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NEW DELHI: In a mixed pattern of
trading, gold extended losses for the
second straight day and prices fell
by another Rs 160 to Rs 27,030 per
ten grams in tandem with weak
global market, while silver
rebounded by Rs 510 to Rs 37,210
per kg on revival of buying by
industrial units.
 
SYDNEY: A 6.8 magnitude
earthquake hit Papua New Guinea
on Friday, 106 kilometres (66 miles)
south-southwest of the town of
Kokopo, the US Geological Survey
said, just a day after a 6.7
magnitude tremor in the region.
The quake hit at 0806 GMT, 693
kilometres northeast of the Pacific
nation's capital Port Moresby, in the
New Britain region at a depth of 57
kilometres.
 
ASTANA: Nursultan Nazarbayev, the
only president Kazakhstan has ever
seen since its birth some 24 years
ago, won another mandate on April
26 by a margin that'd make words
like 'landslide' and 'overwhelming'
sound listless and feeble. He won
97.7% of the vote. That too in an
election where 97% of those on the
voter rolls turned out.
Two others gave Nazarbayev company
in this rather stately electoral no-
contest — a communist and a trade
unionist. Trade unionist Kusainov
Abylgazy went home with 0.7% of
the vote. Communist Turgyn Syzkykov
had his bag slightly fuller with 1.7%
of the vote. Both later acknowledged
only Nazarbayev had the stature to
be president.
 
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