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India-US should handle outsourcing issue without rancour: US

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 7 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (UNI) With prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee criticising the US senate decision to restrict outsourcing, the US today said it was ready to re...

BSP yet to decide on alliance with Congress: Mayawati

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (UNI) BSP supremo Mayawati today said her party was yet to decide on having an alliance with any party and would do so only after the Lok Sabha...

Sangma claims support of majority of NCP workers

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (UNI) PA Sangma, who parted company with Nationalist Congress Party, led by Sharad Pawar, today said his group would submit all necessary docum...

Guj NCP gen sec Bharat Pathak resigns

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

VADODARA, Feb 2 (UNI) General secretary of the Gujarat unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Bharat Pathak, has resigned from his post protesting against...

'Gandhis can safely contest from Karnataka': KPCC chief

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (UNI) Karnataka Pradesh Congress has extended an 'open invitation' to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyank...

Congress confident of Sonia forming next govt

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

JALANDHAR, Feb 2 (UNI) The Congress today expressed confidence that its president Sonia Gandhi would be chosen leader of the secular alliance in a smooth manner...

DMK wraps up seat-sharing process with allies

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 3 min read

CHENNAI, Feb 2 (UNI) Surviving stumbling blocks over allocation of seats for the coming Lok Sabha elections, the DMK, leading the Democratic Progressive Allianc...

Iran wants early closure of oil & gas deals

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 6 min read

MUMBAI, Feb 2 (UNI) In a bid to tap the growing gas market in India, Iran has offered equity stake in its gigantic South Pars Gas field provided New Delhi buys ...

Vajpayee, Jaya 'unprincipled,' says Kamal Nath

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 1 min read

CHENNAI, Feb 2 (UNI) AICC general secretary Kamal Nath today strongly criticised prime minister AB Vajpayee and AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister J J...

Cong cadres sulking over loss of Pondy seat to PMK

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 2 min read

PONDICHERRY, Feb 2 (UNI) The Congress camp in this union territory is in low spirits in the wake of the finalisation of the seat-sharing agreement between the p...

Dalit parties to come together in TN

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 8 min read

CHENNAI, Feb 2 (UNI) Spurned by the rival Dravidian parties,the DMK and the AIADMK, the two Dalit parties, Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT) and the Dalit Panthers of Ind...

Jaswant likely to offer sops to exporters in Interim budget

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (UNI) Having received sops from commerce and industry minister Arun Jaitley in the mini-exim policy, exporters' eyes are turned on finance mini...

Govt to set up 5 m tonnes crude oil storage

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 18 min read

NEW DELHI, Jan 7 (UNI) The government today announced the setting up of five million tonnes strategic crude oil storage at a total cost of Rs 6,650 crore with a...

Twin cities turn saffron to welcome Vajpayee

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 19 min read

AYODHYA, Feb 7 (UNI) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have turned the twin cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad saffron to welcome prime minister Atal ...

Build Ram temple, mosque in Ayodhya: AJM

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 12 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (UNI) The Ayodhya Jama Masjid Trust today welcomed the prime minister's visit to the temple town and urged him to solve the vexed dispute withi...

PM to visit Ayodhya on presidential saloon

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would use the luxurious presidential saloon of the Indian Railways to visit Ayodhya on February 7 for...

Mayawati to hold rallies in abolished districts

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 3 min read

LUCKNOW, Feb 4 (UNI) Buoyed by the Allahabad High Court order asking the Uttar Pradesh government not to further implement its notification scrapping nine distr...

Interim budget aimed at appeasing voters: Sonia

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) Leader of the opposition Sonia Gandhi today termed as "populist document" the interim budget aimed at appeasing a larger chunk of voters ...

Hike in defence outlay positive sign: Gen Vij

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 1 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 04 (UNI) Army chief general N C Vij today described the non-lapseable defence modernisation fund of Rs 25,000 crore and hike in the outlay from Rs ...

HC upholds POTA Review Committee's jurisdiction

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 1 min read

CHENNAI, Feb 4 (UNI) In a significant ruling, Madras High Court today held that any direction given by the Review Committee, constituted by the centre to review...

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