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By IANS, New Delhi : Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Tuesday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its "new friendship" with the Left, saying their quarrel had finally ended. "I congratulate them now (that) the quarrel between the Red (Left parties) and saffron (BJP) has come to an end. They have become one," Singh said at a press conference. He also took a swipe at BJP leader L.K. Advani for calling him a "broker".

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to quash criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in Ishrat Jahan...

By IANS, Ranchi: With the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) having agreed to support a government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, ending the lingering political crisis in Jharkhand, the focus now has shifted to who will be the BJP nominee for chief minister.

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By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam, Over the last few months it has become quite evident that the NDA government at the Centre is hostile to...

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By Amulya Ganguli, From being caught snoozing in parliament to spending time in a mysterious hideout to the current photo-ops with tillers of the soil, Rahul Gandhi has been acquiring a whole range of political experience. The problem with his present frenetic pace, however, is that the question is bound to be asked as to how long he can keep it up, not the least because any slackening will provoke sceptics to reiterate the charge against him of being a part-timer.

By IANS, New Delhi : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's place in the politics of tomorrow may be a certainty after his emergence as the party's most visible face in the Lok Sabha elections. But while some first timers are drawn towards his focus on the youth, many are unimpressed.

New Delhi : A special court here on Wednesday fixed August 5 for delivering its verdict in a murder case against former Uttar...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described as "despicable" personal attacks mounted on his party colleague Kumar Vishwas, saying the...

Ghaziabad: About 1,000 people met Delhi's new Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his Kaushambi office here Wednesday to apprise him about their problems. While Kejriwal...

By IANS, Srinagar : Two major regional political parties in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday welcomed what they termed the “deferment" by the Election Commission of the state assembly elections. "It is a clear vindication of our party's stand that the time is not ripe yet for holding of state assembly elections," Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said soon after Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswamy announced in New Delhi the dates of state polls in Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan but that Kashmir, for now, would be out of the poll exercise.

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra, part of a three-member panel that had rejected 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's mercy...

By IANS, New Delhi/Patna : The Bharatiya Janata Party's central leadership will take a final decision on continuing its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar, it was announced late Tuesday after a meeting of state party leaders with BJP president Nitin Gadkari. The party's central leadership would meet Wednesday or Thursday to take the final decision, BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters as he emerged from the meeting.

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By IANS, New Delhi : An informal panel of three senior Congress leaders Thursday met party president Sonia Gandhi and discussed the party affairs in Maharashtra. The panel comprising External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A.K. Antony and senior party functionary Ahmed Patel has reviewed the situation in Maharashtra where the Congress along with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is in power.

New Delhi : BJP's East Delhi MP Maheish Girri, who was protesting outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence since Sunday, broke his fast-unto-death...

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By Amit Bhandari, New Delhi : India's civil nuclear accords may be part of the solution to air pollution problems as it tries to move...

By IANS, Mumbai : Four legislators of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were suspended by the Maharashtra assembly Monday for four years for attacking a Samajwadi Party member for taking his legislator's oath in Hindi. The four legislators are: Shishir Shinde, Ram Kadam, who had slapped and punched Samajwadi Party member Abu Asim Azmi, Vasant Gite and Ramesh Banjle.

New Delhi : Admitting that communalism is a problem faced by the nation, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday,...

Guwahati/Itanagar : The BJP became a part of the Arunachal Pradesh government with its senior leader Tamiyo Taga was sworn in as a minister...

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The five Muslim heavy weights of the Congress from Okhla, Matiamahal, Ballimaran, Seelampur and Mustafabad faced drubbing; while AAP has won four of these, except Mustafabad where BJP has won. By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The choice of Muslim voters in Delhi this time seems quite clear: the broom is all over in Delhi and the Muslim voters too have posed their faiths in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), unlike the 2013 Assembly elections when they were apprehensive about them.

By IANS, Ranchi: Factionalism within Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Jharkhand unit is likely to delay selection of new chief minister, according to a party leader Tuesday. "The party is facing one of the worst cases of factionalism within the state. There are so many aspirants for chief minister. It is indeed a tough job to take a decision regarding the chief minister," the BJP leader, who did not wish to be identified, told IANS. "Our national president Nitin Gadkari will take final decision, but even the central leaders have their own choices," the leader added.

Shimla: The opposition BJP in Himachal Pradesh Thursday said it will challenge the grant of sanction by Governor Urmila Singh to prosecute former chief...

By IANS, Jammu : Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday appealed to Governor N.N. Vohra to intervene for creating new administrative units in areas ignored...

By IANS, Chandigarh : A six-member Kenyan delegation will observe the counting of votes Thursday for Haryana assembly's 90 seats. The Kenyan delegation will be led by the interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya chairman Ahmed Issac Hassan. The team will visit a counting station in Gurgaon, adjoining the national capital. There are 90 counting centres in the state. Haryana's chief electoral officer Sajjan Singh said Tuesday that the delegation's visit was courtesy the Election Commission of India.

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Kolkata : A day after he was slapped by a youth at a public meeting, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee...

New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Monday extended, till July 10, former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's interim bail, sought on health...

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By Ram Puniyani, Beginning with September 2015 we witnessed a flood of ‘returning’ honors by writers, scientists and artists. There are also various statements...

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday urged President Pratibha Patil to sack Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj, saying he was biased against the state government.

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Thiruvananthapuram: As in the past, women outnumber men in the latest electoral rolls of Kerala released on Friday ahead in the May 16 assembly...

By IANS, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Thursday offered his post to opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu for a week. The offer was made during a debate in the assembly on the alleged illegal projects constructed by the Maharashtra government across the Godavari river. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief criticised the government for failing to stop the projects and protect the state's interests. "If the chief minister wants, this problem can be solved in 10 minutes," Naidu said.

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By IANS, New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his party colleague, politburo member Sitaram Yechury, will leave for Kolkata Thursday morning in view of deteriorating health of senior party leader Jyoti Basu, said party sources here. Party politburo member Brinda Karat, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP, has already left for Kolkata, sources told IANS. Basu, 95, was hospitalised last week after a pneumonia attack. He was in critical condition and on ventilator Wednesday, doctors said.

New Delhi: The city government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it was willing to fund the entire project of installation of...

By IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) chief Kuldeep Bishnoi Wednesday said his party's alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will win in the next assembly elections due in February. The HJC went alone in the recently concluded general elections and won just one of the state's 10 Lok Sabha seats. The rest nine seats were bagged by the ruling Congress. However, there are speculations that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would try to cash in on the recent success and can go in for an early assembly election.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : The Congress-led opposition Friday staged a walk out of the Kerala assembly over the alleged failure of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) to curb terror activities in the state. Congress legislator K. Babu, seeking leave for adjournment motion, said the CPI-M is trying to shield People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Maudany, who is accused of having terror links and was exonerated in 2007 as the prime accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case. He was in jail for nearly a decade as an under-trial.

By IANS, New Delhi : Two days ahead of a crucial meeting of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-Left nuclear committee, a poll-wary Congress is mounting pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to save the government till it has inflation under control before pushing the India-US nuclear deal. The ruling party, which is under severe pressure from its allies, is trying to convince Manmohan Singh and the pro-deal lobby that letting the government collapse over the nuclear deal would not be an "electorally wise decision," party sources told IANS.

By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : A black Friday that left 21 people, including eight army men, dead in a string of terror attacks in Kashmir has shaken an administration that patted itself till the other day on the smooth, incident-free completion of the first two rounds of the five-phased state assembly elections.

New Delhi : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has said a government headed by him "will go the extra mile" to give justice...

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New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed an investigation report in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which...

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By IANS New Delhi : Expressing displeasure over violation of the poll code, the Election Commission Friday issued notice to a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator in Gujarat along with the vice chancellor and pro-vice chancellor of Saurashtra University. Gujarat goes to polls in December this year.

By IANS, New Delhi : The BJP Friday appointed former MP Sarbananda Sonowal as president of the party's Assam unit following the resignation of Ranjit Dutta.

Hyderabad : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi reached Telangana on Thursday on a two-day visit to meet farmers. In a last-minute change in the schedule...

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By IANS, Kolkata : The West Bengal government Monday said it was yet to receive any response from the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), agitating for a separate Gorkhaland state, for talks on the developments in the Darjeeling Hills. "Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has sent two letters to the GJM for talks. We are yet to receive any reply from them. He is worried over the situation. There is need for talks," the state's Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakrabarty told reporters.

Kolkata : Attacking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the Saradha chit fund scam, CPI-M leader Gautam Deb Saturday said she can give...

By IANS, Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday took a leaf out of Congress's book by prescribing austerity for her cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats. In an unusual diktat issued here Tuesday, Mayawati directed her cabinet colleagues as well as top bureaucrats to shun meetings and parties at five-star hotels, with immediate effect. She has also ordered a ban on greetings cards during festivals, as also on issue of diaries and calendars on the occasion of New Year.

By IANS Hyderabad : The suspension of all members of the opposition Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly was revoked just hours after they were sent out of the house Thursday. Following a demand from all parties, Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy revoked the suspension. All 13 TRS legislators present in the house had earlier been suspended till Feb 18 for stalling the proceedings to demand adoption of a resolution seeking separate statehood to Telangana region.

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New Delhi : Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will be accompanied by Jaffna's Tamil Mayor Yogeshwari Pathkunarajah at the oath taking ceremony of Narendra...

New Delhi : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Thursday became the first to name candidates for the coming Delhi assembly elections, the list of...

By IANS, Lucknow : Former union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi has been asked not to meet her son and the party's Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi, who is in Etah jail in Uttar Pradesh. "I want to make it clear we have not issued any prohibitory orders. We have just requested Maneka Gandhi that she should not meet her son Varun as per the jail administration rules," district magistrate Gaurav Dayal told IANS on phone from Etah, which is 220 km from the national capital.

By IANS, Jaipur : Brisk polling was reported Saturday in Rajasthan's two assembly constituencies of Todabhim and Salumber where the main battle is between the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Long queues were seen at polling stations. The state election department said over 12 percent voted in the first three hours of polling. The by-elections were called after legislator Kirori Lal Meena, an independent from Todabhim, and Raghuveer Meena from Salumber vacated their seats after getting elected to the LokSabha.

Patna : At least 12 people were injured here Friday when supporters of Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and former chief minister Nitish...

By IANS, Lucknow : Congress president Sonia Gandhi will go on a two-day tour of her constituency Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh from Friday to evaluate the developmental schemes there, party officials said here Wednesday. "During the two-day tour, Sonia-ji would make surprise visits to a number of villages in Rae Bareli to know the reality of central-government sponsored schemes and will also interact with the locals to know their problems," Subodh Srivastava, spokesperson of the party's state unit, told reporters here.

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Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, interacting with students in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Dantewada district on Saturday, said that life should not be judged...

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday expressed his respect for sages and saints in his first Independence Day address at the Red...

By IANS, New Delhi : The alleged siphoning of Rs.2,500 crore of public money by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda generated much heat in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, even triggering an adjournment, but it also revealed the differences in the opposition ranks on the issue. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raised the issue for the second time when the house re-assembled for the post-lunch session, with the party's firebrand S.S. Ahluwalia demanding a "structured" discussion on the money laundering scam.

By IANS, Darjeeling (West Bengal) : The tripartite meeting between Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) representatives, senior central and state government officials began here Monday to discuss the demand of a separate Gorkhaland state. The meeting, which began at 11 a.m., was attended by a central team led by union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and a six-member state government team headed by Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty.

Imphal: Manipur Police beefed up security measures on Sunday as Kuki organisations condemned the "unprovoked" gun attack on February 3 on Kukis in Molnom...

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By Imran Khan Patna: BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi - better known these days as SuMo to rhyme with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's NaMo -...

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By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS, New Delhi : The drubbing in the municipal elections is a clear pointer that the Left Front that has ruled West Bengal continuously since 1977 is set to be voted out next year, a party leader said Thursday. Speaking frankly about the Left's prospects in the 2011 assembly elections, the leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which heads the alliance, said the "anti-CPI-M trend had gone too far" to reverse in a year's time.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress in Kerala Sunday asked partymen to exercise caution while making comments during the poll season. The directive came after a Congress lawmaker...

By Two Circles Staff Reporter Guwahati: Members of the Assam State Jamiat Ulama (ASJU) sent out a strong message against the global terrorism which...

By IANS, New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh Wednesday resigned as general secretary of the party as well as from its parliamentary board and as its spokesperson. Saying he was quitting the posts on health grounds, the high-profile politician denied any differences with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. "I hardly had any rest. Doctors told me it is not good. At the age of 53, I am entitled to earned leave and need to give more priority to my family. After 20 years of hard work, they (the family) should get priority over Mulayamji and the party," Amar Singh told NDTV.

By IANS, Ranchi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit the campaign trail in Jharkhand Friday. Rajnath Singh arrived here Thursday night. He is to campaign at four places that go to polls in the third phase of assembly elections Dec 8. A BJP leader said the party head will address public meetings at Jamua, Dhanwar, Bagodar and Bermo assembly constituencies.

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New Delhi : The AAP Monday released a video showing a BJP leader offering money to an AAP legislator to induce him to quit...

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Hamirpur(Himachal Pradesh) : Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur constituency is all set for an important Lok Sabha by-poll Saturday that will mainly be contested by the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).