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President Patil to
address nation on eve of Republic Day tomorrow
New Delhi, Jan 24: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will
address the nation on Wednesday on the eve of the 63rd
Republic Day.
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Thai PM Shinawatra to be chief guest
at India''s Republic Day parade
New Delhi, Jan 24: The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, Yingluck
Shinawatra, will be the chief guest at India''s 63rd Republic Day parade on
Thursday.
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Vice President Ansari meets National
Bravery Award winners
New Delhi, Jan 24: Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Tuesday met the
twenty-four children who won the National Bravery Awards-2011.
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Egypt’s new
parliament elects Muslim Brotherhood’s Saad Al-Katatni as
speaker
Cairo, Jan 24: Egypt''s new parliament has elected Mohammed
Saad Al-Katatni, a leading member of the Freedom and Justice
Party, the political wing of the powerful Muslim
Brotherhood, as speaker.
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One in four web users ''are music
pirates'', says report
London, Jan.24: One in four Internet users are illegally accessing music through
unauthorised sites every month, according to a new report.
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Google allowing people to use
nicknames on Plus service
London, Jan 24: Google’s social networking site has relaxed a requirement that
real names be used for making a Google+ profile, allowing people to use
nicknames or pseudonyms.
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27pc kids can’t
add without using calculator
London, Jan 24: More than a quarter of children between the
ages of 10 and 12 cannot add two small sums of money without
using a calculator, a new study has revealed.
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To think ‘outside
the box’, try thinking outside a box
Washington, Jan 24: There are some metaphors about creative
thinking, which literally ‘work’ when acted out in real
life, researchers say.
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More workers going
under the knife to help boost careers
Wellington, Jan 24: Increasing number of middle-aged Kiwis
are lining up for cosmetic surgery to compete with their
younger colleagues in the workplace, plastic surgeons say.
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Powerful people perceive themselves to
be taller
London, Jan 24: The more powerful people are, the taller they think they are, a
new study has found.
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Volleyball removed
from dolphin’s stomach in China
Shanghai, Jan 24: Doctors in China managed to remove a toy
volleyball from a dolphin, which had been swallowed by the
mammal while playing.
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UK viewers watch
more than 4 hours of TV everyday
London, Jan 24: The average TV viewer in UK spent four hours
and two minutes daily in 2011 watching television, according
to the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB).
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Twitter founder
Dorsey defends business model
Munich (Germany), Jan.24: Twitter’s co-founder and chief,
Jack Dorsey, has defended the site’s business model at a
technology conference in Munich.
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CII welcomes CRR
cut by RBI
New Delhi, Jan.24: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
on Tuesday welcomed the Reserve Bank of India''s move to cut
Credit Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 50 base points to 5.5 percent.
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Facebook buddies
not really ‘friends in need’
London, Jan 24: An average young adult has around 237
Facebook friends, but out of that only two can be turned to
for real support in times of a crisis, a survey has found.
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