| JNU students' protest throws traffic out of gear in Delhi
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| Traffic in some parts of the national capital was affected on Monday as students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, protesting against the increased hostel fee, marched towards Parliament, police said. Serpentine queues of vehicles were seen in south Delhi and Lutyen's Delhi while areas like Nelson Mandela Marg, Aurobindo Marg and Baba Gang Nath Marg were the most affected as traffic moved at snail's pace, a senior police officer said. Several people took to twitter to vent their ire as they got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours due to the massive protest. Rohit Rai (27), who works in a multi national company in Gurgaon, said, "Generally, it takes around two hours to reach my house in Ghaziabad but today, due to the protest, the roads in south and Lutyens' Delhi were full of traffic and I reached my house after crawling for over three hours in my car." "I take a cab to work but due to the heavy traffic on roads, we got stuck at several points and had to take alternative ...
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| Nawaz Sharif to travel to London via air ambulance tomorrow
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| Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to London from an International Airport in Lahore at around 10 am (local time) on Tuesday via a Qatar air ambulance, his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said on Monday.Sharif will be accompanied by his brother and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif and his personal physician Adnan Khan.The Qatar air ambulance will reach Allama Iqbal International Airport at around 9 am and depart for London an hour later.The ailing PML-N leader has been allowed to travel abroad by Lahore High Court (LHC) for four weeks for medical care. Sources had earlier told ANI that Sharif will be amitted to London's Charlestown Clinic. All the arrangements for his medical treatment at the clinic have been completed.Sharif has secured an eight-week bail on medical grounds from the Islamabad High Court in the Al-Azizia Mills corruption case in which he was serving seven years imprisonment. He also got bail from the LHC in the money laundering case.The ..
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| From white supremacist sites to the White House
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 CNN's John Avlon looks at revelations from a trove of leaked 2015 emails published by the Southern Poverty Law Center that senior White House policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted stories from white nationalist and fringe media organizations to staffers of the far-right website Breitbart.
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 In 1933, Walt Disney admitted that Mickie and Minnie are indeed married. Learn that and other fun facts today, November 18th, the birthday of the happy couple.
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| Rohan Bopanna pulls out of Davis Cup tie against Pakistan due to shoulder injury
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| New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): Indian senior tennis player Rohan Bopanna pulled out of India's upcoming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan due to a shoulder injury on Monday.The 39-year-old has sustained tear in the supraspinatus tendinopathy on his shoulder which was confirmed after MRI."Yes, I have pulled out due to supraspinatus tendinopathy with an intrasubstance tear. MRI was done today which shows the result," Bopanna told ANI.On November 14, All Indian Tennis Association (AITA) announced an unprecedented eight-member squad for the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan.On the basis of the fresh confirmations, the following squad was selected for the tie: Rohit Rajpal - Non-Playing Captain, Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni, Rohan Bopanna, Leander Paes.Including three reserves Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, Saikumar Mukund, and Siddharth Rawat.Earlier the tie was scheduled to play in Islamabad but citing security concerns International Tennis Federation (ITF) has shifted the tie to .
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