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If anyone watched Days 1, 2 and 3 of this Test match separately, they could have been forgiven for thinking that they were watching different matches. Day 1 had seen India piling on runs by the bucket full, as if they were playing a limited-overs match. Day 2 was more traditional, with a good build-up of runs initially followed by a later order collapse and a steady start by Sri Lanka. Day 3 has been the most dramatic by far, with 13 wickets falling in the day - all of them Sri Lankan.

Washington: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday described India as a vibrant and responsible global power, saying the South Asian nation will play a pivotal role in meeting global challenges.

President Barack Obama has praised the United States` relationship with India as `one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century`.

Addressing Indian PM Manmohan Singh on the first state visit of his presidency, Mr Obama said Mr Singh was a `fitting leader` for the occasion.

India is quietly beefing up its defences along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh, even as it publicly downplays the growing diplomatic spat with Beijing over the Dalai Lama`s visit to the state.

The Indian Army will deploy its new 15,000-strong 56 Division in Arunachal, which China claims as its own, within four weeks, a senior defence official told HT, requesting anonymity.

Simultaneously, it has put out a Request for Information (RFI) for acquiring 300 lightweight tanks that can be deployed in the North East and Jammu & Kashmir.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India on Saturday dismissed former Sri Lankan Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka`s claim that its troops were put on alert
at the instance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa following fears of a coup.

Strongly refuting Fonseka`s claim, Minister of state for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said there was `no substance to the story.`

Temperamental paceman S Sreesanth, whose on-field antics have often landed him in trouble, was on Tuesday surprisingly included in India`s 15-member squad for the first two cricket Tests against Sri Lanka starting November 16 in Ahmedabad.

Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan expectedly returned to the squad after recovering from a shoulder injury, which had kept him out of the tri-series in Sri Lanka and the ensuing Champions Trophy in September.

`Perched high up in a remote corner of north-east India, Tawang is every bit the frontier town`

Maroon-robed Buddhist monks rub shoulders with ethnic Tibetans, Nepalese and Indians in the town`s busy market.

Soldiers in olive green stroll down, relaxed and unarmed.

But underneath the surface of apparent calm is a sense of tension and heightened expectation.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who is revered here as no other, is in town.

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While it`s not possible for the African nations to match India`s over $40 billion software exports industry in terms of the available skilled workforce, which is around 2 million engineers-strong, these countries plan to evolve more as outsourcing destinations for niche projects based on the available skills.

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Sri Lanka Government on Thursday morning released 41,685 Tamils from 12,000 families displaced during the Eelam War IV, housed till now in government-run relief camps in the north.

The released are being sent back to their original villages in the districts of Vavuniya, Mannar, Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu and would be transported to their homes by government buses.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa had assured a 10-member delegation of ruling-combine MPs from Tamil Nadu, which visited Sri Lanka from October 10 to 15 that 58,000 internally-displaced Tamils in camps would be sent back to their native places within a fortnight.

Since the launch of the bilateral war exercise between India and the United States, Yudh Abhyas 2009 is the largest troop exchange with nearly 1,000 personnel from both armies taking part.

The 15-day war games, codenamed `Yudh Abhyas` (preparation for war), are taking place in Agra and Babina.

The exercise, begun last week at Babina in Madhya Pradesh and scheduled to end on October 29, is designed to promote cooperation between the two militaries while sharing, training in cultural exchanges and building joint operating skills.