Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has been slapped by a youth at the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) centre in Delhi. The minister was attacked as he was leaving the premises after attending a literary function. The attacker, identified as Harvinder Singh, was reportedly angry over the minister’s inability to control price rise.

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(AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, is given a portrait of her and her daughter Chelsea by Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, left, while attending meetings at the Government Guest House in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)

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(Reuters) – Government officials, led by Minister for Justice Mutula Kilonzo (2nd R), and Germany’s Ambassador to Kenya Margit Hellwig-Boette (R), inspect a section of a courthouse built by the E.U. in the coastal town of Mombasa June 24, 2010. Suspected Somali pirates, who were captured in recent months in the Indian Ocean, are being held in the Shimo La Tewa Prison as they await trial. The E.U. has built a courthouse within the compound so that the suspected pirates can be put on trial. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA CIVIL UNREST – Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)

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