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<title>WHO WILL CHANGE YOUR DIAPER?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is an old saying: twice a child once an adult.  This means just as we entered the world needing someone to love, nurture and protect us we will need the same leaving.  When all is said and done and we have met the challenges...]]></description>
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<title>Dungeon dad smuggled daughter to hospital while wife was on holiday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl took his sick girl, Kerstin to hospital while his wife was on holiday, it has emerged.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Discovery of weird stellar pair leaves astronomers puzzled</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Astronomers have been left puzzled after they discovery of a stellar pair - a speedy spinning pulsar in an elongated orbit around an apparent Sun-like star, a combination never seen before.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:53:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gilani, Zardari decide not to bring new ministers in place of PML-N ministries</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23735_Gilani-Zardari-decide-not-to-bring-new-ministers-in-place-of-PML-N-ministries.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari have decided that PPP will not bring new ministers in place of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ministers, who resigned due to differences over the framework of the restoration of the sacked judges.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for Bhutan (Update-Prime Minister)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today left for Bhutan on a two-day official visit.

Enhancing economic and hydropower cooperation between India and Bhut...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Polling begins for second phase of Karnataka Assembly polls </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Polling for the second phase of Karnataka Assembly polls began today amidst tight security.   olling is being held in sixty-six constituencies spread in ten districts of Raichur, Koppal, Uttara Kannada, Bellary, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Shimoga, Udupi, Chikmagalur and Dakshina Kannada. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to leave for Bhutan today </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23732_Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh-to-leave-for-Bhutan-today-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is leaving for two-day official visit to Bhutan today.   

Enhancing economic and hydropower cooperation between India a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Appointment of Taseer as Punjab Governor 'part of conspiracy': PML-N</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan today said that no consultations were made with PML-N leaders for the appointment of the new governor in Punjab. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Taslima desires to stay in Tripura </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23730_Taslima-desires-to-stay-in-Tripura-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said that she would like to stay in Tripura when she returns to India if not allowed to stay in Kolkata, before the expiry of her Swedish visa in August. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN to hold emergency Myanmar summit: British PM </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the United Nations is to organise an emergency summit on the Myanmar cyclone disaster, and added that it would be held in Asia.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dust storm claims 60 dead in Uttar Pradesh  </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23728_Dust-storm-claims-60-dead-in-Uttar-Pradesh-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At least 60 people were feared killed in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh after strong dust storm lashed the state. The officials said that the toll could further go up. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India traditionally enjoys unique relationship with Bhutan: PM</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23727_India-traditionally-enjoys-unique-relationship-with-Bhutan-PM.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who will be on a two-day official visit to Bhutan, today said that India traditionally enjoyed a unique relationship with Bhutan. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India offers five million dollars in aid to China</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23726_India-offers-five-million-dollars-in-aid-to-China.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ India today offered to send five million dollars in emergency supplies to China, where the official death toll from this week's devastating earthquake has roughly touched 20,000. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Left holds agitation in Tripura against price hike</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23725_Left-holds-agitation-in-Tripura-against-price-hike.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Left parties in Tripura today held rallies and marches across the state to protest against the "'failure of the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government"' to check the rising prices of essential commodities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Out of rehab, Gazza walks with a bottle of gin</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Sports/news_23724_Out-of-rehab-Gazza-walks-with-a-bottle-of-gin.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former England soccer star Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne is just two days out of rehab, looked dazed as he walked along in Gateshead with a towel flung over one shoulder. In one hand he clutched a bag that gaped open to reveal its contents -- a child's piggy bank and a bottle of Gordon's gin.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Puri revisits traditional art forms with Folk Fair 2008 </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23723_Puri-revisits-traditional-art-forms-with-Folk-Fair-2008-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A five-day folk fair organized to promote various facets of the art and culture, which are facing extinction with the growing influence of modernism, captivated a huge number of people here recently.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kinnauri cuisine, a major hit at the tourism festival in Himachal </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Popularity of the traditional Kinnauri cuisine of Himachal gained a new high, when it attracted a lot of tourists and residents during the recently held tourism festival.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Muslims protest against Jaipur bomb blasts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Muslims led by one of the prominent leaders of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Shahnawaz Hussain protested against Jaipur bomb blasts and called for strict measures to deal with terrorism in New Delhi today.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Exercise Aman Sena to be conducted from May 17 to 29</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Exercise Aman Sena, an elaborate multinational table top exercise on Integrated United Nations Peace Support Operations conceptualized by Integrated Defence Staff, will be conducted at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad for officers of the Armed Forces from 17 countries including India from May 21 to 29.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DHD (J) militants in Assam kill 10 workers</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23719_DHD-J-militants-in-Assam-kill-10-workers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Militants of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlossa faction) struck again in Assam on Thursday, killing 10 workers engaged by a cement factory and a railway employee in two separate attacks. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>To boost research, government to set up Science and Engineering board </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_23718_To-boost-research-government-to-set-up-Science-and-Engineering-board-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Union government on Thursday decided to set up a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to promote basic scientific research. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Security upped in UP, Uttarakhand</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23717_Security-upped-in-UP-Uttarakhand.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Uttar Pradesh Police have upped security in the state after a SMS threat was received to blow up Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a State run premier aeronautics company. The threat was sent to the police in Lucknow.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ban on LTTE extended by two years</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23716_Ban-on-LTTE-extended-by-two-years.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Central Government has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India will fight against terror: Patil</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23715_India-will-fight-against-terror-Patil.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After visiting Jaipur blast victims, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said that India will fight against terror at all costs and thwart the designs of terrorists to disturb peace and communal harmony in the country.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jaipur blasts: STF detains cyber cafe owner </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23714_Jaipur-blasts-STF-detains-cyber-cafe-owner-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force today detained a cyber cafe owner and his son on charges that the e-mail in which a lesser-known terror outfit Indian Mujahideen claimed the responsibility for Jaipur blasts was sent from their cyber caf‚.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China will conduct Olympics successfully: Pranab </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Sports/news_23713_China-will-conduct-Olympics-successfully-Pranab-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Reaffirming India's support to the Beijing Olympics, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that China will conduct the games in a successful manner and maintain high standards of Olympics.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Net telephony latest target for hackers</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_23712_Net-telephony-latest-target-for-hackers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Centre seeks removal of Calcutta High Court's stay order on OBC quota </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/South-Asia/news_23711_Centre-seeks-removal-of-Calcutta-High-Courts-stay-order-on-OBC-quota-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Centre on Thursday approached the Supreme Court for the removal of the Calcutta High Court's stay order pertaining to the implementation of the Other Backward Classes quota in post graduate courses in the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs).]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RIC troika calls for clamp down on spread of heroin from Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23710_RIC-troika-calls-for-clamp-down-on-spread-of-heroin-from-Afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Raising concerns over the illicit drugs trade going on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Russia-India-China troika in the joint communique has called for the creation of a security belt around Afghanistan to halt the spread of heroin.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pilot whales are 'cheetahs of the ocean'  </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_23709_Pilot-whales-are-cheetahs-of-the-ocean-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Spanish biologists have unearthed evidence that deep-sea whales, which are known to be slow and energy saving creatures, are indeed the cheetahs of the ocean. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Genetically modified crops not a solution to poverty, hunger, and climate change: Report</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_23708_Genetically-modified-crops-not-a-solution-to-poverty-hunger-and-climate-change-Report.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Based on an assessment of the global agriculture scenario, experts have come to the conclusion that genetically modified (GM) crops are not a solution for poverty, hunger or climate change.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Assam Government bows down to Public Outrages</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2727_Assam-Government-bows-down-to-Public-Outrages.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Finally Assam government has bowed down to the growing public outrages. Following intense public pressure, the province government of Northeast India,  has favoured for a CBI probe into the cases of rhino poaching at different preserves in the state. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:24:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A just war or a war that is just a war?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2701_A-just-war-or-a-war-that-is-just-a-war.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Islamist terror and subsequent Iraq War have let loose a huge debate around what is Just War? The Islamists claim that Just War is Jihad and it is perfectly legitimate to fight against oppression by unbelievers. The Iraq Just War claims are based (and debated) upon legal arguments arising from UN and parliamentary resolutions. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:26:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Hitchens Hypothesis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The invasion of Iraq---Christopher Hitchens failed hypothesis.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:26:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Mother of a Holiday</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2723_A-Mother-of-a-Holiday.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm not big on planning. In fact, some might say that the entire trajectory of my life has been the result of carefully choreographed lack of planning. I want to plan, I need to plan, but when push comes to shove, everything always seems to boil down to whatever I can throw together on the spur of the moment. This is not a good way to live, but it seems to be the only way I can actually accomplish anything and still maintain some degree of sanity. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How to stuff up a Mighty River</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2724_How-to-stuff-up-a-Mighty-River.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Inept decision-making, greedy self-interest, head in the sand politicians, drought, have ruined one of the great rivers of the world. Only time will tell if it is too late. The 10 billion dollars is to buy back water leases that never should have been granted in the first place.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:09:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mind the Gap, the generation gap that is…</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2714_Mind-the-Gap-the-generation-gap-that-is.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Which generation follows the greatest generation? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Recycling ships</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2703_Recycling-ships.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ships are living creatures. Ask any sailor and he will agree and he will further say that ships are feminine. That combination of steel, paint, oil, blood, sweat, tears, sand, sea, wind and waves can be nothing but feminine. But unlike ladies, when ships reach the end of their lives, they are treated rather brutally. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 11:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak must also respond positively to J'K-specific CBMs: Mehbooba</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2722_Pak-must-also-respond-positively-to-J&K-specific-CBMs-Mehbooba.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Srinagar, April 28 – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Ms Mehbooba Mufti has expressed the hope that substantive action would follow the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's latest assertion of opening cross-LoC road links in Jammu & Kashmir for free movement of people and goods. "PDP is optimistic that the leadership of the two countries would make this long-cherished dream of the people of Jammu & Kashmir a reality," she said. 
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 11:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Healthy Weight Loss Without Caffeine</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2720_Healthy-Weight-Loss-Without-Caffeine.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Caffeine can creep into our diets in other ways too. Caffeine is a popular additive in weight loss pills. With all this caffeine around us, do we really know how it affects our bodies? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Post Action Wisdom</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2719_The-Post-Action-Wisdom.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The other evening Victor charged into his house blowing fire and smoke while his wife stood wondering what could have happened.  Meantime, Victor was throwing curses at himself, How stupid of me … How stupid…]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:43:43 GMT</pubDate>
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