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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets African leaders on Sunday, aiming to boost a relationship which politically goes back decades and is now economically booming -- to the discomfort of some in the West.

In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin, home to the endangered sea eagle and the pygmy cormorant, lie the ghastly remains of a communist-era death camp.

On the first day of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's two-day visit to Naxal-hit areas, Maoists on Saturday killed three members of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Rabindra Bose) faction and dumped their bodies on the road near Dahichuri in West Midnapore district.

Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, son of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, might have temporarily given in to pressures from the Central leadership to stop the campaign to install him as Chief Minister, but the Kadapa MP was learnt to be determined to play a role in state politics as he wanted to contest the by-election for Pulivendula Assembly constituency that fell vacant due to his father's demise.

Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari will be representing India at the 64th United Nations General Assembly session currently in progress at the United Nations.

The new Ashok Chavan-led council of ministers sworn in on Saturday did not have any high-profile first-time MLAs.

The issue of sugarcane pricing on Saturday saw two estranged sides — the SP and CPM — close ranks to protest the Centre's FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price) policy.

With the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections over, Khed and Junnar talukas in Pune district are now getting ready to host another election.

Going ahead with its Marathi-centric politics, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Saturday urged the Maharashtra State Roads Transport Corporation to issue electronic bus tickets in Marathi.

Only one MLA from Solapur has found a berth in the new ministry sworn in under Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday, dashing the hopes of many in the district who were hoping for a larger share.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who constituted his Council of Ministers on Saturday, rewarded all seven Independents who supported the party with a seat even as four seats were left vacant in the hope of bringing on board Kuldeep Bishnoi's Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC).

In a clear signal to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda who expanded his Council of Ministers on Saturday, the Congress High Command constituted a Coordination Committee for the state which included many of his detractors.

Maharashtra finally got a government on Saturday with the swearing-in of a 38-member Council of Ministers led by Ashok Chavan, after more than two weeks of bitter wrangling over portfolios between the allies — Congress and NCP.

Hard pressed to concede further ground to quell a rebellion of his MLAs led by the wealthy Reddy brothers from Bellary, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday became emotional over sacrifices already made.

Mainstream political parties of J&K and separatists came together looking for a solution to the Kashmir issue at a conference in New Delhi on Saturday.

With former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda's future looking increasingly bleak in the event of investigations regarding his alleged hawala transactions, his wife Geeta Biruli on Friday resorted to animal sacrifice leading to objections from certain quarters in the state.

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) There are as many as 10 new faces, including two women, in the 37-member ministry of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in Maharshtra that was sworn-in here Saturday.

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday condoled the death of former civil servant Gopi Arora, a close aide of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party's Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday.