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NEW DELHI:  Former Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral passed away in Delhi on Friday at  Gurgaon's Medicity Medanta Hospital , just a few days before his 93rd birthday. Gujral,  India 's 12th prime minister whose tenure ran from April 1997 to March 1998, had been admitted to the hospital in a critical condition a few days ago following a lung infection and was on ventilator support. A team of nine medical experts, led by Dr Naresh Trehan, were attending to Gujral. Gujral, in his illustrious political career, held many an important portfolio in the government. In 1975, he was Minister of Information and Broadcasting. He was also India's Ambassador Soviet Union. He quit the  Congress  in the mid-1980s to join the Janata Dal. He also was the  Minister of External Affairs  in  Prime Minister VP Singh 's Cabinet. In 1992, he was nominated to the  Rajya Sabha . He again held the position of Minister of External Affairs in H D Deve Gowda-led ...

The dead body found outside the Gloria Hotel in Dubai Internet City on Tuesday morning is of a man who committed suicide, UAE daily 7Days reported. The man, believed to be of Kenyan and Somali dual nationality, threw himself from the eighth floor of the building on Monday. Police rushed to the scene after the body of the unidentified male was discovered. “We received a call on Tuesday morning about a dead body in a hotel in Internet City in Dubai," an official from Bur Dubai Police station told 7Days. "We rushed to the scene and started [sic] the investigation," he added. The surrounding area was cordoned off as the body was taken away in an ambulance. While the cause of death is unknown, the official told 7days it appears to be suicide.

Jennifer Lopez was paid nearly AED1 million ($250,000) to open a car showroom in Dubai, local website arabianbusiness.com reported on Friday.   The singer, actress and former American Idol judge arrived in Dubai on Wednesday and attended the official opening of Al Nabooda Automobiles' new Audi showroom.  The new showroom on Sheikh Zayed Road is reportedly the largest Audi showroom of its kind in the world. Jennifer Lopez, popularly known as J.Lo, was in Dubai to play a concert at Dubai’s Media City as part of her sell-out ‘Dance Again’ world tour.  While Audi Middle East is one of the official sponsors of the gig, the singer was rumoured to have been paid $250,000 (AED918,275) to be the surprise special guest at the showroom launch, arabianbusiness.com said citing a report by its sister website AhlanLive. “It's my first time here and I am so excited. I have had a lovely day out there today, I feel the weather is really good right now, you guys are very lucky,” Lop...

Former Minister and senior DMK leader Veerapandi S Arumugam passed away at a hospital in Chennai today. Arumugam was hospitalised some days ago due to breathing difficulties. His end came this morning, sources said. He was born on 26 January 1937 in Pollavari, Salem, and was a strongman of the DMK in that area. He was recently under the Goondas Act and was later let off.

Veerapandi S Arumugam  (born 26 January 1937) is a Tamil Nadu politician. He was born on 26 January 1937 in Pollavari,  Salem  in a vanniyar family DMK Member from 1957 President, Poolavari Panchayat Board, 1958–1976 President, Poolavari Village Co-operative Thrift Society, 1959–1976 Chairman, Veerapandi Panchayat Union, 1970–1976 President, Salem Central Co-operative Bank, 1973–1976; Member,  Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly , 1962–1967, 1967–1971, 1971–1976, 1989–1991, 1996–2001, 2006–2011; Member, Tamil Nadu Legislative Council, 1978–1984 Minister for  Rural Development and Local Administration , 1989–1990 Minister for  Agriculture , 1990–1991, 1996–2001, 2006–2011 He lost his MLA election 2011 seat to his niece Mrs. VijayaLakshmi Palanisami of ADMK with big Margin from Sankari constituency.      Now him political life is finished.       He is dead in chennai hospital. Friday morning 23.11.2012...

WITH A MASTERS in IT from Vijaywada, an MBA from  Rutgers University  in  New Jersey , and 10 years at  Verizon Wireless , one would have assumed  Sadhu , 39, had his professional life all charted out. Instead, he quit his job and invested his life’s savings in creating  VESAG . WHAT’S INCREDIBLE is not that  Rajendra Sadhu , founder of Vyzin Electronics, thought of the device he later named VESAG; what’s amazing is that no one had thought of it before.  When his parents’ ill health caused him to leave everything in the United States and come home to look after them, he started to wonder at the absence of monitoring services or devices that could help avert a medical disaster. SADHU CONCEIVED of a remote monitoring device that could be ‘worn’ and that would track the vitals of the user; the device would trigger an emergency response mechanism when something was wrong.  On coming up with the idea in March 2010, he knew he had a...

Views on Bal Thackeray, known as Balasaheb, were as polarised as the politics he practiced.  Known for his caustic tongue, he was idolised by his followers in the Shiv Sena and scorned in equal measure by liberal and secular Indians for his communal, divisive politics that didn't stop with radical expression of views against Muslims and violent action against those opposed to his extreme righwing ideas - including being firmly opposed to the visit of the Pakistani cricket team to India. The cartoonist turned politician was often portrayed as a roaring tiger, the much cherished logo of his party Shiv Sena, which he formed to accord dignity to Maharashtrians but which became known as a party of restless youngsters out for trouble. He was a demogogue whose strong views polarised the polity at the state and the national level, but he never flinched from expressing himself with conviction despite opposition. The posterboy of rightwing Hindu and Marathi chau...