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Manipur Assembly Elections 2017: When underground outfits go overground for politicians and make money

Manipur is home to more than 40 active underground outfits and they play active role in the Assembly elections.

Mar 3, 2017

Paul Ryan: We have seen no evidence anyone in Trump campaign was involved with Russians

Paul Ryan belives that Congress has seen no evidence that anyone in the Trump administration was involved with Russia or attempted to undermine the 2016 election.

Mar 3, 2017

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Senate confirms Rick Perry for Trumps cabinet as energy secretary

The Senate confirmed the former Texas Govenor 62-37 to head the U.S. Department of Energy.

Mar 3, 2017

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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from campaign probes

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions removed himself from any investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election because he said he was involved with President Donald Trumps campaign. Let me be clear, I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign and the idea that I was part of a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russia government is totally false ... and that is the question I responded to, he said.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala CM death threat: In Kerala, communism is still a religion, and Pinarayi Vijayan is its able crusader | OPINION

Engaging Communist party by ways of violence is not the right way to go about it. Here's why.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala crisis: In God's own country, there is no end to BJP/RSS and CPM feud

A CPM office was also set on fire on Thursday night after an RSS office was bombed that injured three RSS workers.

Mar 3, 2017

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China should pay more attention to India's growth in manufacturing sector, says Beijing-based Global Times

While pointing out the flaws in the Indian manufacturing sector, the editorial in Global Times also commended India for growing.

Mar 3, 2017

Bengaluru steel flyover may be people's victory, but public pressure can lead to disastrous results too

Two important industrial plans in Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal were cancelled after people resisted, leaving the state's economic prospects shattered.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala: 4 hurt as bomb thrown at RSS headquarters in Kozhikode; is Left-wing extremism on rise in state?

While four were hurt after a bomb was thrown at the RSS headquarters in Kozhikode, there have been several incidents of RSS and BJP men being attacked by CPI-M cadres in Kerala.

Mar 3, 2017

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Watch outrageous sexist speech by Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A Polish MEP sparked outrage on 1 March when he claimed women must earn less than men in the workplace because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent. Speaking at a debate about the gender pay gap in Europe Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a conservative and Eurosceptic politician from Warsaw, bizarrely pointed out that there are no women in the worlds top 100 chess players to make his case.

Mar 2, 2017

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Manipur Assembly Elections 2017: Phase 1 complete details and interesting facts

Thirty-eight constituencies out of the 60-member Legislative Assembly will go to polls in Phase 1 of Manipur Assembly Election 2017 on Saturday, March 4.

Mar 3, 2017

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Brexit Bill defeated in House of Lords

Theresa May has had her first set back on the road to triggering Article 50 after her Brexit Bill was defeated in the House of Lords. The Lords backed an amendment to protect the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK post Brexit. The House of Lords backed the amendment by 358 votes to 256.

Mar 2, 2017

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Who is Senator Jeff Sessions?

Senator Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year to the Russian ambassador to US but did not disclose this when asked about possible contacts between Donald Trumps campaign and Russian officials during his confirmation hearing to become attorney general, the Washington Post claims.

Mar 2, 2017