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IRIN - Thu Nov 26, 9:30 am ET
NEPALGUNJ, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Barely a year ago, Lalita Rai, 22, travelled to Kuwait escorted by a local job broker, who had promised her a good position at a beauty parlour. Instead she was tricked into working as an unpaid servant for a local household.
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redOrbit - Tue Nov 24, 10:31 am ET
PARIS, November 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- eServGlobal Limited (LSE: ESG & ASX: ESV), a provider of smarter transaction management solutions in Charging, Payment and Retention services, today announced that its solutions have been selected by Nepal Satellite Telecom Pvt Ltd (NSTPL). Xalted Information Systems, a leading solutions provider engaged in OSS/BSS, Telecom Security and Managed ...
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Asheville Citizen-Times - Tue Nov 24, 7:37 pm ET
KATMANDU, NEPAL โ Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Sun Nov 29, 3:37 am ET
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Boston Globe - Tue Nov 24, 4:03 am ET
Devotees lined up outside a Hindu temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday at the start of a two-day religious celebration involving the sacrificial slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals.
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Cape Cod Times - Tue Nov 24, 1:09 pm ET
BARIYAPUR, Nepal - The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn today and then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo...
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CBS News - Tue Nov 24, 6:30 pm ET
200,000 Buffaloes, Goats, Chickens and Pigeons to Be Killed for Hindu Festival
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The Gainesville Sun - Tue Nov 24, 10:14 am ET
The Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
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FOX 8 Cleveland - Sat Nov 28, 10:12 pm ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) โ An Ohio inmate fighting the state's new execution procedure is asking a federal court to intervene.
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Helena Independent Record - Sun Nov 29, 12:58 am ET
BILLINGS โ Harriet Dusenberry was a world away from Montana whenshe hired an artist to illustrate an album of Christmas memoriesfrom her childhood.
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The Journal-Standard - Tue Nov 24, 12:17 pm ET
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
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Hutchinson News - Sun Nov 29, 1:15 am ET
ULYSSES - Joan and Raymond Fort would never have crossed paths had she not been a missionary in the ...
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INDOlink - Sat Nov 21, 8:48 pm ET
Kathmandu, Nov 21 (PTI) Nepal's Maoists today decided to end its blockade of the parliament so as to allow the government to pass the crucial budget, but planned to go ahead with the next phase of their agitation to dislodge the coalition in a dispute over "civilian supremacy".
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The Hendersonville Times-News - Tue Nov 24, 10:41 am ET
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA,Associated Press Writer KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. A Nepalese minister said it was the largest sacrificial slaughter of animals in the world.
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Lincoln Journal Star - Sat Nov 28, 7:40 pm ET
Dear Mr. Sportsknowitall: In the old days we used to tellour radio listeners to "turn down the TV sound and listen to theplay-by-play." Those days are gone. But when watching the AmericanLeague playoffs I turned down the sound because of the awfulthundersticks, which made announcers sound like they were talkingin a waterfall, and listened to the radio. But the radio came in 20seconds ahead ...