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Nagpur-born Vikram Pandit named new Citigroup CEO

New York, Dec 12: Citigroup Inc has named its investment banking head, Vikram Pandit, as the group's chief executive and acting CEO Win Bischoff as its chairman, disappointing investors who wanted

NASA software to help Mars rover find safe sites for winter

Washington, Dec 12: NASA has developed a new software that is helping the Spirit Rover to find safe havens for the winter and also plan where it will explore in the future.

Uranus and Neptune played flip-flop four billion years ago

Washington, Dec 12: A recent study by scientists has said that Uranus and Neptune had switched places four billion years ago, indicating that the planets in our solar system weren’t always in the o

US to send 70 poll observers to Pak

Washington, Dec 12: The Bush Administration is planning to send 70 poll observers to Pakistan to monitor the January 8 elections in Pakistan, the US State Department has informed the Congress.

Time does not slow in crisis situations

Washington, December 12: Accident victims often report experiencing the mishap in slow motion.

Pak elections won’t be credible without pre-Nov 3 scenario: US expert

Washington, Dec 12: The January 8 elections in Pakistan won’t be credible without the Constitution being reinstated, politicians being free to campaign, the media free to report, and all activists are freed from detention, according to a Heritage Foundation expert.

Lisa Curtis, who will be a member of the International Republican Institute election monitoring team to Pakistan, was quoted by the Daily Times as saying that mainstream political parties of Pakistan must demonstrate strength so that “the vast majority of Pakistanis do not support the extremist Islamic agenda. ”

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