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Students also took a pledge to vote once eligible as the citizens of India and to uphold the democratic traditions of the country.

A petition launched by a local artist had gathered 12,000 signatures to remove the statue, entitled the "Emancipation Group."

After four full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting to work itself out, Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R Biden, 77, pulled off one of the great political turnarounds in America

Trump accused Democrats of seeking "to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States" and said that negotiations could begin again only after the election -- "after I win."