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The first arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok after partial operations resumed on Wednesday. - AFP
A rally in Mumbai to pay homage to those slain in the Mumbai terror attacks. Lakhs of people converged in India`s financial capital even as similar rallies were carried out across the nation. Mumbai South MP Mr Milind Deora went so far as to say that he was “ashamed to be a politician”. On Wednesday. - AFP•Focus on aerial threat
•Time for action: Rice to Pakistan
•... But not too many
•Trigger-happy cops...
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MOUNT OF ADVENTURE ~ It pays to take a flight to some places. The Everest as seen by a passenger from a plane. on Wednesday. - AFP•Pakistan now has much-enhanced maritime prowess
•Rajasthan goes to poll today
•Cong lets Deshmukh go, undecided on new CM
•FBI questions nabbed ultra
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Britain`s Queen Elizabeth II (left) delivers her speech during the state opening of Parliament as the Duke of Edinburgh looks on. The Queen unveiled the government`s legislative programme for next year, with the emphasis on bolstering the economy against further mayhem. In London on Wednesday. - AFP•Grounded Thailand takes wing again
•Treaty banning cluster bomb signed
•Playing a farewell tune...
•Knut looks for bear necessities
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•Sparing the rod
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•Muslims must confront truth
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•Excise on CVs to fall, interest to come down
•GM to slash 31,500 jobs
•Tata Steel plan to trim workforce
•Rice procurement may break records
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CITY OF HOWLERS ~ Ten-for-the-price-of-one predators kick off the revelries when a bash with Maradona in the middle is planned - with undisclosed amounts of cash coming from mysterious sources for that as Mr Subhas Chakraborty plays Godfather - but a howler-littered billboard in the Esplanade area on Wednesday showed how deficient Kolkata was in the fundamentals even after more than a century spent playing the game. - SAILENDRA MAL•Pistol Pete soon to be eclipsed
•City Bits
•Briefs
•India & Pakistan to discuss tour
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A Theatre of the Oppressed sequence organised by Jana Sanskriti as a part of International Forum theatre Festival. At Curzon Park, Kolkata on Wednesday. - BIJOY SENGUPTA•‘More needs to be done for the differently-abled’
•Tribal schemes after Lalgarh jolt
•Briefs
•Ashok Todi bail petition hearing begins
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