Hollywood has met Bollywood at the Academy Awards, and the makers of Oscar champ “Slumdog Millionaire” hope it’s a sign of future melding between the U.S. dream factory with its counterparts in India and elsewhere in the world.

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President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam on Sunday visited the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology studies (Phivolcs) in Quezon City here and experienced a simulated temblor.

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In a startling case that has come to light, tinned food that was produced in Iran and had expired 20 years ago, was distributed among the quake-hit victims in Pakistan.

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Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is either dead or seriously ill and severely incapacitated, an Aussie terror expert said while citing a documentary evidence provided to him by one of his colleagues from India at the Australian National University.

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Former Pakistan premier and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto is reportedly planning to contest the next Senate elections in Pakistan, and is consulting her lawyers and legal advisers over the issue.

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The Jewish and Christian communities share the same religious roots and now, the Israeli tourism ministry is hoping that this link will send the cash registers ringing when they open a new Biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee.

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The British intelligence sleuths had last year scrutinised two of the four 7/7 suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters on the fateful day earlier this year, but they did not consider the duo as a threat to UK. The two bombers are Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer.

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Motorists in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur have been advised not to enter the city centre for three days as the ASEAN Summit begins on Monday, and people of this bustling city have been politely asked not to visit the hotels where the heads of state and delegations are staying.

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Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality, the CRE, has recently stated that doctors from the Indian subcontinent, working in the country’s National Health Service, suffer discrimination virtually on a daily basis when it comes to getting the plum jobs.

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Describing Indian and Russian business and political ties as being long standing, time tested and multifaceted in character, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a joint meeting of Indian and Russian businessmen

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