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Akbar the Great: A Story of Wisdom and Challenges

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Akbar the Great: A Story of Wisdom and Challenges

Discovering the Emperor's Heart

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2009
In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.
2008
Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.
2007
The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.
2005
The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
2003
The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.
2000
Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

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