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Suu Kyi lauds India ties after meeting Manmohan
Yangon, May 29 (IANS) Myanmar's iconic leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that she was "very happy at the prospect of closer ties with India". She also promised to deliver a lecture in India after an invite from Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. Manmohan Singh met Suu Kyi here on the third and final day of his official visit to Myanmar - a dozen agreements

Chaos outside Eden after KKR felicitation programme

Kolkata: There was chaos outside the Eden Gardens after an hour-long felicitation function of the IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders when a large crowd broke barricades and engaged in scuffles with

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EC not to intervene with regard to Jagan's arrest

New Delhi: The Election Commission is understood to have decided not to intervene in the matter concerning the arrest of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy, whose mother has sought his release in

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Qatar probes mall fire as young victims mourned

Investigators in Qatar have opened a state-ordered probe into a mall fire that killed 19 people, including 13 children at a daycare center catering to the Gulf nation's expatriate communities.

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Major Nigerian university renamed after 'martyr'
Nigeria has renamed a major university in the commercial capital of Lagos after a political prisoner who died in jail over a decade ago.

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Europeans ambivalent over euro, survey finds

A survey across five eurozone countries finds a prevailing skepticism over Europe's single currency, with a large number of people in France, Italy and Spain thinking it's been more damaging than

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