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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:06:08 GMT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Uneasy calm in Male after 4 days of protests]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[An uneasy calm prevailed on Saturday on the streets of Maldivian capital Male following days of protests and clashes in the wake of the resignation of the country's first democratically-elected President Mohamed Nasheed. Shops and businesses opened in the city on Saturday morning after remaining closed during the protests, which erupted four days ago. Areas around the Maldives National Defence Force headquarters as well as the police headquarters witnessed normal activity.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Will cut off funding for the UN Population Fund: Romney]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Calling China's one-child norm "barbaric", top Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has vowed to cut off United States aid to the United Nations Population Fund for supporting Beijing's policy. If elected President, "I will cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, which supports China's barbaric one-child policy," Romney said in his address at the  Conservative Political Action conference in Washington.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Second phase of 'the mother of all polls' TODAY]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Polling for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections -- for 59 seats in 10 districts -- will be held on Saturday. This phase will decide the fate of two state presidents, 31 members of legislative assemblies and 24 former ministers. More than 1.92 crore voters are expected to cast their votes to seal the fate of 1,098 candidates in the polling to be held in Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia and Ghazipur.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Main suspect in battered baby case arrested]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Making a breakthrough in the battered baby Falak case, the Delhi police on Saturday arrested the prime suspect, who allegedly handed over the child to his 14-year-old girlfriend. Taxi driver Raj Kumar was arrested early on Saturday morning after weeks of manhunt. The police have been on the lookout for Kumar since January 18, when the minor girl got the baby admitted to AIIMS. The girl, who is allegedly involved in a prostitution racket, was also arrested along with Kumar.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Was India napping during the Maldives affair?]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Indian government appears to have been caught napping in the Maldives on two counts, says security expert B Raman.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mumbai civic polls: Of gangsters and their kin]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Mumbai has the richest Municipality in the country. And adding colour and spice to the civic polls that are to take place on February 16, are several elements from the under world. Interestingly, it is not the criminals themselves who are in the fray, but their kin. Rediff.com's Ganesh Nadar talks to some of them.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Video: The amazing Pandit Ravi Shankar!]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[From Pandit Ravi Shankar to Rajinikanth's Kochadaiyaan to Housefull 2, it's been an interesting week.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Civilian killed in Kashmir firing]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A 22-year-old civilian was killed allegedly in firing by security forces in a remote village of Baramulla district in north Kashmir, leading to protests in the area, official sources said on Friday night.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Was Khurshid's remark aimed at wooing Azamgarh Muslims?]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's remark about Congress president Sonia Gandhi getting emotionally moved by Batl a House pictures might have created a furore in the Congress circles.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Maldives crisis: Nasheed is defiant, India sends envoy]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Refusing to give up his political ambitions despite an arrest warrant against him, 44-year-old Nasheed kept up the heat on new President Mohamed Waheed Hassan, who was his deputy just three days ago, and demanded that he step down to pave the way for fresh elections.]]></description> 
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