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Conservative Indonesian Muslims hold big rally in Jakarta

Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims held a rally in Jakarta on Sunday led by hardline groups who had agitated to remove the city's Christian governor, underscoring the growing influence of Islamist groups ahead of elections in 2019.

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Sunil Arora assumes charge as Chief Election Commissioner

President Ram Nath Kovind on November 27 appointed Arora in the post. He will have a nearly two-and-a-half-year tenure as CEC and he will oversee the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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On polling day people of Telangana will 'redesign' K Chandrasekhar Rao's mind: Kapil Sibal

The former Union minister alleged that Rao lacked a plan for school education and as result, there was a huge gap between boy and girl students in the state.

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France to consider imposing emergency due to ongoing civil unrest

Groups of young men with faces masked, some carrying metal bars and axes, rioted on the streets of central Paris on Saturday, setting a dozen vehicles ablaze and torching buildings.

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BJP not doing issue-based politics, says Ashok Gehlot

On demonetisation, Gehlot said it was a black chapter and the Prime Minister "shattered" the country's economy.

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Telangana Muslim votes may split between Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Congress

With a huge concentration of Muslim voters in state capital Hyderabad and some other districts, they are in a position to tilt the balance in nearly half of the 119 Assembly constituencies going to polls on December 7.

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Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

You only play googlies: Sushma Swaraj hits back at her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi

On Thursday, Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi had said that Prime Minister Imran Khan bowled a "googly" to ensure Indian government's presence at the groundbreaking ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor.

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PM Modi hails 'JAI' partnership after G20 summit meeting

Meeting his American and Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of G-20 summit in Argentina, the PM said the term sends a positive note for the new partnership with the objective of maintaining peace, stability, and prosperity across the world.

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Modi govt failed to deliver on its promise of double-digit growth: P Chidambaram

The senior Congress leader said there was a sense of crisis in every sector, be it banking, industry, construction or real-estate.

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Rajasthan elections: Rahul Gandhi blames PM Modi's policies for unemployment

Addressing a public meeting at Bhilwara in the Mewar region of poll-bound Rajasthan, he claimed that the decisions to implement demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had left lakhs of Indians unemployed.

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Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena

Talks between Sri Lankan President and UNF lawmakers ends without breakthrough

President Sirisena had invited ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Front (UNF) and the TNA for talks Friday night amid speculation that Sirisena may opt to restore the pre-October 26 status quo.

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CBI files chargesheet against ex-Haryana CM Hooda, Congress leader Vora in land case

The CBI, which filed the chargesheet in a special court, has alleged that the reallotment of the plot, C-17, has caused a loss of Rs 67 lakh to the exchequer.

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US to send observers to Bangladesh election amid opposition concerns

The United States will send 12 teams of observers and fund thousands of domestic observers to monitor an election in Bangladesh it hopes will be free and fair, a senior official at the U.S. embassy in Dhaka said.

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Former US president George HW Bush passes away at 94; Trump, Obama offer condolences

"George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for," former US President George Bush said.

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Mueller investigation: Paul Manafort to face sentencing in March

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Mueller's team must submit a report to the court on December 7 on Manafort's alleged breach of the terms of his plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Jackson also said she would hold a hearing about it in January.

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