Life ban for Chanu, Pratima Kumari
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Weightlifters Pratima Kumari, Sanamacha Chanu, S Sunaina and coach Pal Singh Sandhu have been banned for life, Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi announced in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.
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Sending out a strong message to dope offenders, the Indian Olympic Association on Wednesday imposed life bans on three top weightlifters -- Pratima Kumari, Sanamacha Chanu and S Sunaina -- and national coach Pal Singh Sandhu.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Kumar Sangakkara has been fined 30% of his match fee for showing dissent during the fourth day of the second Test against Pakistan in Karachi.
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Â· Grand chamber of human rights court to hear appealÂ· Women argue that one will lose house when other dies
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Those who are engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and &quot;phone-sex&quot; services in China are subject to punishment as severe as life imprisonment, according
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A Pakistani Senate committee has proposed an end to the four-decade ban on showing movies from India, Agence France-Press reported. In a statement on Tuesday, the committee referred to the films when it said, âThe ban has practically become ineffective as these are being viewed uncensored in almost every household on cable TV as well as CDs and DVDs, necessitating a reappraisal to deal with the issue rationally.â.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
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The Indian Supreme Court bans a bull-taming sport popular in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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Thai coup leaders have banned go-go girls from dancing near tanks and troops on Bangkok streets as a distraction from the serious business of power, a spokesman said on Wednesday. "It is not appropriate to entertain soldiers while they are on duty," Colonel Acra Tiprote told Reuters after a troupe of 10 women in tight camouflage vests and shorts posed with soldiers and tanks while making a music video.
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The name runs raucous images of sex, sexuality, candor and controversies. This pout princess has taken Indian screen sexuality into censored territory. Today a Bollywood actress and a mega celebrity, she hasn't had it easy. Madame Mallika has clawed her way into the film frat.
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THE INDIAN Olympic Association on Wednesday slapped life bans on tainted weightlifters Pratima Kumari and Sanamacha Chanu who were caught cheating at the Athens Olympics.
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An Indian news channel is taken off air after broadcasting a false "sting" which led to riots and a woman being jailed.
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NEW YORK  - Randy Quaid has been banned for life by Actors' Equity Assn., the labor union representing American stage actors, and fined more than $81,000 for his alleged actions during the Seattle production of the musical "Lone Star Love," which was scheduled to come to Broadway until producers canceled it.
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Oh, and that bloke who invented the web Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, has been nominated for a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the Queen's birthday honours list. She is being recognised for her services to human rights.â¦
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&#39;Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga has seized on the murder of a high court judge last Friday as the pretext to reactivate the death penalty for the crimes of murder, rape and drug dealing.