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Sydney, Dec 15 (PTI) Several people were today taken hostage at a popular cafe in Sydney apparently by at least one Islamic State gunman, media reports said. At least three people could be seen with their arms in air and hands pressed…
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Tokyo, Dec 14 (AFP) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won comfortable re-election today in a snap poll he had billed as a referendum on his economic policies, but a record low voter turnout threatened to cloud any mandate. Despite only…
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Ahmedabad, Dec 14 (PTI) Gujarat Health Minister Nitin Patel was today shown black flags by Congress workers for "blanking" the opposition party at the inauguration function of a drainage scheme at Dahegam village in Gandhinagar district.…
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BLUNT BUTCHER JAMMU: Always humming with pilgrim traffic, Jammu hotels and lodges are currently full with BJP cadre, drawn from various parts of the country in view of ineffective local leadership, which is suffering from terrible…
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They, including PDP, termed him as a self-trumpet when Narendra Modi talked about Gujarat model. Now even the chronic detractor, Mufti Sayeed, who has been scaring Kashmir about BJP influx, acknowledges publicly that each state of the…
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SPORTS REPORTER JAMMU: Jammu division senior selection chess tournament started on Sunday at Ace Chess Academy, here to pick up 12 players for the upcoming State championship to be held in January. The opening day witnessed Sumit Grover,…
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The Dowry Act in its present form is here to stay for now as the government had dropped amendments to the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 proposed by the National Commission for Women (NCW). "The NCW had recommended certain amendments in Dowry…
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 B K Chandrashekar 20th November marked the 25th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This, along with the Nobel Peace Prize to a person fighting against child labour, and for the Right to Education of all…
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Gautam Mukherjee The gap between the expectation and the pace of economic reform is widening. Things are not moving fast enough and there is no clear-cut road map. Small administrative and economic improvements have kept coming, but these…
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Swapan Dasgupta Most newspapers on carried a photograph of Messrs Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and HD Deve Gowda sitting next to each other and smiling purposefully at the cameras. Looking at the images,…
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