Racecourse officials encourage the overseas contingent, even allowing a special tented village sponsored by Guinness - the brewers who sell thousands of pints during the week.

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The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.

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Vandana Krishna, the state's secretary of Women and Child Development, says the funding gap could be solved by giving village panchayats, or local governments, a special fund to make loans to anganwadis.

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The village is celebrating the anniversary with a series of events including a special church service.

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