The Indian Express -- Leisure

Thursday, November 13 1997

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Burglar comes clean with his royal heroics after three years

An Italian burglar has confessed to stealing jewellery and private letters belonging to Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne. Renato Rinino claimed he still had letters addressed to Charles from his longstanding friend, Camilla Parker Bowles and waited to make the confession until he could no longer be prosecuted, under a British law which puts a time limit on bringing charges.

Japanese-born wives in N Korea return home after 40 years

Fifteen Japanese-born wives of North Koreans in Pyongyang arrived in Japan, their birthplace, over the weekend saying there was no "discrimination" in North Korea and their life there was "quite comfortable." Ever since they left with their husbands some forty years ago to settle in North Korea, they were not allowed to visit Japan for reasons purely political. These women are mostly Korean, born in Japan during or before World War II when they were Japanese citizens since Korea at the time was regarded as part of Japan after being annexed in 1910.

Nutritional status of mothers, children in Kalahandi normal: Study

The nutritional status of mothers and children of Kalahandi district have been found to be equivalent, if not better than the all India average for rural India. Severe malnutrition among mothers of Kalahandi district was 7.2% against 11.3% of rural India as reported by the National Nutritional Monitoring Bureau (NNMB), Hyderabad.

Nutritional status of mothers, children in Kalahandi normal

Japanese-born wives in N Korea return home after 40 years

Burglar comes clean with his royal heroics after three years

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