Yet Rajendra Kale, a Pardhi activist in the nearby town of Ahmednagar, says it is exaggerated.

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Dr Rajendra K Pachauri is the chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Uneasy with this meddling in politics, two leading activists, Rajendra Singh and PV Rajagopal, quit the campaign.

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The head of the UN's panel of climate experts, Rajendra Pachauri, said he was now very optimistic a deal could be reached in Copenhagen.

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When open criticism began last year, it was airily dismissed by Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the IPCC and runs an institute in India where Dr Hasnain now works on glaciology.

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Rajendra Singh, Delhi's assistant commissioner of police, who is part of a special task force investigating the Delhi rape case, said Mr. Singh's body had been moved to a nearby hospital for a post mortem.

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's top climate guru, Rajendra Pachauri.

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Dr Rajendra Pachauri has been chairman of the IPCC since 2002 and was elected for a second six-year term in 2008, but the report suggested a chairman should not remain in the role for more than the period taken to produce one climate science assessment.

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The success or failure of the initiative will largely hinge on the willingness of Africa's mobile phone companies to take part, according to Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and CEO of Ericsson, who conceived the project during conversations with Mr Annan and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Rajendra Pachauri.

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