ACB to probe graft allegations against Bhujbal
September 18th, 2012 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 18 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Tuesday gave its consent to the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to probe corruption charges against PWD Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaderChhagan ... Read more...
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Buddhadeb hits out at Trinamool over Infosys imbroglio
August 5th, 2012 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) Questioning Trinamool Congress-led government over the bottlenecks that have forced IT major Infosys to rethink its West Bengal project, CPI-M leader and former chief minister Buddhadeb ... Read more...
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1956 Olympics: India’s dominance continues
July 11th, 2012 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
The discerning reckon the hockey team to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, led by centre-forward Balbir Singh, was one of the best ever to leave Indian shores. The squad was brimming with ... Read more...
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Sports minister asks AITA why not send two teams (Lead)
June 18th, 2012 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Sports Minister Ajay Maken, stepping into the Indian Olympic tennis imbroglio, Monday asked the All India Tennis Association (AITA) to explain why it was ... Read more...
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RSS mouthpiece slams Modi
June 2nd, 2012 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Close on the heals of veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K.Advani slamming the feuding factions within the party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has ... Read more...
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Air India imbroglio: Ajit Singh promises uniform pay, working hours
June 1st, 2012 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh Friday
promised pilots of the erstwhile Indian Airlines parity in payscales and working hours in the merged Air India in a ... Read more...
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Chidambaram in Aizawl, to discuss Reang issue
April 4th, 2012 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
Aizawl, April 4 (IANS) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived here Wednesday for discussions on resuming the repatriation of 36,000 Reang refugees who have been staying for the past ... Read more...
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Sri Lankan daily criticises India’s UN vote
March 23rd, 2012 - 1:00 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, March 23 (IANS) India may have managed to extricate itself from a domestic political imbroglio at Sri Lanka's expense, but that has "plunged" the country "into an unholy ... Read more...
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Kudankulam row enabled deliberations on atomic power: Kalam
March 21st, 2012 - 1:37 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, March 20 (IANS) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) imbroglio has enabled detailed deliberations on atomic power generation, its viability, safety and other aspects, said former Indian president A.P.J.Abdul ... Read more...
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UN rules out probe into Maldives’ power transfer
February 14th, 2012 - 7:09 am ICT by IANS
Male, Feb 13 (IANS) The UN Monday ruled out launching any investigation into power transfer in the Maldives, suggesting the country should find internal solution to its imbroglio.Completing a three-day ... Read more...
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Nimbus loses BCCI telecast rights, puts off hockey league (Roundup)
December 12th, 2011 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) It was a double whammy for Nimbus Sports Monday. The Indian cricket board terminated its telecast rights contract for defaulting on paymentments and it was ... Read more...
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Lack of will to end Gayle standoff with WICB: Dujon
November 8th, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Leading wicketkeeper-batsman of yesteryears Jeffrey Dujon, who never played in a losing series when the West Indies ruled world cricket, feels there is a lack ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi to meet Kanimozhi, Sonia
October 21st, 2011 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 21 (IANS) DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi Friday evening left for New Delhi to meet his jailed daughter Kanimozhi. He will also ... Read more...
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Konkan Railway revenue hit by mining scam: Official
October 12th, 2011 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 12 (IANS) The ban on mining in Karnataka and the imbroglio over illegal mining in Goa have hit hard the commercial freight revenues of the Konkan Railway (KR), ... Read more...
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News channels should open up to more intensive audit (Comment)
September 11th, 2011 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
Forty news channels in the country, organised under the banner of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), have demanded from TAM Media Research, the principal audience ratings agency, that viewer data is ... Read more...
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Probe Chidambaram’s role in 2G case: Swamy tells apex court (Lead)
September 8th, 2011 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Thursday told the Supreme Court that the CBI probe into the 2G case was not focusing on the role ... Read more...
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Rebel Meghalaya legislators seek chief minister’s ouster
June 1st, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, June 1 (IANS) Exerting pressure on party leadership to remove Mukul Sangma from the chief minister's post, rebel Congress legislators in Meghalaya Wednesday told party chief Sonia Gandhi ... Read more...
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NCP atacks Congress over MSC Bank imbroglio
May 13th, 2011 - 2:04 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party launched a no-holds barred attack on alliance partner, Congress over the recent RBI move to supersede the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank ... Read more...
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Jolted by Trinamool, Congress to discuss developments
March 18th, 2011 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Taken aback by Trinamool Congress' unilateral announcement of its candidates for 228 seats for the West Bengal assembly elections, the Congress leadership Friday said ... Read more...
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Coalition dharma: No provocative language
March 14th, 2011 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) Hopeful of an alliance with the Trinamool Congress, West Bengal Congress president Manas Bhuniya Monday cautioned party workers against using provocative language against the alliance ... Read more...
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‘Congress-Trinamool pact within a week’ (Lead)
March 14th, 2011 - 1:17 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) The Congress and the Trinamool Congress made yet another attempt Sunday to resolve the imbroglio over seat-sharing for the April-May West Bengal assembly elections, ... Read more...
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Congresss-Trinamool attempt to resolve seat-sharing imbroglio
March 13th, 2011 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Congress and the Trinamool Congress made yet another attempt Sunday to resolve the imbroglio over seat-sharing for the West Bengal assembly elections and ... Read more...
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CWG: Infostrada refutes allegations of non-performance
February 4th, 2011 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 4 (IANS) Infostrada Sports, the Dutch company contracted by the Delhi Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to provide media services, has refuted allegations of "non-performance" while claiming that the organisers still ... Read more...
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Chauhan slams Omar, Arundhati for questioning status of J-K
January 13th, 2011 - 9:52 pm ICT by ANI
Khajuraho, Jan 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Thursday said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and noted writer Arundhati Roy should be prosecuted for questioning the status of ... Read more...
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All warring parties should sit for talks, says Meira Kumar
December 24th, 2010 - 5:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Friday appealed to all parties to come together and sit for discussion to prevent any recurrence of the logjam witnessed in the ... Read more...
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Lobbying is legal but up to a point: Salman Khurshid
December 16th, 2010 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 16 (IANS) Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid Thursday said lobbying and public relations were part of the democratic set-up, but cautioned against their use to subvert corporate ... Read more...
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Imbroglio continues as NDA stay put to its demand
December 3rd, 2010 - 7:46 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): The impasse over the 2G-spectrum scam continues as BJP sticked to its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).Senior BJP leader LK Advani told reporters that the ... Read more...
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Mizoram tribal refugees resist repatriation from Tripura (Lead)
November 20th, 2010 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Nov 20 (IANS) The Mizoram government is going ahead with its programme to relocate Reang tribals, who fled to neighbouring Tripura after ethnic clashes 13 years ago, an official said ... Read more...
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Mizoram tribals protest repatriation
November 20th, 2010 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Nov 20 (IANS) The Tripura government is going ahead with its programme to relocate Reang tribals, who settled in the state after ethnic clashes in Mizoram, an official said Saturday, ... Read more...
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Sushma Swaraj targets govt on corruption
November 9th, 2010 - 3:21 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 9 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the government was scam-ridden and not enough action has been taken in regards ... Read more...
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Parliament winter session begins on stormy note
November 9th, 2010 - 1:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The winter session of parliament began here Tuesday on a stormy note with the opposition targeting the government over alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games and ... Read more...
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Opposition to raise corruption issues in parliament
November 7th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Opposition parties have decided to raise the issue of corruption during parliament's winter session beginning Tuesday and will try to pin down the government on controversies ... Read more...
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Repatriation of tribal refugees to Mizoram begins
November 4th, 2010 - 4:11 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala/Aizawl, Nov 4 (IANS) The much-awaited repatriation of tribal refugees from Tripura to Mizoram has begun even as the uncertainty over the return of all migrants looms large, officials said Thursday.Out ... Read more...
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‘Situation not ripe’ for US to mediate over Kashmir issue: US Foreign Policy official
October 20th, 2010 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): The current situation is not apt for the United States to play a role in resolving the Kashmir dispute, even if India and Pakistan accept its intervention, a ... Read more...
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NEHU students, vice-chancellor head for showdown
October 18th, 2010 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Oct 18 (IANS) North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Vice-Chancellor A.N. Rai Monday said he will not bow down to the pressure of the agitating students, who are demanding his removal. ... Read more...
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