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Differently-abled kids create awareness on dangers of Yamuna pollution

Sunday, 03 February 2008
New Delhi, Feb 3 (ANI): 'Parayavaran Haat,' an initiative by Society For Child Development, to give specially-abled children a platform to show their creativity by participating in interactive workshops here.
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The Great Kidney Bazaar

Saturday, 02 February 2008
By TUKOJI R. PANDIT New Delhi (Syndicate Features): The unearthing of an illegal kidney trade in Gurgaon, a Delhi suburb, could have hardly come as a surprise since India has long been notorious for being the ‘warehouse for kidneys’ - a great kidney bazaar. Even less surprising was the fact that the alleged kingpin of this racket, a doctor with various aliases who had earned crores of rupees through unethical means, managed to escape when police raided his ‘clinic’. The police find it easier to catch the small time criminal, not the affluent ones.
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Organic Khadi, the latest buzzword in off shore markets

Friday, 01 February 2008
By Lokendra Singh Jaipur, Feb 1 (ANI): The Indian organic Khadi has become the latest buzzword in the international market.
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Nizamabad man can withstand 230 volt of electric current!

Wednesday, 30 January 2008
By Narendra Nizamabad (Andhra Pradesh), Jan.30 (ANI): Believe it or not, a man in Nizamabad has developed immunity to electric current and can let it pass through his body that acts as a conductor when he lights any electric bulb.
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Vegetable vendor lady asked to pay rupees 70 lakh as income tax!

Wednesday, 30 January 2008
By Ashok Gupta Thane, Jan.30 (ANI): A vegetable vendor Parvatibai Salvi of Kalyan area near Mumbai is spending sleepless nights since getting a notice from the income tax department asking her to pay nearly rupees 70 lakh (seven million rupees) as tax for selling a property.
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