Elections on February 18 will be free, fair and peaceful. – Pervez Musharraf
Like the General got himself elected.
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Benazir is responsible for her death as she did not heed to my advice . – Pervez Musharraf
Suicide, you mean!
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We have not agreed to oil price hike. – CPI(M) Polit Bureau
You have agreed to disagree.
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Politicians are behind illegal constructions in the capital. – CBI Report
What is new in this news item? Who else one expects behind anything of public good/bad!?
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Give Bharat Ratna award to Atal BehariVajpayee. – L.K. Advani
Give Bharat Ratna award to Kanshiram. – Mayawati
Bharat Ratna award to Jyoti Basu is being considered. – News Item
Give Bharat Ratna awards to Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Mohammed Rafi. – Ram Bilas Paswan
Give Bharat Ratna award to Bahadur Shah Zafar. – Shoaib Iqbal
Any more takers? It is becoming a marathon race.
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We have been working within the capitalist system and as such private capital has to be used. Socialism is a far cry. Socialism is our political agenda and it was mentioned in our party document but capitalism will continue to be the compulsion for the future. – Jyoti Basu
Et tu Brutus.
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It is time to move on, so we dropped charges against Brad Hogg. Cricket is larger than individuals. – Anil Kumble, Indian Cricket Captain
Isn’t national pride larger than the game of cricket?
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We welcome the new era in India-China relationship. – Abhishek Singhvi
Public memory may be short but we still remember the bygone era of Hindi-Chini Bhai- Bhai!
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Urdu has many Persian words and similarly Hindi-speaking people use certain Urdu words frequently during their conversation. Therefore, the government has decided to revise the course with more simplified version. The words will be replaced with some commonly used English and Hindi words.
– A senior official in the ministry of education
Agreed! A welcome move indeed. Hope, similar exercise will be done for Hindi language also and all uncommon Sanskrit words will be removed at the earliest and further Sanskritisation will be made a taboo for good.
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China will not tolerate Taiwan independence and never allow anyone to separate the island from Chinese territory in any name or any way. Washington should stop arms sales to Taiwan and sever military links with the island.
– General Guo Boxiong, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China
Will such tough talking alone deter the USA to shun its world policeman role?