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newspics3 = "<b>PCB bans Yousuf, Younis for life</b><br />The Pakistan Cricket Board, in an unprecedented disciplinary action against senior team players on Wednesday banned for life former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan. PCB also banned another former captain Shoib Malik and all-rounder Rana Naved for one-year besides fining...";








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newspics1 = "<b>Padma Bridge tender likely to be invited by month-end</b><br />The $2.4 billion tender for the Padma Multi-purpose Bridge is likely to be invited late this month or in early April, sources in the Economic Relations Division said. The communications ministry in cooperation with a donor group led by the World Bank almost completed...";








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newspics2 = "<b>Govt gives proposal to extend UN-OHCHR's term by six months</b><br />The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forwarded a proposal to the Council of Ministers to extend the term of United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (UN-OHCHR) by another six months. The OHCHR, and other UN bodies and diplomatic agencies in Nepal...";








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newspics4 = "<b>President to lead Lanka towards prosperity, self-sufficiency</b><br/>Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that his government will take the country towards prosperity and self-sufficiency strengthening the local economy at the village level. Addressing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Central Organisation in the Tissamaharama...";








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newspics5 = "<b>Security tightened around Chinese embassy in New Delhi</b><br/>Security was tightened around the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi today to avoid any untoward incident on the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, a day after Tibetan activists tried to storm the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday...";








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sthwk = "As the world celebrated the summer solstice as Fete de la Musique on June 21,TV Southasia co hosted the event in an effort to allow expression of all styles of music, through an exquisite musical bouquet of mixed flowers. \"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the beautiful is dead\", said Benjamin Disraeli.";








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