Archive for the Category ‘Political News’
New Delhi: In more trouble for the UPA government, an India-born Canadian has claimed that he paid Union Minister Praful Patel $ 250,000 as bribe in 2007. Nazir Karigar claimed that the bribe was paid to help Canadian firm Crypto
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New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court is expected to decide on Wednesday whether Chief Minister Narendra Modi will have to depose before the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission probing the 2002 riots case. NGOs had moved court after the Gujarat government refused
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Kolkata: In what can be called a controversial move the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal is planning to drop the ‘Right to Strike’ clause for the state government employees.
The state government is considering withdrawal of the clause from the
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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Congress ducked Trinamool Congress’s fresh assault, refusing to join issue with Mamata Banerjee who slammed the Centre, including the PM and the finance minister, for ignoring the interests of the people of Bengal.
Mamata, in a TV interview, said
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Hyderabad: YSR Congress party honorary president and MLA YS Vijayamma has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the CBI to act ‘impartially’ not yielding to any pressure from its political bosses as far as investigations against her son
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New Delhi: The Gandhi family will hit the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh from February 1 with Congress president Sonia Gandhi addressing rallies at Deoria and Gonda. Rahul Gandhi will share the dais with Ajit Singh in Meerut on February
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Finding Malerkotla House is not difficult. Even if one were to miss the many roadside signboards showing directions to it, almost anybody on the roads in the dusty township of Malerkotla could guide one to this sprawling, palatial bungalow, home
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Veteran social activist Anna Hazare was today chosen as the ‘Hero of Mumbai’ in a spot ballot held here to elect the contemporary popular leader.
The voting which was open for all was held at the Gateway of India on Thursday
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New Delhi: A Chennai court is likely to hear a criminal defamation case on Friday filed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa against ‘The Hindu’ newspaper’s former editor-in-chief N Ram, for allegedly producing an article from Tamil magazine Nakheeran
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Ruling out himself as his party’s prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Nitin Gadkari favoured Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the top job and promised to back his candidature as party chief.
“I will never be a candidate for PM nor
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New Delhi: Punjab Police Director Generals or their wives are amongst candidates for the 117 assembly seats in Punjab that goes to the polls on January 30. It’s a no holds barred contest for these contestants as they try to
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New Delhi: Former DMK minister Vellakovil Swaminathan was arrested in Tamil Nadu on Monday on charges of land-grabbing. Swaminathan who was the Highways Minister in the Karunanidhi-led DMK government in Tamil Nadu has been chagred with land grabbing, criminal intimidation
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Even as the BJP has announced that it is contesting the UP polls under the joint leadership of Rajnath Singh, Uma Bharti, Kalraj Mishra and Surya Pratap Shahi, party president Nitin Gadkari said here today that Rajnath Singh is not
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HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: The infighting within the Kiran Kumar Reddy government intensified on Tuesday with the chief minister making it clear to the Congress high command that a complete overhaul of the cabinet is necessary for the smooth functioning of his
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Imphal: Three decades after it was imposed in Manipur to deal with insurgents, the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is still an issue used by parties during electioneering for the January 28 Assembly poll in the state.
While parties
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Lucknow: The UP Assembly polls will see a sprinkling of star dust with political parties planning to rope in a bevy of Bollywood personalities to canvass for them. Though all political parties have lined up some campaigners from Bollywood, newly-floated
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New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday stuck to his claim that the the Batla House encounter here was “fake” even as Home Minister P Chidambaram insisted that the gunfight between security forces and terrorists was “genuine”.
Singh also
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New Delhi: The battle for Uttar Pradesh is set to intensify with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) planning to launch an agitation against the Congress. This comes in the wake of Law Minister Salman Khurshid’s promise of increasing the 4.5
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