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Girls are raped and they have nothing to say about it. There has been corruption on such a massive scale under their rule -- their own people were involved in the Bofors case. Even if we ignore that, there have been major scams like Coalgate.
Do you know what views Rahul Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi have about the coal scam?
Do you know what their views are about the rising price of gas?
They have disconnected themselves from the problems of this country and the people of this country.
How would you explain the fact that your government in Delhi did not complete its term? Many of your party's admirers have felt let down by this decision. They felt you should have dealt with the problems by staying within the system.
The problems of this nation cannot be solved by 28 MLAs. If you want to solve Delhi's problems, you need a government that is supported by at least 36 MLAs.
There have been many different options about whether we should have resigned or continued with the government.
Many people felt it was an unnecessary sacrifice.
Some of our leaders have said we should have resigned in a different manner.
That I agree. But resign toh karna hi tha (we had to resign).
We could have asked the people for their opinion. We could have spent a couple more days discussing the timing and manner of the resignation. But we had no doubt about the fact that we had to resign.
That has worked against your party in this election.
The BJP, and that includes a section of the media that has become BJP-'fied', have run a campaign for more than a month ki chhod gaye, bhaag gaye (we ran away from our responsibilities).
But, wherever this issue has been raised and we have been able to speak for even a couple of minutes, we have been able to convince people about our reasons.
It is true that we have not been able to communicate our reasons in the right manner. We have not got an opportunity to do so, the media has not been fair and the BJP, of course, has a stake in this.
Which government do you see at the Centre?
Right now? I don't know, but I do know it won't be a majority government.
But who will form the government. You are a seasoned journalist. You can make an educated guess.
Who do you think should come?
Will AAP lend support to any government at the Centre?
Image: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi with his mother Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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JD Sports has announced it is buying out its competitor Footasylum in a £90m deal.
The chain, which has an outlet in Norwich’s Chapelfield shopping mall, revealed the news just a month after saying it had no intention of purchasing its fellow retailer.
JD Sports also has two other stores in Norfolk: one in Great Yarmouth’s Market Gates shopping centre, and one in King’s Lynn.
Jean-Claude Juncker has raised the prospect of an emergency summit of EU leaders next week to decide on a Brexit delay, blaming ongoing chaos in Theresa May’s cabinet.
The European commission president said a letter from May requesting an extension to article 50, delaying the UK’s exit beyond 29 March, had not arrived overnight as expected.
The 27 EU heads of state and government had expected to discuss the terms of request and come to a unanimous agreement on their response at a summit starting on Thursday in Brussels.
But after a stormy cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a letter from Downing Street was not received by Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, who convenes the leaders’ summits.
Juncker said it appeared the British cabinet could not agree on the content of the correspondence. “My impression is ... that this week at the European council there will be no decision, but that we will probably have to meet again next week, because Mrs May doesn’t have agreement to anything, either in her cabinet or in parliament. As long as we don’t know what Britain could say yes to, we can’t reach a decision,” he said.
A senior EU official said: “At this stage we have not received an – already famous in the press – letter to President Tusk and we have not received the request from the UK for the extension of the period under article 50 in any other form.
The official added that it was hoped the prime minister would still address the EU’s leaders on Thursday afternoon and “sketch out her plans and assessment of the situation in the UK”.
Juncker told Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio station that “in all probability” Britain would not leave on 29 March but an extension “would have to produce, as an end result, an agreement from the British parliament to the [agreement] text which is before them”.
“If that doesn’t happen, and if Great Britain does not leave at the end of March, then we are, I am sorry to say, in the hands of God,” Juncker said. “And I think even God sometimes reaches a limit to his patience”.
The commission president reiterated the EU line that the withdrawal agreement will not be reopened under any circumstances.
After months of speculation about Priebus' fate, Trump tweeted his decision just as he landed in Washington after a speech in New York in which he lavishly praised Kelly's performance at Homeland Security.
Priebus, the former Republican National Committee head, was the frequent target of rumors about his job security amid infighting and confusion within the White House and a long whisper campaign by Trump allies. Then, on Thursday, he was the subject of a remarkable and profane public rebuke by Trump's newly appointed White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci.
Priebus told allies that he had offered his resignation to Trump on Thursday.
Of his replacement, Priebus said in an earlier statement that he "can't think of a better person than General John Kelly to succeed me."
Kelly is a retired Marine four-star general. Trump had focused on him in recent days, telling those close to him that he believed military discipline was what his administration needed.
In a statement released Friday afternoon Kelly said that when he left the Marines, he never thought he would find as committed, as professional, as patriotic a group of individuals. But he was wrong, he said.
Priebus, who hails from Wisconsin and has deep ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan, had grown increasingly isolated in the White House, as past Republican National Committee colleagues and other allies have left or been pushed out. Those who have departed include former deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, former communications chief Mike Dubke, press secretary Sean Spicer and press aide Michael Short. Another early departure from the Trump White House was National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Both Scaramucci and Priebus traveled to New York's Long Island with Trump on Friday for a speech in which the president highlighted efforts to crack down on the gang MS-13. Priebus took the return flight to Washington, which had to circle the runway due to a storm, his fate sealed in the tweets that were sent by the president just as he stepped off the plane.
Priebus did not respond to reporters' shouted questions though he later released a statement saying it was "one of the greatest honors of my life" to serve as chief of staff. He also pledged to continue to support Trump's agenda. His term ends in fewer than 200 days, the shortest tenure for any president's first White House chief of staff since the post was formally established in 1946.
From day one, Priebus' power has been limited compared with past officials with his title. In a highly unusual arrangement, Trump said at the outset that Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon would serve as "equal partners" in implementing his agenda.
Scaramucci was the latest top aide to be granted a direct line to Trump, and it became increasingly unclear who actually reported to Priebus. Though Priebus forged an uneasy truce with his former foe Bannon, powerful White House aides Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were both supportive of Kelly's hire, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.
Priebus, whose departure was the latest in a string of early exits from the administration, also was blamed by some within the White House for the failure of the Republican health care plan, with some Trump allies believing that Priebus' longtime relationships with Republicans on Capitol Hill should have ensured the bill's passage.
Kelly has also pushed for support for Trump's signature campaign pledge to build a wall along the southern border, though he acknowledged at his confirmation hearing that "a physical barrier in and of itself will not do the job."
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a frequent Trump critic, said that, as Homeland Security chief, Kelly has "been very effective in engaging members of Congress and communicating a coherent message for the President."
"Secretary Kelly is one of the strongest and most natural leaders I've ever known," Graham said.
The Volunteer is a mule-pulled passenger boat on the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday that ensures the Canal Corridor Association's canal boat, The Volunteer, in La Salle is exempt from regulations that apply to larger commercial boats.
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, said he added language about The Volunteer into the bill known as the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019, which involves the Coast Guard and resolves issues between federal agencies regarding regulations to protect marine resources.
In the bill, the Illinois and Michigan Canal is deemed to not be navigable waters, for the sake of the canal boat used for tourism. This will limit what Kinzinger called "overly burdensome regulations."
The Volunteer is a 70-passenger, mule-pulled 1840s replica canal boat that moves along the canal.
Chinese Web firm Sohu, which operates the country’s third largest search engine, had a “challenging” first quarter of 2012, in which it posted revenue growth but saw profits slump, according to its latest earnings.
The group saw the quarter’s total revenues hit $227 million, a 30 percent increase year-on-year, but net income slid to $24 million, down 46 percent year-on-year. The group exceeded the high end of its guidances and the revenues, though a sizeable increase, slipped 8 percent from the last quarter of 2011.
The Chinese New Year holiday and festivities can be partly attributed to this drop, but the company admits that a deferral in advertising budgets in key industries and economic slowdown in China is also culpable.
The firm’s advertising income from brands decreased 22 percent quarter-by-quarter, though it rose 7 percent year-on-year, to reach $61 million over the three month period despite the issues.
“We had a challenging first quarter in our brand advertising business. The economic slowdown in China clearly had an impact on advertiser sentiment,” said Belinda Wang, co-president and COO.
Wang points out that decreased sales in the lucrative real estate and automotive markets affected marketing spend. However, she is opmististic about other sources and picks out the ecommerce and fast moving goods sectors, both of which saw marketing spend increase 30 percent over the last year, as important markets.
The Sohu Group’s gaming business continues to be a bright point and it saw record quarterly revenues of $127 million, up 34 percent year-on-year and 3 percent quarter-by-quarter.
CEO Dr. Charles Zhang said that the company saw “better than expected results” for the Changyou games subsidiary. Building on that success, the firm will launch four games this year, expanding into new genres. Zhang expects these releases to grow the Sohu portal’s userbase, which it says has 290 million registered membes.
In other areas of its business, Sohu is working to decrease operating costs for its video service, after it entered into an industry alliance to streamline costs, while its search presence is showing promise despite living in Baidu’s shadow.
Baidu’s own recent financials saw the search giant’s revenue grow 75 percent, with net incomes up 76 percent, year-on-year.
After her teenagers hit the streets, author Debra Gwartney faced desperation and panic. She talks about why her children left -- and how they finally returned.
Debra Gwartney was trying to escape a failed marriage when she moved from Tucson, Ariz., to Eugene, Ore., in the early '90s with her four daughters in tow. What the newly single mother didn't foresee was that, as she fled from her past to a different city and job, her relationship with her girls would be forever transformed, too. Enraged by the divorce and the move, her two oldest daughters, Amanda and Stephanie, soon ran away, seeking adventure on the streets and shelter in abandoned buildings with other teenagers like them.
In "Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love," Gwartney relives the private desperation and shame of being a mother whose teenage daughters disappear for days at a time, only dropping in occasionally when no one else is home to stock up on supplies, leaving empty beer cans, fetid clothes, empty cigarette boxes and puddles of brilliant Manic Panic hair dye behind. As the girls' absences stretch to weeks and months, Gwartney recalls her frantic searches for them, first in Eugene and then in San Francisco. Along the way, she delves into her own culpability in the family dynamic that drove them away.
A former correspondent for the Oregonian and Newsweek, Gwartney wrote about her relationship with her eldest daughter, Amanda, in Salon back in 1998. Debra, Amanda and Stephanie also appeared together on "This American Life" in March 2002, in an episode tellingly titled "Didn't Ask to Be Born."
Gwartney's new memoir, which she published with her now-adult daughters' blessing, explores not only what it's like to be the mother left behind, but also how she, Amanda and Stephanie and their younger sisters, Mary and Mollie, have found a way to be close again.
Salon spoke with Gwartney by phone from her home in Portland, Ore., where she now teaches nonfiction writing at Portland State University.
When did you first realize that what Stephanie and Amanda were going through wasn't just normal teenage rebellion?
I think it was the night that they stayed out all night long. I was getting more and more concerned about the fact that they were skipping school and their grades were slipping. I was feeling very uncomfortable about their friends. And then one night they simply did not come home. They were 12 and 14. They had formed quite a group of friends out on the streets, and they just kept disappearing for longer and longer periods of time.
No matter how many times I would say to them: "You have to come home at night. This is the absolute requirement of living here." They didn't, and they would say: "Yeah, what are you going to do about it?" The girls pretty quickly found out that I didn't have much authority there.
What was your ex-husband's reaction?
He was still very angry at me. I was still very angry at him. His message to them was: "If you're unhappy, just go." He did have that kind of very free spirit. If he felt like just taking off, he took off, and took a lot of risks.
What do you think made the culture of street kids in Eugene attractive to your two oldest daughters?
It was full of adventure. It was like their version of "My Side of the Mountain." This group of kids downtown said: "Here's an abandoned building. We'll show you where to get blankets. We'll show you where to get food. We'll show you how to get money on the corner. And you don't have to listen to anybody's rules. You can make up this life as you go along."
They were hauling around copies of Charles Bukowski poetry and listening to Tom Waits all the time. They built this whole reality for themselves that felt very exciting.
My daughter Amanda says that the day that they jumped on their first freight train, when she was 16, and they were in this boxcar in the middle of the night, and she stood in the doorway as they were going past Mount Shasta, while all this cold air was hitting her in the face, she said that was the moment that she felt most vibrant and capable of anything.
How did you cope with their absence when they were away?
I was completely a mess. I didn't realize until years later that I had just simply stopped feeling. When you're in panic every single day, it has a huge effect on the people around you.
Throughout this ordeal, you seemed very isolated from other parents going through something similar.
This was before blogs. Now, if you just type in "runaway kids" or "runaway youth," blogs pop up all over the place. I thought that I was the only person going through this, and that the other kids on the street must have come from parents who didn't care if their kids left.
I had to disabuse myself of that one.
There are a lot of parents feeling just like I did, very scared, and very humiliated and just loath to admit to anybody that their families had fallen apart to this degree. If I have any advice to parents now, it's go out there and discover other people who are going through this, and talk to each other. I just think that would have helped me so much.
What did you make of the well-meaning people who helped your daughters by giving them free food or clothing or blankets when they were living on the streets?
It's such a double-edged sword for me. Of course I'm grateful to the people who gave my daughters food and money and clothes so that they weren't in terrible shape. And, yet, I really despise those people at the same time, because I think: "If you had just not given them all those things, maybe they would have come home sooner."
There's a federal law that was signed in 1974 that decriminalized running away, and that was resigned into law in October 2008 by President Bush, and basically it provides funding for shelters for kids, and educational facilities for street kids, and a national network that they can call, and get help. There is a little bit for parents, but not very much.
I think that there is a misunderstanding in this country -- not every kid who runs away from home is running away from an abusive home with abusive parents. That is the assumption that is kind of built into the system. If your child leaves you, you must have done something terrible to chase them away.
You got very little help in looking for your daughters -- basically none -- from the police. Why? Is it because running away is decriminalized?
The police have no mandate to find runaways. I found that they don't really want to, because if they expend all this energy to find a runaway kid, return that child home to her parents, then she runs away a week later, they're looking for her again. I went to quite a few police stations and asked for help, and they all told me the same thing: "We don't do that. Sorry."
And you got a similar reaction when you went to these centers for homeless youth?
Right. They would say: "We're here to help the kids, and in helping the kids we cannot tell you if your child is here. We protect them, and that's part of the protection."
What about truancy laws with schools?
They're all gone too. In fact, when I called the school district and said: "Isn't there a truancy law, can you help me out with this?" They said: "No, in fact, we could arrest you for negligence for not getting your child to school."
What other steps did you take to find the girls when they were missing?

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