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Live Updates: Voting for 27 seats of Rajya Sabha underway; counting at 5 pm

Edit DNA India 11 Jun 2016
Voting for Rajya Sabha biennial began on Saturday morning as 27 Upper House seats from seven states went to elections. Voting for Rajya Sabha biennial began on Saturday morning as 27 Upper House seats from seven states went to elections ... # INLD has 19 MLAs in the 90 member house while lone member of the Shiromani Akali Dal is also its ally ... # Each candidate need 58 votes to go to the Upper House of Parliament....

Jottings of the Week: From Euro 2016 to Prakash Javadekar and Maneka Gandhi crossing swords

Edit DNA India 11 Jun 2016
Fresh air in corridors of power. What happens when Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar and Minister for Women and Child Welfare cross swords? Gandhi has been a passionate animal rights advocate and it was not a surprise that she should have entered the fray over the culling of the neelgai in Bihar ... Though he is an active and successful market player, Soros does not go overboard about the virtues of capitalism....

Air Force to commission 3 women fighter pilots

Edit The Times of India 11 Jun 2016
... stream of the flying branch ... The defence minister will present the President's Plaque and the Sword of Honour to the flight cadet who stands first in the Order of Merit, who will command the parade ... On commissioning, they are awarded the rank of `flying officer' in the IAF ... More from The Times of India....

Gatsby-esque grandeur awaits inside Roaring ’20s construction in Piedmont

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 11 Jun 2016
Rich oak, detailed crafstmanship and expansive dimensions abound within this seven-bedroom home with a Bavarian facade and slate roof ... Meals come together elegantly in a kitchen housing a butler’s pantry and ......

BJP govt targeting our MLAs, Cong tells EC

Edit The Times of India 11 Jun 2016
Devi is wanted in an attempt to murder case while Bittu Singh is facing a case of allegedly seeking Maoists help in elections ... Congress has seven MLAs, including Bhagat ... For victory all seven votes from Congress is a must for JMM which has only 19 MLAs in the house 81-member ... Ahead of the Saturday Rajya Sabha elections Congress is making an all-out effort to keep its house united and ensure there is no cross voting"....

Gulbarg massacre: He is moving back to move on

Edit The Times of India 11 Jun 2016
As the special trial court deliberates on the sentencing of those convicted of that massacre, Burhanpurwala and his family will begin a new innings at their old home ... For the last seven years, I have been living here," he says, referring to his two-room house at Khiskoli ni pol in Kalupur area of the city ... "Earlier, I thought of returning to our old house, but as the case was on and the accused were free, I could not do so....

Chawl residents live in landslide fear, but BMC looks away

Edit DNA India 11 Jun 2016
Barwad, a housewife, says there is no other choice for her family during the rains than to leave their house and live with relatives nearby to escape the danger of landslides ... While 200 of the houses have undergone incomplete government redevelopment in 2015, the rest continue to dread the dark clouds that loom over their roofs every monsoon....

Almost Daily Briefing (City of Lafayette, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jun 2016
City of Lafayette, CA) ... The next weekend you have free for a day trip, we suggest venturing to Lafayette, where you can explore an infamous 500 acre animal-filled reservoir, seven miles of historic hiking and biking trails, and a vibrant downtown walking district ... San Francisco is preparing for a different kind of Big One ... cities on the verge of economic ruin. Crime in America Is Going Down (Sort Of) ... Jerry Brown's housing plan....

New Vampyr Gameplay Trailer Shows Brutal Combat in Gothic London

Edit Gamespot 11 Jun 2016
A trailer for Dontnod Entertainment's Vampyr has appeared online, ahead of the start of E3 2016 ... It seems Reid's nightly snacking isn't going noticed, however, as a group of hunters is shown looking for him. This leads into a bloody battle in which Reid uses swords to cut down men ... Combat is comprised of melee and shooting, along with supernatural vampiric abilities....

That's rich! £7million Jeremy Irons rails against the 'obscenely wealthy'

Edit The Daily Mail 11 Jun 2016
Despite owning no fewer than seven houses, Irons claims Britain’s biggest problem is the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE ... ....

Mayawati set to add tailwind, propel Congress forward

Edit Indian Express 11 Jun 2016
The BSP, with 80 members in a House of 403, can spare 12 votes to bail out Sibal after ensuring the victory of its nominees Satish Chandra Mishra and Ashok Sidharth ... The BJP, which has only seven votes in excess of the requisite 34, has fielded Shiv Pratap Shukla ... three of the BSP, two of the National Unionist Zamindara Party and seven Independents....

Seven new prisons needed to cope with migrant criminals - Leave campaign

Edit Belfast Telegraph 11 Jun 2016
Britain will need to build seven new prisons to cope with the number of migrant law-breakers set to arrive in the country by 2030, the Leave campaign claims ... Of these, Leave estimates that 3,993 convicts will be from the rest of the EU, and that Britain will need another seven jails the size of the 606-capacity Full Sutton prison to house them....

Change in California jury rules prompts testy budget exchange

Edit Sacramento Bee 11 Jun 2016
Mark Leno, the upper house’s longtime budget leader. Under a budget compromise between the governor’s office and lawmakers, the number of peremptory challenges in misdemeanor cases would be reduced from 10 to seven ... that the agreement actually involved reducing the number of peremptory challengers – attorneys’ right to dismiss jurors without cause – to six, not seven....
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