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A 100-year-old banyan tree was chopped to halt a rumour about its special powers from spreading among locals.

Americans Andrew Z Fire and Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

RIL has reduced retail petrol and diesel prices by Re one per litre in line with decline in international crude prices.

Besides being India's official entry in Foreign Film Category, Rang De Basanti will also compete in 7 other categories.

Tharoor, who has been a runner-up in the last three straw polls, is making all out efforts to emerge victorious.

A septuagenarian man in Ajmer has begun the Jain custom of Santhara after post-surgical complications.

Monica Bedi said she is single and not having a relationship with anybody.

The SC has ordered the commercial release of the film Black Friday which is based on the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

Hostage standoff at Colorado high school ends with the gunman killing one of his captives and himself.

Peace talks between the Nepal government and Maoist rebels have been postponed by another ten days.

In keeping with its aim to show a change in Patna, Nitish Kumar is reviving a cultural programme for Dussehra.

The Iraqis also have negative views of Osama bin Laden, according to the early September poll of 1,150.

Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's family is very happy that Rang de Basanti is India's entry for the Oscars.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf learnt the art of making time bomb when he was in college.

The jehadist movement is becoming more decentralised and spawning offshoot organisations with anti-American agendas.

Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh agreed to cut state sales tax on petrol and diesel to make the auto fuels competitive.