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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 08:45 | |||
Chennai set to get largest cricket stadium CHENNAI: Plans are afoot to bowl out Melbourne and Eden Garden cricket stadiums. The world's largest cricket stadium is all set to come up near Chennai in time for World Cup 2011, which India will co-host with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Melbourne has a seating capacity of close to 1 lakh, while Eden Gardens can accommodate up to 90,000 spectators. The rest of the area will be used for two smaller fields for research and training, besides rehabilitation.
TCS bags 5-year Singapore airline deal MUMBAI: India's top software exporter Tata Consultancy Services has bagged a five-year multi-million- dollar contract from Singapore Airlines Cargo.
One-third of world's poor in India: Survey NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than even sub-Saharan Africa.That is the sobering news coming out of the World Bank's latest estimates on global poverty. The fine print of the estimates also shows that the rate of decline of poverty in India was faster between 1981 and 1990 than between 1990 and 2005. This is likely to give fresh ammunition to those who maintain that economic reforms, which started in 1991, have failed to reduce poverty at a faster rate. India, according to the new estimates, had 456 million people or about 42% of the population living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 per day. The number of Indian poor also constitute 33% of the global poor, which is pegged at 1.4 billion people. India also had 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa, considered the world's poorest region, is better — it has 72.2% of its population (551m) people below the $2 a day level.
He said he would initiate a vote to topple the coalition that has ruled Malaysia for five decades."The message is clear, we in Permatang Pauh and in Malaysia, we demand change for freedom and justice," Anwar told a jubilant crowd of thousands of people gathered in a football stadium who were chanting "reformasi" (reform) and "merdeka" (freedom). "We want an independent judiciary, we want the economy to benefit the vast majority not the corrupt few," Anwar, who was wearing a colourful batik shirt, told the cheering crowd.Political analysts had said that the man who was once a rising star in the government and is now seeking to oust it from power had needed to win by at least the 13,388 majority his wife won when she contested the seat in March's general election. That Anwar won by much more gives him a real shot at tempting the 30 government legislators to join his three-party coalition and that will enable him to win power in a confidence vote that he has said he will call for September.
UK government now targeting Islam If the British government is attempting to interfere in the Muslim community on matters of Islam by funding a board of theologians, it is being "wrong-headed" as such a panel would have no credibility, according to editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi.
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