 | Under Congress rule Uttar Pradesh's growth rate was 4.8 percent and industrial growth 7.7 percent, but non-Congress governments have reduced its economy to a shambles, said Kapil Sibal, Congress media management convenor.
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 | Former finance minister Han Duck Soo became South Korea's new premier Monday after his appointment was approved in a 210-51 vote in parliament.
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Former chief justice of India Rajendra Babu was Monday appointed chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Justice Babu, who retired as chief justice of India June 1, 2004, had delivered several landmark judgments during his... More |
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 | Snubbed by several state Congress leaders, veteran Kerala politician K. Karunakaran Monday said he had been misquoted and had never said he wanted to return to the Congress.
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 | The mountainous northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh is heading for a leadership change with the country's longest serving chief minister Gegong Apang facing a bitter political revolt from within his ruling Congress party lawmakers.
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 | Ukraine's political players Tuesday were taking up hardline negotiating positions, and speaking little of compromise, as the country reacted to news that President Viktor Yushchenko had dissolved parliament and sparked a constitutional crisis.
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 | The fate of Kerala Local Self Government Minister Paloli Mohammed Kutty, who cast aspersions on the judiciary in his speech, will be decided at a cabinet meting Tuesday, said Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.
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 | With the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh this weekend, the battle for power appears to be a two-way fight between Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati with the Bharatiya... More |
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 | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday unveiled its plans to deploy its top leaders in the campaign ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls even as it vowed to uproot the Mulayam Singh Yadav government.
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 | Shiv Sena working president Uddhav Thackeray Sunday suggested his party's alliance with the Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will help bail Maharashtra out of the current crisis in power and agriculture sectors.
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