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Despite bloodshed, US cites Afghan gain
Dec. 16: A White House review of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy reported on Thursday that allied forces are making headway against the Taliban and Al Qaeda but that serious challeng
King’s Speech, Fighter lead SAG nominations
The Screen Actors Guild on Thursday nominated the performers in The King’s Speech and The Fighter for four awards each, including best cast, boosting the films’ chances in Hollywood’s Oscar sweepstake
'Great wall of suspicion' persists between China, India
New Delhi: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left New Delhi on Friday, vowing that India will never be a rival, but his rhetoric has done little to lift Indian unease over a long-running border dispute and C
Will strike if drill goes on: North Korea
Seoul/Beijing, Dec. 17: North Korea said on Friday it would strike again at the South if a live-firing drill by Seoul on a disputed island went ahead, with an even stronger response than November’s sh
Emerging economies get IMF push
Washington, Dec. 17: The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that its board of governors had approved reforms that will shift more voting power to emerging-market countries like China.
“It
Natural resources to drive M&A deals
Mumbai, Dec. 17: India’s cash-rich firms will keep up their hunt for overseas targets in 2011 and may top this year’s record outbound activity as they look for new overseas markets and to secure natur
China PM hoping to improve ties with a suspicious India
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday tackles the tough task of bridging rifts with India over borders and Pakistan after wooing his hosts with deals worth more than $16 billion during a visit to New
RBI keeps key rates unchanged
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India left key interest rates on hold on Thursday, as expected, after six increases since March.
Most of 23 economists surveyed had expected the Reserve Bank of India to k
US trying to turn WikiLeaks case into conspiracy trial
Washington: Federal prosecutors are looking for any evidence WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange conspired with a former US Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified government documents,
‘Whatever’ is most annoying
New York: Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it’s actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.
For the second consecutive year “whatever” topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language. Nearly 39 per cent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by “like” with 28 per cent and the phrase “you know what I mean” at 15 per cent.
