JAY HOIf Anna a 'foreign hand', what about Sonia's NAC?
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BEYOND THE HEADLINEDipankar Paul
CURSORY TAKEWould you like some guns with that order?
Aashray Hariharan
- Gandhi’s last will likely to fetch 40,000 pounds
Described as a “highly important document”, the two-page handwritten will on folio paper is priced between 30,000 pounds and 40,000 pounds and will compete with a fragment of Gandhi’s blood on a microscopic slide, priced between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds
- ‘The economy, the economy, the economy’
A conspicuous outcome of this election is all four provinces of Pakistan will be ruled by different parties
- Li seeks to impress with 'namaste' informal style
Li said he had "deep respect for the people of India" and had "candid and friendly talks" with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a wide range of issues
- US senators approve 5,000 visas for Tibet refugees
Citing increasing oppression by Chinese authorities against Tibetans, Senator Dianne Feinstein offered the matter as an amendment to the vast legislation aimed at fixing the US immigration system
- Obama to hold talks with Xi Jinping next month
Obama-Xi summit meeting would be held on June 7-8 in California at Sunnylands, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Estate
- Governments failing to protect minorities, says US
In the case of India, report said, several educational institutions in Mangalore, Karnataka, reportedly banned Muslim girls from wearing headscarves
- Gay marriage law strains UK Cameron's leadership, government
Almost 40 percent of Cameron's 303 lawmakers voted for an ultimately unsuccessful amendment that would have allowed registrars to refuse to perform gay marriage ceremonies if they objected
- Attention shifts to White House in IRS probe
Obama fired acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Wednesday and called the inspector general's findings outrageous
- Tensions over Syria convulse Lebanese city again, 5 killed
Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire shook the city on Sunday night but exchanges tapered off into sporadic sniper fire by daytime
- Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against Muslims
During the first visit to the White House in 47 years by a leader of the Southeast Asian nation, Obama called for an end to the killings of Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar's Rakhine state
- 91 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City
Footage from local television stations also showed a number of other levelled buildings and a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, kicking up debris
- Obama to deliver major policy speech on counter-terrorism
In his speech at the National Defence University on May 23, Obama will discuss US’s broad counter-terrorism policy, including its military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts
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Hazare earlier in the day reiterated his earlier stand that he was never keen to enter into the political battlefield
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