BJP protesters being removed, may be detained (Second Lead)
January 24th, 2011 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Jan 24 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Police began bodily removing some BJP leaders from the Jammu airport as three top party veterans sat down on the tarmac, insisting on going ... Read more...
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Declare Netaji’s birthday as ‘Deshprem Divas’: CPI-M
January 23rd, 2011 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Jan 23 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday reiterated its demand to declare Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birthday Jan 23 as "Deshprem Divas"."We once again urge the centre ... Read more...
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Governance deficit, graft extremely serious issues: Premji
January 21st, 2011 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Jan 21 (IANS) Wipro chairman Azim Premji Friday reiterated that governance deficit and corruption were extremely serious issues for the future of the nation."Enough is enough. The situation in the country ... Read more...
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Zardari seeks unity of allies before US visit
January 13th, 2011 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 13 (IANS) Seeking solidarity among ruling alliance partners on foreign policies, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari held talks with several leaders, including opposition PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, before leaving ... Read more...
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Congress first family should explain Bofors: BJP
January 9th, 2011 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive Sunday decided to take the issue of corruption and scams to the people and the judiciary, while sharpening its attack ... Read more...
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Concluding day of BJP national executive begins
January 9th, 2011 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) The concluding day of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive meet began here Sunday to adopt resolutions aimed at cornering the UPA government on issues pertaining ... Read more...
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Two-day BJP national executive meet begins
January 8th, 2011 - 1:30 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Jan 8 (IANS) The two-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive opened here Saturday morning with party chief Nitin Gadkari, senior leader L.K. Advani and other leaders in attendance.The meeting ... Read more...
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RSS denies Godse was its member, rebuts Congress claim
December 30th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has come out strongly against being linked to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in the commemorative volume the Congress has brought out to ... Read more...
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Himachal village unanimously elects all-woman panchayat
December 16th, 2010 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Dec 16 (IANS) The national leaders are still battling it out on the issue of women reservation in parliament, but a remote village in Himachal Pradesh has unanimously decided to elect ... Read more...
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Pak Army supports political set-up within constitutional limits: ISPR
December 4th, 2010 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI
Rawalpindi, Dec 4(ANI): The Pakistan Army is pursuing a clear policy of supporting the country's political set-up within constitutional limits, and Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani respects all political leaderships, ... Read more...
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`WikiLeaks exposed pettiness of Pakistani leaders’
December 3rd, 2010 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 3 (IANS) The WikiLeaks' revelation has exposed the "pettiness of a number of national leaders" of Pakistan, said a leading Pakistani daily that added "there is a whole set of ... Read more...
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Yeddyurappa launches ad blitz to blunt land deals row
November 26th, 2010 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, reeling under charges of improper land deals, has launched advertisement campaign in newspapers to present his case.One of the ads titled ... Read more...
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Chastened Yeddyurappa vows to keep a distance from kin
November 25th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Nov 25 (IANS) Battling charges of nepotism, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Thursday vowed to keep a distance from his kin and "selfish people"."I had not realised that I had ... Read more...
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Development work, wider support gets BJP resounding results in Bihar
November 24th, 2010 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party's resounding electoral success in the Bihar assembly polls is being attributed by party leaders to development work done by the alliance government ... Read more...
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BJP leaders meet to take a decision on Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa
November 23rd, 2010 - 10:38 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders are presently holding a meet at senior party leader Bal Apte's residence to decide the fate of embattled Karnataka Chief ... Read more...
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Yeddyurappa to abide by party decision: Venkaiah Naidu
November 23rd, 2010 - 12:13 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said that the embattled Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is facing corruption charges, will abide ... Read more...
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Nobody has asked me to resign: Yeddyurappa
November 22nd, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 22 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who arrived here on Monday evening to meet the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) top brass said nobody in the party ... Read more...
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Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa ignores Delhi, seeks divine solace at Puttaparthi
November 22nd, 2010 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
Bangalore, Nov 22 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has ignored summons to reach Delhi on Monday morning as directed by his party top brass and left for Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh ... Read more...
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Modi goes for kill in panchayat polls, Congress edgy
October 20th, 2010 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Oct 20 (IANS) Chief Minister Narendra Modi is going for the kill in the panchayat polls in rural Gujarat Thursday, heady from the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in six ... Read more...
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UAE minister opens education meet
September 18th, 2010 - 10:17 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, Sep 18 (IANS/WAM) UAE's Education Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan Saturday opened the 23rd conference of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT).
Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, senior ... Read more...
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Remark of UN official from China embarrassing: Ban
September 14th, 2010 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS
New York, Sep 13 (DPA) A senior UN official embarrassed his colleagues when he said he disliked Americans and the current UN chief, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
The official in ... Read more...
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Congress scraps plan to show black flags to Gadkari
September 2nd, 2010 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Sep 2 (IANS) The Congress party Thursday withdrew its decision to show black flags to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari who is scheduled to tour Chhattisgarh for two ... Read more...
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Australia’s Rudd appointed to UN panel
August 10th, 2010 - 9:03 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 10 (DPA) Australia's Kevin Rudd will serve with other former national leaders on a United Nations panel on global sustainability, the UN said in a statement Tuesday.
UN Secretary-General Ban ... Read more...
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Sharif says Zardari must cancel UK visit to help flood-hit Pak people
August 2nd, 2010 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI
Peshawar, Aug 2(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has asked President Asif Ali Zardari to cancel his United Kingdom visit when the country was suffering due to floods.Visiting various ... Read more...
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Congress defends gag order (Lead)
July 21st, 2010 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Defending its circular asking party leaders to speak only on subjects concerning them, the Congress Wednesday said that the communication was not individual-specific and the party ... Read more...
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Deploy army in Maoist hit areas: Sushma Swaraj
July 3rd, 2010 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
Hyderabad/Raipur, July 3 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, has said the Central Government should deploy the army in the Maoist-hit areas."There is no confusion, the national ... Read more...
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Sport wins as Merkel, Cameron watch Germany rout England
June 28th, 2010 - 1:00 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, June 27 (DPA) Sportsmanship was the winner Sunday as the leaders of Britain and Germany broke away from a summit of the world's most important politicians to watch Germany thrash ... Read more...
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Nitish-BJP stand-off continues, question mark on alliance (Intro Roundup)
June 22nd, 2010 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Patna, June 21 (IANS) As ties between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar remained strained, the BJP Monday held two rounds of discussions on the ... Read more...
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BJP legislators to decide new Jharkhand CM
May 11th, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by ANI
Ranchi, May 11 (ANI): The new Jharkhand Chief Minister will be chosen at a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs here on Tuesday, a decision to this effect was reached ... Read more...
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Clint Eastwood To Direct FBI Biopic
March 12th, 2010 - 8:00 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Mar 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The process of filming a movie based on one of the biggest and most well known characters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, ... Read more...
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Rights activist continues fast after release from jail
March 10th, 2010 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
Imphal, March 10 (IANS) Manipur human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast-unto-death for 10 years over the repeal of an armed forces act in the state, was under ... Read more...
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West Bengal bids emotional farewell to Jyoti Basu (Intro Roundup)
January 19th, 2010 - 9:49 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) Hundreds of thousands of mourners, many of them weeping, poured onto the streets of Kolkata Tuesday as the body of India's longest serving chief minister and Marxist ... Read more...
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Farooq Abdullah, Azad condole Basu’s death
January 17th, 2010 - 4:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday condoled the death of Jyoti Basu and said the leading light of the Communist ... Read more...
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Dalit leaders demand Ambedkar memorial in Delhi
January 15th, 2010 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Leaders from various political parties, including the Congress, Friday threatened to march to parliament April 30 if the government does not fulfill their demand for building ... Read more...
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Madhya Pradesh chief minister seeks consensus on poll reforms
January 8th, 2010 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 8 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Sing Chouhan Friday sought cooperation from all political parties and social groups in reaching consensus of electoral reforms, such as fixed terms for ... Read more...
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