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Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team
Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. "It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) ...
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Sharapova pulls out of Rome meet to boost French Open chances
World No. 2 Maria Sharapova admitted Friday that the upcoming French Open played a part in her decision to pull out of the Rome Masters. Sharapova withdrew citing illness Friday, hours before she was due to play world No. 6 Sara Errani in the Rome quarterfinals. "I usually don't withdraw from tournament and all the competitions I play in mean a lot to me, but in the run-up to the French Open ...
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Chenni-Bangalore corridor to be strengthened with Japanese collaboration
The meeting between H.E. Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India and H.E. Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan was held today in Tokyo considered the enhancement of the infrastructure in the region of the Chennai Bangalore Infrastructure Corridor(CBIC). At the meeting, India and Japan acknowledged the progress made in the CBIC project and the ...
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Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide
A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...
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Ryder Cup players into last 8 at World Match Play
KAVARNA, Bulgaria -; Ryder Cup-winning teammates Graeme McDowell, Nicolas Colsaerts and Francesco Molinari are through to the quarterfinals of the World Match Play ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to address Indian industry and students
Business India News: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to address Indian industry, students. In his first ever visit to India after becoming the Chinese Premier, is expected to address Indian industry and sign a series of agreements on business cooperation in ...
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Federal finance watchdog ignores spending limit at gala dinner
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 2, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN ...
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Colsaerts advances at World Match Play champs
Defending champion Nicolas Colsaerts beat Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano to progress to the quarter-finals of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship. Photo by Andrew ...
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah expands ministry leaves out mining-tainted aspirants
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday inducted 28 members into his five-day-old ministry, keeping out two strong but mining-scam hit aspirants for cabinet berths.The two are former working president of the state Congress D.K. Shivakumar from Kanakapura and mining baron Anil Lad from iron-ore rich Bellary district.Anil's cousin Santosh Lad, who is also into mining, however made ...
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Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid
A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...
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IMS Conducts Manufacturing Research Workshop at SCRA’s Applied Research Center
Following the International Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Steering Committee meeting to be held today, the IMS will conduct a manufacturing research workshop at SCRA’s Applied Research Center on Friday, May ...
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New Report Analyzes Chemical Industry in the UK
High demand helped to lift profits for the UK chemical producers in the last couple of years, and experts say that this trend will continue in 2009. Indicators of the performance of the UK chemical industry were up sharply in 2007 and 2008. The trade picture also improved for the UK chemical industry in 2007 and 2008. The strong demand and operating rates made the year profitable for chemical ...
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Denver Business Journal wins 33 awards in 4-state Society of Professional Journalists news competition
The DBJ's award-winning coverage of the 2012 election. The Denver Business Journal staff has won 33 awards, including 13 first-place honors, in a four-state Society of Professional Journalists competition. The SPJ's "Top of the Rockies" awards for excellence in newspaper, digital and broadcast news were presented Friday night at the Denver Press Club. The Journal won nearly twice ...
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Canadas Tech Industry Hoping To Capitalize On US Visa Woes
A Canadian invasion of sorts is underway in the US, but it isn't a military operation - rather, it's an attempt to convince Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated with ...
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YouTube involved in conspiracy to silence public debate on corporate patents on human genes
Natural News May 18, 2013 YouTube, owned by corporate giant Google, has banned our video discussing the corporate ownership of patents on human genes. This video, which featured nothing more than myself and Robert Scott Bell criticizing Angelina Jolie for hyping up BRCA breast cancer gene tests and being part of the trillion-dollar industry of ';human genomics'; apparently ran afoul ...
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Rob Ford CrackMayor of Toronto accused of using cocaine Canada News
Rob Ford called the claims ';ridiculous'; as he addressed a swarm of reporters outside his house in Canada’s biggest city. The denial came after gossip site Gawker and the Toronto Star published articles saying they had been offered a video of the alleged smoking session. Both outlets said they declined to pay the $100,000 (65,930) price tag wanted by a person with the mobile ...
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Korea United at World Table Tennis Championships
May 17 - Despite the on-going tensions between the two countries, North Korea and South Korea came together in total harmony at the World Table Tennis Championships at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris The meeting saw North Korea and South Korea leave with honours even as they claimed one victory each in their two matches.In their women's doubles meeting South Korea's Park ...
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The official FIFA World Cup Magazine - Episode 12
Brazil (TM) Video Magazine. In the latest edition, we delve into FIFA World Cup qualifying, take a trip around Brasilia and see famous former footballers in different roles. First, we take a closer look at the tightest races on the road ...
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SA Roadlink denies liquidation claims
"SA Roadlink Passenger Services is solvent and continuing with its daily business of providing coaches on the national roads, whilst serving public interests and looking after them on the road," it said in a statement on ...
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Paul B. Farrell $10 trillion in X-Prizes needed to save the world
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: "Making the Impossible Possible." Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new ...
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Gold falls on stockists selling global cues
Gold prices fell by Rs 110 to Rs 26,700 per ten grams in the national capital today on reduced offtake against stockists selling sparked by a weak global ...
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How Tom Perlmutter turned the NFB into a global new-media player
When Tom Perlmutter took on the top job at the National Film Board of Canada in 2007, he did what was expected - travelled to Ottawa and began knocking on doors. He found a sympathetic audience among bureaucrats and politicians who agreed the NFB was a worthy thing and should digitize its remarkable collection of Canadian film, but nobody actually produced any cash for an institution that was ...
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Freedom Gala aids victims of global sex trade
STANDING TALLER: Shannon Belkin and Tina Oliver's golf club lunches for 100 women regularly benefited the Salvation Army's Deborah's Gate program to aid sexual-trafficking victims. This year, with Oliver still on the committee and Tali'ah Aquilini co-chairing, Belkin moved the Freedom Gala to the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel. With men now attending and author-TV reporter Victor ...
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Facebooks Sandberg says its okay for women to cry at work
business daily, the 43-year-old admitted: "I cry at work," adding women are not "one type of person Monday through Friday" and "then a different person in the nights and weekend." "I think we are all of us emotional beings and it's okay for us to share that emotion at work," said Facebook's number two, who was named ...
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Taste of outside world Smugglers sneak KFC into Gaza
The demand for KFC in the Gaza strip has led one company to beat the Israeli blockade by smuggling the fast food through tunnels from Egypt. NBC's Annabel Roberts ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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