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President to attend IGNOU silver jubilee celebrations

NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Patil will be the chief guest at the silver jubilee celebrations of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here on November 19. An IGNOU release on Saturday said the others guests of honour...

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Sibal help sought in AMU crisis

NEW DELHI: A senior member of Aligarh Muslim University’s apex decision-making body has sought intervention of Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal in resolving the current deadlock at the institution, saying...

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PM’s intervention to end AMU deadlock sought

New Delhi: With the deadlock between the agitating Aligarh Muslim University students and its authorities continuing, a Union Minister on Saturday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded a...

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Prisoners subjected to 'atrocious' conditions in Eritrea

Updated at 12:16pm on 8 November 2009 A report giving details of atrocious conditions in which prisoners are held in Eritrea has been published by the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights. It alleges that between 10,000 and...

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Bangla-Bhutan trade deal renewed for 5 years: Tamabil opened as transit point

UNB, Thimphu Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigme Y Thinley welcomed Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina's suggestion for introducing bilateral road communications between the two neighboring countries as Dhaka and Thimphu moved to...

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Zimbabwe's Mugabe in Egypt to attend China-Africa summit

Nov 07, 2009 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- [From the 'Good Morning Zimbabwe' Programme] The head of State and Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe, is in Egypt where he is...

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Greens Oppose Producing Nuclear Electricity for Export

Green League Chairwoman, Minister of Employment Anni Sinnemäki has criticized the party’s government partners, the conservative National Coalition Party, for its efforts to make Finland a country that exports electricity...

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Kufuor blames underdevelopment in Africa on bad leadership

Lagos (Nigeria) --The former President of Ghana, John Kufuor, has blamed the underdevelopment of the African region on the leadership crisis bedevilling the continent. Kufuor told journalists on Friday in Lagos that the sit...

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Official: U.S. institutions keen to enter India

NEW DELHI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ahead of the introduction of a bill allowing entry of foreign institutions in the education sector, the Indian government has made significant progress in persuading American universities to...

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Washington Celebrates the Fall of the Berlin Wall

German Chancellor tells Congress what life was like behind the Wall By Gary Feuerberg Epoch Times Staff Nov 6, 2009 WASHINGTON—Washington is pausing this week to honor and reflect on the meaning of what happened 20 years ago in...

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