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India sees wide scope for rice-seed trade with Bangladesh
The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh / Asia News NetworkDHAKA (The Daily Star/ANN) -- A seminar on addressing the barriers to rice seed trade between India and Bangladesh raised an important issue; if China could export rice seeds to Bangladesh, why can't India? Bangladesh is a net rice seed importer with an...Tags: Bangladesh, China, Germany, Media Industry, India
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EDITORIAL: Support strategies that help victims of sex trafficking
Seattle TimesON two separate continents, in two different cultures, efforts to end the sex trafficking of minors are under way with remarkable parallels. Washington state has passed 33 laws since 2002 clamping down on sex traffickers and improving funding for victim...Tags: Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Prostitution, Sex Crimes, UNICEF
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READER SUBMITTED: Rotary Signature Project Unfolds
East HartfordIn what has become the signature project of her year as President of the East Hartford Rotary Club, Sheryl O'Connor and East Hartford Rotarians will soon present the Town of East Hartford with a new Bookmobile to be used in supplying books and other media...Tags: Skype, Goodwin College, East Hartford, Rotary International
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India companies bill to prevent chit funds misuse
The Statesman, Kolkata, India / Asia News NetworkNEW DELHI (The Statesman/ANN) -- The Companies Bill, pending passage in the Indian Parliament, will seek to protect investors from being duped by unscrupulous chit funds entities, the government said yesterday. "There are provisions in the Bill which...Tags: Corporate Crime, Germany, Media Industry, India, Parliament
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Ruined Indian investor kills self
The Statesman, Kolkata, India / Asia News NetworkKOLKATA (The Statesman/ANN) -- The Saradha Group meltdown claimed its second victim today, with a 50-year-old woman, who had invested in the chit fund schemes run by the group committing suicide, while police arrested three persons, including the director...Tags: Auction Service, U.S. Congress, Corporate Crime, Regional Authority, Police Arrests
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Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India
The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...
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George Platt, theatrical producer
George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
Born in Baltimore, he...Tags: Robby Benson, Garson Kanin, Martha Raye, Sid Caesar, Maryland State Police
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....Tags: Prosecution, Witnesses, India, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]
World NowFire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies.... -
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Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...Tags: U.S. Senate, Jerry Sandusky, Financial Aid, United Kingdom, Bars and Clubs
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The typewriter lives on in India
It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...Tags: Jawaharlal Nehru, Fine Arts, Pakistan, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi (India)
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William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review
William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Army, Colleges and Universities, Lauren Bacall, Justice System
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