Berlin Wall opened on 9 November 1989 Brian Hanrahan was the BBC News reporter on the ground. This year he's been back to talk to some of those whose decisions made this key moment in 20th Century history possible.From the safe distance of 20 years, the opening of the Berlin Wall can be seen as inevitable - the natural consequence of changes that were reshaping Europe. But for most of 1989 it was unthinkable.And...
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The driver of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was kidnapped by a group of armed miscreants in West Midnapore district of West Bengal Tuesday, police said. The driver was supposed to br freed at 5 pm but he is still not freed. Maoists also includes some ladies in their group. All the passengers are still in the train.Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao...
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Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy has moved court challenging the trial court's order allowing Narco-analysis test on him. The case is in the High Court.The Patiala House on October 31 allowed the Special Cell of Delhi Police to conduct a Narco test on Kobad Ghandy, a Politburo member of the banned CPI (Maoist).The lower court's decision came after a medical board of the AIIMS submitted its report, saying...
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Kolkata, Oct 27 : The driver of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was kidnapped by a group of armed miscreants in West Midnapore district of West Bengal Tuesday, police said.Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao has denied his outfit's role in the abduction....
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The driver of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was kidnapped by a group of armed miscreants in West Midnapore district of West Bengal Tuesday, police said.Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao has denied his outfit's role in the abduction....
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CPI(M) politburo member and Kerala Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan would inaugurate a public meeting organised in connection with the 30th state conference of the Students Federation of India (SFI) here on November 17.SFI President P K Biju, MP and Secretary Rithabrato Banerjee, among others would address the meet, organising committee chairman and Kozhikode Mayor M Bhaskaran told reporters here.Noted economist...
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Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83.The Russian Space Agency said in a statement Sunday that Feoktistov died of unspecified causes late Saturday in Moscow.In 1964, he traveled aboard the Voskhod spaceship as part of the first group space flight in history.Approval of his flight...
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Communist leaders from around the world met here Friday to discuss how to "intensify popular struggles".The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties is jointly hosted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).Among those attending the gathering are Oscar Martinez Cordoves of Cuba, Scott Marshll of the US, Manzurul Ahsan Khan of Bangladesh...
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driver of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was kidnapped by a group of armed miscreants in West Midnapore district of West Bengal Tuesday, police said.Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao has denied his outfit's role in the abduction....
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reports, Naxals today stopped the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani bound Rajdhani Express in West Bengal's West Midnapore region.Two VIPs are also reported to be on board, which was stopped by waving the red flag.Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) politburo member Koteshawar Rao has denied his outfit's role in the abduction.Maoists had recently struck in West Midnapore, killing two policemen of...
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