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• IPL spot-fixing: Nine arrested in Kolkata May 23, 2013
  In connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, a joint team of the Kolkata police special task force and detective department, arrested nine persons, including a known bookies Ajit Surekha on Wednesday. The nine were nabbed from Ultadanga area of the city, police sources said. According to police all the arrested will be produced in a court on Thursday. Pol […]
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• Lashkar terrorist killed in encounter in Kashmir May 23, 2013
  A top commander of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) was on Thursday killed in an encounter with police in Srinagar old city area. The self-styled LeT commander Hilal Molvi, who was involved in the killing of several civilians in Pattan and Sopore area of north Kashmir, was killed in a gun battle, after police laid a cordon around Narparistan in Fatehk […]
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• Vinod Rai’s successor to take oath as CAG today, UPA breathes easy May 23, 2013
  Shashi Kant Sharma will succeed the outgoing Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Thursday. Rai demitted office on Wednesday after serving as CAG for five-and-a-half years. During his eventful tenure, the audit body was locked in confrontations with the Government. The 61-year old Sharma will be administered oath of office and secrecy by Presid […]
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• British soldier beheaded by Islamists! May 23, 2013
  Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death on Wednesday near a London Military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into custody. The brutal daylight atta […]
  Cassandra Vinograd
• It is time BJP declared Narendra Modi its Prime Ministerial candidate May 23, 2013
  The results of the ABP News-Nielsen poll survey conducted between May 1 and 10 in 21 States and covering 152 Lok Sabha constituencies clearly mean that the country wants the end of Congress’s misrule and longs for a dispensation headed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi believing that he alone could lead the country. The results were, however, broadcast […]
  Hari Om
• Chuck’s World for 23rd May May 23, 2013
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  Deepak Gopalakrishnan
• This day in history: May 23 May 22, 2013
  1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain. 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States. 1939 – The US Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors […]
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• On UPA anniversary, Congress high-command pats itself on back May 22, 2013
  Here’s a simple mental exercise. When you are accused of massive corruption, when Ministers of your Cabinet embezzle lakhs of crores of rupees and then indicate, by way of being generally unapologetic, that they are not accountable to anyone except to their ‘high-command’ (which, one might add, shows no signs of doing anything at all), how do you react? You […]
  Vijayendra Mohanty
• DA case: CBI files charge sheet against Madhu Koda May 22, 2013
  The CBI on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda for amassing disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 8.42 crore. “The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a charge sheet against ex-Chief Minister of Jharkhand in the Court of Special Judge, CBI, Ranchi for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sour […]
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• India ready to play role for providing security to Afghanistan May 22, 2013
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