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	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Maldives assures safety for tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Male, Feb 12  (IANS) Ending a week of political turmoil, the Maldives Saturday invited tourists to its world&#8217;s top luxury resort destinations assuring complete safety and protection.
Maldivian president Mohamed Waheed Hassan who was newly appointed as the head of the state of Indian Ocean archipelago told media despite political crisis over the week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patil sends Quraishi&#8217;s letter to PMO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) President Pratibha Patil has forwarded Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi&#8217;s letter over Law Minister Salman Khurshid&#8217;s defiant stand on quota for backward Muslims in Uttar Pradesh to the prime minister&#8217;s office for &#8220;appropriate action&#8221;.
Official sources said that the president &#8220;had seen&#8221; the letter written by CEC Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll panel goes to president over defiant Khurshid (Second Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid appeared headed for trouble Saturday as the poll panel sought President Pratibha Patil&#8217;s &#8220;immediate and decisive intervention&#8221; following his defiant stand on quota for backward Muslims in Uttar Pradesh despite its censure. The president has sent the letter to the prime minister&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll panel goes to president over defiant Khurshid (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid appeared headed for fresh trouble Saturday as the Election Commission sought President Pratibha Patil&#8217;s &#8220;immediate and decisive intervention&#8221; following his defiant stand on quota for backward Muslims in Uttar Pradesh despite the poll panel&#8217;s censure.
Reacting to the development, the Bharatiya Janata Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suu Kyi campaigns for Myanmar by-elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yangion, Feb 11  (IANS) Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar&#8217;s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), Saturday started the parliamentary by-election campaign in her constituency.
Suu Kyi is to contest in Kawhmu township in Yangon region as a candidate of her party with Dr. U Soe Min, candidate of the ruling Union Solidarity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parties criticise bar on press meets in Bengal assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Kolkata, Feb 11  (IANS) The West Bengal assembly&#8217;s decision to bar press conferences at the media centre in the assembly premises when the house is not in session Saturday drew criticism from political parties, including the Congress, which is partner in the ruling alliance.
The parties also urged Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay to discuss the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khurshid&#8217;s remarks: Poll panel seeks president&#8217;s intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) Taking exception to union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid sticking to his remarks about backward Muslims during campaigning in Uttar Pradesh despite a censure, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Saturday sought President Pratibha Patil&#8217;s intervention so that polls in the state were conducted in accordance with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voters in Gorakhpur seek &#8216;right to reject&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 11  (IANS) In a unique case, some voters sought to exercise their right to reject during polling in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections second phase here Saturday. However, with no such provision in electoral laws, they were allowed to put on record their decision to abstain as they did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress wants Rae Bareli, CSM Nagar officials moved out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb  11  (IANS) Accusing the Mayawati government of instructing officials in Rae Bareli and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj (CSM) Nagar to act in a &#8220;blatanty biased manner&#8221; in the assembly elections, the Congress Saturday urged the Election Commission to transfer officials who were creating impediments in the party&#8217;s campaign in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House panel should probe all land deals, demands YSR Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hyderabad, Feb 11  (IANS) The YSR Congress Saturday urged the Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker to broaden the terms of reference of the house committee set up recently to go into the land allotments made between 2004 and 2009.
In a letter to Speaker N. Manohar, YSR Congress party honorary president Y.S. Vijayamma alleged that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPI-M aims to vibe more with sympathisers, minorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 11  (IANS) Pinarayi Vijayan, who created a record of sorts by getting elected as the state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for the fifth consecutive term, has rolled down his agenda to strengthen the party at all levels, especially in relation with fellow travellers and minority communities.
It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayawati hits out at Congress for Khurshid&#8217;s remarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 11  (IANS) Hitting out at the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday slammed its leadership for shedding &#8220;crocodile tears&#8221; over the killing of Muslim youths in an &#8220;anti-terrorist&#8221; operation at Delhi&#8217;s Batla house.
&#8220;If the Congress leadership was truly sincere on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raj Thackeray slams Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Thane, Feb 11  (IANS) Ahead of the Maharashtra civic polls Feb 16, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Saturday said that the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) did not deserve to be elected.
Addressing a rally at Mumbai&#8217;s adjoining Thane city, Thackeray said his party would do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No evidence North Korean leader dead: US official</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Washington, Feb 11  (IANS) The US intelligence has found no evidence to suggest that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was dead, an official said following web posts in China that claimed Kim was assassinated in Beijing.
US intelligence officials have been looking into such rumours for more than a week, the official told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 60 percent turnout in UP second phase poll (Third Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Lucknow, Feb 11  (IANS) Keeping up with the first phase, ballotting in 59 constituencies in the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Saturday touched 60 percent and seemed set to go up, officials said. Polling was peaceful.
&#8220;Despite the chilly morning, people came out in large numbers to cast their vote in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work with us for Siliguri&#8217;s development: Mamata to Railways</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Siliguri, Feb 11  (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday urged Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi to look into the possibilities of working together with the state government for the development of the Siliguri area of Darjeeling district.
&#8220;In Siliguri, most of the area belongs to the railways. As large tracts of land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mamata blames centre for delay on Gorkha autonomy (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Siliguri, Feb 11  (IANS) With the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) threatening to revive its movement for a separate state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday chose to blame the central government for the delay in implementing the tripartite autonomy agreement.
&#8220;We know they are discontented over the delay in implementation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir minister says Sonia rejected resignation letter (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Jammu/Srinagar, Feb 11  (IANS) Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, who sent his resignation from the Jammu and Kashmir ministry directly to Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, claimed Saturday that the UPA chairperson had rejected his resignation and also declared Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as his leader.
Sayeed called for strengthening of the National Conference-Congress coalition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adityanath sees a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 11  (IANS) Saffron-clad Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member Yogi Adityanath Saturday not only predicted a fractured verdict in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections but also ruled out the possibility of formation of any government in the state.
&#8220;Let me tell you that no political party will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldives to probe allegation of coup to oust Nasheed (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Male, Feb 11  (IANS) Following an international demand for clarification on the power transfer from former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed to his vice president, the government Saturday announced that an independent inquiry would be conducted on the allegation of a coup in the country.
&#8220;I am fully committed to an independent investigation,&#8221; Xinhua [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amendments to Lokpal bill being considered, says Narayanasamy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) The government is committed to a strong Lokpal bill and is looking at amendments suggested by its allies as well as the opposition parties on the legislation, Minister of State in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office V. Narayanasamy said Saturday.
Addressing an all-India editors&#8217; conference on social sector issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran to announce new &#8216;big&#8217; nuclear achievements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tehran, Feb 11  (IANS) Iran will soon announce new &#8220;big&#8221; nuclear achievements, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Addressing a crowd in the capital, Ahmadinejad said: &#8220;In the following days, the world will witness the inauguration of several big achievements in nuclear fields.&#8221;
Chanting anti-US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mamata blames centre for delay on Gorkha autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Siliguri, Feb 11  (IANS) With the pro-Gorkhaland Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leadership threatening to revive movement for a separate state,  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday chose to blame the central government for the delay in implementation of the tripartite autonomy agreement.
&#8220;We know they are discontented over delay in implementation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2G: PM holds meet to discuss apex court verdict fallout (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday held a crucial meeting with key cabinet colleagues to discuss the 2G issue in the wake of the apex court cancelling 122 licences issued during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja.
The meeting held at the prime minister&#8217;s official residence was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 peons to be election observers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Lucknow, Feb 11  (IANS) Twenty-five peons at the Directorate of Census Operations here have been handpicked to be &#8220;micro observers&#8221; in the fourth round of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections here Feb 19.
The Directorate of Census Operations office at Indiranagar received the Election Commission order two days ago, official sources said Saturday.
Also picked with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BJP&#8217;s &#8216;fight&#8217; against illegal mining wilting in Goa&#8217;s poll heat (Goa Newsletter)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Panaji, Feb 11  (IANS) In the face of blistering electoral heat, the Bharatiya Janata Party&#8217;s (BJP) &#8220;fight&#8221; against indiscriminate mining in Goa appears to have all but wilted.
With an increasing number of mining contractors joining its ranks, the party is all set to support the candidature of an alleged illegal mining magnate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PM holds meet to discuss 2G verdict fallout</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 11  (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday met union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid to discuss the fallout of the apex court verdict cancelling 122 2G licences granted by former communications minister A. Raja in 2007 and 2008.
The meeting, held at the prime minister&#8217;s official residence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of sleazegate ministers and their conflicting answers (Karnataka Newsletter)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Bangalore, Feb 11  (IANS) Will the three Karnataka sleazegate ministers corroborate or contradict one another in their replies to the assembly speaker&#8217;s notice seeking their version on porn viewing in the house?
This question dominates the talk in political and public circles as Laxman Savadi, C.C. Patil and J. Krishna Palemar of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting in UP polls second phase begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Lucknow, Feb 11  (IANS) Voters queued up outside polling booths as the second round of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, involving 1.97 crore voters in 59 constituencies, began Saturday.
Polling began at 7 a.m. in 59 constituencies spread across nine districts &#8212; Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Maharajganj, Deoria, Mau, Sant Kabir Nagar and Kushinagar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan president orders security for Nasheed&#8217;s wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Colombo, Feb 11  (IANS)  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the police chief for providing security to the wife of ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, said a presidential statement here Friday.
After arriving in Sri Lanka Wednesday,  Nasheed&#8217;s wife Laila had contacted Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the telephone. Rajapaksa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress downplays Khurshid&#8217;s remarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 10  (IANS) A day after the Election Commission  censured Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid for announcing a sub quota for minorities ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls, the Congress Friday downplayed another of his controversial remarks on the Batla House shootout.
&#8220;Khurshid told me that it was misinterpretation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Poll panel raid on priest creating communal tension&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Panaji, Feb 10  (IANS) Even as the Congress has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of inciting communalism in Goa, poll officials here have said that they only stuck to official guidelines when they raided a Catholic priest Tuesday, following an anonymous call.
 &#8220;We have only acted as per the guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modi to campaign in Uttar Pradesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 10  (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Nazvi said Friday.
&#8220;Yes, he will participate in the election campaign. The dates are being finalised,&#8221; Naqvi told reporters here. 
The second phase of the seven-phase assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army chief age row unfortunate: BJP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 10  (IANS) The  opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday questioned the &#8220;silence&#8221; of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the row over the age of army chief General V.K. Singh, calling it unfortunate.
&#8220;It is a sad incident&#8230; An issue which could have been resolved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarojini dubs CPI-M &#8216;male dominated party&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 10  (IANS) Sarojini Balanandan, a leader of the CPI-M, Friday broke down after she realized that she had been shunted out of the 84-member Kerala state committee.
The 74-year-old was seen wiping her tears in front of the CPI-M state headquarters as she waited for a taxi to take her home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Samajwadi Party will get full majority in UP&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 10  (IANS) Ahead of the second phase of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader Mohan Singh said Friday the party will get a majority in the 403-member house.
&#8220;We will win at least 235 seats,&#8221; Rajya Sabha MP Mohan Singh told IANS. 
Asked if party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court summons Haryana minister on charges of poll fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gurgaon, Feb 10  (IANS) A district court here has summoned Haryana&#8217;s Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Subhash Kataria and some of his relatives on charges of playing fraud in the 2009 assembly elections, a petitioner said Friday. The minister, however, said he was yet to get any summons.
Rights group Matdata [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir education minister resigns (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Jammu, Feb 10  (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed Friday quit after police indicted him for the use of unfair means by his son in the Class 10 Board examination in 2009.
Peerzada Sayed, a pillar of the Congress in Kashmir, however sent his resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achuthanandan will remain opposition leader: CPI-M</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 10  (IANS) Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthandan will remain the opposition leader in the Kerala assembly, Marxist leader Pinarayi Vijayan said Friday.
Accusing the media of &#8220;propagating baseless lies&#8221; about the Communist Party of India-Marxist&#8217;s (CPI-M) Kerala meet, state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan denied that Achuthanandan wanted to step down.
&#8220;One thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bihar dismisses five police officials for corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Patna, Feb 10  (IANS) Five police officials in Bihar&#8217;s Gaya district have been dismissed from service for  corruption,  officials said Friday.
Magadh range Deputy Inspector General of Police N.H. Khan has given orders for their dismissal after charges of corruption were upheld against them.
Khan said the dismissed officials included three sub-inspectors  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uttar Pradesh to vote in second round Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Lucknow, Feb 10  (IANS) The second round of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, whose outcome is bound to affect national politics, will take place Saturday, involving 1.97 crore voters in 59 constituencies.
With campaigning for the second of seven rounds ending Thursday evening, the Election Commission gave finishing touches to the arrangements for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorkha group to meet Mamata for honouring accord</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Siliguri, Feb 10  (IANS) Amidst the rising political tempers in the hills of West Bengal, the pro-Gorkhaland Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leadership is all set to meet chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Feb 11 to demand swift implementation of the proposed hill administration.
&#8220;Saturday at 12 noon we will meet the chief minister. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families corner one-third of Congress tickets in Goa (Goa Newsletter)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Panaji, Feb 10  (IANS) Five political families from Goa have cornered nearly one-third of Congress tickets for the March 3 assembly elections. And there&#8217;s more to come.
Two kins of Goa&#8217;s cabinet ministers are likely to figure in Congress alliance partner Nationalist Congress Party&#8217;s (NCP) ticket list expected to be released later this week.
Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinarayi Vijayan re-elected to top Kerala CPI-M post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 10  (IANS) Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan&#8217;s uninterrupted reign at the top continues, with him being re-elected Friday as secretary of the party&#8217;s Kerala unit for the fourth successive time.
The election was a mere formality at the last day of the 20th edition of the CPI-M state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilani won&#8217;t ask Switzerland to reopen cases against Zardari</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Islamabad, Feb 10  (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani &#8220;will never&#8221; write to Swiss authorities to reopen money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, according to a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Sources told the Dawn that the PPP&#8217;s core committee meeting has decided that no letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BJP makes Karnataka turf for scandals and self-goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Bangalore, Feb 10  (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be turning Karnataka from its &#8216;gateway to the south&#8217; into its playground for scandals and self-goals. As of now scams outnumber self-goals but both appear to impact the party with the same intensity.
As the outrage over three ministers being involved in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remove atomic scientist, expand expert panel: Kudankulam activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chennai, Feb 10  (IANS) Activists spearheading the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) protests Friday requested the Tamil Nadu government to expand a new four-member panel that will look into the plant&#8217;s safety aspects and also remove an atomic scientist from it.
The People&#8217;s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomed the setting up of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two former DMK ministers raided</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chennai, Feb 10  (IANS) The residences and business premises of two former DMK ministers in Tamil Nadu were raided Friday morning for allegedly having assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, said an official.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) conducted the raids at different places in the state belonging to former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Maldives government legitimate, says US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Washington, Feb 10  (IANS) The US said Thursday that it considered the new government in the Maldives as legitimate, calling for a peaceful settlement to the ongoing political unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation.
&#8220;We do,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters at a regular briefing, when asked if the US considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BSP&#8217;s Satish Misra charged with poll code violation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Lucknow, Feb 10  (IANS) The Election Commission on Thursday charged Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) general secretary Satish Misra of violating the model code of conduct.
A show cause notice was issued to Misra late Thursday evening, asking him to explain his conduct during a public rally at Chandauli district on Feb 5, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldives&#8217; ousted president seeks global intervention (Third Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Maldives&#8217; ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country, claiming that he was toppled by a small group of police officers and that police and the military were brutally suppressing people.
Nasheed resigned Tuesday amid protests over detention of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karunanidhi slams BJP on resignation of Acharya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chennai, Feb 9  (IANS) DMK president M. Karunanidhi Thursday slammed BJP for trying to &#8220;help&#8221; Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to come out of the disproportionate wealth case being heard in a Bangalore court by exerting pressure on Karnataka&#8217;s Advocate General and the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) B.V.Acharya.
In a statement issued here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BJP defends Modi, questions timing of SIT report (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday questioned the timing of the special investigation team (SIT) on Gujarat riots, even as senior leaders advocated a clean chit for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots.
Speaking to reporters in the national capital, party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldives&#8217; ousted president seeks global intervention (Second Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Maldives&#8217; ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country, claiming that he was toppled by a small group of police officers and police and the military were brutally suppressing people.
Nasheed resigned Tuesday amid protests over detention of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naga women&#8217;s body agitates in Manipur</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Imphal, Feb 9  (IANS) The Naga Women&#8217;s Union (NWU), Manipur, Thursday held a &#8220;public curfew&#8221; programme in all the four Naga dominated districts of Manipur demanding unconditional release of a top member of the NSCN-IM.
 They are demanding the release of Anthony Shimray, the head of foreign affairs of Naga ceasefire group National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tripura Congress holds sit-in fast to press demands (Lead, superseding earlier story)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Agartala, Feb 9  (IANS) Tripura Congress leaders, led by opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath, Thursday began a fast for 30 hours to press for their 15-point demands, including a high level probe into various alleged scams and murders.
The Congress&#8217; demands also include a CBI inquiry into the alleged misappropriation of Aadhaar funds, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll panel censures Khurshid for quota announcement (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The poll panel Thursday censured Congress leader Salman Khurshid for his nine percent job quota announcement for minorities in Uttar Pradesh, and said that as law minister he has the responsibility of ensuring the model code of conduct is observed in &#8220;letter and spirit&#8221;.
&#8220;As a union minister for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narendra Modi among BJP&#8217;s PM candidates: Gadkari</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was one of the party&#8217;s contenders for prime minister.
On a day when the special investigation team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots filed a report on the carnage, Gadkari in an interview to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPI-M denies attack on Achuthanandan at party meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 9  (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Thursday denied media reports that party delegates launched an attack on veteran comrade and former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan at the ongoing state party conference here.
On the sidelines of the conference,  Balakrishnan, home minister in the Achuthanandan government (2006-11), told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll panel censures Khurshid for quota announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Election Commission Thursday censured Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his announcement that  if the Congress came to power in Uttar Pradesh it would  provide nine percent job quota to minorities.
In its order issued Thursday, the poll panel said: &#8220;.. the commission hereby censures Salman Khurshid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldives&#8217; ousted president seeks global help for democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Maldives&#8217; ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country while stating that he was toppled by a small group of police officers.
Nasheed resigned Tuesday amid protests over detention of a top judge and was replaced by vice president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasheed sees ex-dictator Gayoom&#8217;s network behind his ouster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Male, Feb 9  (IANS) A day after he was ousted as the Malidivian president, Mohamed Nasheed has said what happened in the country should be traced to former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom&#8217;s network and a result of his own vice president&#8217;s suspected role in planning the coup.
In an article, &#8220;The Dregs of Dictatorship&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for change, give Congress a majority, says Priyanka (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Amethi, Feb 9  (IANS) Urging voters of Uttar Pradesh to give the Congress a majority in the assembly polls so that it does not have to depend on other parties, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday said it was time people changed the politics of the state for their own benefit.
Addressing a rally here, [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Panaji, Feb 9  (IANS) The three Karnataka ministers who were sacked for watching porn clips in the state assembly were &#8220;only watching and not doing it in action&#8221;, a BJP leader said here Thursday.
Leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar, asked about the three BJP ministers, told reporters: &#8220;There are people all across the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Congress a majority, Priyanka tells voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Amethi, Feb 9  (IANS) Calling upon the voters of Uttar Pradesh to give the Congress a majority in the assembly polls so that it does not have to depend on other parties, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday said it was time people changed the politics of the state for their own benefit.
Addressing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest Nasheed, says court as ex-president&#8217;s family flees (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Colombo, Feb 9  (IANS) The crisis in the  Maldives deepened Thursday with a court ordering the arrest of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed, who assured that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;want a war&#8221; as his family fled the country and took refuge in Sri Lanka.
The Criminal Court in the Maldives ordered the arrest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BJP a supermarket of immorality, irregularity: Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) The Congress party Thursday described the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a supermarket where a &#8220;spectrum of immorality and irregularity is available under one roof&#8221;.
Commenting on the resignation of three BJP ministers in Karnataka after they were caught viewing ponography on a cell phone in the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India should be worried over Maldives turmoil: Expert</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/india-should-be-worried-over-maldives-turmoil-expert_100596586.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) India &#8220;should be worried&#8221; over the quick-paced developments in the Maldives that saw the president quit and violence spread across the country, said an expert here.
&#8220;Definitely, India should be worried,&#8221; said Anand Kumar of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
Mohamed Nasheed stepped down as president Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleazegate: BJP, opposition spar over three ministers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Bangalore, Feb 9  (IANS) The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka and opposition parties Thursday stepped up their attack on each other over action against three sleazegate ministers caught watching a porn clip on a cell phone in the assembly.
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda justified the setting up of an assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayawati our leader and will always be so, say Dalits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Agra, Feb 9  (IANS) Allegations of corruption against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati find no takers in large parts of this Dalit land where people from socially marginalised communities braved the cold to vote in large numbers.
A day after the first phase of assembly elections concluded in 55 constituencies, Bahujan Samaj Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinet nod to cold chain centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Delhi, Feb 9  (IANS) In order to cut the loss of fruits, vegetables and flowers during stoage, the cabinet Thursday approved the setting up of a National Centre for Cold Chain Development (NCCD).
India is the second largest producer of horticulture commodities in the world.
It produced 71.5 million tonnes (MT) of fruits, 133.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest Nasheed: Maldives court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Colombo, Feb 9  (IANS) A court in Maldives Thursday ordered the arrest of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed and former defence minister, a media report said.
The Criminal Court ordered the arrest of Nasheed and former defence minister Tholhath Ibrahim Kaleyfaanu, reported haveeru.com.
In a bid to shore up his power, new Maldives President Mohamed Waheed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This isn&#8217;t a legitimate government: Nasheed supporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Colombo, Feb 9  (IANS) As violence spread across the Maldives Thursday, a lawmaker who is a supporter of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed said the new government of Mohamed Waheed is not a &#8220;legitimate government&#8221;.
Eva Abdulla, a lawmaker for the Maldivian Democratic Party, said: &#8220;Given the kind of brutality we saw on TV last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple not on people&#8217;s agenda in Ayodhya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Ayodhya, Feb 9  (IANS) The Ram temple was clearly not on the agenda of those who voted in this Hindu pilgrim town in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections.
Ordinary men and women showed much more interest in development issues than the temple, which has ceased to be a talking point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army colonel is new Maldives defence minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Colombo, Feb 9  (IANS) In a bid to shore up his power, new Maldives President Mohamed Waheed has appointed two new ministers including an army colonel who will be the minister of defence.
Waheed appointed Mohamed Jameel Ahmed as the home minister and Mohamed Nazim as the minister of defence and national security late [...]]]></description>
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