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Advani: Will consult central leaders over party chief

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): With the RSS pushing for a generational shift in BJP, senior leader L K Advani, who has been tasked with overseeing a smooth transi...

Vedic row: Mamata decides to go on the offensive

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

KOLKATA, Sept 5(Agencies): Scotching speculation that Trinamool Congress is silent on irregularities in land acquisition in Vedic Village, party chairperson Mam...

Music and dance mark the end of Ganesh festival

Thursday · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

Pune, Sept 5(Agencies): Dancing to the beat of music played on loudspeakers, thousands of people thronged the streets to bid adieu to Lord Ganesh. In spite of a...

EPFO retains 8.5percent on PF for current fiscal

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, July 4 (Agencies): A crucial meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has decided to retain the...

Lalu against legalising gay sex

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 3 min read

PATNA, July 4 (Agencies): RJD chief Lalu Prasad today denounced Delhi High court''s ruling decriminalising gay sex and said the Centre should appeal against the...

Mysore shutdown evokes mixed response

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

MYSORE, July 4 (Agencies): A dawn to dusk shutdown call given by the Hindu Jagaran Vedike in protest against an attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth l...

Commuters welcome Mamata Banerjee's railway budget

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

MUMBAI/ KOLKATA, July 4 (Agencies): Amidst steep hike in fuel prices, India's rail budget unveiled by Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee in parliament on Friday ...

Commuters welcome Mamata's Railway budget

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

MUMBAI/KOLKATA, July 4 (Agencies): Commuters in Mumbai, by and large, have welcomed this year's Railway Budget, which Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee tabled in...

Over 300,00 stranded as Assam flood situation turns grim

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 3 min read

GUWAHATI/MAJULI (ASSAM), July 4 (Agencies): Incessant rains in Assam's catchment areas have left over 300,000 people stranded. Reports said that most of the sta...

Heroin worth rupees 600 million seized in Punjab

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

FEROZEPUR (PUNJAB), July 4 (Agencies): Punjab police seized heroin worth millions here on Friday. Two people were arrested with 12 kilogram of heroin in their p...

Sri Lanka aid ship permitted to offload at Chennai

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

CHENNAI, July 4 (Agencies): A ship carrying aid for victims of war ravaged Sri Lanka, which had anchored off Chennai for more than a fortnight, has been permitt...

Karunanidhi questions Raja over Jayalalitha allegation

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, July 4 (Agencies): DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has asked his party colleague and IT and Communication Minister A. Raja to ...

People losing interest in poll process: Meira Kumar

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 3 min read

BHOPAL, July 4 (Agencies): Expressing concern over the decline in polling percentage, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Saturday called upon lawmakers to introspect...

Andhra panel proposes upper fee limit for private schools

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 3 min read

HYDERABAD, July 4 (Agencies): Andhra Pradesh is now mulling fixing an upper limit on the fees charged by private schools. A panel constituted by the state gover...

Centre has failed to tackle Naxal problem: Rajnath

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read

RANCHI, July 4 (Agencies): The BJP today alleged that the Centre has failed to solve the Naxal problem, saying the menace should be tackled administratively and...

A new work culture needed for bureaucrats: President

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 3 min read

MUSSOORIE, July 4 (Agencies): Asking bureaucrats to remove the image of red-tapism, President Pratibha Patil on Saturday said there is need to evolve a new work...

Jaya's allegations politically motivated: Raja

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

CHENNAI, July 4 (Agencies): As the issue kept popping up, Union minister A Raja on Saturday described as "baseless and politically motivated" allegations by AIA...

Four units of thermal plants close down in UP, crisis deepens

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

LUCKNOW, July 4 (Agencies): With two units each of Anpara and Parichha thermal plants closing down due to technical snag, power crisis deepened in the Uttar Pra...

UP gives green signal to Varun's prosecution

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

LUCKNOW, July 4 (Agencies): The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday formally sanctioned prosecution of BJP MP from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi, for spreading communal...

Central forces' deployment in Kandhamal extended

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 2 min read

BHUBANESWAR, July 4 (Agencies): Conceding Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's demand, the central government has extended the deployment of its paramilitary ...

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