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Fourth phase polling begins in J&K

Polling began from 8 am on Sunday in 18 constituencies for the fourth phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections .
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Message of Change from President Obama

THE US voters rose above racial prejudice and voted to the White House as their 44th President a black man and thus made history. A country where slavery was once institutionalised and legalized, where even as late as in the 1960s blacks were still fighting for their civil and human rights, has now changed forever. Martin Luther King's dream that there will be a day when people will be judged not by the colour of their skins but by the content of their character is now a reality....
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Singur residents request Bengal governor to get Nano back

Residents of Singur in West Bengal, where global auto major Tata Motors was constructing the factory to manufacture the world's least expensive car Nano, met the state's governor here Monday and urged him to request the auto major to resume work....
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Birds of a feather: Prakash Karat and Mamata Banerjee

If Prakash Karat is honest with himself, he will see the similarity between his opposition to the nuclear deal and Mamata Banerjee's scuttling of the Nano automobile project in Singur in West Bengal....
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Tata pullout a 'joint game plan' with Left government: Mamata

Terming the Tata Motors' decision to pull out of West Bengal as a "joint game plan" between the auto major and the state government, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Friday said it would be "unfair" if the Tatas blame her party for their decision....
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N-deal: Eyeing $175 bn business, USIBC seeks fast Senate passage

The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has sought immediate Senate passage of the India-US civil nuclear deal lest American companies lose out on the $175 billion opportunity offered by the accord....
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Somnath Chatterjee for total ban on defections

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Tuesday called for a total ban on political defections and said that judicial scrutiny of decisions taken by presiding officers of legislatures was not desirable....
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CPI-M blames Left disunity for council poll reverses

Fissures in West Bengal's ruling Left Front were responsible for its reverses in the rural body elections in May, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that leads the grouping said Saturday....
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RSS chief slams Gurjars agitation in Rajasthan

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief K C Sudarshan on Sunday criticised the ongoing Gurjar agitation in Rajasthan and accused its leadership of holding the entire state to ransom....
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RSP's pique apart, Congress-Left unlikely to part ways

Within hours of the prime minister's statement, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Abani Roy informed the media of his party's decision to pull out of the UPA-Left coordination committee....
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