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Deepak Parekh resigns from HUL board
28 Dec 2011
Zardari vows to battle on as Pakistan President
28 Dec 2011
‘Vande Mataram’, Hazare tells thin Mumbai crowd
27 Dec 2011
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Ball now in Parliament’s court, says team Anna
26 Dec 2011
Team Anna has arrived in Mumbai for Hazare’s three-day fast, which will be followed by a 'jail bharo' (fill the jails) agitation
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HC upholds conviction of ex-minister Sukh Ram
22 Dec 2011
Although the case has nothing to do with the current 2G scandal, the former telecom minister became notorious in 1996 when bags of cash were found in his house
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2G toll: Ravi Ruia steps aside as Essar Energy chief
21 Dec 2011
Ravikant Ruia today stepped aside as Essar Energy chairman in the wake of charges against him and his company related to the 2G spectrum scandal
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Cabinet okays lokpal sans CBI; Hazare slams toothless bill
20 Dec 2011
Hazare would now go ahead with his fast from 27 to 29 December, followed by a “jail bharo” agitation from 30 December
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US appoints first woman ambassador to India
19 Dec 2011
A South Asia expert, 64-year-old Nancy J Powell, the new American ambassador to India, has served as the US ambassador to Pakistan and Nepal, and in earlier Indian postings served as political counselor in Delhi and consul-general in Kolkata
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Technocrat-politician Ajit Singh takes charge of aviation
By By Nithin Rao | 19 Dec 2011
The civil aviation sector in India, which has hit turbulence in recent months and faces a massive loss of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion in the current fiscal, has a new minister at the helm —— Ajit Singh, a technocrat-politician from the farm belt of western Uttar Pradesh
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PM honest, good, but remote-controlled: Anna Hazare
19 Dec 2011
Failure to pass an effective anti-corruption bill would result in his launching his fast at Ramlila maidan in Delhi and the start of the ‘jail bharo’ agitation
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Former French president Chirac sentenced for graft
15 Dec 2011
Former French President Jacques Chirac has been given a two-year suspended sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust
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Team Anna’s anti-graft stir among top 10 ‘Time’ stories
08 Dec 2011
Hazare's "fasts, even the threat of them, triggered mass demonstrations of support across India's major cities and heaped pressure on the government", Time wrote
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And now, external affairs minister Krishna in mining scam
08 Dec 2011
The complaint filed by businessman and social activist T J Abraham before the Karnataka Lokayukta Court names two other former chief ministers, N Dharam Singh and H D Kumaraswamy as well
Harvard gives Subramanium Swamy the boot
08 Dec 2011
Human Rights Commission pulls up MP government
06 Dec 2011
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