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US gets another Indian-origin mayor as Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles election | India-born democratic socialist Nithya Raman has been elected Mayor of Los Angeles, scripting history as she becomes the first South Asian mayor of the nation's second-largest city. Raman, 45, who was a Los Angeles City Council member, defeated incumbent 73-year-old Karen Bass in the November 3 mid-term elections. With this victory, America's two largest cities - New York and Los Angeles - are now run by Indian-descent mayors who are Democratic Socialists. Kerala-born Raman is an urban planner by training, and she received her bachelor's degree from Harvard and a graduate degree from MIT. Full Report Here 👇 ow.ly/UHKf5104nsr #USElections #LosAngeles #NithyaRaman #SouthAsian #USPolitics

यह राजीव गांधी के साथ तब के युवा पत्रकारों की ग्रुप फोटो है। स्थान - 10 जनपथ। तब सेल्फ़ी का ज़माना नहीं था तो इस तरह की फोटो ही हुआ करती थी। फोटो तब भी खिंचे जाते थे, बस वायरल करने वाला सोशल मीडिया नहीं था। लोग क्लिक कराकर घर के ड्राइंग रूम में टंगवा लेते थे। हर दौर में नेताओं के साथ पत्रकारों का अनौपचारिक मिलना होता रहा है। राजनीतिक बीट के पत्रकार नेताओं से मिलेंगे नहीं तो रिपोर्ट क्या करेंगे ? मोदी के साथ पत्रकारों की तस्वीरें इसलिए ज्यादा चर्चा में आ जाती हैं, क्योंकि 2014 में जब वो प्रधानमंत्री बने, उसी समय से सोशल मीडिया और सेल्फी का दौर भी तेज हुआ …

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Indonesia's vice president resigns over high school certificate that was ruled invalid bbc.in/4ArRMW5

I got a visa to India and was supposed to leave this morning to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. I had been invited as a panelist and speaker on the future of media and press freedom. But «orders from above» in the Ministry of Home Affairs have cancelled my visa. Here is my message for @AmitShah

VIDEO | When asked about BJP calling Sonia Gandhi's memoir an attempt to whitewash wrongdoings, businessman Robert Vadra (@irobertvadra) says, "Ma'am, I'll tell you that you know, as I said, I kept away from politics in a very large way, but I think in I remember in '91 when Priyanka and me were having just she had come over and she was just having a dinner with my family. And then you know, when she went home, she got a call about her father, you know, that he had passed away in a very difficult situation. And then, I think Priyanka and me were obviously, she needed me and I was there for her the whole time and I think, you know, when in '99, I started campaigning a little in Rae Bareli, in Amethi, in Sultanpur, all over there. Being from Moradabad, I could speak the dialect, I could spend time with them, I understood everything, you know. And I didn't have a security issue as such, so I would be sitting with everybody on the charpai, understanding whatever and whatever the difficulties were I of people, I would inform Priyanka and Rahul, who were campaigning in a larger way. And you know, so I campaigned a lot then, and also I campaigned in 2004, when you know, and we won with great majority. And I think my mother-in-law had a record, you know, when she won with a breaking a record and so on. I remember Rahul, Priyanka and myself bringing a certificate for her to state that basically, you know, that she won and Congress had come with very large numbers. And, you know, obviously, she had the top position. I think I learned from her at that time, where the whole of India was looking at her, that there was no one who could stop her from being Prime Minister. And I think she made her own decision. She did listen to the family, and she was very clear that she wanted to talk to the people of India and say that, you know, this was not her goal, and she was just wanting that basically India should be secular. And what she had learned from her mother-in-law and her husband and that she wanted to take that that vision ahead. And I think very clearly that that showed me that you know even if BJP's people you know Sushma Swaraj, said that you know that I'm going to tonsure my hair, I'm going to not allow this if she was to be Prime Minister. But I think it was a very, very good move, a sensible move, a strong move to show that where everybody is running for positions and a Prime Minister's position, she did not want to be the Prime Minister of the country and there was nobody who could have stopped her at that time, but she decided, you know, for the country and for everyone and so on. And I would say that, you know, those are real experiences. There's no whitewash that's concerned. There was no whitewash. You can't call that whitewash when these are real experiences and losing your husband in such a difficult way, losing your mother-in-law in such a difficult way, these are not whitewashing anything. So I'll tell you the book has experiences which are real, from the heart, they're true and it's going to be a bestseller and I wish her the best for the same." #SoniaGandhiBook #BelongingAJourneyOfLove