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US President Obama will visit next year India, which he described as a rising, responsive global power next year. Addressing a press conference at the White House after 25-minute long talks with visiting Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, he stated deepening of the ties between the two countries is ‘my priority’.

In one of its biggest raids on the Customs Department in Chennai, the CBI has arrested nine officials and two others from the Chennai Airport.

Already millions of Muslims from all over the world have poured into the holy city of Makkah (Mecca) to observe the hajj. There is no other annual event on the face of the earth, religious or non-religious, that compares to hajj in terms of the sheer number of participants, duration of the event and the breadth of agenda. Despite all these, it has always remained equally fascinating and mysterious to not only non-Muslims who are barred from entering the holy city, but also to millions of Muslims who had not performed hajj.

The decision to hold the presidential election two years ahead of my first term was prompted by the fact that people in the North should have an unadulterated mode to exercise universal franchise which the people of North claimed deprived at the previous occasion due to the threat of LTTE terrorism, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to ban carbonated drinks in schools under its umbrella, part of a four-measure strategy to strengthen the health of Thai youth and to prevent obesity among Thai children.

Someone who read my language acquisition articles recently wrote in to ask me if I believed reading was more important than speaking, and if I believed you could learn pronunciation from reading.