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 Facebook Faces Investigation in UK Following Emotion-Manipulation Study   Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage at Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Francisco on April 30, 2014. Image: Ben Margot/Associated Press By Kurt Wagner28 minutes ago Facebook is facing more than just user backlash following news that the social network was purposely trying to manipulate user […]

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Our Man in Baghdad How America empowered Nouri al-Maliki—and then failed to keep that power in check. David Rohde, Warren Strobel, Missy Ryan, and Ned Parker Jul 1 2014, 3:51 PM ET thierry ehrmann/Flickr In November 2010, the United States faced a painful dilemma in Iraq. The man Washington had picked from near-obscurity four years […]

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Cameron Diaz’s naked truth: No kids makes things ‘much easier’ Kurt Schlosser TODAY 7 hours ago Cameron Diaz has made 32 movies over 20 years, and in the upcoming comedy “Sex Tape,” she bares all for the first time onscreen. In the new Esquire magazine, the actress also exposes a bit of her mindset when […]

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July 1, 2014 Books to Watch Out For: July Posted by Rachel Arons and Andrea DenHoed Notes from the book closet on new titles that caught our eye. “Arts and Entertainments” (Ecco), by Christopher Beha, out July 1st. Beha’s second novel concerns Eddie Hartley, a former TV actor who achieved minimal success and now works […]

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Bomb-crazy, “do something” neocons must be stopped — or Iraq will be Obama’s Vietnam We have done enough harm. We’re not able to do good. We must simply admit the enormity of our mistake — and change Patrick L. Smith Tuesday, Jul 1, 2014 06:58 PM EST     John McCain (Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) It […]

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Orphaned by our education system MEGAN REED   Brick by brick : Create the facilities to put them back in school . T Vijaya Kumar   Cutbacks in funds for hostels under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan have pushed children of migrants out of schooling The seasonal migrant labour population of India is estimated by some […]

Reluctant BJP Debutantes for Governors’ Ball

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BJP seniors refuse role of governor RADHIKA RAMASESHAN New Delhi, July 1: As four governors appointed by the UPA have quit, the BJP is in a bit of a quandary to seek replacements from its pool of hard-core political veterans.    The reason? Even if such leaders are over the hill, they have told home […]

Modi Sarkar’s Pet Project: ‘e-govt’ a Mirage

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Standards for robust e-govt projects soon               TNN | Jul 2, 2014, 06.33AM IST   BANGALORE: Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said the government would quickly establish standards and ensure open APIs (application programming interfaces) for egovernance projects so that it becomes easy for entrepreneurs to […]

Modi’s Infrastructue FII/FDI: One billion down, 999 billions to go

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France proposes 1 bln euro credit line for India projects NEW DELHI Tue Jul 1, 2014 5:18pm IST     Construction workers fasten iron rods at the construction site of a bridge being built on a highway in Ahmedabad September 30, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave/Files (Reuters) – France has proposed to give India a 1 […]

Modi’s Infrastructure Teething Pains

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Council on Foreign Relations Governance in India: Infrastructure Backgrounders Governance in India: Infrastructure Author: Beina Xu, Online Writer/Editor March 25, 2014 Adnan Abidi/Courtesy Reuters Introduction India’s emerging economic power, like that of neighboring China, has been spurred by its momentous growth rates in the past few decades. But years of underinvestment in infrastructure have left […]

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Car sales rise for second month in running   The decision of the government to extend a lower-duty regime for the car industry for the next six months is also being perceived as highly-positive by the car industry. Pankaj Doval, TNN | Jul 1, 2014, 08.25PM IST NEW DELHI: Car sales rose for the second […]

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Floods, drought, war? It must be El Niño again Simeon Tegel July 1, 2014 00:28 Updated July 1, 2014 09:40 The bad boy of weather is 80 percent likely to strike this year. Here’s what to brace for.                               LIMA, Peru […]

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Mumbai traffic thrown out of gear due to heavy rain Bhavika Jain,TNN | Jul 2, 2014, 07.01 PM IST       Low lying areas like Andheri, Milan subway, Garodia nagar in Ghatkopar, Hindmata and Sion circle were flooded.   RELATED   Heavy rain in western districts of Odisha Heavy rain, hailstorm damages crops in Thane talukas Heavy rain floods roads, disrupts traffic across […]
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