Kolkata, (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday night to make her Trinamool colleague Mukul Roy railway minister after her nominee Dinesh Trivedi hiked passenger fares and refused to back off despite Mamata’s strident criticism. Sources close to Banerjee said a communication to this effect had been sent to [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has refused to attend the India Today conclave this week because of the presence of “The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, the organisers said Wednesday. “We deeply regret that Imran Khan will not address the India Today Conclave because of Salman Rushdie’s participation. The India Today Conclave is [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) In the wake of speculation about Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi quitting following criticism by the Trinamool Congress leadership over the rail fare hike, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday scotched the rumours, saying he had not received any resignation. He also noted that his government was stable and he had already said that [...]
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Kolkata, (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday night summoned Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi to Kolkata, hours after he made defiant statements disregarding the party’s diktat to him to roll-back the rail tariff hike. “Dinesh Trivedi has been asked to come to Kolkata by our party chief,” a Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP told IANS [...]
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Bhopal, (IANS) Bhopal legislator and Dhruv Narayan Singh, who is believed to have known murdered RTI activist Shehla Masood, has offered to resign as vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Madhya Pradesh unit, sources said Tuesday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is investigating Masood’s murder, has quizzed the legislator several times and [...]
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Gurgaon, (IANS) Five youths have been arrested for gangraping a woman pub employee in Gurgaon while two accused are still on the run, police said Tuesday. All the accused are jobless youths and belong to village Madina of district Rohtak in Haryana, police claimed Tuesday. The 25-year-old woman, who works in the Last Chance pub [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday named six accused in a chargesheet filed here in connection with the 2011 Delhi High Court blast that killed 15 people. The chargesheet, filed during in-camera proceedings, named Amir Abbas Dev and Wasim Akram Malik, who were arrested in September, and are in judicial custody. The [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Parliament witnessed uproarious scenes Tuesday over allegations of “war crimes” during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that ended in 2009 with the killing of the rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran. Two key Tamil Nadu parties — DMK and AIADMK — came together in the Lok [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) On a day when the Congress faced heat from its key allies inside parliament, the government tried to reach out to them and agreed for better coordination to avoid further embarrassment. But Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee snubbed government efforts again by sending a junior party member for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s [...]
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By Syed Zafar Mehdi The silence of flickering candle flames that lit up the shadowy hours of night at India Gate vouched for the innocence of man arrested by ‘security’ agencies on apparently bogus charges. Thousands of protestors, holding candles and placards, wearing black armbands and simmering with anger, who had gathered in support of [...]
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By Gaurav Sharma New Delhi: (IANS) Emaar-MGF Land Ltd, the real estate firm that constructed apartments at the Commonwealth Games Village (CWG) in the capital, has come under the scanner of the Delhi government for allegedly not paying Rs.314 crore as Value Added Tax (VAT). If the company fails to pay the amount in the [...]
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ALIGARH: The special meeting of the Aligarh Muslim University Court, the supreme governing body of the University today resolved to approve with a voice majority vote the amendments/additions in Statute 2(5) of the Statutes of the University relating to age of retirement of the Vice Chancellor from 65 to 70 years. The meeting was presided [...]
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By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, (IANS) Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh turned 70 Sunday, but the euphoria of celebration was missing. Having just led his party to a second consecutive loss in the assembly elections in just five years, his failure was, no doubt, uppermost on everyone’s minds. While the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal basks in [...]
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New Delhi/Dehradun, (IANS) Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna will be the next chief minister of Uttarakhand, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad announced here Monday. “It was decided by the MLAs and all the party leaders that Vijay Bahuguna will be the chief minister,” Azad announced. Bhaguna is the Lok Sabha MP from Tehri.
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