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Two years ago, London's police force set up a task force to tackle the issue. The government is also considering changing the law.

Bihar's newly-appointed Chief Minister has spent just few weeks in office and verses are already being written in his praise.

Saddam and the others are charged in the deaths of more than 140 Shiite Muslims in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.

Applegate, 34, is best known for her role as dimwitted daughter Kelly Bundy in the hit comedy Married ...With Children and a guest role on Friends.

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri says, in an internet video, Osama bin Laden is alive. It was not clear when or where the interview was filmed.

The taxmen have been told to come down heavily on defaulters and round 2.7 lakh people who have not filed their returns despite their tax being cut at source, will recieve notices from the Ministry.

The former Indian captain returned to the Test team as a batting allrounder and will be playing after more than three months.

The US embassy temporarily shut its doors in Manila on Tuesday after a security threat. The embassy did not specify the 'probable threat information'.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi has said that Iran had no interest in talking with US about its nuclear programme.

The NDA government in Bihar has decided to remove a chapter on RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav from class VIII syllabus.

North India is facing an early winter with cold wave conditions in most cities and temperatures plumetting to record lows.

The important agreement to be signed will be on defence, and India will also look to bid for exploration blocks for oil in the Siberia region.

The scheme, to be accomplished by 2012, is aimed at improving the quality of living in about 60 cities having a population of more than one million.

The constitution of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's cabinet is to take place on December 4. More than two dozen ministers to be sworn-in.

After Wednesday's surgery, in which doctors removed a portion of his small intestine, Big B's condition is improving steadily.

A Vatican letter sent privately to Roman Catholic bishops worldwide instructs them to bar men "with homosexual tendencies" from being rectors or teachers.