Sheila Dikshit arrives to address a press conference in New Delhi, India, on Sunday (AP)

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Flowers left by mourners surround a portrait of Nelson Mandela in the Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday.

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International

Thai PM offers to hold fresh polls, opposition MPs to resign

Dec 08, 2013 - PTI

Thailand’s embattled premier Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday offered to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections within 60 days, even as opposition MPs decided to resign en masse and join the anti-government protests ahead of Sunday’s “D-Day” rally to oust her.

Business

Gold imports may fall to 500 tonne in 2014: Traders

Dec 08, 2013 - PTI

Gold imports are likely to fall steeply next year to around 500 tonne due to rising prices following higher taxes and falling stocks that have put off retail demand, traders said.

India

AIADMK hands out ignominious defeat to DMK in Yercaud

Dec 08, 2013 - PTI

Continuing its winning streak, the ruling AIADMK on Sunday retained the Yercaud (ST) Assembly constituency, with party nominee P Saroja romping home with a massive margin of 78,116 votes against her DMK rival V Maran.

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Metros

BJP open to tieup with AAP, says Goel

Dec 07, 2013 - Age Correspondent

The BJP has admitted that if it was unable to get a majority in the Delhi Assembly elections, it would not hesitate to seek support from other parties, including the AAP, to form the government.

Newsmakers

Skeleton of 1.34m-yr-old man ancestor discovered

Dec 07, 2013 - PTI

Scientists have discovered the skeleton of a human ancestor, dating back 1.34 million years — characterised by a “robust” jaw and skull bones and a gorilla-like upper body.

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Sports

Double ton for Takawale on Day 2

Dec 08, 2013 - Age Corespondent With agency inputs

Tripura skipper Yogesh Takawale struck a double hundred while two others notched up centuries as Hyderabad bowlers were taken to task in their Ranji Trophy Group C match at the Rajiv Gandhi Internatio

Editorial

Bill sans teeth is an exercise in futility

Dec 08, 2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that in a democracy the Opposition could always disrupt the ship of state and he was not one who would permit an attitude of complacency to trump the build

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What are the wider implications of the election results declared on Sunday? For a start, are there wider implications at all, given that these were state elections, in the normal course fought on local, provincial issues, and unrelated to something as abstract as the national mood?

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, who passed away on Thursday, did not need the trappings of high office to command respect. Long before he became South Africa’s first non-white President, elected through universal franchise in 1994, the man who had spent 27 years in prison had become a mythic figure, as J.M. Coetzee wrote in his essay, Waiting for Mandela (1986).

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