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A 53-year-old woman died here Saturday evening of swine flu, becoming the second fatality in India of the fast-spreading virus, officials said.

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Four senior students of the defence ministry-run Sainik School in this Punjab town were suspended Saturday for allegedly beating and seriously injuring a junior student.

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Priyanka Chopra has got as many as 21,770 followers on social networking site Twitter within a month, overtaking Mallika Sherawat and Gul Panag. And the credit goes to her regular updates.

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Sania Mirza overcame local teenager Rebecca Marino 7-6(2), 6-7 (3), 6-4 to enter the semi-finals of the Vancouver Open tennis tournament.

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Charging the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government with having "failed" to keep its promise to bring down the prices of essential commodities in 100 days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said it would launch a nation-wide agitation against its "inability" to control sky-rocketting prices.

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Sania Mirza overcame local teenager Rebecca Marino 7-6(2), 6-7 (3), 6-4 to enter the semi-finals of the Vancouver Open tennis tournament.

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India overcame the US 2-1 to finish third at the world squash championship here Saturday, their best-ever performance in the girls team event.

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Pakistan captain Younis Khan hoped that the success of youngsters Fawad Alam and Umar Akmal will keep the pressure on senior batsmen to perform well.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday inaugurated the 57th edition of the Nehru Boat Race and said the event named after former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is "close to my family".

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Indian archery hit the depths of despair in the ongoing World Cup archery (Stage IV) at Shanghai Saturday, as both the men and women teams made an unceremonious exit in the quarter finals, going down to lower ranked opponents.