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Tuesday, May 24, 2011, Chandigarh, India
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Pak frees airbase after a 16-hr battle with Taliban
P-3C Orion aircraft destroyed; 14 killed
Pakistani commandos today regained control of a key military airbase here that was stormed by Taliban fighters after 16 hours of gun battles that killed 10 security personnel and destroyed two US-made surveillance planes.

Taliban siege 2230 HRS on Sunday
Gunfire begins
0045 HRS
on Monday Plane destroyed
0500 HRS
5 killed, 11 hurt; battle continues
1000 HRS
Taliban take over one building
1430 HRS
Siege ends, 10 troops killed
A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi.
A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi. — Reuters

Mullah Omar: Missing or dead?
Taliban deny that he is dead
Kandahar, May 23
Mullah OmarAfghanistan’s Taliban today dismissed as “pure propaganda” claims that their leader Mullah Omar was dead after an Afghan intelligence source said he had been killed in Pakistan. “This is pure propaganda. This is not possible at all,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. 


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Girls outshine boys in Class XII CBSE exams
New Delhi, May 23
It’s a girl thing: Girls flash the victory sign after checking their Class XII examinations results, which were declared in seven regions across the country. Over 81 per cent students cleared the Class XII CBSE examinations this year, with girls once again outshining the boys.

It’s a girl thing: Girls flash the victory sign after checking their Class XII examinations results, which were declared in seven regions across the country. — AFP

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Ambala/ Kaithal, May 23
Something’s cooking in the anganwaris of Haryana and it is a lot more than just food. At least that’s the impression the colourful empty chairs, spread under the shade of a tree, on the premises of an anganwari centre in Ambala’s Panjokhara village, convey.

PM in Ethiopia for Africa-India summit
Seeks strong ties with resource-rich continent

New Delhi/Addis Ababa, May 23
Seeking a “strong and purposeful partnership” with Africa, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today embarked on a mission to cement bilateral ties and “revitalise” engagement with the resource-rich continent. Manmohan Singh who arrived in the Ethiopian capital on the first leg of his two-nation visit, was accorded a red- carpet welcome.

 

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Pakistan’s Intelligence agency ISI had links with Mumbai attack co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Headley, the prosecution submitted during the trial of Rana that opened in the US today. During opening statements at Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building, assistant US attorney Sarah Streicker said Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian, told Headley, an American of Pakistani origin, after the Mumbai carnage in which 166 persons were killed in November 2008 that the “Indians deserved it.”

Ramesh: IIT, IIM faculty not world class, but students are
New Delhi, May 23
Environment & Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh speaks at a conference in New Delhi on Monday. Environment Minister and IIT alumnus Jairam Ramesh today kicked up a controversy claiming the faculty of the premier IITs and IIMs is “not world class” but the institutions are “excellent” because of their quality of students. “There is hardly any worthwhile research from our IITs. The faculty in the IIT is not world class.

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