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The deep and passionate relationship between India’s first prime minister and the wife of the country’s last viceroy is one of the worst-kept secrets of the Raj. Enduring and complex, the bond between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten lasted...
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Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
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Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says.
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From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane...
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Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as...
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Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya.
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The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the...
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Thousands of Britons who have sold properties in Spain stand to win millions of pounds in compensation after the European Court of Justice ruled that they had been...
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I believe that yesterday I was pretty successful in proving that Jordanians DO have some degree of humor (despite the grumpy faces they are best known for :) ). And...
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Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed...
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Rescuers have recovered the body of the last victim a gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine, bringing the death toll to 10, state-run media reported on...
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s party-guy private life has dominated Italy’s public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with...
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Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in...
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Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.
Photos show the half-burned bodies lying in a street in the...
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I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...
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An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials...
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A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores...
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In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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One of the most widely known Middle Eastern films (in the West) in recent years is the Arabic-language Israeli drama “The Syrian Bride”. The film chronicles...
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Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...
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The great political thinker, Aristotle, defined democracy in one sentence as “it is the government of the people, for the people and by the people.” The...
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The Nehru Dynasty “, astrologer K.N.Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal’s father and...
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Here are the rarest of the rare images of the Indian Independence . You can see below Gandhi on the streets of London and Nehru addressing the Parliament. The scene...
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Here’s a little history lesson...
“On August 8, 1942, the Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which led to the start of the...
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Everyday the newspapers and the news channels are replete with eulogizing references of the so called ‘Gandhi -Nehru –Family’, having as its current...
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A.O.Hume founder of historical political party the ‘Congress’ has a legacy of making India Independent from alien rule. It was started in 1887 with the...
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It was the desire of the first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, that justice should be available even to the last man in the last part of a village. The UPA government has now...
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The first Prime Minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Once had said that from her source to the sea, from old times to new, the Ganga is the story of India’s...
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Finance minister P Chidambaram has been presented the General Budget 2007-08 in the parliament that has been termed as politically correct budget. Chidambaram has...
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Today is Children’s day and today is the birth anniversary of Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru too.
Everyone knows that because...
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The names of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sachin Tendulkar, Lakshmi Mittal, Amartya Sen and Narayana Murthy are figured in the same list. The TIME Magazine has...
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There is a phrase ‘Success goes straight to the mind’. It is the case with Lalu Yadav too.
He is currently the Railway minister of India. He just wanted...
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A new biography is ready to make waves in the political arena in India. Maj. Gen. AA “Jick” Rudra has written in his biography about the extreme liberal...
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