Commonwealth Games village, the athletes’ village in Delhi, is in a very bad state and very dirty, according to teams’ delegates. So dirty, in fact, that the Commonwealth Games Federation head has demanded that the Indian government does something about it immediately. Teams that came in earlier were shocked by the conditions. Four teams decided [...]
Sep 21 2010 | Posted in
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Google has tried – and tried hard – to make success on the ever-growing market of the social networks, but seems not to succeed. Google’s take on the social network, Orkut, was successful only in India and Brazil – but Brazil seems to be the last resort for this site, as Facebook has surpassed Orkut [...]
Aug 25 2010 | Posted in
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The game between Bangalore and Mumbai is part of the cricket championship of the Indian Premier League. Before the game was supposed to start, two low-intensity explosions have taken place today outside gate no. 12 of the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. Apparently, the explosive was placed in a bag. According to reports, nine people, [...]
Apr 17 2010 | Posted in
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A cyclone with winds over 160 kph (100 mph) early this morning hit northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing more than 100 people, injured 200 and destroyed more than 50,000 homes, officials said Wednesday. Civil Defence Minister, Srikumar Mukherjee, said the cyclone hit on Tuesday night the states of West Bengal and Bihar, which also [...]
Apr 14 2010 | Posted in
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While the Fourth of July barbecue is as uniquely American as baseball and apple pie, the first International Weber GrillWatch Survey(TM) shows that outdoor cooks around the globe celebrate their own national holidays in much the same way. Independence Day is the number one grilling holiday in the United States, according to the Survey, with [...]
Jun 28 2009 | Posted in
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NADA chairman says a single, national fuel economy standard is a more effective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions The chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, John McEleney, told the Environmental Protection Agency today that complying with state-based fuel economy regulations would cause additional hardship on the nation’s declining number of new car dealers [...]