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As South Carolina's Indian-American governor Nikki Haley channelled the outrage over Charleston church massacre with a call to remove the Confederate flag, the campaign against the slavery-era secessionist banner intensified....
Canada has shown interest in setting up Haryana's first horticulture university and to explore possibilities of a joint venture with the state to develop smart cities, an official said on Wednesday. ...
Urging US investors to invest in India without delay, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said his government's lack of majority in the upper house of parliament does not lead to indefinite delays in legislation like that for reforming the indirect tax regime....
Louisiana governor Piyush "Bobby"Jindal announced the launch of a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, becoming the first Indian-American and 13th Republican to join the 2016 White House race. ...
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French President Francois Hollande, ex-presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, and French cabinet ministers were surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the US, WikiLeaks said on Wednesday in a press release....
Under attack from Congress over his remarks on financial dealings between Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's son and former IPL chief Lalit Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday that his remarks had been misinterpreted but assured authorities in India would continue to do their job in connection with the ongoing probes....
A mob in an open market in China's Guangxi province hit out at a group of animal rights activists who were protesting against an annual dog meat festival, CNN reported on Tuesday....
"Micro attention is being paid to stalled projects and a pick-up in that area would be helping demand for industrial products," Jaitley said at a meeting here on Monday with US companies operating in India. ...
