New Delhi, (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s hopes to replicate her winning streak in assembly polls in the civic elections came to naught with the Congress party losing the elections. Her move to trifurcate the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, in the face of opposition from some Congress leaders, had boomeranged, BJP officials said. The [...]
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MCD election results: Congress decimated, Batla House suspect loses election
April 18, 2012 No Comment
MCD election results are out and Congress has been completely decimated. Meanwhile Batla House suspect Zia-Ur-Rehman lost the election from ward No 205 but with a narrow margin, says Ubaid of NVONews.Com New Delhi: Congress has been thrashed badly in municipal elections in Delhi. Three civic bodies were carved out by Shiela Dixit government in [...]
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At last Discovery shuttle has been taken to the Vehicle assembly building. Thus the 39-flights old Discovery flies to eternity amidst moist eyes The United States finally bids bye-bye to NASA’s leader space shuttle, Discovery. The 39-flights old most-travelled spacecraft, lifted off for the last time just after dawn on Tuesday (6:58 AM ET) from [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained control of Delhi’s civic body, securing 138 seats out of 272 seats, while the Congress improved its last time’s tally of 64 and ended up with 78 seats. Here is the final tally – North Delhi BJP: 59; Congress: 29; Others: 16 South Delhi BJP: 44; [...]
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By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, (IANS) India’s biggest export to the world has been stories, powerful narratives that have influenced literature throughout history, says Karachi-based Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who shot to literary limelight with his translations of “Hoshruba” and “The Adventures of Amir Hamza”, ancient epics written in Persian and Urdu. “The world has borrowed [...]
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By Arun Kumar Washington, (IANS) As India probes the role of the estranged wife of admitted Pakistani American terrorist David Headley in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, she claims she tried to prevent it, but US authorities did not bother. Headley’s second wife Faiza Outalha, who had visited India twice, has said in a TV [...]
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Jammu, (IANS) A section of Jammu and Kashmir government employees struck work Tuesday demanding, among others, an increase in the retirement age and regularisation of services of casual workers, and paralysed offices, a protester said. Nearly 450,000 employees joined the strike across the state paralysing government work. Only middle and senior level officers attended office. [...]
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New Delhi, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was Tuesday headed for a big win in the Delhi civic polls with 49 of its candidates emerging victorious in 80 of 272 wards for which results were declared. The party, which could control the civic administration in Delhi again, was also leading in more than 60 seats, [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday sounded confident that the differences between non-Congress ruled states and the centre over setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) will be resolved at the May 5 meeting of chief ministers. He also said that before the May 5 meet, the agency’s standard operating procedures [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was Tuesday headed for a big win in the Delhi civic polls with 49 of its candidates emerging victorious in 80 of 272 wards for which results were declared. The party, which could control the civic administration in Delhi again, was also leading in more than 60 [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Opposition chief ministers Monday lambasted the central government for not taking them into confidence on key security issues, citing the example of the proposed NCTC, an anti-terror intelligence agency whose powers the states fear will infringe on their rights. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who opened the annual internal security conference of all [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday said it would hear in July the petition by Ranjan Dwivedi – an accused in a bomb attack at then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra in 1975 – seeking quashing of charges and criminal proceedings against him, in a trial hanging for more than 37 years. An apex [...]
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By Prasanto K. Roy Question: Why did Mamata Banerjee cross the road? Answer: To see if the chicken were making fun of her! In mid-April, the chief minister of West Bengal went viral with a vengeance. Hundreds of tweets (like the one above by @harqblack) carried the trendy #arrestmenow tag. Courting arrest got a new [...]
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Jaipur, (IANS) Slamming the Congress-led central government for encroaching on the rights of the states, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday said Congress chief ministers should also protest the “attack on federalism”. “Concern has been raised by all non-Congress chief ministers in the country and all non-Congress states are seriously concerned about the attitude of the [...]
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