking Committee, the central bank chief said that the success of the [...]

Kathmandu, Feb 24 (PTI) Former Nepal King Gyanendra will leave for India tomorrow on a two-week long private visit, his first since he was dethroned, during which he is expected to meet the top leadership in that country. However, the visit has been kept at low profile and no official announcement has been made so [...]

Buenos Aires, Feb 25 (IANS) A former employee of an oil services company was arrested in the Argentine city of Neuquen for stealing radioactive material and demanding $500,000 for its return, EFE reported.
Two masked men stole the material last Thursday from oil services company Baker Atlas’s offices in Neuquen by overpowering a security guard and [...]

New York – Ford Motor Company and union leaders reached an agreement Monday designed to lower health care costs in the ailing US car industry.
The deal would allow the carmaker to make contributions to the United Auto Workers (UAW) health care plan for retirees with up to 50 per cent stock instead of cash, [...]

Damascus – Presidents, important US senators, senior officials from the Arab League – lately it seems everyone is courting Syria.
In recent months Damascus has been the centre of a flurry of international diplomatic activity.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited. So did a delegation of European Union officials and foreign ministers. Arab League chief Amr Mussa, [...]

Oslo – Norwegian defence forces said Monday they would take part in a search for the plane of famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who went missing in
1928.
Amundsen (1872-1928) became a national hero in Norway after leading an expedition to the geographic South Pole in 1911, beating Britain’s Robert F Scott in an epic race.
The [...]

Paris – Nine employees of a security company were killed in an attack by presumed Islamist militants in eastern Algeria, the daily El Watan reported on Monday.
Two other people were injured during the attack on the dormitory housing the security agents who had been hired by the Sonelgaz gas company in Tuzrarane, some 350 [...]

Rawalpindi, Feb 22 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik Sunday married his Britain-born Pakistani girlfriend Mushaal Mullick in this Pakistani garrison city.
The marriage ceremony was attended by a number well known people, including politicians, Pakistan’s Geo TV reported.
Mullick, a post-graduate from the London School of Economics and an artist, is the daughter of Rehana Hussain, [...]

Mingora (Pakistan), Feb 22 (IANS) Suspected Taliban militants Sunday abducted a top government administrator and six guards in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, officials said.
District administrator Khushal Khan was going in his car to Mingora, the main town of Swat, when he was abducted by the suspected militants, The News reported.
The abductors have also kidnapped six of [...]

Prague – At least 43 passengers were injured Monday, three of them seriously, when two trains had a head-on collision in the north-eastern Czech Republic, the CTK news agency reported, citing medical officials.
The railways said in a statement that one of the drivers was likely at fault as he ran a red light instead of [...]

he chairman of Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, saying profits had been inflated over the last several years.
Following is the text of his letter, which was released by the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Note: references using Indian numerical system of crores and lakhs have been converted to Western system.
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To the Board of Directors
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
From [...]

Helsinki – A Finnish appeals court Tuesday convicted the author and publisher of a kiss-and-tell book on Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, saying it violated his privacy.
Vanhanen had appealed a lower court ruling that in March 2008 cleared the book based on material provided by a woman, Susan Ruusunen, whom he had once dated.
Author Susan Ruusunen [...]

Baghdad – French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday morning for an unannounced visit, local media reported.
Sarkozy’s visit is the first by a French head of state since the US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. France had been critical of the invasion at the time, and refused to send any troops [...]

Lagos – Oil workers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta went on strike Monday to complain about a lack of protection from militant groups who attack oil facilities and kidnap workers.
Several hundred employees of oil company Total picketed the company’s office in Port Harcourt despite union officials delaying industrial action due to begin Monday, local media [...]

London – Britain’s Barclays Bank Monday reported pre- tax profits of
6.08 billion pounds (8.9 billion dollars) for 2008, a drop of 14 per
cent compared with the previous year.
The figure exceeds expectations in the City of London, and include an
“accounting profit” of Barclays’ acqisition of assets of collapsed US
investment bank Lehman Brothers of 2.4 billion [...]

London, Feb 9 (IANS) British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, a rags-to-riches tale of an improbable winner of game show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, has picked up seven honours at the British Film Academy Awards (Bafta) 2009.
Boyle’s film won seven trophies, including those for best film, best director and best original music score, [...]