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President Hollande booed at WWI remembrance ceremony

French President François Hollande was booed by a group of protesters on Monday as he attended a remembrance ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marking the end of World War I. Duration: 00:44 Nov 11, 2013
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Top UN court awards flashpoint temple area to Cambodia

The UN's top court ruled Monday that most of the area around a flashpoint ancient temple on the Thai border belongs to Cambodia and that any Thai security forces there should leave. Angry Thai protesters reacted in Bangkok. Duration: 00:57 Nov 11, 2013
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J and K focus of meeting with Sartaz Aziz, Hurriyat wants cooperation and not confrontation: Mirwaiz

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): After the meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz in New Delhi, Moderate Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that the focus of meeting was Jammu and Kashmir. He said that Hurriyat wants cooperation and not confrontation. He further said that ceasefire and demilitarization should start and that proper support can solve the Kashmir issue. He also said that Aziz informed that new democratic government in Pakistan will support the cause. Nov 10, 2013
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Sartaz Azizs meet with Hurriyat a govts failure, presents India as weak nation: Defence Expert

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): As the meeting between Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz with Hurriyat leaders is underway, Defence Expert Bharat Verma said that the meeting is a government’s failure and that it will present India as a weak nation in front of Pakistan. Further, he said that the government should not have allowed this meeting to take place at all. He also said that the meeting and Aziz’s arrival in India gives a message that Pakistan don’t give a damn about India and its policies and its sentiments and they will do whatever they desire knowing that the nation’s government is weak. Nov 10, 2013
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BNP look to gain political mileage with caretaker government demand-Indian expert

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of protesters, fears have been raised that the country's system of democracy is under threat, with forthcoming elections altogether derailed. Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns to make way for a non-partisan caretaker government to oversee the elections, which are due by early January 2014. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Dr. Smruti Pattanaik, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses(IDSA) talks about the current political stalemate in Bangladesh regarding a caretaker government. Nov 10, 2013
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Shinde inaugurates first police riot control academy

Merrut, Nov 10 (ANI): In wake of recent communal violence incidents in the country, Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, inaugurated country's first police academy for riot control and public order management in Meerut on Sunday. During further interaction, Shinde said that CBI is an independent agency and everyone should respect it. Nov 10, 2013
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Pakistan PM's Foreign Advisor arrives in New Delhi for Asia-Europe meeting

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): Advisor on Security and Foreign Relations to Pakistan PM, Sartaj Aziz, arrived in New Delhi on Sunday to participate in the 11th annual meeting of the 51-member group, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). Aziz is to meet India's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid on the sidelines of the meet of Foreign Ministers of several countries. The Foreign Advisor said that he hoped for peace along the line of control at the disputed international border in Jammu and Kashmir. India would echo its demand for peace along the Line of Control to move ahead with the talks. Nov 10, 2013
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Narendra Modi should talk about vision of development rather than abusing: Digvijay

Bhopal, Nov 10 (ANI): After Narendra Modi slammed back Prime Minister over geographical and historical facts, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said that Modi should better be talking about his vision on education, poverty, development, etc. rather than abusing some one or the other. Singh also taunted Modi on his failure to establish communal harmony in Gujarat. Nov 10, 2013
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Congress slams Narendra Modi for attacking PM

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): Congress leader Meem Afzal on Sunday slammed BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for targeting Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh. While inaugurating a multi-specialty hospital, run by Muslims in Kheda, Modi took a dig at Prime Minister and said that he is responsible for changing India's history as well as its geography. Nov 10, 2013
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Congress played with history of nation: Narendra Modi slamming PM's take on him

Kheda, Nov 10 (ANI): Giving every reply to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's every bit spoken in Chhattisgarh, Narendra Modi said that it is Congress who played with the bright history of the nation. He said that Congress is the party who term the 1857 war of independence as a revolt. He said that it is Congress party who disvalued many leaders who gave life for the nation and failed to bring the ashes of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee for years, who desired his ashes to be brought to Independent India after his death. Modi said that it is because of Congress that majority people don't even know the true glorious history of India. Nov 10, 2013
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Narendra Modi takes on Congress for partition and Chinese aggression

Kheda, Nov 10 (ANI): A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slammed Narendra Modi questioning on his facts about history and geography of the nation, Modi replied to every allegations and said that Congress is the party responsible for partition of the nation and for recent Chinese aggressions. Further, he said that PM should better see who changed the geographical map of India before putting allegations. Modi said that it was Congress' regime when many states and regions got cut and merged into other nations. He also slammed Singh's government for changing the very route of Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March Yatra for their convenience. Nov 10, 2013
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Syed Akbaruddin on PM's letter to Sri-Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa

New Delhi, Nov 10 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin on Sunday confirmed that the diplomatic process of informing Sri Lanka about level of Indian participation in the CHOGM submit is now completed. Indian high commission in Colombo has handed over a letter of PM to the President Mahinda Rajapaksa in which he has indicated that he will not be able to attend the submit. Nov 10, 2013
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British royals meet war veterans and Indian defence staff on Remembrance Day

Mumbai, Nov 10 (ANI): British royal couple Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited St. John the Evangelist Church on Sunday in Mumbai and met few of the war veterans and Indian Defence Staff on Remembrance Day. The British royals participated in the Remembrance Day function at the church, where they were warmly received and presented bouquets of flowers and the Army band played music blowing the pipes and beating the drums. The Remembrance Day is organized at the church every year by retired defence personnel association. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall became the first royal couple to commemorate the Remembrance Sunday in India. Nov 10, 2013
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If Narendra Modi is so concerned, he should talk about Gujarat riot victims: Manish Tewari after his

Ludhiana, Nov 10 (ANI): After Congress knocked the doors of Election Commission for Narendra Modi’s ‘khooni panja’ (bloody palms) remark on the party’s symbol, I&B Minister Manish Tewari said that is Modi is so much concerned about blood, he should better talk about the victims who died in the Gujarat riots. He also said that people who have blood in their head and eyes are the ones talking about the same more often. Nov 10, 2013
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Maoist hot-bed Purulia on development path: Specially abled children get wheels to go to school

Purulia, Nov 10 (ANI): A village situated in the Maoist hotbed of Purulia district in West Bengal is poised to take off on the development path, thanks to the launch of a special development programme by the government. Authorities in the area distributed disabled friendly wheelchairs to specially abled children with a motive to make them regular at school. With an aim to empower and regularize specially abled students authorities distributed tricycles under a programme called ‘Sarva Siksha Mission’ (SSM). Tricycles were distributed to 91 specially abled children and the same would be continued in the nearby villages. Nov 10, 2013
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