By IANS,

Kolkata : The state committee of West Bengal's ruling Left Front Sunday urged the state government to be more flexible and try to find more land, if needed, to resolve the vexed Tata Motors' Nano issue.

"Earlier, the state government had told us that there was excess land of 30 acres within the project site in Singur and 50 acres outside it for giving a package to those who have lost their land. But on Saturday we found that the opposition is not agreeable to the idea," Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary Manju Kumar Majumdar said.

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New Delhi : Hard bargaining is expected during the second round of seat sharing talks Monday between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh as "friendly contests" have been ruled out.

The focus is likely to be the seats to which both the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are staking claim. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will lead the three-member party delegation and the Samajwadi Party is likely to be represented by party general secretary Amar Singh.

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Singur : Indicating a breakthrough in the talks on the vexed Singur issue, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday announced she would meet West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to find a solution to the Tata Motors' Nano stand-off.

Banerjee, who is spearheading an indefinite sit-in since Aug 24 close to the Tata Motors plant here, told reporters that she had received an invitation from Gandhi to participate in the talks.

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Jammu : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is for conducting polls in Jammu and Kashmir as per schedule and the protests in the Valley should not be a hurdle, party national general secretary Arun Jaitley said here Sunday.

"Our party wants elections on time. There should be no delay in the restoration of the democratic government. We are for polls as per schedule," Jaitley said.

By Azera Rahman, IANS,

New Delhi : So what if not many students turned up to vote and the elite colleges distanced themselves from it? Blatant flouting of rules, littering of the campus and fist fights made the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections quite a spectacle.

Breaking into the National Students Union of India (NSUI) bastion - after they won all the four main posts last year - Nupur Sharma of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was Saturday elected DUSU president after she won 10,345 votes.

By TwoCircles.net news desk,

J&K: The Kashmir National Party (KNP) leadership met Pakistani High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan and Deputy High Commissioner Manzoor ul Haq in London to discuss the current situation of Jammu and Kashmir.

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New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said it was for good relations with the US but not at the cost of India's own interests.

"The party stands for good relations with the US. However, India's interest is paramount," senior leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

He was speaking to reporters before the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) gave a waiver to India, putting the India-US nuclear deal on the fast-track.

Prasad raised concerns over Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama's statement that Pakistan was using American aid for waging war against India.

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Madurai : Continuing his verbal assault on the DMK government, PMK founder S. Ramadoss Saturday predicted a drubbing for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi if elections were held shortly.

Speaking to reporters in this temple city, 400 km south of capital Chennai, Ramadoss said: "The crown on the chief minister's head has become thorny owing to multiple failures on the power front and repeated scams in the supply of coal to thermal power plants besides the loot of sand from river beds."

"If elections are held now, the chief minister will suffer a rout," Ramadoss added.

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Hyderabad : Members in the Andhra Pradesh assembly Saturday took strong exception to the collection of the user development fee (UDF) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad near here and demanded constitution of a house committee to look into the issue.

The legislators cutting across party lines said the collection of UDF by the GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) had put a burden on the passengers, who were already reeling under the impact of a hike in airfare and facing inconvenience in reaching the new airport located 35 km from the city.

By IANS,

New Delhi : Nupur Sharma of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was Saturday elected the president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), which was dominated by the Congress' National Students Union of India (NSUI).

Sharma, a law student, won by a margin of 1,639 votes, defeating her rival Sonia Sapra of the NSUI.

The rest of the key posts of the students' union - vice president, secretary and joint secretary - were won by the NSUI, which had last year swept all the four seats.