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Patna: This is the hard reality of rural India, 10-year-olds replacing oxen to plough fields. The situation is so desperate that there is no dearth of human ploughs.rnrnIn Sahpur village of Vaishali district, Bihar, small children are ploughing croplands belonging to Union Rural Development Minister, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.rnrnThe man who supervises their job is the minister's younger brother, Raghuraj Prasad Singh.rnrn"Agar tabiyat kharab hoga to ilaaj karwange, lekin kaam to ba read more »
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, is extending its recently launched Give One Get One program beyond the initial two-week limited time offer through December 31, 2007, in the USA and Canada. The extended period gives people more time to participate in this unique giving program and support the mission of One Laptop per Child. read more »
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The Indian Cricket League (ICL) has gone one step further and introduced an Indian system of calculating the target in interrupted matches instead of the dreaded Duckworth-Lewis method. The VJD stands for the name of its inventor the Kerala-based engineer V JayaDevan. The 44 year old has put up a system after studying the patterns of the past matches. He calims that his method is superior than the exisiting DL method. The VJD system is based on a mathematical model of the natural development of read more »
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LUCKNOW: It is official. Hotel Taj in Gomtinagar would be losing around two acres of land out of around 25 acres leased out to it by the then state government for maintaining the green belt. The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) board, headed by divisional commissioner Vijay Shankar Pandey gave its formal nod to conversion of the land-use from green belt to institutional, paving way for construction of a guest house in its place. read more »
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Srinagar, Dec. 31: A teenager and his cousin were arrested for faking their own abduction and demanding a ransom of Rs 5 lakh from his parents.

The two dropped the plan and rang home to say they had been released after learning that police were on the case.

Ghulam Hassan Najar and his wife started worrying when their son Ahsan-ul Haq, a Class VIII student, did not return home on Thursday, December 27.

“At 9.30pm, Najar lodged a complaint with us saying he received a call that his son a read more »
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Melbourne: Tennis star Sania Mirza, unwittingly caught once again in a controversy over the Indian flag, is so upset that she is considering about he read more »
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South African nationals Selvan Shetty, Priscilla Shetty and their children, aged 11 and 14, were shopping around 5 pm at the D-Mart store in Nerul wh read more »
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In a recent development, all the seven IIT institutes in India have written to the Union HRD Minister saying that they are on the verge of bankruptcy read more »
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read this eye witness account of the terrible accident posted by Mid day journalist Hemant Kashyap.

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I was riding to work as usual. . read more »
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