High profile BJP leader suspended
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India's main opposition party takes action against senior party member Uma Bharti after a public row.
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Nobel Prize-winner James Watson is suspended by his research institution after making comments on the subject of race and intelligence.
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A top Brazilian police official is suspended over alleged links to militias formed from renegade security forces.
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President Joseph Kabila suspended six cabinet ministers and 10 directors of state-run companies Thursday after a parliamentary inquiry alleged they had embezzled government funds.
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Police in emergency-ruled Bangladesh on Monday arrested former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the latest high-profile figure to be hauled in as part of a massive anti-corruption campaign.
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President suffers crushing blow to his authority in Pakistan's parliamentary elections
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Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has been suspended for two Test matches due to India&#39;s slow over rate in the one-day international against Pakistan in Calcutta on Saturday.
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The former head of the scandal-tainted UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq and another official have been suspended after a damning investigation last week, the United Nations said.
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The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unanimously recommended that Ivan Slavkov, chairman of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, be suspended.
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Text of report by Congolese radio station Raga FM on 18 September  High Media Authority yesterday suspended for one month the broadcast Big Issues by Radio Tele Groupe L'Avenir, RTGA.
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A House of Commons disciplinary panel on Tuesday called for the suspension of a maverick lawmaker accused of concealing his financial dealings with Saddam Hussein's government.
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A British member of parliament had his  Facebook account suspended this week after the popular social  networking site decided he wasn't real.
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A doctor who handed out leaflets to shoppers criticising hospital management, is suspended.
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The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) brought back hardline leader Lal Krishna Advani as party chief on Monday after last week's loss in state elections in the major industrial state of Maharashtra.
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Nepali King Gyanendra Bir BikramShah Dev on Thursday afternoon postponed his pre-scheduled 11-day official visit to India for an indefinite period due to the sudden demise
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President Robert Mugabe has suspended Zimbabwe's attorney-general while he is investigated on charges of abusing his office, state radio reported on Saturday.
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CHENNAI, India  - Police arrested the head of the animal rights group PETA for a breach of public peace and insulting religious feelings while protesting against a bullfighting festival in south India, officials said on Friday.