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May 2009

Mike Ashley puts up Newcastle for sale

May 31, 2009 Business

After being relegated from the Premiership, owner and sportswear tycoon Mike Ashley has put Newcastle United football club up for sale with a price tag of 100 million pound.
The quoted price is 34 million pound less than what Ashley paid two years ago to buy the club. After taking over the club, he has invested [...]

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Karnataka seeks central government’s help to fight slowdown

May 31, 2009 India

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Sunday sought assistance from the central government in coping with the economic slowdown that has severely impacted the state’s resource mobilisation, including tax collections.
“I have sought an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh early this week to seek the centre’s help in tiding over the situation arising out of the [...]

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Ruthless Safina slices to another easy Paris win

May 31, 2009 Sport

Top seed Dinara Safina continued her destructive march in the French Open tennis Sunday, dashing the hopes of local girl Aravane Rezai 6-1, 6-0, to reach the quarter-finals.
The defeat of the Frenchwoman leaves only Virginie Razzano to defend French pride in this edition.
In four matches in the first week, Russian world number one Safina has [...]

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Buchanan helping England for Ashes

May 31, 2009 Sport

John Buchanan, architect of Australia’s 5-0 win in the 2006 Ashes, can switch loyalties this year.
Buchanan, who recently lost his advisory contract with Cricket Australia (CA) was in England last week for meetings with England officials and members of the team coaching staff about their Ashes strategy and planning.
According to Daily Telegraph, the former Australia [...]

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Lanka Army probing LTTE intel chief Pottu Amman’s death

May 31, 2009 World

Unable to retrieve the body of LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman from the war zone, the Sri Lankan Army is still investigating the possibility that he may be alive despite several claims to the contrary.
Amman, wanted in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, was believed to have died along with most of the [...]

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Amitabh, Abhishek shoot film sequence in Delhi metro

May 31, 2009 Entertainment

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his actor son Abhishek shot a sequence for their upcoming film “Pa” Sunday in the Delhi Metro.
The father-son duo alongwith actress Vidya Balan shot the sequence for the film in a to-and-fro journey from Dwarka Sector-9 to Yamuna Bank and back, spending around four hours in the Delhi Metro Rail [...]

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18 Taliban killed in western Afghanistan fighting

May 31, 2009 World

Afghan and NATO troops killed 18 Taliban militants on Sunday after insurgents attacked a joint patrol, while four police were killed in a separate militant ambush, officials said.
Militants attacked the troops in the western province of Farah, the site of a major battle with numerous civilian casualties in early May.
Soon after the attack, the [...]

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Sunglasses will be England cricket team’s secret weapon

May 31, 2009 Cricket

Coloured Sunglasses will be the England cricket team’s secret weapon this summer.
Cricketers have been advised on how they can optimise their vision by wearing the right coloured lenses from a selection of yellow, red, gold, silver and orange for different conditions, reports The Daily Telegraph.
The daily reported that optometrists and sports scientists at the England [...]

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Free and compulsory education bill to be passed in July: Sibal

May 31, 2009 India

Enlisting his priorities, new Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Sunday said his ministry’s top agenda will be ensuring the passage of the pending free and compulsory education bill in parliament by July.
“Hopefully the pending free and compulsory education bill, 2008 will be passed in July,” Sibal said in his first appearance as [...]

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Pak troops kill 50 Taliban; Mingora in ‘full control’

May 31, 2009 World

Pakistani troops on Sunday tightened their grip on the just-recaptured main town of troubled Swat Valley, where the military said the operation could end within days, as at least 50 Taliban militants and nine soldiers were killed in fighting in the northwest and the tribal areas.
A day after the Pakistan Army claimed it had [...]

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