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Taslima back in India after Sweden exile

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:51:06 -0400

BY PARWEZ HAFEEZ and NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA KOLKATTA/NEW DELHI Aug. 8: The Marxist administration in West Bengal does not want Taslima Nasreen back in Kolkata. The West Bengal

Cong gives clean chit to Vohra

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:56 -0400

New Delhi: Rejecting the demand of its Jammu MLAs and the BJP to recall Jammu and Kashmir governor N.N. Vohra, the Congress on Friday gave

All-party team in Jammu today

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:49:24 -0400

By Our Correspondent New Delhi Aug. 8: An 18-member all-party delegation headed by Union home minister Shivraj Patil, including five other union ministers, will visit Jammu and

Ramadoss champions gay rights

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:49:54 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Aug. 8: The homosexual community has found a friend in Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has expressed strong support for deletion

Student beaten up for seeking info under RTI

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:50:18 -0400

BY SONAL KELLOGG New Delhi Aug. 8: Mohsin, a Class 9 student, feared that seeking information under the RTI Act could pose a physical threat to him.

‘No force can stop me from becoming PM’

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:25:08 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Aug. 8: BSP supremo Mayawati has said that no force can stop her from becoming the Prime Minister if "sarv samaj (all

In death too, Surjeet got PM, Karat together

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:19 -0400

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Aug. 8: Comrade Harkishan Surjeet Singh, who is widely regarded as the architect of coalition politics, brought friends-turned-foes together again even

Cong pushes for Rane patch-up before polls

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:38 -0400

BY AMIT AGNIHOTRI New Delhi Aug. 8: With an eye on the next general elections and Assembly polls in Maharashtra in 2009, the Congress is likely to

Procedure for mercy petition not in statute

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:53 -0400

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Aug. 8: There is no prescribed procedure for dealing with mercy petitions under Article 72 of the Constitution which deals with

Education Bill referred to GoM

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:28:12 -0400

BY PARUL CHANDRA NEW DELHI Aug. 8: Free and compulsory education for every child in the age group of 6-14 in the country has hit yet another