North Salt Lake, Utah, Mar 16: Rulon Gardner is a man accustomed to beating the odds but this time he believed he was going to die.
The Olympic wrestling champion was on a single-engine plane that crashed into an icy lake last month and knew he faced having to swim for nearly two hours to survive.
''I can't make it,'' he thought as the freezing water swirled around him. ''I can't do it. I'm going to die.'' Gardner, 35,.....
Caneberra, Mar 16: Middle East airline Qatar Airways has been awarded rights to operate a daily flight to Australia's second largest city of Melbourne, Transport Minister Mark Vaile said on Friday.Vaile said under the new air services arrangement with Qatar, Qatar Airways will also have the right to operate a second daily flight to another Australian city from 2008 as Australia increases access rights for Middle East airlines.Australian airlines will also be given the same increased access to Qatar, an important.....
Port Blair, Mar 16: Andaman and Nicobar Islands will soon get its first theme park here.
A delegation of Port Blair Municipal Council (PBMC) recently met Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy in New Delhi and discussed with him the proposed project for the development of Gandhi Park into a daylong tourist destination, PBMC chairperson Sher Singh told UNI .....
Faridabad, Mar 16: A local court here today sentenced three accused in a dowry case to 10 years Rigorous Imprisonment. Rabinder and his parents Maya and Giriraj were accused by the victim's father for killing his daughter for dowry.
Rabinder was married to Suman a couple of years of ago. The girl was tortured by her husband and his family, and later killed by her husband out of frustration due to continuous unfulfilled dowry demands.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 16: Malaysia's telecoms industry regulator on Friday named four newcomers as winners of much-coveted WiMAX licences, further pressuring established players such as state-controlled Telekom Malaysia Bhd .
Malaysia badly lags more tech savvy nations such as Singapore and South Korea, despite a decade-long plan to become a high-tech nation.
Analysts say the decision to award the licences for WiMAX -- an emerging mobile broadband technology -- to smaller companies is aimed at accelerating competition to meet its objective of wirelessly.....
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