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              Maldives airport row: GMR employees' visas 
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              Headscarf ban in Turkey schools lifted | 
            
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              Twitter crazy mom names baby 'Hashtag' | 
            
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              Curfew in parts of Srinagar after 
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              Facebook outrage: SC to examine validity of Section 66A of the 
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              Palestinian president Abbas to claim 
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              Nasheed terms government xenophobic, GMR 
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              FDI debate with voting gets Speaker's nod 
              Lok Sabha 
              Speaker Meira Kumar Thursday allowed a debate under voting rules 
              on foreign investment in multi-brand retail.
              She was responding to notices submitted by the Bharatiya Janata 
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             Palestinian president Abbas to claim 
              elevated status at UN Thursday 
              Palestinian President Mahmoud
              Abbas will on Thursday put the Palestinian claim for elevated 
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              Headscarf ban in Turkey schools lifted 
              Stating that one should be allowed to dress as per his or her 
              wish, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced 
              to lift the ban on female students wearing headscarves in schools 
              providing religious education. Under the latest regulation, 
              announced on Tuesday and going into effect from the 2013-2014 
            
            
            
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               Facebook outrage: SC to examine validity of Section 66A of the 
              IT Act 
              The Supreme Court will Thursday 
            examine the constitutional validity of Section 66A of the IT Act in 
            the wake of recent arrests 
            
            
            
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              Karnataka refuses to release more water, Cauvery talks fail 
            
              Talks 
              between chief ministers of
              Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on sharing of 
              the Cauvery river water failed Thursday, as Karnataka declined to 
              release any more water due to depleting levels in its drought-hit 
              reservoirs. 
              
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              Palghar police does it again, this 
              time for FB post against Raj Thackeray 
              Identified as an 18-year-old meat shop 
              assistant, Sunil Vishwakarma was picked up Wednesday for quizzing 
              by police after some Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists 
              complained of objectionable matter allegedly posted under his name 
              on networking site Facebook. According 
            
            
            
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             Tortured Kargil martyr's parents want 
              justice for war crime 
              She and her husband N.K. Kalia, who retired as a senior scientist 
              from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 
              told IANS Wednesday they did not want any soldier to suffer the 
              
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                  President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime 
                  Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Chairperson, National Advisory 
                  Council Mrs Sonia Gandhi with the winner of Indira Gandhi 
                  Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development Luiz Inacio Lula 
                  da Silva, former President of the Federative Republic of 
                  Brazil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on November 22, 
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