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Forget `Angry Birds’

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Now you can play `Angry Brides’

A new Facebook app created by popular matrimonial website shaadi.com lets players fight ‘greedy grooms’ who demand dowry – a practice that stubbornly persists in India despite being outlawed more than 50 years ago. Th [ … ]

 

Why art?

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Renowned Ugandan author answers those who question the relevance of the arts

A woman, or was it a man, dressed in a white suit, slowly got up from her front-row seat at the National Theatre in Kampala, moved up the stairs and onto the dim dusty stage, and proceeded to gyrate slowly, achingly, as th [ … ]

 

The Beetle is back

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Untangling the return to the compact car

After decades of getting short shrift, compact cars are now poised to outsell their larger rivals in America. What’s driving this change? According to industry analysts, it’s mostly fear: of an inevitable escalation in fuel prices, or of being saddled with u [ … ]

 

Toyota Raum

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Nothing beats it in flexibility in the small car range

If there is a vehicle that looks set to be hot this year, it is the Toyota Raum. This oddly named mini-MPV has showed very robust performance on most online car dealerships. Although the Toyota Vitz, Rav4, and Ipsum remain hot items in the smal [ … ]

 

The heat is here; but the AC isn’t

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Fortunately, there are things you can do before wounding your wallet

It’s January and that time of the year when outdoor temperatures hang around the 30 degrees Celsius mark. Inside the car is even hotter. Unfortunately, your AC has been acting up. During the cooler December days, you possibly did [ … ]

 

A war worth fighting

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Maj. Gen. Pecos Kutesa, in his book; Uganda’s Revolution 1979 -1986: How I saw it tells the story of how Kampala fell to then-National Resistance Army rebels commanded by Yoweri Museveni on January 26, 1986. Below is his chapter entitled: The Fall of Kampala, pp237-249. It has been slightly edited d [ … ]

 

Paa Joe: The Ghanan coffin maker

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Funerals in Ghana are known as celebration of life because the deceased is been escorted with the coffin of his occupation to the next world.

Ghaneans give new definition to the phrase `Going out in Style’ with their funeral practices.  I was recently in Accra at beginning of last month to film a d [ … ]

 

Saving for a rainy day is soul crushing emotional trap

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The U.S. unemployment rate sits obstinately above 9 percent. The housing market is still underwater. Consumer confidence stinks, the stock market is schizophrenic, and the big banks have been humbled. To cure this listlessness, the following treatments have been applied: bailouts, stimulus packages, [ … ]

 

2012 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado

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The petrol version

Diesel has always been a more popular power source than petrol in the Prado but now Toyota has launched a petrol powered version.

Toyota introduced the fourth generation Land Cruiser Prado last year, but only in 3.0 litre diesel engine form. Now, it has decided to launch a petro [ … ]

 
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Muteesasira DAvid Says:
2012-02-04 15:27:03
The government of Uganda released money for the youth, and Stanbic Bank  was amog the selected banks to take part in distribution process. So my request is   that what are the requirements in orde

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2012-02-04 16:36:07

Thanks for the correction Peter.


 
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