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‘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

Soren banks on Lalu for CM post

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:28:50 -0400

BY PRIYANKA RAI New Delhi Aug. 8: RJD chief Lalu Yadav has sent a team to look at the possibility of making JMM chief Shibu Soren Jharkhand

‘White paper on Maya land’

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:24:18 -0400

By Our Special Correspondent LUCKNOW Aug. 8: The UP Congress has demanded a white paper on land acquisition in Badalpur village, which happens to be the native

Puducherry CM in Delhi for talks amid revolt

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:24:38 -0400

By VINODHINI New Delhi Aug. 8: Puducherry chief minister N. Rangasamy held closed parleys with se-nior Congress leaders Vayalar Ravi and Arun Kumar in the city on

No deal on C’wealth post, says Somnath

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:24:53 -0400

By Jaishree Balasubr amanian Kuala Lumpur Aug. 8: Joining issues with the British delegation here, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday asserted that no "deal" was

Status of SSC women yet to be decided

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:18:06 -0400

BY SRIDHAR KUMARASWAMI NEW DELHI Aug. 8: The fate of over a thousand Short Service Commission (SSC) women officers in the armed forces will be decided soon,