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March 25th, 2008
Source: The Hindu
NEW DELHI: In a major development that could result in a breakthrough, Pakistan has invited India for talks on finalising the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline deal.
“I received an invitation from Pakistan’s Energy Minister to visit Islamabad to finalise the transit fee issue so that the IPI pipeline deal could be wrapped [...]

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After several postponements, India’s Tata Motors is finally set to take over two of the world’s best-known luxury car models - Jaguar and Land Rover - on March 26. According to Dodgson, a representative of Ford Workers, Tata has agreed to retain the manufacturing base of the two marquees in Britain and source the supply [...]

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Officials say the shipment of non-nuclear electrical fuses was a Department of Defense process error and that the components have since been returned.
By Ben DuBose, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:03 AM PDT, March 25, 2008
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said today that non-nuclear parts for an intercontinental ballistic missile were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan in 2006 [...]

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It’s like the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.’s MySpace.com announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year as a way to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social-networking sites.
The OpenSocial Foundation is expected [...]

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Google may get another shot at a wireless airwave auction.
The search giant, which did not win any airwaves in the FCC’s recently concluded spectrum auction, is advocating the communications authority sell the so-called “white space” between television stations.
In a March 21 letter, Google outlined the benefits of auctioning the unused television airwaves in real time [...]

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