AIFF forms two bodies for club-licensing criteria
August 22nd, 2012 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) With I-League clubs repeatedly failing to meet club licensing criteria, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Wednesday formed two committees that would ensure that the ... Read more...
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‘New bill takes judge’s impeachment process to logical conclusion’
August 4th, 2012 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug. 3 (IANS) Law Minister Salman Khurshid Friday said the Judicial Accountability Bill (JAB) would provide that once impeachment proceedings are initiated against an errant judge, they are ... Read more...
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West Bengal report sought on Ghishing petition
June 19th, 2012 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Tuesday admitted a petition by GNLF chief Subhas Ghishing challenging the constitutional validity of the proposed Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and asked ... Read more...
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Amend statute for job promotions to SCs, STs: Mayawati
April 30th, 2012 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati Monday called for amending the constitution to provide reservation in job promotions to the Scheduled Castes and the ... Read more...
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Talks successful, we are hopeful: Rajkhowa
April 9th, 2012 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Guwahati, April 9 (IANS) Leader of the pro-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) Arabinda Rajkhowa Monday termed as successful the talks with the central ... Read more...
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TV channels blanked out during Bangladesh rally
March 12th, 2012 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, March 12 (IANS) At least three satellite television channels in Bangladesh were Monday blanked out ahead of a rally held by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a media ... Read more...
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Bangladesh opposition holds mass rally (Lead)
March 12th, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, March 12 (IANS) Bangladesh's main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), at a mass rally in the capital Monday set a 90-day ultimatum for the government to restore the ... Read more...
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Yemenis go to polls as violence flares up
February 21st, 2012 - 4:09 pm ICT by IANS
Sanaa, Feb 21 (IANS) Yemenis headed for polling stations Tuesday to vote for a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, hoping to pull the impoverished country back from possible civil ... Read more...
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Digvijay snubs Mulayam on higher Muslim quota
January 20th, 2012 - 9:37 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Jan 20 (IANS) Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Friday dismissed Mulayam Singh Yadav's pledge to reseve more jobs for Muslims by claiming the Samajwadi Party leader was not serious.He ... Read more...
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Fresh Scheduled Tribes’ quota in Uttar Pradesh house suggested (Lead)
January 10th, 2012 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the Election Commission to consider a plea for reservation for the Scheduled Tribes in Uttar Pradesh assembly on the basis ... Read more...
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Amid opposition, Lokpal bill tabled with minority quota (Lead)
December 22nd, 2011 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Amid stiff opposition, the government Thursday finally introduced in the Lok Sabha the much-debated Lokpal bill that envisages creation of anti-graft institutions at the ... Read more...
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Amend Prevention of Corruption Act: CPI-M
August 25th, 2011 - 9:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) It is vital to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) if corruption has to be overcome, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has said.The ... Read more...
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Obama touts possible bipartisan pact on debt limit
July 20th, 2011 - 11:49 am ICT by IANS
Washington, July 20 (IANS/EFE) President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday of a possible bipartisan accord that includes both spending cuts and tax increases and allows the US debt limit to ... Read more...
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Hasina for Islam as Bangladesh’s state religion
May 31st, 2011 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, May 31 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed herself in favour of retaining Islam as the state religion, moving away from the secular provisions in the ... Read more...
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Revisit system of judges’ appointment, Supreme Court urged
April 4th, 2011 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The central government Monday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the system of appointment of judges to higher judiciary as the existing collegium procedure has ... Read more...
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Tibetan parliament to decide on Dalai Lama move in May (Lead)
March 25th, 2011 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, March 25 (IANS) The Tibetan parliament-in-exile Friday formally accepted the Dalai Lama's proposal to relinquish political authority and decided to hold a special session by May-end to amend its ... Read more...
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Cabinet nod for bill to introduce goods and services tax
March 15th, 2011 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) India's union cabinet Tuesday gave its nod for amending the constitution to introduce a uniform goods and services tax regime across the country by ... Read more...
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Bahrain king pardons political prisoners
February 22nd, 2011 - 4:10 pm ICT by IANS
Manamma, Feb 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The king of Bahrain agreed to pardon political prisoners, but rejected other demands by protesters, a government source told RIA Novosti Tuesday.Thousands of mainly Shiite protesters have ... Read more...
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‘Egyptian military accused of using divide and conquer strategy in run up to reform’
February 17th, 2011 - 5:36 pm ICT by ANI
Cairo, Feb 17(ANI): The Egyptian military, which took direct control of the country for what it insists will be a maximum of six months before restoring civilian rule, has been accused of ... Read more...
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Ministers favour fast-tracking cases of corrupt officials
February 15th, 2011 - 12:07 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) The Group of Ministers on (GoM) on corruption met here Monday and is learnt to have favoured fast-tracking cases of corruption against public servants. Official ... Read more...
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Kashmir cabinet panel to meet Saturday over panchayat polls
January 28th, 2011 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Jan 28 (IANS) A cabinet sub-committee of the Jammu and Kashmir government is to meet here Saturday to decide on the panchayat polls dates and also take a call on whether ... Read more...
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Interlocutors indulging in sound byte unilateralism: BJP (Lead)
October 28th, 2010 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Hitting out at the interlocutors, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said the central team on Kashmir had transformed the "quiet dialogue" mentioned by Home Minister ... Read more...
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Blast outside imperilled Nepal parliament as crisis looms (Lead)
May 28th, 2010 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, May 28 (IANS) A blast took place outside Nepal's endangered parliament late Friday, just hours before the term of the house ends and a constitutional crisis threatens the nascent Himalayan republic. ... Read more...
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Nepal rushes towards President’s rule, emergency
May 25th, 2010 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 25 (IANS) With an unprecedented constitutional crisis set to engulf Nepal and its embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal still refusing to quit, President's rule and a state ... Read more...
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Nepal PM not to quit
May 1st, 2010 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, May 1 (IANS) Facing an unprecedented crisis with the opposition Maoists ready to clamp an indefinite general strike from Sunday and parliament and the government facing dissolution in four weeks time, ... Read more...
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Congress seeks new norms on cabinet size in northeast states
April 20th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, April 20 (IANS) The Congress Tuesday said a new yardstick has to be evolved for fixing the size of the council of ministers in northeast states to prevent political instability. ... Read more...
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Right to Food Act on the anvil, says Chidambaram
April 18th, 2010 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will soon introduce a Right to Food Act in parliament, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Sunday.
Speaking at a ... Read more...
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Government approves 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies
October 22nd, 2009 - 9:52 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 22 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today approved a proposal for amending the Constitution to increase the women reservation in urban local bodies from one third to 50 percent.This provision ... Read more...
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Nepal government deals another blow to Hindi
August 13th, 2009 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Aug 13 (IANS) The use of the Hindi language for official work was dealt a second blow by the Nepal government Thursday with most of the ruling parties ... Read more...
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Advani favours fixed legislature terms, compulsory voting (Second Lead)
April 30th, 2009 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmedabad, April 30 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Thursday called for amending the constitution to fix the term for legislatures and make voting compulsory.
Advani, accompanied ... Read more...
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Advani continues to target Manmohan Singh
March 28th, 2009 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
Gandhinagar, Mar 28 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP's) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani asserted that if NDA is voted to power, it will amend the Constitution so that only ... Read more...
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Kachchathivu island is ours, there is no dispute: Sri Lanka
January 7th, 2009 - 4:40 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Jan 7 (IANS) Claiming that there was "no dispute over Kachchathivu island", Sri Lanka Wednesday said that the island located in the Palk Strait off Rameshwaram belonged to the island nation ... Read more...
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Government gets notice on plea to retrieve Kachchatheevu island
January 5th, 2009 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the government on a plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha to retrieve a 285-acre island in the ... Read more...
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Jayalalitha moves court to retrieve island from Sri Lanka
August 7th, 2008 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the central government to retrieve from Sri Lanka the Kachatheevu island ... Read more...
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Two ministers of Rajasthan Government to talk to Gujjars
June 9th, 2008 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI
Jaipur, June 9 (ANI): In a bid to break the deadlock with the agitating Gujjars, the Rajasthan government today asked Irrigation Minister Sanwarmal Jat and Mines Minister Laxmi Narayan Dave to ... Read more...
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