nandu


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Noun1.nandu - smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toednandu - smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan
flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
genus Pterocnemia, Pterocnemia - a genus of birds of the family Rheidae
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Major Joseph Nandu, deputy chief of the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in the Bangsamoro region, said Nasser Gumbila Uko did not resist arrest at his residence in Barangay Tamontaka 3.
Joseph Nandu, deputy police chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-BARMM), said a team of CIDG and city police operatives served a search warrant at 3 p.m.
The deceased were identified as Nandu Chandra Roy, 55 and Rabiul Islam, 42, an auto-rickshaw driver of KakinaWabda Bazar in Kaliganj upazila.
In a country where politicians are thought to be synonymous with corruption and being rich, the independent Ashok Chavan lives in a small hamlet named Nandu Tanda, which is approximately 55-km from Nanded city.
The hoodlums it was gathered stormed the Nandu village of Sanga LG in the early hours of Saturday morning killing nine persons, while several houses were set ablaze.
Vidhikar Shri Hiteshbhai, Shri Narendra Nandu, Shri Lalitbhai Dhami, Megh Nandu and Veer Sainik Jinaybhai performed unique, poojans and rituals for the first time in the U.S.
Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar (as criketers and Nandu Natekar as a badminton player), are the recent additions, along with three Big Vs of Indian cricket Vinoo Mankad, Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare whose birthdays are commemorated each year with a lecture on a subject of historical or topical interest.
The twins' paths merge when Raja moves to London along with his bestie Nandu, after hitting Alex a dreaded goon.
Raju's co-rider, Nandu, was hospitalised with injuries.