Premji throws his hat into the NYSE ring
A young Stanford graduate who came back to India in 1967 to take over his father’s vegetable oil business in remote Jalgaon district returned to the NYSE on Thursday having parlayed the Rs 4 crore firm into a Rs 16,000 crore technology major.



Suicide bomber strikes in Lanka, 19 injured
A suicide bomber staged an attack outside Sri Lanka's Town Hall here on Thursday, killing himself and wounding 19 others as President Chandrika Kumaratunga inducted a new cabinet.



Britain to open diplomatic ties with N Korea
Britain on Thursday announced plans to open diplomatic ties with North Korea for the first time since the creation of the Communist state more than 50 years ago.



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