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CNN: US President Barack Obama "is happy that cooler heads at least seem to be prevailing in the House" over raising the debt limit, White House spokesman Jay Carney said today when asked about a GOP proposal for a short-term increase in the federal borrowing limit.
Carney said he wouldn't be unable to say whether the president would sign the measure if it passes Congress until he gets more details about it.
Sheela Bhatt reports from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei: When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott, first time, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Brunei on Thursday he was in for a surprise.
Abott told him that he is well-versed with India and its people. He has, in his young days lived in Jharkhand and Bihar for three months. He fondly mentioned about his stay in Hazaribag and Daltonganj, in Palamu district, which is now in Jharkhand.
In the designational-level meeting PM Abott and Dr Singh gave political push to the ongoing talks to supply uranium to India. There is a strong lobby in Australia and elsewhere to not allow India to get uranium from Australia but Thursday's meeting gave the much-needed political nod to expedite the talks over nuclear fuel.
Meanwhile, because PM Abbott is well-versed with the Bihar-Jharkhand area he understands the importance of historical and cultural significance of project the Nalanda University. Abbott has announced funding of 1 million Australian dollars for the university in Bihar which is going to start its first semester from next year from the temporary building near the ruins of the ancient academic institution.
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"I thank the BCCI for everything over the years and for permitting me to move on when my heart feels it's time. I thank my family for their patience and understanding. Most of all, I thank my fans and well-wishers who through their prayers and wishes have given me the strength to go out and perform at my best."
"I look forward to playing the 200th Test on home soil. Hard for me to imagine life after cricket. Cricket is all I have done since I was 11 years old."
"The country needs women-power. If a mother is perturbed, the house is perturbed and if the house is perturbed, the state is perturbed. There is not a single mother in Punjab who isn't worried about her children's future and the biggest reason is -- addiction."
"I have two gurus one is the Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) and one is Manmohan Singh."
The Congress vice president said that the reporters in Gujarat told him that 'every Indian is with you, but opposition said your timing was wrong.'
"If we want to fight corruption we need to speak the truth. I want to repeat there is no specific time to speak the truth," he said.
2013 is the 100th year anniversary of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature to Rabindranath Tagore.
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature was Selma Lagerlf in 1909.
Rudyard Kipling was the youngest to receive a NobelPrize in Literature at the age of 42.
So he put off dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months, and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned home that he managed to solve his problem: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the US, and Akerlof was able to add Stiglitz's clothes to the shipment. Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it's possible that Akerlof made it back to the States before Stiglitz's shirts did.
Professor Akerlof and Professor Stiglitz shared the Nobel Prize in 2001. Professor Akerlof's wife is now the Fed Chairman-designate, Professor Janet Yellen.
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After nearly six rounds of talks and the directive from the Union government the strike has been called off. The talks with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minster Kiran Kumar Reddy were fruitful, the employees' asssociation said.
Giardina, it is charged, used a significant number of counterfeit gambling chips at a casino in Iowa. Following the charges and pending investigation,
Giardina has been demoted to a two-star general. Prior to his sacking as the deputy in charge of the US strategic command, Giardina had been suspended from duty on September 3.
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The state has been struggling with power crisis after employees from the power sector went on a strike following the Cabinet's nod to Telangana.
Giardina, it is charged, used a significant number of counterfeit gambling chips at a casino in Iowa. Following the charges and pending investigation,
Giardina has been demoted to a two-star general. Prior to his sacking as the deputy in charge of the US strategic command, Giardina had been suspended from duty on September 3.
Photograph: Reuters
Mukherjee mentioned his revised schedule to BJP MPs from Bihar Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain, who met him today.
"The president told us that he will visit Bihar on October 26 to attend a convocation, but will return back to Delhi the same day," Hussain said.
India is ready to sign India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on services and investment by the end of 2013, he added.
A World championship bronze medallist, she moved the court saying the disciplinary committee's order was issued in "violation of settled principles of natural justice and fairness, without giving a hearing to her".
Suresh Kumar, the principal of the Infant Jesus Engineering College in Tuticorin district, was attacked outside his office by the students who came armed with sharp weapons. One of the students had allegedly been suspended thrice for indiscipline, the police said.
The fishermen along with their four boats have been brought here and would later be handed over to the Tamil Nadu Marine police for filing a case, officials said.
Addressing the 8th East Asia Summit in Brunei, Dr Singh said the meeting is taking place at a time "when the need for collective action, cooperation and collaboration in the Asia Pacific region has never been felt more acutely."
"Global economic uncertainty and political turmoil in other parts of the world have impacted countries in our region equally. "In addition, this vast region faces challenges arising not only from its diversity, but also from differences. Clearly, the potential of unprecedented prosperity for our peoples can be realised only by inculcating a cooperative temper," the prime minister said.
Notice has been issued for allegedly pressuring a Muzaffarnagar police station to release seven persons accused in the riots.
More details are awaited.
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With the situation showing improvement, authorities will also extend another relaxation in curfew between 2 pm to 4 pm, DIG (Vizag) P Umapathi told PTI today.
The curfew was clamped in Vizianagaram town on Saturday night in the wake of large-scale violence by anti-bifurcation agitators.
Bhattacharya has worked for the bank since 1977. Prior to taking over as chairperson on Monday she was State Bank of India's chief financial officer.
The 57-year-old succeeded Pratip Chaudhuri, who retired in September.
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Describing the recent meeting between the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York last month as "excellent", the visiting Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, told a Washington audience that Islamabad had to "put on hold" granting MFN status to India in view of the public pressure in the aftermath of the unfortunate incident on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
"There are public sentiments. So we had to put it (MFN status) on hold," Dar said yesterday in response to a question at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based eminent American think tank.
He called her one of the nation's foremost economists and policy makers, reports BBC.
She has been the deputy of current chief Ben Bernankefor the past two years, and would become the first woman to head the Federal Reserve.
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After crossing north Andaman Islands, the deep depression over east central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday night intensified into cyclonic storm Phailin, while remaining practically stationary at about 950 km from Paradip.
The cyclone would intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours with a wind speed of 175-185 kmph and cross north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coast between Kalingapatnam and Paradip by October 12 night, a bulletin by the IMD said.
Doctors at NIMS said Jagan was forcibly given fluids at the hospital.
The US is suspending a large part of the $1.3bn in aid it gives to Egypt's military. The delivery of large-scale military systems as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government would be withheld, said the state department.
It said "credible progress" must be made towards free and fair elections. A review was launched in August after a crackdown by the authorities on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi left hundreds of people dead.
Officials said the freeze amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. Mr Morsi is set to go on trial on 4 November on charges of inciting murder and violence, state media reported on Wednesday.
Almost everything is negotiable in Chinese schools, from admission to grades to teacher recommendations, so long as you know the right person or have enough cash, parents and teachers say. As a result, many believe, the education system is worsening rather than mending the vast gap between the elite in China and everyone else.
Human rights lawyers filed a class action law suit in a U.S federal court accusing the United Nations of gross negligence and misconduct on behalf of victims of a cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.
"The claims are that the U.N. engaged in reckless and gross negligence and misconduct bringing cholera to Haiti," said Ira Kurzban, a lawyer and board member with the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Development in Haiti.
The group is demanding financial compensation for the 8,300 Haitians who died as a result of the cholera epidemic as well as some 650,000 more survivors of the illness. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq expressed to CNN "it is not the United Nations' practice to discuss in public claims filed against the Organization."
Earlier this year, however, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared the United Nations could not receive claims for compensation from Haitian cholera victims, arguing that the organization had legal immunity according to an international convention.
Navy seals launched a daring night-time raid in Barawe, but were forced to retreat an hour later without their target '" why?
A drug used to treat Parkinson's disease may provide an effective new therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS), research suggests. Early tests on mice show that benztropine stimulates the production of nerve-repairing cells.
Scientists hit on the drug after screening 100,000 compounds for their abilitly to trigger the development of cells that rebuild damaged myelin, the protective fatty sheath that surrounds nerve fibres.
MS is an autoimmune disease that causes the body's defences to attack myelin, causing symptoms ranging from mild tingling sensations to full blown paralysis. Cells called oligodendrocytes are able to repair myelin, but their numbers decline sharply in patients with MS.
The trial of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the murder of protesters will start on November 4, the official MENA news agency reported. Morsi will stand trial with 14 other defendants over the killings of protesters outside his presidential palace in December 2012, almost six months before his overthrow in a military coup.
The Cairo Appeals Court also named judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef to preside over the trial, MENA said. Lawyer Mostafa Atteyah said a meeting of Morsi's defence team, planned later on Wednesday, was to decide on the course of action and name the head of the team.
He said so far the legal team has not seen the case's documents. "This is like all the other cases. It is a fabricated one," Atteyah said, adding that most cases against Brotherhood members are based on weak prosecution. He said Islamist scholar and former presidential candidate Salim al-Awa is expected to lead the defence team.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has told the BBC he is open to "serious talks" with the government but says he has not yet been approached. In a rare interview, he denied carrying out recent deadly attacks in public places but said he would continue to target "America and its friends".
The chief loosely controls more than 30 militant groups in the tribal areas. After being elected PM in May, Nawaz Sharif announced he would open unconditional talks with the Taliban. The group has killed thousands of people in its war against the Pakistani state in recent years.
Late night swoop: Jagan evicted from hunger strike venue
Ibne Abbas to be new Pakistani envoy to India
In tiny Brunei, India makes inroads into ASEAN
Govt of youth will come to power in 2014: Rahul
No respite for Andhra as it faces cyclone threat
'Till there is clarity, turbulence in Andhra will continue'
SC disapproves gun firing to celebrate marriage ceremonies
Is Andhra looking at President's rule?
Patna HC court acquits 26 in Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre case
Why an Indian scientist hasn't won the Nobel after Independence
HC grants bail to accused in J Dey murder case
Karplus, Levitt, Warshel win 2013 Nobel Chemistry Prize
Telangana: Talks between CM, govt employees FAIL; stir to continue