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By IANS, Shimla : Low temperatures in the higher regions of Himalayan slopes in Himachal pradesh failed to dampen the spirit of the voters during the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. "Heavy turnout was recorded in the three tribal segments of the Mandi parliamentary constituency as compared to other areas in the state despite rugged, cold and inhospitable Himalayan terrain," state chief electoral officer Anil Khachi told IANS. The Mandi constituency comprises Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur districts and some areas of Chamba district.

By IANS, Nagpur: Former state minister Sunil Deshmukh of the Congress will contest the Maharashtra assembly elections against President Pratibha Patil's son, he announced Tuesday evening after quitting the party in protest against denial of ticket to contest the polls. "I have worked very hard for this region in the past ten years as a legislator and as a minister. Let the people of the area decide who to elect," a determined Deshmukh told mediapersons here, shortly after sending his resignation to state party chief Manikrao Thakre.

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) turned the heat on Uttar Pradesh's outspoken Urban Development Minister Mohd Azam...

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the Election Commission to take back the notice served on it to over alleged communal remarks made by its member Varun Gandhi, saying it had distanced itself from the controversial speeches. The BJP, however, told the poll panel late Thursday that in view of Gandhi's assertion that he had not made the offending remarks, the Election Commission "should endeavour to obtain the original copy of the speech ... to check the veracity of the same".

Thiruvananthapuram : The Congress-led UDF and the media are again abuzz over Kerala's proposed cabinet re-jig since Speaker G. Karthikeyan expressed his desire Friday...

By IANS, New Delhi : A survey conducted by child rights organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan Wednesday said around 80 percent candidates contesting elections this Lok Sabha polls do not have child welfare or Right to Education on their priority list. Bachpan Bachao Andolan carried out the survey after scanning the campaign speeches of 476 candidates.

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By IANS, New Delhi : AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Friday asked the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to state his position on gas pricing...

By IANS, Lucknow : Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, known for his stiff opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Friday seemed to have softened his stand.

By Rahul Vaishnavi, New Delhi : Finding the right candidate to take on the AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi assembly polls expected next month...

Patna : Bihar's Class 12 'topper' in Arts, Rubi Rai, who said political science is all about cooking, will face stern action for failing...

Kohima : Senior Naga People's Front (NPF) leader T.R.Zeliang was sworn-in as the 17th chief minister of Nagaland Saturday, a day after Neiphiu Rio...

Dr. Mookhi Amir Ali, The Minister for Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid is rather quick off the mark with great enthusiasm. He seems to be having a much thought out road map to Muslim empowerment and seems to know the pitfalls too. In an interview to The Indian Express, Khurshid said it was time to explore “angles” other than reservation for the upliftment of Muslims and other minorities. He said it was his intention to roll out some “quick impact” schemes and fine-tune delivery of recommendations made by the Justice Rajinder Sachar committee.”

By IANS, Bangalore : Former Karnataka minister and veteran Congress leader K.H. Ranganath died here Tuesday after a brief illness, family members said. He was 86.

New Delhi : Hailing the accomplishments of girls on International Day of the Girl Child, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon the...

New Delhi : The Congress, fighting negative public perception and with a demoralised cadre following a spate of opinion polls predicting a rout for...

By IANS Kolkata : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will visit Nandigram Friday to observe the first anniversary of the March 14 police firing which killed 14 people and injured over 100. "We will visit Nandigram March 14 and salute all brave villagers who fought a great battle against land acquisition and died in police firing.

By IANS, New Delhi: Expressing its full support to the demand for a separate Telangana state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday accused the Congress party of dilly-dallying on the issue despite wide political acceptance on the demand. BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said people, farmers, traders and employees are agitating for Telangana. "The Congress has always betrayed the cause of Telangana. It has only provided lip-sympathy," he said. Javadekar said that the Congress had formed a party committee headed by Pranab Mukherjee "to buy time on the issue".

By IANS, New Delhi : Older MPs were far more active than younger ones in the 14th Lok Sabha that drew to an end Thursday, suggest statistics prepared by an independent research body that aims to strengthen legislative debate. "'Young' MPs (those aged less than 40) participated the least in the Lok Sabha proceedings. They accounted for 11 percent of seats but only around seven percent of debates. MPs over the age of 70 accounted for 10 percent of seats and nine percent of total debates," says the statistics by the PRS Legislative Research.

New Delhi : The Rajya Sabha was disrupted Wednesday following an uproar by AIADMK members over Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju's allegations...

By IANS Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday said it was pointless for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to insist on the land in Ponmudi bought from a businessman for its space institute. "It is pointless to insist on that land alone because the government has already announced that we will give them 200 acres of land free to build the proposed space institute," Achuthanandan told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting.

By IANS, Hyderabad : The much-awaited first meeting of Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) core committee on Telangana was held Wednesday but there was no indication of any change in the party's stand against a separate state. The five-member core committee, formed in April to look into the issue of separate statehood to Telangana region, met at Devulapally village in Vizianagaram district in north coastal Andhra Pradesh.

By IANS, Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh government Sunday denied reports of alleged lapses in the security of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi during his recent visit to Kanpur. State Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh refuted charges levelled by the Congress leadership and the central government that Gandhi was denied the high security that he is entitled to.

By Tarun Vijay, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's China visit has come at a time when his government is completing his first year in power and global strategic equations are fast rearranging. At a time when India's economy is gaining strength and global economists are hailing Modi's one year in power as the best India has had economically, Modi walks in China as the most confident and powerful prime minister to have ever visited. And with President Xi Jinping, considered to be a strong leader moulded in Deng Xiaoping's school of thought, a courageous march of togetherness seems more possible than ever.

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New Delhi : The low turnout and Anna Hazare's absence at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's rally here Wednesday was not the first time...

Mumbai : The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in Maharashtra will be expanded Thursday, official sources said. There are at present three vacant berths in the...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday announced his government has decided to launch a rural employment generation scheme, named after Mahatma Gandhi,...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after police named him in an...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: बिहार में हमने मतदाताओं से कई मुलाकातें की हैं, जो आगे भी जारी रहेंगी. लेकिन नीतिश कुमार का सम्बन्ध भाजपा...

New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Amanatullah Khan was on Wednesday arrested after a sexual harassment complaint by his brother-in-law's wife, police...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : डेल्टा मेघवाल कौन थी? उसमें ऐसा क्या था? जो सभी को अपनी ओर खींचता था? वो क्या कर...

By Balraj Puri, Omar Abdullah received a massive reception when he arrival in Jammu, a day before taking oath of office on January 5 as eleventh Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should give a specific date when his government was going...

By IANS Mumbai: The Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party are facing dissidence over their seat-sharing for the Oct 13 Maharashtra assembly polls as supporters of some aspirants Saturday attacked the houses of former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi and BJP candidate Poonam Mahajan here Sunday. Police said that supporters of Sada Sarvankar, Sena legislator from Dadar, went on a rampage at the upscale Oceania building at Shivaji Park, where Joshi lives on the ninth floor, shouting slogans against him and pelting stones Sunday afternoon.

Patna : RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD-U leader Nitish Kumar Monday came together at an election rally for the first time in two...

By Nityanand Shukla, IANS, Ranchi: Jharkhand will become a power-surplus state in the next five years, says Deputy Chief Minister and Power Minister Raghubar Das, though government officials are sceptical. "Our agenda is to make Jharkhand a self-sufficient state in three years and power surplus in the next five years," Das told IANS in an interview. "We will streamline the existing two power plants and set up more plants. The new plants could be set up with help of the private sector," he added.

By IANS, Chennai : AIADMK and MDMK legislators Tuesday walked out of the Tamil Nadu assembly protesting what they said was the government's inaction in bringing down yarn prices. Moving calling attention motion on rising yarn prices, AIADMK legislators asked the government to take action on banning cotton exports and bringing down the yarn prices. Replying to the motion, Textiles Minister K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran said the yarn prices and cotton exports were decided by the central government. "The Tamil Nadu government is taking steps to reduce the yarn prices," he said.

Opposition parties collectively demand reservation for Muslims; uproar in both the houses By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Nagpur: The newly formed BJP-Shiv Sena saffron coalition in Maharashtra has passed a bill in Assembly on Tuesday providing 16% reservation for the Maratha community in education and government jobs but decided to give a miss to the five per cent reservation to Muslims announced by the previous government.

By IANS, Hyderabad : On the eve of parliament's monsoon session, the Congress party MPs from Telangana Sunday rejected the party leadership's appeal to withdraw their resignations.

By IANS, Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Saturday embarked on a "justice rally" to protest the central government's alleged discrimination against the state. "How can the Congress led by a foreigner understand the woes of poor people?" asked Chouhan before launching the rally from the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters here.

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday lashed out at noted Malayalam writer M. Mukundan, who in an article had called the former an "outdated saint", and admitted that he belongs to the "old fashioned school of Communist thought". "It is true that I am 85 (years old) and belong to the old school of thought based on an ideology that began in 1848. I am really proud that I belong to that old school and I am old fashioned," Achuthanandan told reporters here.

Chandigarh : All four ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Punjab government submitted their resignations to the party to enable a...

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By IndScribe The BJP's bigotry is well-known as far as Tipu Sultan is concerned. They don't like Tipu and there are reasons.But first...

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Jaipur : With the withdrawal of 46 nomination papers, 239 candidates are in the fray for 20 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in...

By IANS, Patna: Congress MP and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi drew big crowds as he began a two-day visit to Bihar Monday aimed at galvanising the state unit for the assembly elections later this year. Hundreds of Congress workers and common people welcomed Gandhi during his short visit to Champaran, Darbhanga and Gaya. Congress leaders said party workers felt upbeat at his visit and on catching a glimpse of him.

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New Delhi: BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Monday reiterated his claim that the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya...

Kolkata: The BJP Saturday demanded that the West Bengal government issue a white paper on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's maiden foreign visit to Singapore. Led...

By IANS, Siliguri (West Bengal) : Hundreds of activists of the pro-Grokhaland Gorkha Janamukti Morcha Saturday laid a siege on Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) president Madan Tamang's house and ordered him to leave West Bengal's Darjeeling hills for making "false allegations" against GJM supremo Bimal Gurung. Tamang insinuated that Gurung has entered into a pact with state home secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty by compromising on the Gorkhaland movement," said GJM press and publicity secretary Benoy Tamang.

New Delhi: Online marketplace Snapdeal on Monday announced its partnership with the Himachal Pradesh government to launch a special e-commerce zone at Dharamshala. The special...

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By IANS, Indore : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Monday slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposal for a task force to counter terrorism within a deadline of 100 days as "distressing" and demanded that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) be revived instead. "Manmohan Singh took over as prime minister in May 2004 and after so many days, he is talking about a 100-day roadmap," Advani said while addressing a press conference here.

By IANS, Shimla : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said it would soon have an action plan for its revival and admitted that its ideology of "cultural nationalism" needed to be articulated clearly for the expansion of its geographical and social base. "We will come out with a future action plan, you can call it the road ahead, on the basis of suggestions during the three-day chintan baithak (introspection session). The larger goal would be the social and geographical expansion of the party," BJP president Rajnath Singh told reporters after the meet ended.

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By IANS, Chennai : A contestant to the Lok Sabha from the regional DMDK party Wednesday announced plans to create a constituency-based manifesto. The first draft of the 'People's Manifesto' prepared by DMDK member K. Pandiyarajan, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election from the Virudhunagar seat, was released here Wednesday.

By IANS, Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah was received warmly by a huge crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the Srinagar airport Wednesday after his arrival from New Delhi. Waving National Conference (NC) flags - a plough in white against a red background - his supporters accompanied Abdullah in a procession to the party headquarters here. “This is a victory march,” shouted Mushtaq Rather, 25, an NC supporter from Srinagar.

By IANS Bhubaneswar : Leaders from opposition parties Friday met Orissa Governor Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare and submitted a memorandum over the alleged sexual harassment of a lady employee by Speaker Maheswar Mohanty. "Maheswar Mohanty has no right to stay as speaker," the Leader of Opposition in the assembly and former chief minister J.B. Patnaik who led the delegation told media persons after submitting the memorandum. "He should resign," said Patnaik. "We sought intervention of the governor into the matter.

By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, Within four months of the Congress's success in the parliamentary polls, the party has been rudely jolted in the latest round of assembly by-elections. After a severe drubbing in Gujarat, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrested five seats from the Congress along with one in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress lost two seats - Okhla and Dwarka - in its supposed stronghold of Delhi to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the BJP.

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net समस्तीपुर: समस्तीपुर ज़िले के वारिसनगर विधानसभा सीट पर चुनावी जंग बेहद ही दिलचस्प होने वाली है. इस विधानसभा से इस बार...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala leaders have whipped out their calculators for number crunching after nearly three-fourths of the electorate cast their ballots in the parliamentary election. Kerala's...

By Syed Ali Mujtaba, The conspiracy of silence among the political parties of UP regarding Hashimpura judgement that has acquitted the accused for want...

New Delhi: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday alleged that the government was protecting people with RSS links who forced Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula to...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday blamed the central government for the violence that took place in the Patiala House...

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By IANS, Ranchi : Maoist guerrillas Thursday unleashed a wave of violence in Jharkhand as voting began for eight of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, triggering landmine blasts near polling booths, attacking a paramilitary camp and blowing up a railway station. Several people were injured in the attacks that spread out in many parts of the state and included intermittent gunbattles that continued for hours in the forested areas of Jamshedpur and Giridih.

Gurgaon : BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here Friday that jailed former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala is dreaming of taking oath...

By IANS New Delhi : "I am CM and will remain the CM." This is the SMS message from Chief Minister Narendra Modi that flashed on mobile telephones as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) marched towards victory in Gujarat. The SMS went on: "I am CM today and I shall be CM forever. For me CM means common man."

By IANS, New Delhi: A three-day meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) central committee began here Wednesday with a key agenda of rooting out corruption within the party ranks. Senior CPI-M leaders are also reviewing the party's performance at various levels. "The rectification campaign report and finalising the date for the extended central committee meeting are the two important agenda points," said a party official. The discussion on rectification measures will start Thursday, M.K. Pandhe, a member of the CPI-M told reporters here.

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net चरथावल: चौधरी चरण की 114वीं जयंती की पूर्वसंध्या पर चरथावल में आयोजित किसान अधिकार रैली को संबोधित करते हुए रालोद के...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to examine the issue whether there was any constitutional embargo on the powers of the state...

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New Delhi : Maj. Gen. K.J.S. Oberoi, the general officer commanding, was Thursday named President Pratibha Patil's military secretary.

Christy Fernandes, currently tourism secretary, was earlier named secretary to the president.

The other appointments announced by the President's Secretariat include Vijay Thakur Singh as social secretary, Barun Mitra as joint secretary and Faiz Ahmed Kidwai and Vishal Chauhan as deputy secretaries.

Patna : Legislators loyal to JD-U leader Nitish Kumar Thursday filed a petition in the Patna High Court challenging the stay on his election...

It will create a situation of ‘ghettoization’: National Conference By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net, Srinagar/Jammu: A row erupted over the state government’s plan to create a ‘composite townships’ for displaced Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir valley even as the government’s move met with strong opposition from several parties and separatists in the state.

By IANS, Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday questioned the political standing of the Trinamool Congress and said he doubted whether it would stay with the Congress coalition after the Lok Sabha elections. "I cannot presume that Trinamool will stay with the Congress after the elections. I have also asked (external affairs minister) Pranab Mukherjee whether he was sure Trinamool will not switch its allegiance from his party to some other banner after one month?" Bhattacharjee told reporters at the Kolkata Press Club.

New Delhi : A CBI court here Saturday granted Uttar Pradesh legislator Mukhtar Ansari custody parole till May 10 for election campaigning. A sitting legislator...

By Jaideep Sarin, Chandigarh : For agrarian Punjab, wheat and paddy are not only important for its agriculture economy but an emotive issue as well....

By IANS, Raipur : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members in Chhattisgarh were in for a surprise when they realised that their party office in Raipur district (urban) had been mistakenly declared a polling centre for the forthcoming elections. The BJP district office is based in Kirorimal Dharmshala and is located under the Raipur city (west) seat. And according to election officials, about 250 voters are listed for polling in the Kirorimal Dharmshala booth. The party office bearers were indeed taken aback to know that their office had become a polling booth for the Nov 20 elections.

By Ashish Mehta, IANS Ahmedabad : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), thanks to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's mix of Hindutva and economic reforms, has further strengthened its hold over Gujarat by winning the state elections again, continuing its nearly unbroken record since 1995 - a rarity in India. Few parties except the Left Front in West Bengal are successful at retaining power in a state.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Monday released its list of 26 candidates from Bihar with party chief Lalu Prasad contesting from two constituencies in next month's parliamentary elections. "We will now contest in 28 out of 40 seats in Bihar as per our seat sharing pact with the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). We will work to defeat communal forces," Lalu Prasad told reporters, adding that the decision on two seats was pending. Lalu Prasad will be contesting from Patliputra and Saran constituencies.

New Delhi : Ahead of the winter session of parliament beginning Monday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday warned that the Congress party was planning...

By NAK, Srinagar : Ending speculations, Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday welcomed the National Conference and Congress alliance and said that it was ready to play the role of a constructive opposition" in Jammu and Kashmir as it did not have the numbers in the assembly to form a government. "We welcome the new coalition government in the state", former chief minister and PDP Patron told media men, here this afternoon.

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By Aijaz Zaka Syed for Twocircles.net Since the change of guard in India two years ago, it has been one hell of a ride...

New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented India's national budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, saying the country was a...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Mumbai terror attack weighed heavily on the minds of Delhi residents Saturday as they cast their ballot for a new assembly. Be it a 74-year-old woman or a teenager casting his vote for the first time, people voted as much for peace and security as they did for issues like development and price rise. "I have voted for change and want the government to look seriously at issues such as terrorism and price rise," college student Mayank Sharma, 19, who was excited about voting for the first time, told IANS.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) chief ministerial candidate for Delhi elections V.K. Malhotra Tuesday replied to the Election Commission's (EC) notice explaining that he did not violate any norms while filling his nomination. According to the Election Commission guideline the maximum number of vehicles allowed to come within the periphery of 100 meters of the returning officer's chamber is three. The maximum number of persons allowed in at the time of filing nomination is the candidate and four others.

By IANS, Jammu: The Congress has decided to "further strengthen" its base in all the three regions of Jammu and Kashmir, pradesh Congress committee president Saifuddin Soz said Saturday.

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By TCN News Kozhikode: The seventh annual India Health Initiative, a social outreach programme by the India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to provide free...

By Sanjay Sharma, IANS Bhopal : Valentine's Day is three days away and the hype has already started building up in Madhya Pradesh. The Bajrang Dal is threatening couples but this time the Hindu group will have to contend with women's organisations determined to ensure that the day goes by peacefully. The drama that surrounds every Valentine's Day, on Feb 14, began Monday with the Bajrang Dal 'praying' to the sticks and batons they say they will use to stop young lovers from meeting in public places.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday ordered a special probe panel to investigate the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and top state officials in the 2002 communal riots and submit a report within three months. A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly also ordered the Raghavan Committee panel, headed by former CBI Director R.K. Raghavan, to probe the roles of 62 other top ranking politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of the state.

By IANS, Kolkata : An all-party meeting is likely to be held in West Bengal to resolve the ongoing Singur imbroglio, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri said here Monday. "It's most likely that there will be an all-party meeting called by the state government where the Singur issue will be discussed. It will be good if we can arrive at a consensus on Singur. And we are looking at that," Yechuri said.

By IANS, New Delhi : Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Thursday moved a bill in the Rajya Sabha to provide more teeth to India's anti-rape laws, two days after it was passed by the Lok Sabha.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Congress Thursday said it will have its own manifesto and not a common one with its partners in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The Congress Working Committee (CWC) met here to discuss poll strategy ahead of the Lok Sabha elections likely to be held in April-May. The meeting was presided over by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and attended by 29 members. "The Congress will have its own manifesto and in states where we have alliance partners, we would seek votes for them," party spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here after the CWC meeting.

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Local elections are being held today in 144 wards of the city for the Kolkata Municipal elections Corporation. A...

New Delhi : BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday said Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke at the United Nations General Assembly like...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Both houses of parliament were Friday adjourned for the day as a mark of respect to former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who passed away at the age of 92.

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By Darshan Desai, IANS, Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was Friday stunned when an angry crowd of party workers at his constituency here accused him of failing to help them get work in a state-run company. As Gandhi reached Jagdishpur village, his first stop after Lucknow some 70 km away, a group of party workers gathered outside the venue of a function forced his car to halt.

By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was Saturday elected unopposed the president of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) here for the fifth consecutive term, a senior party leader said. "He was elected unopposed as nobody contested against him," party leader Damodar Rout said at a public function here, adding that the election was held at the party headquarters in the city. Patnaik joined politics in 1996 after the death of his father Biju Patnaik and was elected as a Janata Dal member to the 11th Lok Sabha in the by-election from Aska parliamentary constituency.

By IANS, Aizawl : Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who lost in both the seats he contested, Monday submitted his resignation owning moral responsibility for the Mizo National Front's (MNF) election defeat. The chief minister met Governor Lt Gen (Retd) M.M. Lakhera at about 4 p.m. at the Raj Bhavan and submitted his resignation letter, a Raj Bhavan official told IANS as it became evident that the Congress had gained a majority in the 40-seat assembly, leaving only three seats to the MNF, a former insurgent group.

Chennai : DMK president M.Karunanidhi Thursday said the 2014-15 budget presented by union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has a number of welcome features. In a...

By IANS, New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the wake of the controversy over his ministry's note on allocation of 2G spectrum.

Asansol (West Bengal) : Accusing the EC of failing to prevent rigging and violence in West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, BJP leader Narendra...

By IANS, Chennai : Leader of opposition in Tamil Nadu and AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday demanded dismissal of Communications Minister A. Raja over the controversial allocation of 2G telecom spectrum. She also favoured bringing back a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer who was transferred while he was investigating the spectrum allotment case.

By IANS, Samana (Punjab): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday asked the Congress party not to interfere in the religious matters of the Sikhs with an eye to the forthcoming Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) general elections.

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Ranchi : Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday directed senior officials to speak directly with people in rural areas to learn about their...

Chandigarh : After drawing flak for its move to protest against the BSF on the drugs issue, Punjab's ruling Akali Dal Tuesday seemed to...

By IANS, Bhopal : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh is faced with the problem of too many candidates for too few seats -- a large number of party leaders are vying to get nominated for the two vacant Rajya Sabha seats. And the problem has been confounded after the BJP was defeated in 13 of the constituencies in the recent general elections -- many party bigwigs who lost are now eyeing the Rajya Sabha. The seats fell vacant after Rajya Sabha MPs Sushma Swaraj and Narendra Singh Tomar were elected from Vidisha and Bhind Lok Sabha seats respectively.

New Delhi: The government said on Monday it wants a detailed discussion on the JNU row, the Jat agitation for reservations, and other important...

By IANS, Patna : Road and train traffic in Bihar was partly hit Sunday during a shutdown called by the CPI-ML to protest against the...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Friday said he had not read expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book praising Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, but promised to read it soon and form his opinion. In a conversation with reporters, unusual for an RSS leader, Bhagwat said: "I have not read the book; I haven't got the time to read it, but I will read it."

Islamabad : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be having second thoughts on his decision to cancel foreign secretary level talks with Pakistan,...

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By IANS, Kolkata: Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, a Trinamool Congress MP, Friday said all issues with the party following his criticism had been resolved and described himself as a "party slave". "The matter has been resolved," Suman told reporters after a meeting with senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chattapadhyay. "We had a very fruitful and open discussion on the issue. I have conveyed everything to my respected party colleague Partha Chattapadhyay," Suman said.

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Lucknow : Police fired in the air and lobbed tear gas on Tuesday following a clash between two groups of prisoners in a jail...

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New Delhi : A court here Wednesday remanded to judicial custody till March 5 a defence ministry staffer in the case relating to the...

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New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government has restored the dignity of prime minister's office and has given a government that is visible, BJP...