Begums battle it out for the soul of Bangladesh
The January 5 general election has highlighted the differences between the Bengali secularists led by Sheikh Hasina’s Awami league and the Islamists led by Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party When the subcontinent was partitioned on August 15, 1947, what emerged was the issue of whether religion alone could be the primary...
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Congress red-faced
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To err on side of caution
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Indian economy's best friend
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UP is united in 'Moditva'
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Son-rise could lead to the DMK's sunset
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India has several netas but no nation-builder
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SP forms steering committee to monitor poll preparedness
31 January 2014 | PNS / Biswajeet
RlD accuses BJP, SP of igniting communal tension
Blaming Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party for igniting Muzaffarnagar riots Union Aviation Minister and RlD national president Ajit Singh said that Akhilesh Yadav allowed killing of innocent people for the sake of votes. Kicking off lok Sabha election campaign in Agra on Thursday he said that riots in Muzaffarnagar was not a communal pogrom but a political...
MSY demands free lPG cylinders for poor
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav called to give free lPG cylinders to poor people.``What is great about increasing the number of subsidised lPG cylinders by the Centre. The lPG cylinders should be given free to the poor," reacted former chief minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav while commenting on increase in subsidized lPG cylinders. Talking to...
Khatri announces a 'please-all' PCC
In a desperate efforts to keep the Party united in the election year, state president Nirmal Khatri adopted `please all’ formula and finally announced a jumbo size Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) comprising of 288 office bearers, on Thursday. Except for Rita, none of the Congress presidents had such huge committee. However, what is interesting is that Khatri,...
Big B was offered lS ticket by SP twice, claims book
Big B who had vowed not to contest elections after he burnt his fingers in Bofors fire was in fact offered lok Sabha tickets not once but twice by Samajwadi Party and both the times he refused. He was offered tickets in 2004 and 2009 lok Sabha elections. Besides he was offered Rajya Sabha seat...
Govt committed to people's welfare: Akhilesh
Claiming that Uttar Pradesh has done much better than Gujarat Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav said that Samajwadi Party believes in fulfilling promises and it had done the same by implementing record number of schemes in last two years. "Our Government is pro-people. It has introduced many policies which are now being copied by other governments of the...
Forest officials deployed along inter-State border
After the tigress declared man-eater in Uttar Pradesh, reportedly killed its seventh victim in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh on Sunday night, the Uttarakhand Forest department officials claim to have deployed a team along the inter-State border. The department team is monitoring the situation in case the tigress returns to Corbett Tiger...
Diversion of lPG cylinders hits supply in Kumaon
Any repositioning in the State Government and ruling party ahead of the lok Sabha polls this year, as the ongoing political turmoil within the State Congress suggests, is unlikely to attract the attention of the people of Uttarakhand with the common man in the Hill State which is still battling...
