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• PM pushes for early India-ASEAN free trade agreement in services, investment
• YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley steps down as CEO
• Rahul Gandhi meets Kapil Sibal over student elections in AMU, BHU, Allahabad
• South Koreans cross into North Korea for family reunions
• More than 330 die as Haiti fights to halt cholera outbreak
• Iraq suicide bombing kills at least 25, injures 70
• Won't accept any proposal for Telangana with riders: TRS
• Arundhati, Geelani be tried under treason charges: Chouhan
• Lipstick competition at IIT-R fest: govt orders probe
• Nuke power project: 3000 villagers court arrest in Ratnagiri
• UP police complaint to SPG on Rahul's train journey
• France firm on burqa ban despite bin Laden threat
• Wealthy Americans better off than last yr; but still cautious: Survey
• Deora meets Pranab,seeks Rs 15k cr to make up losses of oil firms
• Court rejects Fonseka's charges on re-election of Mahinda Rajapaksa

PM pushes for early India-ASEAN free trade agreement in services, investment Posted: 30 Oct 2010 12:48 AM PDT Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday pressed for early completion of free trade agreement in Services and Investment and implementation of such a pact on Goods signed last year.

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley steps down as CEO Posted: 30 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Chad Hurley is surrendering the reins of the popular video website that he started with two buddies as a quirky curiosity and went on to groom into a media magnet that shows more than 2 billion clips a day.

Rahul Gandhi meets Kapil Sibal over student elections in AMU, BHU, Allahabad Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:38 PM PDT Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met HRD minister Kapil Sibal to discuss the issue of student elections not being held in three central universities of Uttar Pradesh for many years.

South Koreans cross into North Korea for family reunions Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:18 PM PDT A convoy of buses carrying 435 South Koreans crossed into North Korea on Saturday for a brief reunion with relatives over the heavily fortified border, despite tensions after an exchange of fire.

More than 330 die as Haiti fights to halt cholera outbreak Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:59 PM PDT Twenty-five more fatalities have brought the toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic to 330 dead, as medical teams desperately sought to contain an outbreak that they warned could "spread like wildfire."

Iraq suicide bombing kills at least 25, injures 70 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:16 PM PDT At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in central Iraq's restive Diyala province on Friday, a police official said.

Won't accept any proposal for Telangana with riders: TRS Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:20 AM PDT TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao said any proposal to grant statehood to Telangana with riders or conditions would not be acceptable to his party.

Arundhati, Geelani be tried under treason charges: Chouhan Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:25 AM PDT Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday demanded that writer-social activist Arundhati Roy and Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani be tried as traitors for their remarks on Kashmir.

Lipstick competition at IIT-R fest: govt orders probe Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:58 AM PDT A competition whereby boys held lipsticks in their mouth and applied them on girls has sparked a controversy with saffron groups staging a protest and the BJP government in Uttarakhand ordering an inquiry.

Nuke power project: 3000 villagers court arrest in Ratnagiri Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:38 AM PDT This tiny village took on the might of the state on Friday and by the evening, victory clearly belonged to it.

UP police complaint to SPG on Rahul's train journey Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:53 AM PDT Uttar Pradesh Police has registered a protest with the Special Protection Group for not informing them about Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's train journey from Gorakhpur to Mumbai in an ordinary sleeper class about ten days ago.

France firm on burqa ban despite bin Laden threat Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:44 AM PDT President Nicolas Sarkozy says France stands by its law banning burqa-like Muslim veils despite a threatening new message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Wealthy Americans better off than last yr; but still cautious: Survey Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:54 AM PDT Wealthy US investors are a little better off than they were a year ago, but a majority still struggle to balance today's financial demands despite saving for future life goals, a survey says.

Deora meets Pranab,seeks Rs 15k cr to make up losses of oil firms Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:52 AM PDT Oil minister Murli Deora on Friday met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to seek cash compensation for state-run oil companies which have lost over Rs 31,000 crore on selling fuel below cost in the first half of the current fiscal.

Court rejects Fonseka's charges on re-election of Mahinda Rajapaksa Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:59 AM PDT Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the re-election of President Mahinda Rajapaksa filed by his defeated opponent and now jailed former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka alleging that there were large-scale irregularities in the polls.

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