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After four doping violations in the last Commonwealth Games, the Indian Weightlifting Federation isBANNED by its international counterpart from all competitions.

A housewife is like a DONKEY, it’ll toil all day..., a Rajasthan Education Board Class IX Hindi text—written by Padmashri winner Gopalprasad Vyas goes on. To wit, even the ruling BJP in the state is not amused.

Ex-Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is to be tried for gun-running, diamond smuggling and war crimes in Sierra Leone. The ex-preacher’s trial will be an African first for a deposed strongman.

Twenty-one Indians are among 57 DEAD when a tourist boat carrying a dinner cruise party capsizes off the coast in Bahrain. The boat was apparently overcrowded.

Notch one up for gay rights. A local court in Halol, Panchmahals district, Gujarat, decrees that Sonu Avtar SIngh, 21, and Rekha Marwadi, 18, are consenting adults and hence can live together.

Kuwaiti women voted for the first time in a council byelection for the Salmiya district seat. Two ladies are also among the eight candidates. Women got equal political rights last year.