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    SOURCE: Calcutta Telegraph 3 weeks ago
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    SOURCE: Pune Mirror 1 month ago
  5. Investors are advised to take note of the company’s reply to the query which would be posted on Bursa Malaysia’s website under company announcements
    SOURCE: Business Times Malaysia 1 month ago
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  7. This model, then, calls for the compilation of a new, hidden history of Islam that fills in those areas declared off limits by the anti-Islam discourse. But, first, we must radically rephrase the West’s favorite polemical question—What’s wrong with Islam?—to a less comfortable query: What’s wrong with u...
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  13. The PAC report is not an official document
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  14. As far as I am personally concerned, I will never canvas for a person whose name has appeared in the PAC report, the party as far as possible has to help allies. But if I am called for campaigning I will not go.
    – Manohar Parrikar SOURCE: India Talkies 2 days ago
  15. If our government comes to power, whether it is official document or not, (our) government will take an action of the report
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  16. we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
    Abraham Lincoln – Abraham Lincoln SOURCE: Kaus Files 10 hours ago
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  18. As far as I am personally concerned, I will never canvas for a person whose name has appeared in the PAC report, the party as far as possible has to help allies. But if I am called for campaigning I will not go.
    – Manohar Parrikar SOURCE: TDNpost.com 2 days ago
  19. The PAC report is not an official document
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  20. If our government comes to power, whether it is official document or not, (our) government will take an action of the report
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    Digvijay Singh (politician) – Digvijay Singh (politician) SOURCE: Times of India 2 weeks ago
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