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Justice Altamas Kabir, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, was today appointed as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Kabir, 64, who will succeed Chief Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia, will assume his new charge on September 29 as the country's 39th CJI. He was appointed Supreme...
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A big advance has been made in the probe into the deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya's second city Benghazi, Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur said today.In his first interview since his election as premier last night, Abu Shagur said that arrests had already been made and that more were...
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Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde tonight briefed the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) about the situation in Assam which had witnessed ethnic violence recently. Shinde is learnt to have apprised the CCPA, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, about the steps...
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Biting the bullet, the government today hiked diesel prices by a steep Rs 5.62 per litre and restricted the supply of subsidised cooking gas to 6 cylinders per household in a year to fetch an additional Rs 20,300 crore. It, however, left kerosene rates untouched and spared an increase in...
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Former Chief Justice of India, Justice Ranganath Misra passed away in Apollo hospital at Bhubaneswar. Justice Misra was appointed permanent judge of the Orissa high court on July 4, 1969 and appointed acting Chief Justice, Orissa high court on November 6,...
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Dubbing the Rs 5 per litre hike in diesel price as an unpleasant decision of the government, Congress tonight said it was not in favour of an increase to such an extent because it hurts the farmers and the common man. Party General Secretary Digvijay Singh said we are not in favour of a hike...
21:20
The Libyan government has ordered a probe into the attack at the US consulate in Benghazi -- when a mob set the building afire, killing the American envoy and three other Americans. Some media reports had claimed that Al Qaeda, not mob frenzy, was behind the incident. The government...
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TMC chief Mamata Banerjee demanded an immediate rollback in the diesel price hike. This is a serious and sensitive matter, she said, but added that TMC will not withdraw its support to the ruling UPA government.I want the government to continue, I want stability, she said.
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We can't tolerate things that affect the common man. This hike will affect farmers. We were not consulted by the government about this, an infuriated Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister, told CNN-IBN.I am shocked by the hike, she said.
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Opposition parties have condemned the Rs 5/litre hike in the price of diesel. CPI-M leader Brinda Karat said that the hike will have a cascading effect while the BJP said the UPA government was going back to the time of a controlled economy. Trinamool Congress, a major ally in the...
20:29
Justice Altamas Kabir has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India. He will replace current Chief Justice S H Kapadia, who is scheduled to retire on September 29.
20:29
There will be no increase in the prices of petrol and kerosene. The excise duty on petrol has been cut by Rs 5.50 per litre.
20:15
The price of the diesel has been hiked by Rs 5 per litre. The hike will be effective from midnight. There has been no hike in the price of kerosene. The Cabinet committee on political affairs cleared the hike in diesel prices. The government has caped subsidized LPG to 6...
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Yemeni police today shot dead a protester and wounded five others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the United States embassy in Sanaa to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said. The shooting came as protesters, chanting O, messenger of Allah... O, Mohammed,...
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The buzz in central hall is: Chiranjeevi is all set to become Union minister in September. On the day of the swearing-in ceremony, the yesteryear superstar plans to bring 250 admirers and erstwhile Praja Rajyam Party leaders by a special aircraft to Delhi and host a massive lunch for...
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A day after the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, video-sharing website YouTube today said it has restricted access to the film both in Libya and Egypt.This video - which is widely available on the Web - is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube, a spokesman said in a...
18:27
India is likely to ban on the Internet a controversial film deemed offensive to Islam that has sparked anti-United States protests. The home ministry has forwarded a request of the Jammu and Kashmir government to block all webpages where the film is available to the director general of...
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Both Houses of Parliament have been prorogued after the conclusion of the monsoon session on September 7. The Lok Sabha which commenced its Eleventh Session on the 8th August, 2012 has been prorogued by the President on the 12th September, 2012, a Lok Sabha Secretariat statement...
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A local court in Bengaluru today extended till September 27 the police custody of 11 suspects with alleged links to Lashkar-e-Tayiba and HuJI terror outfits who were arrested last month. Bengaluru crime branch sleuths arrested 11 suspects, five from Hubli and six in the city, on August 29...
18:20
In the New York Review of Books, George Soros writes on the 'Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It'.When the article was written on August 1, Soros says, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann objected to the assertion by Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank,...
18:07
Just In: Government de-allocates four coal blocks, to deduct bank guarantee of three blocks given to one private company. All blocks recommended by IMG for deallocation may becancelled, says Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal.
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The Congress party today ruled out mid-term elections to the Lok Sabha. The government will complete its full term. The elections will be held at the proper time, party spokesman Rashid Alvi told reporters in New Delhi, when asked about Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's remarks on...
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Team Anna man Arvind Kejriwal, who has been showing tremendous solidarity with the Kudankulam nuclear plant protestors, tweeted this today:/Udaykumar's father has just been served an arrest warrant against Uday under several sections. More than 300 FIRs against Uday. Is it a crime to demand...
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The Congress today ruled out mid-term elections to the Lok Sabha.The government will complete its full term. The elections will be held at the proper time, party spokesman Rashid Alvi told reporters in New Delhi. He was asked about SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's remarks on...
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Rubbishing reports of groupism within the Uttar Pradesh unit of Congress, PCC chief Nirmal Khatri today said the eight zonal heads would not become separate power centres, but work as a team.There is no groupism in the state unit and if something like this happens then as the president it will be...
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Team Anna man Arvind Kejriwal, who has been showing tremendous solidarity with the Kudankulam nuclear plant protestors, tweeted this today:/Udaykumar's father has just been served an arrest warrant against Uday under several sections. More than 300 FIRs against Uday. Is it a crime to demand...
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As uncertainty prevails over whether Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi would campaign in Gujarat for the coming Assembly polls, the BJP today said it showed that the Congress leadership in Delhi was resigned to the prospect of defeat.I have heard from senior journalists....Rahul is not...
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The Nationalist Congress Party today condemned the 'soft stand' of the Maharashtra government against Raj Thackeray over his controversial statements against north Indians.We condemn the soft stand of the Maharashtra chief minister. It encouraged him (Thackeray) to open fronts against north...
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Describing Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's remarks favouring a Third Front, as 'misleading', senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh today sought a firm assurance from the SP on withdrawing support to the UPA.The statements of Mulayam are misleading and if he is serious on the issue of Third...
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This is on the lines of He Said-She Said.First Pakistan's cricketing genius turned political non-starter Imran Khan tweeted this: We strongly condemn the defamatory film made maligning our revered Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).Targeting Islam & spreading hate is unacceptable.To which his...
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Describing media as the 'conscience-keeper' of the nation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked it to keep away from sensationalism though it was 'tempting' some times.The desire to be sensational should be avoided eventhough it is very tempting sometimes. Restraint should beexercised...
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This is on the lines of He Said-She Said.First Pakistan's cricketing genius turned political non-starter Imran Khan tweeted this: We strongly condemn the defamatory film made maligning our revered Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).Targeting Islam & spreading hate is unacceptable.To which his...
17:20
The Mumbai police has formed a Special Investigation Team (headed by an assistant police commissioner to probe the case of political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and also review the sedition charges slapped on him. The case has now been handed over to the SIT headed by ACP GT Padwal. Earlier it...
16:56
Egypt's president said today that he supported peaceful protest but not attacks on embassies, after Egyptians angry at a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad climbed into the US embassy in Cairo and tore down the American flag. Read
16:53
Targeted by the Centre on the coalgate issue, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today questioned allocation of coal blocks to certain companies which do not have any stake in the state. Why did the Centre make allocations to such companies?, Patnaik told reporters while making a statement over...
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The violence that the agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project degenerated into this week had an unfortunate ring of foreordination about it. It seemed to exemplify what happens when differences are not resolved through peaceful means. Read
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As people across the world remember the victims of 9/11, we have been served a reminder that the grim forces that brought it about are far from spent. Wednesday's assassination of the American ambassador to Libya, amidst the storming of the country's missions in Benghazi and Cairo, is all the...
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China today said preparations for ruling-Communist Party's key congress to select country's new leadership is well underway but remained silent on the speculation about illness of Vice President Xi Jinping, officially projected as the successor to President Hu Jintao.
16:38
Fareed Zakaria on the folly over 'red lines' for Iran. Read
16:27
A new theory has suggested Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun could have died from an affliction that caused him to suffer from man-boobs. Historians believe the teenage ruler may have died from an inherited condition which gave him a feminised physique. Read more
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In a blow to anti-nuclear activists who are demanding the immediate suspension of fuel loading at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to put a stay on the move. senior counsel Prashant Bhushan, who had filed a plea in the Supreme Court...
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The Inter-Ministerial Group on coal blocks allocation has recommended de-allocation of four mines alloted to private firms and encashment of bank guarantee of three others on the ground of non-development of mines within a prescribed time. The IMG, which reviewed eight cases yesterday has...
15:22
The whole text and nothing but the text of the PM's speech at the inaugural function of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Kerala Union of Working Journalists. So help you God. Read
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Meanwhile, violence has returned to Cairo streets today as Egypt's police clashed with a stone and bottle throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy in Cairo against a film deemed as offensive to Islam. The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd during sporadic clashes through the night...
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Just in: PVP Films' bid for Deccan Chargers has been rejected outright. They had put up a bid worth Rs 915 crore.
15:09
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, joined Afghanistan in demanding that YouTube block the crudely made film that has triggered the protests with its mocking portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed. Indonesian authorities are also working with Internet service providers to block...
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US President Barack Obama has called the presidents of Egypt and Libya to urge cooperation over security for diplomatic staff, reports the BBC.There have been further clashes outside the US embassy in Cairo overnight. Thousands of people gathered outside the building in the Egyptian capital,...
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Police opened fire in an attempt to hold back the crowds, but failed to prevent them gaining access to the compound and setting fire to vehicles. A number of people were reported to have been injured, reports the BBC. On Tuesday, the US ambassador to Libya was killed in a...
14:41
The US embassy in Yemen has been stormed as anti-US clashes spread over the anti-Islam film. Details awaited.
14:40
TV images show protesters clambering over the gates of the US embassy in Saana. This comes a day after the US envoy to Libya and three others were killed yesterday.
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Political satire was alive and well during in British India, writes Naresh Fernandes. On Christmas Day in 1887, a Mumbai paper, Parsee Punch, ran a cartoon depicting India striking a gong of Congress by the ear of a slumbering John Bull. Rousing the sentinel,' ran the caption. It was only one of...
14:04
Coffee lovers in India may have to wait a little bit longer before they can sip on a latte at the neighborhood Starbucks store. The Seattle-based coffee retailer's much-awaited entry into India, originally scheduled for August or September this year, has been pushed back. Read
14:01
Writer, poet Jeet Thayil, shortlisted for the Man Booker award, for Narcopolis speaks of how he wanted to record a time that had vanished. Read
13:59
And the homage to Dr V Kurien, the man who helped make India into the worlds leading milk producer, continues... This is Open magazine editor Manu Joseph's piece for the International Herald Tribune. Read
13:51
The tainted former CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi will not be allowed to contest the elections for the post of president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) due in October. Kalmadi wants to contest the elections despite being sidelined in IOA's affairs after being made an...
13:39
Bids for Deccan Chargers' IPL team has opened with just one bid coming in from PVP Films, a production house. The auction is being held at the Park Sheraton, Chennai. Deccan Chargers has been put on sale by its current owners and media company Deccan Chronicle. The company has fixed the base...
13:36
Karnataka MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar has given a Rs 5 lakh award to the Mumbai police for successfully nabbing the Amar Jawan memorial vandals.
13:25
Foreign direct investment in aviation may be a reality soon with Mamata Banerjee, now indicating that she may give her nod. The Cabinet may approve the new FDI aviation policy next week. The government is however, not looking at FDI for Air India. Under current rules, foreign airlines are barred...
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Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav holds forth at the National Executive meet in Kolkata. Addressing the press, Mulayam said that the party was prepared for a greater responsibility at the centre and its identity was no longer that of a regional party restricted to UP. He said that...
12:56
Coffee lovers in India may have to wait a little bit longer before they can sip on a latte at the neighborhood Starbucks store. The Seattle-based coffee retailer's much-awaited entry into India, originally scheduled for August or September this year, has been pushed back. Read
12:54
When science minister Vilasrao Deshmukh passed away last month, the head of the Chennai hospital where he was treated said he may have survived, had he had a liver transplant. That a government minister failed to secure a liver transplant on time underscores the flaws in India's...
12:40
The man who produced the film, which is said to have led to the deadly protests in Libya, and became the reason for the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens, is not a citizen of Israel, it has emerged. Sam Bacile, who is believed to have written, directed and produced the two-hour...
12:38
Newly-single actress Katie Holmes says she wants to date taller men after splitting from her ex-husband Tom Cruise. Holmes, 33, who is two inches taller than Cruise, has reportedly bought 15 pairs of heels following her divorce from the superstar, reported Sun online. I would like a guy who is...
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The PM added that the country was passing through difficult times and the Assam incident and its reverberations have brought out worrying fault-lines in our society.
12:23
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today laid the foundation stone of the Kochi Metro Rail project, kick-starting the much-awaited project. I wish Kochi should be one of the best urban centres in the world, said the PM. Addressing the press thereafter, the PM warned, The media should avoid the...
12:02
The Obama campaign has issued a sharp rebuke to a low-budget documentary critical of the president, saying that the movie falsely smears President Obama as having a hidden agenda bent on realizing 'anti-colonial' ambitions. Read
11:55
Stepping up their protest against the atomic power plant here, anti-nuclear activists today stood in sea waters forming a human chain off nearby Indinthakarai coast. Taking a leaf from Jal Satyagraha activists in Madhya Pradesh, the activists of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)...
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The man who produced the film, which is said to have led to the deadly protests in Libya and became the reason of death of the US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, has gone into hiding, but remains unrepentant for releasing his film, says a report. Sam Bacile wrote, directed and produced the...
11:28
It only takes a couple of loonies a few seconds to kick off a miniature war in the Muslim world, says Robert Fisk. Read
11:21
The film that set off violence across North Africa was made in obscurity somewhere in the sprawl of Southern California, and promoted by a network of right-wing Christians with a history of animosity directed toward Muslims. When a 14-minute trailer of it -- all that may actually exist -- was...
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1,231 of 4,600 buses damaged since 2008, causing a loss of Rs 23.4 lakh. And yes, the pleasure of having taking a ride on the first seat of the upper deck will soon be just a memory. Read
10:54
If you consider the dictionary meaning of sedition -- any act, writing directed against State authority, and any such act promoting discontent or rebellion -- Aseem Trivedi was guilty. Read Samar Harlankar on India's sedition laws.
10:49
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh did not invite Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to its special meeting in Vadodara from September 7 to 9 despite the BJP strongman being keen on meeting the organisation's top brass. Modi had conveyed his desire to meet the top leaders, but the...
10:47
Putting behind a troubled nuclear history with India, Canadian foreign minister John Baird said, We have turned the page with India. India is a very different country today. With Canada emerging as an energy superpower, buoyed by a thriving economy, the minister said, We value and...
10:41
The iPhone 5 launches into a more challenging field of competitors than ever, and to give you some context about the iPhone 5 specifications compared with those of its chief competitors -- Samsung Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR HD and Nokia Lumia 920 -- we put the most important...
10:31
The Inter Ministerial Group on coal block allocation has been asked to conclude its work without delay and give its recommendations at the earliest.A direction is this regard was given on Wednesday after Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal met in the presence of...
10:14
Just in: Mehrajuddin alias Javed, a close associate of United Jihad Council chief Syed Salahuddin and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been arrested from Kishtwar distruict of Jammu and Kashmir.According to police, Javed was involved in the 1999 hijacking of India Airlines flight IC-814
09:47
Engadget managed to get their hands on on an iPhone 5 and gave this review:The phone itself doesn't feel too much different than the iPhone 4 and 4S; yes, it's a bit taller, but by keeping the width the same, you'll utilize a very familiar grasp to hold it.In typical Apple fashion, even the...
09:18
Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5 -- it is thinner and lighter than the previous model, but has a bigger screen.The iPhone 5 fulfilled many of the expectations laid out by gadget geeks and technology analysts ahead of its Wednesday unveiling but offered few surprises to give Apple shares -- already...
09:16
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks declared that the United States had effectively given groups an opening to attack its embassies by supporting the siege of its founder Julian Assange.Assange, an Australian activist who founded WikiLeaks to fight official secrecy by distributing leaked documents,...
09:15
Libya's parliament elected a leading member in the country's oldest opposition movement to be its new prime minister. Mustafa Abu-Shakour is tasked with stabilising a country where armed groups proliferate. Washington's ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed during a late...
09:12
The United States has dispatched two destroyers to Libya and deployed a Marine team to bolster security at its Tripoli embassy after its ambassador was killed in Benghazi.The decision to move the ships and a roughly 50-member Marine unit to Libya comes after Washington's envoy and three other...
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Baghdad on his first to Iraq, during which he will hold talks on issues including the crisis in Syria and the Iraqi political process. Hague said on arrival yesterday that he will meet with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Foreign Minister...
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A police officer was killed and 20 people injured early today in violent street clashes after marches marking the anniversary of the 1973 military coup against president Salvador Allende. Officer Cristian Martinez was shot in the chest while trying to stop looters from ransacking a store in...
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The Afghan government has recommended legal action against two TV channels for allegedly broadcasting scantily dressed women and disseminating immorality, officials said on Wednesday.A ministry of information and culture official said stations Saba, which means dawn, and Setara, which means star...
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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner would travel to India early next month for the third round of high-level economic dialogue between the two countries, an official announcement said today.During this India trip that would revolve around the India-US Economic Financial Partnership, Geithner...
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A US hostage held by al-Qaeda made a one Jew to another appeal for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help secure his release, SITE Intelligence Group reported today. Warren Weinstein, a relief worker with USAID who was captured in Lahore, Pakistan, in August 2011, appeared in a...
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The Kerala government submitted a 10- point agenda on development to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here tonight. Singh, who arrived here yesterday on a two-day state visit, met Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and state ministers at around 8 PM tonight to discuss various issues relating to...
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Prashant Bhushan likely to move SC on coal allocationUdayakumar will not surrender, says KejriwalBihar: Inter-City Express coach derails, 12 injuredSibal accuses BJP of being 'paralytic'PICS: 314 killed in massive factory fires in PakCartoonist Trivedi out of jail, vows to fight sedition...
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