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Lou Pearlman Goes Bye, Bye, Bye (May 22 2008 05:52 GMT) - Posted on May 21st, 2008 10:32 amLou Pearlman is the founder of The Backstreet Boys and ?NSYNC. However, instead of playing games with anyone?s heart, the tubby moron has been found guilty of playing games with money: |
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McCain sounds off Bobby Jindal for Veep (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - Florida Governor Charlie Crist and former presidential hopeful and ex-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have also accepted invitations, fueling speculation that the three (Jindal, Crist, Romney) are the McCain campaign's top choices, and that this weekend's discussions will go a long way in determining who gets the nod. |
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Delhi: HUJI militant held, RDX recovered (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - A suspected militant of THE Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami was arrested by the Delhi police and 3.1 kg of deadly RDX was recovered following his questioning, eight days after serial blasts rocked Jaipur claiming 65 lives. Abdul Rehman, in his early thirties, was caught from Chelmsford Road near New Delhi Railway Station on Wednesday night when he was coming to the capital from West Bengal, a senior police officer said. |
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Karnataka: Brisk polling in third phase (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - About 58,000 police personnel are maintaining vigil on 12,389 polling stations in the districts of Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga,Bidar, Gadag, Dharwad and Haveri. Brisk voting was witnessed in parts of Gulbarga and Dharwad where people queued up to cast votes in the morning. However, the turnout was low in Bijapur and Bagalkot where only about nine per cent of votes had been polled. |
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Promotion at Infosys? Take a test (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - In what will be the first such comprehensive exercise in the IT industry, all the 91,000-odd employees of India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, will now have to pass certification programmes to get promoted. The certification programme, conducted every March, is now being extended across the board and will test the employees' domain expertise, and grade them accordingly to be eligible for promotion. |
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Indian-American boy wins top US prize (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - Akshay Rajagopal, an 11-year-old sixth-grader from Lincoln, Nebraska, took top honours at the 2008 National Geographic Bee held in Washington, DC, winning a $25,000 college scholarship and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. |
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Indian-American appointed to top US panel (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - Rahul 'Richard'Verma, a partner with the top-notch international law firm in Washington, DC -- Steptoe and Johnson LLP -- who, until recently was the highest-ranking Indian American Congressional aide on Capitol Hill, has been appointed to the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. |
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Villager killed in crossfire in J and K (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - During a gunfight between militants and police in Neela-Doke area in the district, a civilian was critically injured, they said, adding he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. The victim has been identified as Mohmmad Lateef, a resident of Kandi. |
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Four years on, UPA losing direction (May 22 2008 05:51 GMT) - Unlike 2004 when Sonia Gandhi took things into her hands and hit the road and stitched up alliances, there is a lack of grip this time, as if things are on auto pilot. Cabinet meetings get over in minutes. People are glibly talking of a third front government in 2009 supported by the Congress. |
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