Event:
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Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee to launch
‘Web Based Tagore Bibliography’. Minister of Culture and HUPA Kumari Selja
will also be present on the occasion.
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Date:
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09.01.2012 (Monday)
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Time:
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5.00
P.M.
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Venue:
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Room No. 72, North Block (Media Entry from Gate
No.2) New Delhi
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Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...
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