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French elections down to the wire -
Vaiju Naravane, Hindu
Pollsters will emerge with egg on their face as never before if Francois Hollande fails to win Sunday's presidential election. For almost a year, opinion polls have been placing Socialist Mr. Hollande ahead of Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's final run-off and though the gap separating the two candidates has narrowed
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Stop being a pain in the neck to Indian students -
Hasan Suroor, Hindu
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Fearing China, India pulls out of war games with US, Japan -
Shishir Gupta & Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times
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Modi addresses NRIs in US via video conference -
Hindustan Times
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Imran faces test in Taliban stronghold -
Hindu
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Hillary Clinton didn't make Benghazi call: Review chairman -
Times of India
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Nawaz Sharif back as PM in Pak's first govt change via ballot -
Omar Farooq Khan, Times of India
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Pak polls: Sharif set to form govt; huge setback for PPP, Imran's party concedes defeat -
Hindustan Times
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Big names bite the dust in Pakistan polls -
PTI
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India most important partner in Asia: US -
Times of India
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Sharif declares victory in Pak elections -
Times of India
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China 'crushing’ Tibetan dissident groups in Nepal -
Bharti Jain, Times of India
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'Lion of Pakistan' roars back to power in election overshadowed by violence -
Jon Boone, Guardian
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Shaken, not stirred -
Economist
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Gang of eight's lose-lose proposition -
Som Mittal, Business Standard
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Minorities in a Naya Pakistan -
Ayesha Siddiqa, Hindu
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U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback -
Joseph Menn, Reuters
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China's expanding core interests -
Nayan Chanda, Times of India
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Minorities can be kingmakers in Pakistan -
Sameer Arshad, Times of India
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Indian kid Ritankar Das in UC Berkeley leaves academia awestruck -
Economic Times
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Pakistan's historic ballot -
Rana Banerji, Times of India
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Jamaat stalwart sentenced to death for Bangladesh 1971 war crimes -
Anisur Rahman, PTI
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U.S. to maintain 9 bases post-2014: Karzai -
Atul Aneja, Hindu
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Five basics to handle China/ India border differences -
Wei Wei, Hindu
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Imran Khan has them all so confused -
Aroon Purie, Mail Today
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The Indo-Pacific pivot -
Indian Express
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 The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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