Rahul Gandhi favourite to be next Indian PM - poll
Rahul Gandhi, scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi
political dynasty, is the favourite choice to be the country’s next
prime minister, an opinion poll showed Monday. Among his ruling
Congress party colleagues, Gandhi is preferred by 42 percent of
Indians to lead the country, according to the poll. “No other
Congress leader poses any challenge to him,” said leading pollster
Yogendra Yadav of the New Delhi-based Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies which conducted the “State of the Nation” poll
last month.
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Tensions behind London unrest revealed
‘Policemen don’t think we are human’ -
youngsters:
Rioting has again erupted on the streets of
Tottenham almost 26 years after the Broadwater Farm riot. But what
lies beneath the latest violent outburst in this chequered corner of
north London? The majority of people trying to digest the scene of
destruction along Tottenham’s cordoned-off High Road on Sunday
morning looked genuinely baffled.
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Thousands protest police brutality in Spain
Thousands of Spanish protesters have held
rallies in the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest at the use of
force by the country’s police officers during an earlier
demonstration. The protesters accused the authorities of abusing
their power after 20 people were injured in clashes with riot police
late Thursday during a rally in front of the interior ministry to
protest the closure of the city’s Puerta Del Sol Square in Madrid,
AFP reported.
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Pentagon likely to go for dire cuts
The US Defense Department officials should be
prepared for more budget cuts in case the government fails to
approve further savings by the end of year, a new report warns.
“Given the abruptness of the cuts imposed under the trigger and the
real possibility that congress may not be able to reach a deficit
reduction compromise in time to avoid the trigger, department of
defense should immediately begin contingency planning for how to
handle such reduction,” the report by Todd Harrison Center for
Strategic and Budget Assessment wrote.
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