 | Raising serious doubts over the citizenship of the Congress MP M.K. Subba, the Supreme Court Friday asked him to submit documents to the court to prove his citizenship.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan asked the Lok Sabha MP from... More |
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 | Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a second five-year term in September-October ahead of the general elections he has promised to hold, but this could result in a constitutional tangle.
Since he would be using the current... More |
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 | "It feels good to be laying down the gun," says the 23-year-old Maoist soldier busy digging a field in southern Nepal to lay down water supply pipes. "But it does not mean surrender. We will be ready to take them up to defend ourselves."
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Only six candidates, including three independents, filed their papers for various assembly seats in Punjab on Thursday, the first day of filing of nominations for the Feb 13 polls.
Two of these nominations were for Patiala town from where the... More |
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 | The Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in Uttar Pradesh Thursday formally withdrew support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav government, which also faced a torrid time on the opening day of the assembly session over mass murders in Nithari village... More |
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West Bengal's East Midnapore constituency was tense Wednesday after a trade union leader was killed Tuesday night in Nandigaram, where people have been resisting land acquisition for a special economic zone (SEZ). The Trinamool Congress claims the... More |
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 | The Congress Wednesday withdrew its outside support to the government of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav but this will not impact on the ruling coalition when it faces a trust vote in the assembly later this month.
Yadav has... More |
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 | The first tussle over power sharing between Nepal's seven-party government and the Maoists since the rebels joined parliament was resolved Wednesday with both sides agreeing on a status quo.
Even as the guerrillas returned to parliament Monday,... More |
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 | World leaders and Nobel laureates and eminent personalities from around the world will attend an international conference being organised Jan 29-30 to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's historic Satyagraha (non-violent resistance)... More |
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 | A group of Trinamool Congress activists Tuesday stormed into the plot fenced off for the Tata Motors plant - land acquisition for which has led to widespread protests in West Bengal - and uprooted poles and cut down the barbed wire.
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