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A historic moment for India as NSG gives it the nod September 7, 2008 Vienna, In a historic moment that ended more than three decades of nuclear isolation for India, the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group Saturday rewrote their guidelines to resume global nuclear trade with New Delhi.

The NSG's decision to grant India a clean waiver from its existing rules, which forbid nuclear trade with a country which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), came Saturday afternoon after three days of intense diplomacy by the US and India in the nuclear cartel that controls the global flow of nuclear fuel and technologies.

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Tributes paid to slain Hindu leader in Orissa September 7, 2008 Bhubaneswar, Hundreds of Hindu saints congregated in the Orissa capital Saturday to pay tributes to their leader whose Aug 23 killing sparked communal violence in the state.

The gathering took place even as an order prohibiting the assembly of four or more people was issued here to prevent Hindu groups from carrying out processions to mourn Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati's death.

However anticipating trouble, the authorities relaxed the prohibitory order even after at least 50 Hindus were detained at different places, official sources said.

"We detained some people initially but later allowed them (to carry out the procession)," deputy commissioner of police Himanshu Lal told IANS.

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Reliance Retail introduces its new format ‘Reliance Living Homeware’ September 7, 2008 Aurangabad, Reliance Retail’s subsidiary ‘Reliance Home Store Ltd', launches its first specialty format, under the brand name of “Reliance Living Homeware”, in Aurangabad today. After the successful launch of various concepts such as Reliance Autozone, Delight, Reliance Digital, Reliance Footprint, Reliance Fresh, iStore, Reliance Mart, Reliance Super, Reliance TimeOut, Reliance Trends and Relianc... READ MORE International

Zardari elected Pakistan president September 7, 2008 Islamabad, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was Saturday elected the country's 13th president, defeating his two rivals from the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) factions with a big majority.

According to results available with the PPP secretariat here, Zardari got 490 votes out of 702 electoral votes from the National Assembly and provincial assemblies, while his rival ... READ MORE Travel

Paragliding fest kickstarts in Tamil Nadu September 7, 2008 Yelagiri (Tamil Nadu), A three-day paragliding festival started Friday in this picturesque hill station in the southern Eastern Ghats.

Flagging off the event, Vellore District Collector Dharmendra Pratap Yadav said the town was a welcome addition to India's paragliding destination.

"This town has become the third destination for this sport in India after Panchgani near Pune in Maharashtra an... READ MORE