 | Naresh Gujral, son of former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral, was Thursday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab.
Gujral was backed by the state's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance. The main... More |
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 | Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday said there was "no basic clash" with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on the question of troop reduction in the state as PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed too seemed to have mellowed... More |
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 | Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is facing the heat with hundreds of people, mostly poor, staging widespread protests against irregularities in the below poverty line (BPL) list in the state.
Angry demonstrations began after the state government... More |
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 | Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu Friday termed as absurd the speculation over removal of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya as chief minister of West Bengal in the aftermath of the March 14 Nandigram killings and the groundswell of protests demanding his... More |
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 | Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is consulting constitutional experts ahead of the swearing in of Rana Bhagwandas as chief justice amid protests demanding the president's ouster.
Suspended chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry told a fellow judge... More |
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 | He may be in prison over the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, but the ruling Samajwadi Party has nevertheless given ticket to Amarmani Tripathi to contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
Ironically, the announcement Thursday fielding... More |
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 | Bhutan is all set to hold its first general elections next year, but there is a problem: there are no political parties!
Bhutan is concerned over the lack of political activity or formation of parties. In 2008, the Himalayan kingdom shifts from... More |
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 | Ill-health has forced veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee to give up his plans to launch the party's poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh for the forthcoming assembly elections.
The former prime minister, who was to kick... More |
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 | The Congress party in Kerala will launch a fund collection drive on April 2 for those killed in the Nandigram violence in West Bengal on March 14.
This was announced after a four-member Congress team, led by its state president Ramesh... More |
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 | A whopping Rs.275.5 million. That is the difference between assets declared by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav before the returning officer and the figure submitted in the Supreme Court.
The declaration made by him before the... More |
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