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Masti: Pizza Hut as Pasta Hut !!


Fifty-year-old restaurant chain Pizza Hut is temporarily changing its name to Pasta Hut in a radical £100m relaunch.
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LetsDiscuss: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

This child addressed a UN meeting on environment issues. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!
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News: IAS officer faces Maya's ire over wife's ramp walk


Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has shifted a top IAS officer from his post after a fashion show was held at his official bungalow.
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IndiaShining: Indian sherwani finds place in Armani collection


In another global recognition of India's haute-couture, world-renowned Italian fashion brand Armani has included sherwani in its latest collections.
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IndiaShining: US headhunts Hindi teachers

Sharma was one among the 100-odd Hindi teachers who travelled to Noida to be interviewed by a delegation from Connecticut and Carolina, in India to headhunt young, full-time Hindi teachers for their schools.
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News: Central govt staff all set to get 52% raise-India


Central government staff and officers have a reason to paint the town red on Holi — the Sixth Central Pay Commission is set to hand them a hike of up to 52%.
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Sports: Badminton India Open can be cancelled : Courtesy Bird Flu


The bird flu outbreak may now cost India its first grand prix badminton tournament. Thanks to the acute shortage of shuttlecocks in the country - bird flu outbreak.
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Business: Yaahoooo!!! takeover talks shifted from Microsoft to AOL


Leading internet firm Yahoo is seeking to restart merger talks with Time Warner-owned AOL to defend itself against the 44.6-billion-dollar takeover bid by Microsoft.
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LetsDiscuss: Want to be a part of the coming budget ?


So with just a few weeks to go before the biggest policy document of the year — the Union Budget — how does one ensure that Your Voice resonates when Mr Chidambaram utters those famous words “I rise to present the Budget 2008-09.”?
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Miscellaneous: Gandhi - a myth


According to a survey carried out in Britain, many believe that Mahatma Gandhi was a mythical figure. This is what Brits feel about the great leaders.
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LetsDiscuss: Is regionalism above nationalism ?


Is it high time that as a Social Secular Democratic Republic, we rose against regionalism and learn to treat all as Indians?
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Miscellaneous: Quit smoking , get paid

The South Pacific nation of Niue could become the first country in the world to eliminate smoking by paying its smokers to quit the habit, its premier said on Monday.
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Miscellaneous: First Indian Male invited for Oprah Winfrey Show - Prince of Rajpipla, Gujarat


From obscurity to a chance to have a tete-e-tete with none other than chat show queen Oprah Winfrey - that is the bizarre life of Manvendra Singh Gohil, the prince of erstwhile state of Rajpipla in Gujarat and inarguably one of the most prominent gay personalities in India.
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LetsDiscuss: Threat to kill Putin during trip to Iran


Russia's security services last night claimed they had uncovered a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin during his trip this week to Iran.
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Miscellaneous: India hit by Mobile chip piracy


With India crossing hundred million mobile subscribers and approximately 25-30 per cent of the phone models in the market capable of music transfer, music piracy has assumed a new avatar- mobile piracy.
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