May 16th, 2008 - 1:59 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, May 16 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Karunanidhi was Friday hospitalised after he complained of acute neck pain. The DMK leader is 83 years old.
"There was some pain in his neck and keeping his age in mind no chances were taken. He is not in any danger and ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:36 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet was stable Friday after being admitted to a hospital with severe respiratory problems, his party said. "His condition is stable," said a CPI-M functionary at the party headquarters here. His daughter-in-law Manjeet told IANS: ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:51 pm ICT by admin
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Guwahati, May 16 (IANS) Assam Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh finds himself in a blazing controversy over awarding police and civil officials of the state's Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts with medals for excellence in service. The awards ceremony came at a time when both the districts ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 8:38 am ICT by admin
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Bangalore, May 16 (IANS) Voting began Friday morning in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of central, coastal and parts of north Karnataka in the second phase of elections for the 224-member state assembly. Over 11 million people are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 589 candidates - an ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:10 am ICT by admin
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Thiruvananthapuram, May 15 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and former central minister Henry Austin passed away here Thursday. He was 88. The end came at his daughter's home here late in the evening.
Austin won from the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency in the 1971 and 1977 polls. When the Congress split and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:16 pm ICT by admin
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Kozhikode (Kerala), May 15 (IANS) The bickering between ruling allies - the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) - in Kerala intensified Thursday with the senior leaders of both parties lashing out at one another over proposed food security scheme. The scheme aims at ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:49 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, May 15 (IANS) Over 55,000 security personnel and almost an equal number of poll officials were Thursday all set to conduct balloting Friday in 66 assembly constituencies in the second phase of elections to the 224-member Karnataka assembly. All eyes are on Shikaripura in Shimoga district from where Bharatiya ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:38 pm ICT by admin
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Beirut, May 15 (DPA) The pro-Iranian Shia movement Hezbollah said Thursday it was ready for dialogue with the Western-backed ruling majority to safeguard the unity of the government. "We should solve the issue inside the Lebanese arena and are ready for dialogue to end the Lebanese crisis," Hezbollah's deputy secretary ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:14 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) A relative of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader and West Bengal Irrigation Minister Subhas Naskar was seriously injured Thursday in a crude bomb explosion at his village house at Basanti in South 24 Parganas district of Bengal. "The incident took place around 2.30 p.m. Thursday at ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:47 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday demanded that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) be put on the watch list of the international community "for fomenting divisive activities in this country". "The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government should make immediate diplomatic efforts to put ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:22 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the union government on a plea by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to scrap a corruption case against her for owning properties exceeding her legal income. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.V. Raveendran and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:07 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 15 (IANS) India's newly appointed envoy to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, Thursday categorically denied reports of a secret pact forged two years ago between his government, the major political parties and embattled King Gyanendra, and said India respected the Nepali people's verdict for a republic and was ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:06 pm ICT by admin
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Hyderabad, May 15 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Thursday launched the ruling Congress party's campaign for the May 29 by-elections. The chief minister launched the campaign in Chevella constituency in Ranga Reddy district near state capital Hyderabad after praying at two local temples.
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:05 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, May 15 (IANS) Former Karnataka minister B. Sriramulu of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went missing Thursday after allegedly assaulting a Congress worker on the eve of voting in the politically volatile and iron ore-rich Bellary district, a police official said. "He is absconding and search is on," Bellary ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 5:25 pm ICT by admin
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By Fakir Balaji
Bellary, May 15 (IANS) Bellary, India's richest mining town, has turned into a war zone. Mining tycoons Gali Somashekar Reddy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Anil Lad of the Congress are flexing money and muscle power to grab the prestigious constituency in north Karnataka in the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 5:10 pm ICT by admin
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Yangon, May 15 (DPA) Myanmar's controversial referendum - held May 10 in the wake of the destruction wrought by Cyclone Nargis - has ratified a constitution designed to cement the military's political power with a 92.4 percent "yes" vote, state media reported Thursday. The Commission for Holding Nationwide Referendum announced ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 3:43 pm ICT by admin
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Kuala Lumpur, May 15 (IANS) "MIC - the New Generation Party," is the new tagline for the Malaysian Indian Congress that wants to reinvent itself to be able to continue to speak for the country's 2.6 million ethnic Indians. Party chief S. Samy Vellu intends to re-brand the party after ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 3:27 pm ICT by admin
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Bhubaneswar, May 15 (IANS) Former president of the Congress party's Orissa unit and former MP Chintamani Jena has died here, family sources said Thursday. Jena, 85, was elected to the state assembly from Basta constituency thrice - 1967, 1971 and 1974 - and was twice elected to the Lok Sabha ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 3:10 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Cabinet ministers Thursday discussed the Jaipur terror attacks in great detail and demanded greater coordination among the intelligence agencies to prevent such bombings. A cabinet minister told IANS that the meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, spent most of the one hour debating ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by admin
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By Fakir Balaji
Mangalore, May 15 (IANS) In the second phase of polling Friday, the die is cast for a no-holds-barred contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in 66 assembly constituencies across 10 districts in coastal and central Karnataka. In all, about 590 candidates are in the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:48 pm ICT by admin
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Harare/Johannesburg, May 15 (DPA) The Zimbabwe government has extended the period within which a run-off presidential must be held to 90 days from the announcement of the results of the first round on May 2, a government source and South African media said. A member of parliament for President Robert ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:03 pm ICT by admin
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By Nityanand Shukla
Ranchi, May 15 (IANS) The Jharkhand government shelled out Rs.350 million on a helicopter to be used during anti-Maoist operations, but policemen say it is ferrying ministers instead. An indigenously manufactured Dhruv helicopter was purchased last year by the government from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for surveillance and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:40 am ICT by admin
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By Sujeet Kumar
Raipur, May 15 (IANS) Assembly polls are due in Chhattisgarh in November, but state Congress chief Charandas Mahant says he is getting no support from influential party colleague Ajit Jogi in getting into election mode. Stepping up the attack on former chief minister Jogi, Mahant said: "He does ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:58 am ICT by admin
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Bhopal, May 14 (IANS) Narendra Singh Tomar, president of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Wednesday said he would not contest the assembly polls slated to take place later this year. He said the BJP retaining power was more important for him than gaining power for ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:56 pm ICT by admin
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Lucknow, May 14(IANS) Uttar Pradesh police sub-inspector K.K. Dwivedi Wednesday denied Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's claim that he had raided party leader Amar Singh's residence in Kolkata. Mulayam Singh had Tuesday alleged that Dwivedi had raided Amar Singh's house. He had also released a video CD that ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:56 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday ordered suspension till July-end of the ongoing trial of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and his two relatives in a Mohali court for alleged corruption. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan ordered the suspension on a plea by Badal's ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:55 pm ICT by admin
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By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), May 14 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi's tour of her Lok Sabha constituency Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh appeared jinxed from the word go. Gandhi had to cut short her visit by a day to be able to go to Jaipur where serial ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:54 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, May 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's Minister for Social Welfare A.A. Poongothai resigned Wednesday after telephone intercepts indicated she purportedly spoke to a senior police official to shield one of her relatives facing corruption charges. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was yet to accept her resignation. He told the assembly the ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:53 pm ICT by admin
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Thiruvananthapuram, May 14 (IANS) Accusing Kerala's Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem of corruption in awarding the contact for erecting a titanium sponge plant, legislator P.C. George Wednesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into it. "A similar plant that has already become operational in Japan with a capacity of ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:53 pm ICT by admin
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Kozhikode, May 14 (IANS) At least 12 people, including seven policemen, were injured Wednesday when an anti-government protest march by the Muslim Youth League (MYL) here turned violent. Police had to use teargas shells and baton-charge the workers of the MYL, the youth wing of the Indian Union Muslim League ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:52 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, May 14 (IANS) Political parties in Karnataka Wednesday ended their campaign for the second phase of polling Friday for 66 assembly seats in 10 districts in central, coastal and northern parts of the state. Over 11 million people are eligible to vote and decide the fate of 589 candidates, ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:51 pm ICT by admin
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By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi
Rae Bareli, May 14 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, visiting her Lok Sabha constituency here Wednesday, enquired from the locals about the state of water supply, crops and the centrally-sponsored schemes. "She asked me what problems I was facing, and I told her I had not yet ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:51 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Five people were killed Wednesday in political clashes during the second round of the three-phase elections to local executive bodies in West Bengal. The districts that went to polls Wednesday are North and South 24-Parganas, Nadia, Howrah and Hoogly.
"Three Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) supporters and ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:50 pm ICT by admin
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Kozhikode, May 14 (IANS) Congress state president Ramesh Chennithala Wednesday asked Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) for a white paper on illegal encroachments on government lands and the area reclaimed after vacating these. "On its first anniversary, the government declared with great fanfare that it will vacate all the ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 11:48 pm ICT by admin
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By Muhammad Najeeb
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said Wednesday his party will restore the sacked judges but it will be done through a "parliament act" and he cannot give any deadline for it. "I am not in a position to give deadline, but ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 5:23 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) With eight major unsolved terror attacks since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) took over as its ammunition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to corner the government for its lapses and its inability to nab the culprits. The serial blasts in Jaipur Tuesday ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 4:22 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Violence continued across five West Bengal districts Wednesday in the second round of the three-phased panchayat polls with clashes between the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and rival political parties claiming at least four lives and leaving almost a score injured. The districts that are ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by admin
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By Sharat Pradhan
Lucknow, May 14 (IANS) It has been a year of demolitions and constructions in the one year that Mayawati has been Uttar Pradesh's chief minister. The Dalit icon has been busy razing and rebuilding huge structures, including those she had ordered to be constructed during her previous three ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 2:12 pm ICT by admin
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) With the government gearing to deploy officials from the minorities in areas they dominate, community leaders have said that welfare of minorities should not be linked to the "religion of bureaucrats" and sought better implementation of welfare measures for their economic and ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by admin
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By Bobby Ramakant
Land-mafia in Kanpur in connivance with officials of Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) have slapped false fabricated charges against an Right-to-Information (RTI) campaign leader - Roby Sharma.
Roby has been spearheading the RTI campaign in Kanpur since past two years now, exposing corruption and championing people)