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Bahuguna asks MHA to take back his Y-category security cover

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Dehradun. Former Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, who joined the BJP recently, has written to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) to take back the Y- category security he was accorded in March this year when the nine Congress MLAs raised the flag of revolt against CM Harish Rawat ... Bookmark or read stories offline - Download the TOI app....

No question of returning security cover: Champion

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Roorkee ... He said that since he had been vocal against the CM and his policies, there was a "looming threat to his life." ... The MLA who represents the Khanpur constituency of Haridwar was among the legislators who were disqualified by assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal following their open revolt against CM Harish Rawat in the state assembly on March 18 ... RELATED. From around the web....

Kalsa-Banduri: farmers threaten to block supply of commodities to Goa

Edit The Hindu 29 May 2016
Resolution ... Farmer leader Lokanath Bebasur said that the Mahadayi riparian States of Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra should meet and pave the way for allowing Karnataka to utilise 7 tmcft ... Bandh ... The farmers took out a protest rally after paying tributes to the ‘hero stone’, which was installed as a commemoration of the farmers’ revolt of 1980 ... ....

Transgender sex workers make a beeline to Kochi

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
KOCHI. It would be hard to miss small groups of transgender street-walkers in gaudy dresses and loud make-up soliciting for sex as one drives through the Chittoor Road that lies parallel to MG Road, the city's main business artery, after 10pm ... "In cities like Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad the market for transgenders is saturated ... "We cannot get jobs as people find our presence revolting ... "We are aware of the new phenomenon ... RELATED....

Hazrat Mahal: Begum who challenged Queen of England

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Lucknow. If only strength, strategy, grit, balance and vision could blend with beauty, it would be a sketch of Begum Hazrat Mahal, the Queen of Avadh. Not only did she give British their toughest stint in India, she challenged the Queen of England by issuing a counter proclamation against her ... In 1858, Queen of England issued a proclamation to appease people ... The Begum had mobilised masses to turn the revolt into a people's movement....

Revolt in Avadh and the Union Jack

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Lucknow. Firing the first bullet on May 30, 1857, Indian soldiers of Lucknow garrison revolted against the British. They first ransacked all the houses and other establishments of the British and then burnt the entire Cantonment under the command of Sir Henry Lawrence. According to some Western sources, they even destroyed the small church ... Native historians often tend to glorify even the most insignificant achievements of their country....

President Rivlin addresses Jordanian Independence Day reception (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel) President Reuven Rivlin with the Jordanian Ambassador to Israel H.E. Mr. Walid Obeidat at the reception. Copyright. GPO/Mark Neiman ... Mr ... Ambassador Obeidat thanked the President for joining in the celebrations and said, 'Thank you for joining us today to celebrate Jordan's Independence Day, Jordan is celebrating today 70 years of independence and 100 years since the Arab Revolt....

Ross Smyth-Kirk gets the shaft as Thai gold mine stalls

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 29 May 2016
Gold mining has provided one of the few bright spots for the resource sector in recent times, so why is Kingsgate Consolidated in such a mess? . Its Chatree mine in Thailand should have been a gold mine, so to speak, since becoming operational in 2001.  ...   ... She claimed tests on local villagers found arsenic and other substances ... Then shareholders started revolting against Smyth-Kirk's long rule at the miner ... ....

The Order of St John ‘was not in decline’ when the French came

Edit The Malta Independent 29 May 2016
It was a lecture against a thesis but the thesis and its proponents were not mentioned by name. The flyer said. “This lecture forms part of a work currently still in progress. Its purpose is to dispute two misconceptions concerning the Order of the Hospital ... Both are historically untenable ... True to form, Prof ... Prof ... The revolt of the priests in 1795 did not have any real impact on the population ... The Order, Prof ...  .   ....

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc and Rolls-Royce Holding plc

Edit The Motley Fool 29 May 2016
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Don’t Blame Obama For Egypt’s Political Mess

Edit Newsweek 29 May 2016
This article first appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations site. There is an Egyptian saying that goes like this. “Once you drink from the Nile, you will come back again.” Try Newsweek ... Of course, it is hard to generalize, but I am told that while the doctors are not in open revolt against el-Sissi like members of the press, they are far more willing today to level criticism at the president or the government than before ... It is not....

Donald Trump and the authoritarian temptation

Edit Medium 29 May 2016
By Shadi Hamid. Editors’ Note. Donald Trump has exposed the tension between democracy and liberal values — similar to the Arab Spring, writes Shadi Hamid. This piece originally appeared on The Atlantic. When I was living in the Middle East, politics always felt existential, in a way that I suppose I could never fully understand ... But it was easy enough to sense it. Here, in the era of Arab revolt, elections really had consequences ... The U.S ... ....

Another tense revolt in the Central Prison of Hama and inmates are holding Hama police chief and the director of the prison (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 28 May 2016
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that a new revolt broke out in the central prison of Hama, it was carried ... Original documenthttp.//www.syriahr.com/en/2016/05/28/another-tense-revolt-in-the-central-prison-of-hama-and-inmates-are-holding-hama-police-chief-and-the-director-of-the-prison/....
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