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TAIPEI - Taiwanese authorities are to offer subsidised babysitting in a bid to boost the island's dwindling birth rate, one of the world's lowest, an official said Tuesday.
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CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday said her centre-left Labour party was ready to govern after cobbling together a fragile coalition government in a rare hung parliament.
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MANILA: The driver of a Philippine tourist bus hijacked by a sacked policeman told a public inquiry Tuesday how he witnessed the gunman shoot more than a dozen Hong Kong visitors one by one as talks broke down.
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TAIPEI: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said more Asian nations will be inclined to forge trade pacts with Taiwan if it secures such a deal with his city-state first, Taiwanese media said Tuesday.
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Curfew was imposed in the entire Kashmir valley on Tuesday morning to prevent violent protests in the wake of killing of four persons at Palahallan in Pattan in Baramulla district.
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Curfew was imposed in the entire Kashmir valley on Tuesday morning to prevent violent protests in the wake of killing of four persons at Palahallan in Baramulla district.
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CHONGQING, China: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is in Chongqing at the start of his working visit to China.
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Shiva Solanki, nephew of BJP MP Dinu Solanki was on Thursday arrested from near the Rajkot airport in connection with the murder of RTI activist and green crusader Amit Jethwa here, police said.
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In a fresh bid to break the political stalemate in Jharkhand, the BJP decided to stake claim to form a government with the support of erstwhile partner JMM and AJSU in the state which is under President's rule.
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CANBERRA: An independent MP backed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to form a government Tuesday after inconclusive polls, putting her one seat from a majority with one more "kingmaker" yet to declare.
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CANBERRA: Australian independent MP Bob Katter Tuesday backed conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott to form the next government, leaving the future administration's make-up hanging in the balance.
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Kingfisher has cancelled 29 flights, while Jet Airways and its low cost arm JetLite have cancelled a total of 70 flights to and from Kolkata in the wake of bandh call given by central trade unions.
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Kingfisher has cancelled 29 flights, while Jet Airways and its low cost arm JetLite have cancelled a total of 70 flights to and from Kolkata in the wake of bandh call given by central trade unions.
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The nationwide bandh has been called to protest against price rise. The bandh is likely to have maximum impact in Kolkata with more than 100 flights to and from the city already cancelled.
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Nearly 80 flights to and from Kolkata have been cancelled. The strike has completely disrupted normal life in Kerala with schools and colleges remaining closed.
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Reserving 25 per cent of seats for children of poor families in private schools would be mandatory and its violation would be punishable, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said on Monday.
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SEOUL: North Korea has asked for rice and cement aid from South Korea before announcing the release of a South Korean boat seized last month for illegal fishing, a report said Tuesday.
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CHRISTCHURCH: Violent aftershocks rattled residents of Christchurch Tuesday as parts of the city re-opened for the first time since New Zealand's biggest quake in nearly 80 years.
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SOCHI, Russia: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said he had not yet decided to run for the Russian presidency but noted that Franklin D. Roosevelt had served four terms legally as US president.
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WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday cancelled plans to meet Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch on Saturday.
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