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• Kashmir saw protests, but Omar spelt hope (Flashback 2009)

  
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  Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) Soon after Omar Abdullah took over as chief minister in January, he faced a series of challenges. Terror-riven Jammu and Kashmir hogged the headlines for violent protests over an alleged double rape and murder, a blanket ban on prepaid mobile phones and the young leader’s name being dragged ...
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• Protests continue in Telangana, no shutdown on Christmas

  
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  Hyderabad, Dec 25 (IANS) The Telangana region remained relatively peaceful Friday though protests continued for the second consecutive day against the central government’s move to put on hold the process of forming a separate state.The all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) withdrew its shutdown call in view of ...
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• Osmania University situation ‘very very volatile’, says police

  
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  Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) The situation in Osmania University, witnessing violent protests for formation of Telangana state, is “very very volatile”, a police official said Thursday.“The situation in Osmania University is very very volatile. We don’t know what turn it will take the next moment,” said ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
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  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Now Telangana legislators threaten to quit

  
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  Hyderabad, Dec 23 (IANS) Amid indications that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government may backtrack on its commitment to carve Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, the Congress legislators from the region have threatened to resign.As the sources in the Congress hinted that a statement expected to be made ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
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  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Tension in Uttar Pradesh town after desecration at Sikh shrine

  
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  Lucknow, Dec 21 (IANS) Tension gripped Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district Monday as hundreds of Sikhs carried out violent protests over desecration of their holy scripture, police said.Agitated over the burning of the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikhs went berserk in the Fakarpur area in Bahraich, some 270 km from Lucknow, ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
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  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Protests engulf Kashmir yet again over women’s deaths (Second Lead)

  
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  Srinagar, Dec 15 (IANS) Kashmir Valley was in ferment Tuesday following violent protests over the CBI probe report into the deaths of two young women in Shopian as angry youth took to the streets and pelted stones at security forces. Over two dozen people, including police, were left wounded.Angry youth shouted ...
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• Kashmir erupts in anger over CBI report on Shopian (Lead)

  
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  Srinagar, Dec 15 (IANS) The strike-hit Kashmir Valley Tuesday erupted in violent protests over the CBI probe report into the deaths of two women in Shopian as angry youth took to the streets and pelted stones at security forces. Over two dozen people, including policemen, were wounded in the protests.Angry youth ...
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• IT industry concerned over unrest in Hyderabad

  
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  Hyderabad, Dec 14 (IANS) With Andhra Pradesh witnessing violent protests over the issue of separate statehood to Telangana region, IT companies here Monday voiced their concern over the developments in the state and its impact on the IT and ITES industry.The Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA) said the ...
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• Kashmir Women ‘Were Not Murdered’

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 14 : Two Kashmiri women whose deaths sparked protests were not raped or murdered, Indian investigators have concluded. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the high court in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir that the women drowned in a canal. The families of the women told the court ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
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  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• Gorkhaland demand valid, says Jaswant Singh

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh Friday said the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland was “valid” and added that if “legitimate demands” were met, then violence would not be an option.“If legitimate and valid demands are met in time, then there is no need for protests or violent ...
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• Punjab State Assembly witnesses scuffle between Akali and Congress MLAs

  
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  Ludhiana, Dec.8 (ANI): Legislators of ruling Akali Dal and the opposition Congress party got into scuffle with each other in the State assembly of Punjab over the racial violence in Ludhiana city.It all started when some Congress legislators moved towards Deputy Chief Minister and State’s Home Minister Sukhbir Singh ...
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• Situation under control in Ludhiana, administration lifts curfew

  
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  Ludhiana, Dec 8 (ANI): After three days of violent protests by radical Sikh outfits, the situation is under control here and returning to its usual, after the administration relaxed the curfew that had been imposed in the region.The radical Sikh outfits were protesting against the arrival of Ashutosh Maharaj, a ...
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• TRS rejects Andhra Pradesh Govt offer to withdraw all cases

  
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  Hyderabad, Dec 7 (ANI): The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Monday rejected Andhra Pradesh Government’s offer to withdraw all cases against him. With this move of Rao the deadlock over the Telangana issue is heading towards more complex.The issue is expected to dominate proceedings of ...
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• Gojra riots inquiry panel demands immediate changes in blasphemy laws to protect minorities

  
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  Islamabad, Dec. 7 (ANI): An inquiry panel into Pakistan’s Gojra riots has proposed amendments to the country’s existing blasphemy laws in order to avoid such incidents in future. Nine people- including four women and a child -were killed in anti-Christian riots in Gojra in August. Christian homes were burnt after ...
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• Curfew enforced in Ludhiana following violent protests

  
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  Ludhiana, Dec 6(ANI): Authorities imposed curfew in Ludhiana on Sunday following violence by a large number of Sikhs protesting the holding of a public discourse by Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan leader Ashutosh Maharaj.Earlier on Saturday, Sikh organizations had taken to streets to protest against the holding of a ...
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• Rahul Gandhi to visit AMU Monday

  
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  Aligarh, Dec 5 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit the Aligarh Muslim University Monday to interact with students and teachers, a university official said Saturday.Visiting the institution at the invitation of Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis, Gandhi will interact with students from various ...
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