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It refers to controversy over payment of IAF dues towards the then Prime Minister HD Devegowda heading a Jantda Dal

How can the writer Javier Moro claim his book ?The Red Saree? simply as a novel when even the cover-page

Shimla, the hill queen, never had such a scorching summer in the past 150 years.Last Friday when the day temperature touched 32.4?C, the meterological department had to change its record, as Shimla had never had it so bad in the past 150 years."This is the highest-ever maximum temperature in the state capital since 1840 when the first observatory was set up at the Viceregal Lodge here," said Manmohan Singh, director of the local Meteorological Centre.Before this, the …

Once upon a time, British politicians were held up as exemplars; they were colourful, and their actions were noted around the world. Neville Chamberlain, former British prime minister, became infamous for appeasing Nazi Germany. He declared, upon returning from the 1938 Munich conference that sacrificed Czech Sudetenland to please Germany: ?I believe it is peace for our time!? Famous last words, as World War II started shortly thereafter.It is worth remembering him for two reasons: firs…