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14 killed ,28 injured in road accident in Poonch 4/17/2007 10:33:17 PM Jammu, April 17 At least fourteen bus passengers were killed and 28 others injured in a tragic road accident when an ill fated bus skidded off the road and fell deep in the gorge near gagrian in Choon village in Poonch district on Tuesday morning. The mini bus bearing registration number JK12-412 was on its way from Sawjian to Mandi when it met with an accident near Sundari nallah on Tuesday morning. According to eyewitness reports, the overcrowded bus met with an accident when the driver of the bus lost control over its wheels and it rolled down a deep gorge.The condition of the road is poor in the remote hilly district and rickety fleet of buses add to the miseries of bus passengers. Immediately after the accident was noticed by local villagers in the area they sounded an alarm and alerted local police and security forces who swung in to action and lauched rescue mission.The dead and the crtiically injured were immediately moved to the Poonch hospital from where four critically injured were irlifted to Govt Medical college. Dr Amrish Kohli who accompanied the injur...   READ MORE

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Indians have sex the quickest 4/17/2007 10:32:30 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 17 Indians have sex the quickest, devoting an average of 13 minutes to each session as opposed to the global average of 18 minutes. This finding has been brought to the fore by the Durex Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey. Durex is the leading condom-maker. It has found that, in the land of Kamasutra, fast love is the way to go and number 13 seems to be all about getting lucky and well, horny. Quick but satisfied. In the jet-setting age of fast redemption, this is what sex life is like for Indians. The survey spread over 26 countries with a sample size of more than 26,000 people found that Indians were the third most satisfied with 61 per cent respondents hap...   READ MORE   Rahul Gandhi divides Congressmen Critics lack courage to take on mother-son duo 4/17/2007 10:31:54 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 17 Leaders, old and young, of the congress party stand divided on the choice of operations employed by Rahul Gandhi, sitting member of the Lok Sabha and son of Sonia Gandhi. A division has also taken place in the Congress Parliamentary Party on what is termed as "unnecessary" remarks by Rahul. And even as the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, would like the country to believe that it is Rahul Gandhi who is the "future of India", quite a few Ministers of the UPA government at the Centre have not taken gladly to what is termed as "more-than-necessary freedom" granted to Sonia Gandhi's son. Significantly, however, those Congressmen who are opposed to the alleg...   READ MORE

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