 | Accusing the central government of failing to implement various schemes under the common minimum programme, the MDMK Friday pulled out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and withdrew its support to the government.
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 | In an unprecedented move, the Election Commission Friday replaced the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh to ensure free and fair polling in the April-May assembly elections.
Close on the heels of replacement of the state's Director General of... More |
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 | The Nandigram episode in West Bengal has highlighted all the unfortunate characteristics of Indian politics - the government's dependence on a habitually insensitive police force which recalls colonial rule, the opposition's cussedness, and a lack... More |
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 | Railway Minister Lalu Prasad assured Muslims that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government would implement the Sachar Commmittee report soon.
"I want to assure you that the UPA government will implement the Sachar Committee report. There... More |
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 | Opposition leader L.K. Advani Saturday reached Nandigram, where 14 villagers were killed in police firing, with a high-profile National Democratic Alliance (NDA) team.
He demanded invocation of Article 355 of the constitution to rein in the... More |
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 | Dissensions have surfaced in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) following detention of many of its top leaders, hit by the government's drive against corruption, and a section is moving towards re-grouping minus its supreme leader, former prime... More |
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 | The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the government to explain provisions under which the former central ministers and parliamentarians were allotted government accommodation in the Lutyen's zone of the capital without ensuring recovery of dues like... More |
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 | A parliamentary committee Thursday rejected an Election Commission proposal to disqualify people with criminal records from contesting polls, citing lack of a foolproof system to prove the charges.
Admitting that criminalisation of politics has... More |
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 | The Congress in Punjab Thursday asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to take the "high moral ground" and quit from his post to enable fair investigations into a corruption case against him.
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 | Outgoing French President Jacques Chirac will be questioned in June about his role in a scandal involving the use of phony jobs to raise funds for his former political party, the RPR, judicial sources said Thursday.
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