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S.Africa's Zuma targets economy in keynote address

Besieged South African President Jacob Zuma made his first public appearance in 10 days Tuesday to deliver a state of the nation address pledging "radical socio-economic transformation". Duration: 01:04 Jun 18, 2014
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Congress targets BJP over stranded Indian citizens in Iraq

New Delhi, June 18 (ANI): The Congress on Wednesday slammed ruling BJP accusing it for not taking a serious stand on the safe exit of citizens stranded in Iraq. Hitting on the Modi government, Congress leader Raj Babbar said that BJP should come clean on the situation of Indians caught up in the Iraq crisis. Jun 18, 2014
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US Navy Plans to Launch Small Military Drones from Ships

A new agreement has been signed by the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to launch a program that will build long-range, small reconnaissance drones and can be launched from ships. Jun 17, 2014
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Drones to help trace missing bodies in Mandi river tragedy

Mandi, June 14 (ANI): As the massive search for missing students intensified in Himachal Pradesh, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) deployed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to trace the bodies. 24 engineering students of a private engineering college of Hyderabad were swept away when the waters of river Beas suddenly spiked dangerously high following a release from the reservoir of 126 MW Larji hydropower project in Himachal Pradesh on June 08. An official of NDRF, Vairabha Nathan, said although the rescue teams are using UAV to locate the bodies, they are facing problems in GPS connectivity in the rugged topographical conditions. Jun 14, 2014
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Mayawati targets Modi over Badaun rape case

New Delhi, June 10 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Badaun gang rape and murder case. Mayawati said that Modi played the backward class card to woo people but now is overlooking their sufferings. Jun 10, 2014
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President's address to Parliament rehash of govt's election manifesto: CPI (M)

New Delhi, June 09 (ANI): The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday said that President Pranab Mukherjee's address to the joint session of Parliament is merely a rehash of the election manifesto presented by the incumbent government and not actually a blueprint. Addressing the Parliament, Mukherjee said that the new government would pursue a broad economic reform agenda focused on job creation through public and private investment that also makes containing inflation its top priority. Senior CPI (M) leader, Sitaram Yechury, said the statement was devoid of a blueprint to achieve the targets for the government in the coming year. Yechury urged the government to build a consensus among parties on the issues that were ticklish such as rehabilitation of local Hindu population in Kashmir and pilgrimage tourism. Jun 9, 2014