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Ranchi, Dec 18 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren Thursday sacked two ministers from his cabinet for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income, official sources said. The two ministers who have been sacked are Rural Development Minister Enos Ekka and Urban Development Minister Harinarayan Rai. "Both ministers have been sacked in the light of the first information report (FIR) lodged against them by the vigilance department," Soren told reporters here Thursday.

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By IANS, Chennai : Once again the son bug has bitten the Tamil Nadu political party Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). After Anbumani Ramadoss, the son of PMK founder S. Ramadoss, it is the turn of PMK party president G.K. Mani's son Tamizhkumaran to aim for a public position. The party has selected Tamizhkumaran as its candidate for the Pennagaram assembly constituency, from which a bypoll will be held soon. While Anbumani entered parliament via the Rajya Sabha, Tamizhkumaran will have to fight it out against candidates from the DMK, AIADMK and DMDK.

By IANS, Chandigarh: Amid speculation that Haryana may go for early polls, Election Commissioner S.Y. Qureshi Friday said the poll panel had not received any such request and polls will be held at the scheduled time. "So far, nobody has approached us for early elections in Haryana so there is no possibility of it. Normally we don't cut short the life of an assembly term," Qureshi told reporters here. "It happens only when there is a situation of an emergency, like bad weather conditions, examinations or sowing season, but in Haryana there is no such emergency," he added.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday released a second list of 12 candidates for the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. Prominent among those figuring in the list is Ganeshram Bhagat, one of the senior-most tribal leaders in the state. His name was not included in the first list released 10 days ago, leading to an uproar within the party. Bhagat has been allotted the Sitapur constituency.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari fainted in the scorching Delhi heat Wednesday during the party's rally against rising prices attended by thousands of activists. Gadkari, 53, who assumed the party post in December last, collapsed on the stage built on an open truck top near Ramlila Grounds here. BJP workers were seen holding him up to prevent him from collapsing on the floor. The sweltering heat with the mercury hovering around the 41 degree Celsius mark was clearly too much for the BJP president.

By IANS, Agartala : With the issue of a statutory notification, the Election Commission of India (ECI) Monday set the process rolling for the Feb 14 assembly polls in Tripura.

New Delhi: Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party government has decided not to use satellite images in determining boundaries of what are called unauthorised colonies -...

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New Delhi : A court here on Tuesday sent three accused arrested in the document leak case to judicial custody till March 17. Chief Metropolitan...

By IANS, Chennai : Security for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and his cabinet colleagues has been stepped up following intelligence inputs on threat from the Tamil Tigers, a top police official said here Wednesday. Security to Karunanidhi, his cabinet colleagues, central ministers visiting Tamil Nadu and officials has been stepped up following intelligence alerts citing danger from the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Director General of Police K.P. Jain said.

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Ram Madhav, senior BJP leader and national general secretary of the party, has grabbed the spotlight of international media after noteworthy...

By IANS, Patna : Voting was underway Thursday in by-polls for seven assembly constituencies in Bihar amid high security. It is seen as a mini referendum for the Janata Dal-United government ahead of state assembly polls slated for next year. The seven constituencies where by-polls are underway are Warisnagar, Kalyanpur, Bochaha, Chenari, Aurai, Chainpur and Ramgarh. Officials in the police headquarters here said the polls began on a peaceful note and there was no report of violence. State election department officials said around 20 percent turnout was recorded till noon.

By IANS, New Delhi : Expressing pain at the loss of life and property due to flash floods in Leh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Thursday the government will take all steps necessary to address the needs of the people there, especially shelter, as the winter was not too far. In her address to the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting here, Gandhi said the whole country stands with the people of Leh in their hour of grief.

By IANS, New Delhi/Ranchi : Amid a blame game over the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral debacle, its national vice president and veteran leader Yashwant Sinha Saturday resigned from all party positions. BJP president Rajnath Singh accepted his resignation. Sinha, in Ranchi, refused to speak to mediapersons on this issue, saying: "I do not want to talk about it." But party sources in the Jharkhand capital said he had faxed his resignation letter to Rajnath Singh. In New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Sreekant Sharma told IANS: "Rajnath Singh has accepted Yashwant Sinha's resignation."

Bengaluru : The sudden resignation of Karnataka woman police officer Anupama Shenoy as Deputy Superintendent of Police in Ballari district sparked a controversy, after...

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By IANS, Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately end the dual pricing in diesel, saying it hurt the common man.

New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah Thursday told leaders of the party's Delhi unit to step up the membership drive ahead of assembly...

By IANS, Islamabad : A leading Pakistani daily Sunday called for emulating Arvind Kejriwal, who quit as chief minister of India's national capital, and said...

By IANS, New Delhi : It was a mix of experience and youth as 22 ministers were sworn as ministers, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said Sunday.

New Delhi : In the six decades he was in electoral politics, the now ailing Atal Bihari Vajpayee, presented the Bharat Ratna on Friday,...

By IANS New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday remained admitted in a city hospital for the third day but doctors attending to her said "her condition is steadily improving". Gandhi was admitted to the hospital Jan 1 with a cough and a slight breathing problem. The hospital said she had a "chest infection". According to a hospital source, a three-member team of doctors was treating Gandhi, chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), in a private ward.

New Delhi : AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Sunday asked the people of Delhi to vote for his party and accused the BJP of failing...

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By IANS Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Mayawati's dream project, the Rs.5 billion Ambedkar park and memorial, will have as many as 62 statues of elephants - her Bahujan Samaj Party's election symbol - at a cost of more than Rs.380 million. Sculptors from Rajasthan are already on the job, chiselling elephants in sandstone, each of which will cost Rs.6.2 million. This detail came to light following an intervention by activist Shailendra Singh, who had filed a query before the State Information Commission under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

By IANS, Mumbai : After Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, his son and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray Wednesday attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his utterances on Mumbai and said he must "Keep off Maharashtra". Addressing mediapersons, Uddhav Thackeray reiterated his party's stance on the issue of 'Mumbai for Marathis' and said that Rahul Gandhi's statements were prompted by the forthcoming assembly elections in Bihar. "Nobody should think that the Sena is weak. Rahul Gandhi can keep away from Maharashtra," Uddhav thundered.

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Sydney : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invite Australia to play a key role in fulfilling India's immense appetite for energy as its economy...

By Manav, NAK, Jammu : Thousands of the Kashmiri Pandit (KP) voters living across the country are in a fix over the government's recent decision to make "M" compulsory for their voting rights in the upcoming assembly elections in the Jammu and Kashmir. Having surprised on the controversial decision taken by the authorities, when the stage is all set for the elections, KP's are smelling rat in the entire issue apprehending a well planned strategy to cut the size of migrant voters in the entire country.

By IANS, Hyderabad : Shouting "Jai Telangana", Congress party legislators from the region that Monday tried to disrupt the address of Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to the joint session of state legislature on the first day of the budget session. The Congress is in power in Andhra Pradesh, but the demand for a separate Telangana state has created a rift among party legislators. The legislators who supported the demand for a separate Telangana state continued to shout slogans throughout the governor's 45-minute speech and later walked out of the assembly.

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By IANS, Guwahati : Spiralling prices are a challenge for the central government but it is trying its best to avoid burdening the masses, United Progress Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi said here Friday. "Inflation and growing price rise are a matter of concern for the government. We had to increase prices of petrol and diesel due to surging global oil prices although we are trying to keep the prices low by asking our Congress-ruled states to give subsidies," Gandhi told a massive farmers' rally in Guwahati.

Agartala : Communal violence has increased after the BJP-led government headed by Narendra Modi took power in India, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said...

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By IANS Kohima : The battle for political supremacy in Nagaland is poised for a close finish with no party likely to get a clear majority, according to latest trends and results declared so far for the 60-member legislature. The Congress party won three seats and was leading in 16 others, followed by the Nagaland People's Front (NPF) that won one seat and was leading in 13 others when reports last came in.

Patna : Left parties would contest on their own all 243 assembly seats in the coming Bihar assembly polls, a CPI-ML leader...

Panaji : Just how much the Congress values caste and religion in the Lok Sabha ticket distribution process stumbled out in the open at...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Congress Monday termed as a "work of fiction" what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) presented as "fresh evidence" in the cash-for-vote allegation and said it was a "desperate attempt" to divert attention from the government's trust vote victory. "We reject the new allegations as desperate antics of bad losers," Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said here.

New Delhi : Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said the state governments are adopting a "careless" and "irresponsible"...

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By Abhimanyu Kumar Singh, New Delhi : The Congress is increasingly coming around to the view that it is unlikely to win the 16th general...

Mumbai : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid here the foundation stone of the proposed world-class memorial for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the chief...

Bhubaneswar : The CBI Friday arrested a ruling BJD MLA in Odisha for his alleged complicity with Artha Tatwa Group chief Pradip Sethy, who...

New Delhi : Terming Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging "wrong and badly handled", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Monday said his body should have...

Kolkata(IANS) : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Thursday appreciated the role of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in controlling the situation in Nandigram, though his Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) was critical of it. The chief minister said in the state legislative assembly that the central paramilitary force had been successful in controlling the unabated violence in the trouble-torn region.

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New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday reasserted that union minister Sushma Swaraj and two BJP chief ministers will not resign...

Xi'an/New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that both their nations were "one" in fighting terror, after...

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, India is passing through one of the most crucial phases of its political life. As the exercise of the 'democracy' begins the future of the country would also be locked and will be opened on May 16th only. It is important to understand the dangers of what has happened so far. The results will be out in a month but it is for the first time in our history that 'someone' has already 'declared' himself as the prime minister of the country. Things are not simple. Today, the 'man' is already declared as the 'most powerful' person of the country and every other questioning him has been made as person against 'development' and pseudo secular. It is not easy for a person who is main accuse for instigating violence against Muslims in Gujarat and kept conspicuously silent when people were crying for help such as fellow politician Ehsaan Jafari who was burnt to death by the barbaric anarchists mob which was allowed to do things at their whims by the state administration and who was admonished by his own prime minister, to be 'anointed' as a 'national icon'. Witness the systematic campaign, rumors, fudging of data and then controlling the entire communication through a fictitious army of 'devotees' on social media and enforce 'curfew' in the news rooms which is worse than what Doordarshan and Aakashwani did in 1975. Today the role being played by embedded media is perhaps much disturbing and scornful to opponents and dissenting view point. If one has to see the replica of dirty tricks that Sanjay Gandhi played during emergency, these elections and the campaign management by the likes of Amit Shah are the best example.

New Delhi: Yuvraj Singh propelled Punjab to a six-wicket win over defending champions Delhi in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (North Zone) at the Ferozeshah...

By IANS, Kozhikode: Four months after the murder of a former CPI-M leader, his wife Tuesday asked the Kerala government to order a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident.

By IANS, New Delhi : The farm loan waiver the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government announced in the budget for relief to small and marginal farmers was "too little, too disappointing", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday. "The farm loan waiver announced by the UPA government is too little, too disappointing and does not address the concerns of farmers. It falls short in many ways as was pointed out by the BJP and even Congress MPs in parliament," said M. Venkaiah Naidu, former president of the BJP.

By IANS, Bangalore : Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party president D.V. Sadananda Gowda won from Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency defeating K. Jayaprakash Hegde of Congess by 26,685 votes. Gowda had won in 2004 from Dakshina Kannada constituency.

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Kanpur: There was no Modi wave but only a BJP wave, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has said. "Modi is a representative of the...

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By IANS, Hyderabad : It will be a clash of stars in the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency in coastal Andhra Pradesh as the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) has fielded veteran actor U.V. Krishnam Raju against Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) Murali Mohan. It is expected to be an interesting three-cornered contest as the ruling Congress party's U. Arun Kumar is seeking re-election.

By IANS, New Delhi/Hyderabad : The government is likely to table the Telangana bill in parliament Tuesday as President Pranab Mukherjee has given his nod...

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Kolkata : Describing the Justice Shyamal Sen Commission set up to probe the Saradha scam as a "political gimmick", the BJP Wednesday demanded the...

By IANS, New Delhi : Months of wrangling over the India-US nuclear deal took a decisive turn Friday with the Left parties serving a Monday deadline to the government and foe-turned-ally Samajwadi Party deciding to shore up the beleaguered coalition of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of his visit to Japan.

Cabinet Ministers 1. Manohar Parrikar (Goa, BJP) 2. Suresh Prabhu (Maharashtra, Shiv Sena) 3. J.P. Nadda (Himachal Pradesh, BJP) 4. Birender Singh (Haryana, BJP)

Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed deep shock over the death of Gopinath Munde, the rural development minister, who was killed...

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Patna : A day after 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans were raised during a protest march here, a man was arrested on Saturday and raids continued...