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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says floods in the northern state of Bihar are a “national calamity”.
He has visited areas where 55 people have died and some two million are displaced after the Kosi river breached its banks, changing course.
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Painter Maqbool Fida Hussein and writer Taslima Nasreen are coming back to India by the first week of September. Bangladeshi writer Taslima is not only being back; but...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
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