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Polly Umrigar, Daniel Ortega, N.N. Sippy, Darrell Hair

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Elected Daniel Ortega, 61, is Nicaragua president again 16 years after US-backed Contras warred to oust him. This Sandinista icon spelt scandal: of US make and his own.

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Died Veteran Bollywood producer N.N. Sippy, 75 (Woh Kaun Thi, Chor Machaye Shor, Gumnam, Ghar etc). He gave Subhash Ghai his directorial break (Kalicharan).

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Busted The module behind the rocket attacks on Pakistan prez Gen Musharraf in late September. Some 50 plotters held. Especially: a few PAF officers.

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Sacked Darrell Hair, who’d earned the ‘racist’ tag for his umpiring, from the ICC elite panel. Asian votes decide his fate on the England-Pak Oval Test fiasco.

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Blamed Calcutta’s B.C. Roy Children’s Hospital, a referral institute, does it again; 17 infants die in a space of 48 hours from November 2. The toll has hit 20.

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