Rahul Gandhi gets Congress post
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India's Congress party names Rahul Gandhi as a party general secretary, fuelling speculation of an early election.
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I was present at the Pakistan National Assembly session in Islamabad when the bill authorising President Pervez Musharraf to retain his uniform was introduced in the House.
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A Hindu hard-liner who recently was India&#39;s deputy prime minister took over the country&#39;s main opposition party Wednesday with a pledge to build a temple on the site of a 16th-century
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday he has the backing of his Democratic colleagues to become the party's second-ranked member when the new Congress convenes in January.
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India&#39;s ruling Congress party won power in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that would boost the fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi&#39;s party
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The new government in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand wins a vote of confidence.
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India's governing coalition chose a woman as its presidential candidate Thursday, setting the stage for her to become the country's first female president.
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A grandson of Mohandas Gandhi took the legendary Indian leader's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Thursday, pitching the pacifist creed to Yasser Arafat in his sandbagged, bullet-scarred West Bank headquarters.
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This week&#39;s Golkar Party congress will feature rich, deceptive and powerful people bidding to win the chairmanship of the party, which controls the most seats in the House of Representatives.
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An election victory by the governing Congress Party in India&#39;s second-most-populous state on Saturday was expected to strengthen both the party and the minority
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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Alex Salmond will take his seat in the House of Commons for the first time since becoming first minister.
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FATEH JANG, Pakistan  - Pakistan's finance minister took an important step toward becoming the new prime minister by easily winning two byelections that give him a seat in parliament, a prerequisite for the post, state-run television reported Thursday. Opposition groups insisted the vote was rigged.
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A new music album 'Remembering Mahatma Gandhi' was launched here Thursday by   Dr. Karan Singh, MP and president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to honour the father of the   nation on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Oct 2.
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Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao&#39;s body was brought to the Congress headquarters as the party paid its last respects. The 83-year-old leader died of a cardiac arrest in New Delhi on Thursday.
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Jacob Zuma, the new chairman of the African National Congress, will almost certainly succeed Thabo Mbeki as the leader of South Africaâs one-party democracy.
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A controversial Indian politician was reelected Tuesday â this time by stressing his economic track record, not sectarian politics.