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| Beware! Viagra venom follows toxic toys
IF CHINA’S toxic toys and jewellery worried the US recently, made-in-China counterfeit ‘Viagra’ pills are now haunting the Mumbai Police. The pills have police officers very worried because they too are highly hazardous to health, yet easily available. Last week, the crime branch busted a counterfeit Viagra racket in the city and recovered 25,000 such pills worth Rs 44,75,000 from a makeshift shop at Mushafir Khana in Dongri. |
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| Newton’s gravity tree dying in Pune
About 12 years ago, three saplings were grafted out of Sir Isaac Newton’s legendary apple tree and planted in Pune’s sprawling Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) campus. For years, scientists and academics gathered around the plants — one each near the statues of Galileo, Aryabhatta and Newton — that are ‘descendants’ of the tree from Woolsthrope, England, to chat and discuss their latest theories and research. |
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| Tulsiram ghost now haunts cops
The noose is tightening around arrested DIG D.G. Vanzara and others for another ‘fake encounter’ -- that of Tulsiram Prajapat, who was the sole eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case. Tulsiram was Sohrabuddin’s friend and was allegedly with him and Kauser Bi when the police had picked the couple from a bus. |
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| God of grass, king of clay will clash in Battle of Surfaces
ROGER FEDERER is the god of grass. Rafael Nadal is the king of clay. What would happen if the tennis heroes were to clash on a surface that was a mix of the two? You’ll find out on Wednesday. |
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| Fake encounter: Minister also indicted
THE INQUIRY into the 2005 fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, on the basis of which three Indian Police Service officers have been arrested, has also said that Gujarat's Minister of State for Home Amit Shah tried to scuttle the probe. |
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| Open your labs to us: India to global firms
THE WORLD’S most cutting-edge research and development (R&D) centres innovating out of India — think Intel, IBM, Google, GE — urgently need to come under security regulations in "the national interest", a government report has said. |
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| Situation vacant
THE SEARCH has not quite begun. But the search party has been formed.
The Indian cricket board said on Monday that a seven-member “special committee” had been set up to advise the apex body on its hunt for a coach/manager for the team. |
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| Four die in explosives blast
FOUR PERSONS died and two others, including a woman, were injured in a powerful explosion in a jeep loaded with explosives in village Karrapur under the Baheriya police post on Sunday morning. |
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| It’s a Bolly good show
what happened inside Prateeksha was a wedding. Two young people vowed, in an elaborate ceremony performed by 11 priests and witnessed by an intimate circle of family and friends, to officially share their lives. |
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| Board bullies rule: Sachin, Sourav rested
ON FRIDAY, there were almost as many surprises in the cricket selection meeting as ladoos at the Bachchan bungalow. |
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| Board bullies rule: Sachin, Sourav rested
ON FRIDAY, there were almost as many surprises in the cricket selection meeting as ladoos at the Bachchan bungalow. |
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| Groom lookalike crashes Shaadi No. 1, reaches bride’s doorstep
MOST TOOK him to be Abhishek Bachchan — till he reached Aishwarya Rai’s doorstep. Devi Singh Purohit, a shopkeeper from Rajasthan, with a shake of his head and a wave of his hand, entered Rai’s high-security Bandra complex in a white Mercedes on Tuesday. |
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| A Gandhi who is not Gandhian enough
MAHATMA GANDHI’S grandson has turned down an offer to head a university founded by Gandhi, on the grounds that he has not been following one Gandhian principle — 100 per cent use of khadi — mandatory for anyone associated with the institution. |
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| Patient, 16, ‘raped’ in top cancer hospital
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl, afflicted with bone and soft tissue cancer, was allegedly raped by two unidentified ward boys about five months ago inside an operation theatre of the Tata Memorial Hospital. The girl made the allegation after discovering she was a few months pregnant. |
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