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Li's visit: India won’t affirm One-China in joint statement

The customary joint-statement that will be issued tomorrow after the talks between PM Manmohan Singh and visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang will have one important feature missing this time---an affirmation by India of One-China principle, which recognises Tibet and Taiwan as Chinese regions. Jayanth Jacob reports. Li's visit: Full coverage | Li arrives in India

Jagan's wife attacks CBI, accuses it of working at Congress behest

With Jaganmohan Reddy completing a year in jail after his arrest in a disproportionate assets case, his wife Bharathi today attacked CBI, alleging it was controlled by partisan interests and had delayed probe to keep him in prison.

5,000 more MBBS seats in 2013

The amendments to the Medical Council of India Act have borne fruit, as more than 5,000 new seats will be added this year, which may mean more doctors will be available in the public health sector in the future. Chetan Chauhan reports.
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Li's visit: India won’t affirm One-China in joint statement

The customary joint-statement that will be issued tomorrow after the talks between PM Manmohan Singh and visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang will have one important feature missing this time---an affirmation by India of One-China principle, which recognises Tibet and Taiwan as Chinese regions. Jayanth Jacob reports. Li's visit: Full coverage | Li arrives in India

Jagan's wife attacks CBI, accuses it of working at Congress behest

With Jaganmohan Reddy completing a year in jail after his arrest in a disproportionate assets case, his wife Bharathi today attacked CBI, alleging it was controlled by partisan interests and had delayed probe to keep him in prison.
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Slugfest over food security bill, Rahul blames Oppn

The blame game over the food security bill continued on Saturday, with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi blaming the opposition again for stalling it in Parliament. The Opposition’s “politics of disruption” revealed their attitude towards the poor, he said.
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Class 11 student from Manipur scales Mt Everest

Class 11 student Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba became the youngest person from the North East to conquer Mt Everest on Saturday. Sobhapati Samom reports.
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Cobrapost: NABARD chief gives clean chit to co-operative banks

Amid allegations of co-operative banks being used as conduits for money laundering, NABARD, which jointly regulates such lenders, has said that it has found no shortcoming pointing towards any such activity.

HC upholds complaint against artist for painting wife in nude

Observing that painting nude images prima facie amounted to an offence, the Bombay high court has refused to quash a criminal complaint against an artist who painted nude and derogatory pictures of his estranged wife in his bedroom.

Hidden, in plain sight

Rediscovery: The Sikligars, a Sikh tribe of nomadic, rural weapon makers, lived in the jungles of central India for 300 years, unseen and nearly forgotten. Now, their community is reaching out to try and integrate them.
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Chhattisgarh: 9 killed, 20 missing after Naxal-CRPF gunbattle

A Cobra jawan of the CRPF and eight tribals were killed during a fierce gun battle with the Maoists at Ekalmeta in Bijapur district of south Chhattisgarh late Friday.

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Kalahandi: from hunger deaths to a rice revolution

Odisha’s Kalahandi district — once the cause of global embarrassment for India due to its high number of starvation deaths — today stands tall with a five-fold increase in its rice production since 1999, figures reveal. Chetan Chauhan reports.

Modi hails Raman Singh, tears into Centre

Is Chhattisgarh the next Gujarat? Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi certainly thinks so. And he proclaimed it publicly on Sunday, at chief minister Raman Singh’s vikas yatra in Rajnandgaon, 73 km from Raipur. Ejaz Kaiser reports.
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