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"'Twixt Cup and Lip," written soon after World War I and being published for the first time, is a one-act comedy in which a modern, free-thinking woman finds herself courted by two men and changes her mind at the last moment.
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Special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Mali on Friday after gunmen seized guests and staff in a hostage crisis that left at least 18 people dead, a week after the jihadist rampage in Paris.
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Women in India are not told what to wear and how to wear what, union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said in New Delhi on Friday.
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Regrouping from an embarrassing defeat in the House, the White House tried to change the subject away from its Syrian refugee program on Friday, instead calling for changes that could prohibit some people from bypassing the traditional visa system to enter the American homeland.
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Top Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson are ratcheting up their rhetoric about Muslims, with Trump calling for a mandatory database to track Muslims in the United States and Carson comparing Syrian refugees to rabid dogs.
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The tickets for the Delhi leg of the International Premier Tennis League have been priced from Rs 4,000 to a whopping Rs 48,000 and they are up for sale, said the organisers on Friday.
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In 2005-06, the total government expenditure had stood at Rs 5,06,123 crore. A decade later in 2015-16, the total government expenditure is projected to be at Rs 17,77,477 crore. This means an increase in expenditure at around 13.4 percent per year.
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Indian-origin Madhesi protesters in Nepal on Friday torched an ambulance and a truck carrying medicines worth over Rs two million imported from India near the border as sporadic violence returned to the Himalayan nation amid a political logjam over the new Constititution.
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Fitch said the planned wage increase is "sufficient to add substantive challenges to achieving the planned
medium-term consolidation targets".
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BAGHDAD Iraqi paramilitaries seen as essential in fighting Islamic State are resisting moves to rein in their budget, highlighting the challenge of imposing government authority on one of the country's most powerful forces. Facing lower revenue because of declining oil prices, OPEC oil exporter Iraq is planning widespread budget cuts next year, with government expenditure set to drop by nearly 10 percent to around $95 billion. The paramilitary forces, which include Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias under a state-run umbrella called the Hashid Shaabi, complain that instead of accepting their request to fund 156,000 fighters next year, Baghdad plans to cut tens of thousands from its ranks
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BEIRUT A powerful Syrian rebel group said on Thursday it was studying a local ceasefire proposal put forward by an international mediator aimed at halting fighting with government forces near Damascus. The comments by the spokesman for Islam Army appeared to suggest the initiative was not dead, even as a lull in fighting between government-held Damascus and the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area gave way to renewed bombardment on Thursday afternoon.
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MUMBAI An Indian government panel has proposed a 23.55 percent rise in salaries and pensions for about 10 million current and former government employees, smaller than past increases as New Delhi faces pressure to curb its fiscal deficit and prices. Economists and investors have been keenly awaiting the 7th Pay Commission's recommendation, which will test the government's commitment to budgetary prudence but could boost discretionary consumption across the country. A commission reviews the pay of government employees every 10 years and its recommendations are usually accepted with some modifications.
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US lawmakers on edge after the Paris attacks launched by French and Belgian jihadists, are calling into question a program that allows Europeans to travel to America without a visa.
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Given the complexities of modern day governance, the existing system of generalists (read IAS) manning senior policy making positions and shifting from one field to another in short spans of time, is considered not just outmoded but inimical to effective policy making.
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In Pakistan it was the parents: men and women who watched their children die in extremist attacks who were generous in their own grief, reaching out across the world to tell the survivors of Friday's nightmare in Paris that they are not alone.
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Jaitley in his last budget speech had said that PPP infrastructure development model has to be revisited and revitalised.
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Vivek Rae, member of the Commission and a former IAS officer, is of the view that the financial edge for IAS and IFS is fully justified but has not agreed with the view that it should be extended to the IPS and the IFoS, it said.
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The three-minute footage was shot at one of the outdoor bistro terraces attacked on Friday in a series of massacres claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), which left a total of 129 people dead and 352 wounded.
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Trade analysis on how Prem Ratan Dhan Payo became such a success
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Siachen Allowance per month for Service Officers has been recommended at Rs 31,500 from the present Rs 21,000 and in case of JCO/ORs the hike proposed is Rs 21,000 from the current Rs 14,000.
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