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Indian American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will not be a candidate for a US Senate seat in 2014, her spokesman said. "The Governor will not run for Senate in 2014," spokesman Rob Godfrey said. "She loves the job she has," he added.
Meanwhile Haley said she would not appoint herself to the Senate seat which is being vacated by fellow Republican Jim DeMint to run a Washington-based think tank. "I want to make two things clear from the outset. Number one, I will not take the appointment myself," Haley said in a statement on the Facebook quelling all such rumors in this regard.
"I will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government that Jim DeMint and I share," she said, a day after DeMint announced that he will resign from the Senate seat to become the head of the Heritage Foundation. Haley's nominee to replace current Senator would be
occupying the seat till 2014, when a special election will be held in conjunction with the general Congressional elections.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.
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K'taka: 28 MLAs inducted in cabinet
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CBI officer caught taking bribe
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, who is also the Chief Investigating Officer probing the coal block allocation scam, was caught taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh on Friday.
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TN: Farmers threaten mass suicides
Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicides if government went ahead with its plan to increase power tariff.
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Chennai: MK Stalin surrenders illegal car
DMK leader MK Stalin on Friday surrendered his illegally-imported Hummer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Chennai.
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B'lore office blast: Police still clueless
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