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While Indian intelligence officials claim, Bangladesh arrested 20 ULFA (United Front Of Assam) members and 9 of their family members, Paresh Barua, the lone founder member of ULFA outside Indian jail, has termed it as ‘desertion’. Paresh Barua says 20 ULFA deserted camp in Bangladesh

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Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of group of 10 terrorists who had kept Mumbai as hostage for more than 55 hours on 26 November 2008, sentenced to death after convicting in 80 charges which includes murder, waging war against state, among others.Kasab sentenced to death in India

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West Bengal, Indian state in East India, Panchayat Minister Anisur Rahman admitted that the government machinery has totally collapsed in the Maoist-hit areas of West Midnapore, saying most of the gram panchayat (GP) offices and two block offices have been forced to shut down, resulting in large-scale disorder.Full Article:Govt. Machinery collapsed in Naxal areas, admits Minister

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On Saturday, Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji has threatened that they ( Maoists) would start attacking cities like Kolkota, Bhubaneswar if their offer for talk is not accepted. This seems to be retort by Maoists after chief ministers from Wes Bengal, Budhadeb Bhattacharya and Orissa, Nabin Patnaik, insisted that Operation Green Hunt be stepped up against Naxalites.Full Article:Maoists

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ULFA ( United Liberation Front of Assam), an insurgent group active in Indian state of Assam, had been fighting for independent Assam since 1979. During this period, it had got almost 80% of its top leaders arrested by Indian security forces and are lodged in Guwahati ( state Capital of Assam). But Paresh BArua, the self styled ‘commander-in-chief’ of ULFA’s military wing has been absconding and

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Reports says that Maoists in India has declared 72 day cease fire.The news is on TV channels right now. But it is interesting that Maoists have declared ceasefire after few spate of attack on security forces inflicting heavy causalities. Recently, they had killed 24 EFR personals in a daring attack in West Bengal which resulted in suspension of its IG after series of events afterwords. Full

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Maoists numbering 60 to 70, armed with automatic rifles, ambushed security forces in Silda (just 30km from Midnapore town) on Monday, killing 21 Eastern Frontier Rifle (EFR) jawans and abducting many injured soldiers, in the most devastating and daring Naxal attack in Bengal so far, at Belpahari, West Midanpore, West Bengal.Full Article: Operation Peace Hunt : Naxalite retort to Operation Green

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There has been great deal of talking on Indo-Pak talks recently. One would be surprised to know that, no matter what would be the outcome of the talk, the talk itself generates much debate. One would be amazed to see talks on the talk like this:-Full Article : Talk on Indo-Pak Talk

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Amar Singh along with actress-turned-politician Jaya Prada has been expelled from Samajwadi Party on Tuesday, 2nd February.Amar Singh has reacted that it is blessing in disguise for him.Few weeks ago, when Amar Singh resigned from all party posts, it was almost clear that Amar Singh will no longer be part of SP.As per report, newly appointed SP general secretary, Mohan Singh announced that Amar

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What may be the first of its kind, National Human Rights Commission, India has asked Manipur (North Eastern insurgency infested state in India) government to submit report on 111 police encounters in Manipur state. As per report, an NGO, Asian Center for Human Rights had filed written complaint of human rights violation to the NHRC ( National Human Rights Commission) a day after R.K. Sanjoaba was

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Indian army chief, General Deepak Kapoor faced black flag during his visit to Nepal on Tuesday, 19 January 2010. It is reported that while General Kapoor arrived on Kathmandu Tribhuwan International Airport, around 1200 Maoist rebels protested against his visit for his remarks that he had some reservations about integrating Maoist rebels into Royal Nepal Army about a month ago.Full Article :

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There has been many attacks on Indians in Australian cities recently and it has been widely reported in all national India Medias.Finally, Indian officials have conveyed “absolute displeasure and concern” to Australia over unabated attacks on Indians and asked Australian government’s to get its acts together. While Indian media and Indian official have been maintaining that, these attacks are

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So, finally, it has become now official that United States diplomats are being harassed selectively by various security agencies ( ISI as many claim) in Pakistan. The harassment has increased so much that US ambassador to Pakistan has openly accused Pakistan establishments of harassing US diplomats in Pakistan.The harassment includes checking of lower rank US consulate officers, employees at

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Amar Singh has recently resigned from Samajbadi Party (SP) from all posts. He was general secretary and spokesperson of Samajbadi party. Amar Singh is famous more for his friendship with Indian Hindi movie megastar Amtabh Bacchan and Indian billionaire Anil Ambani.Full Article :Amar Singh resigns from all posts: News from India

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North-East India’s powerful rebel group NSCN(IM) ( National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Isak Muivah) has recently declined “invitation” from Indian government for next round of peace talks. The Naga group declined on the ground that the peace talk invitation came from ministry of home affairs ( MHA) but not PMO ( Prime Minister’s Office) of Indian union government.Full Article:Naga groups

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So, finally, India too has joined the nations who are trying to make outer space their next symbol of supremacy and joins the space war. on the occasion of 97th Indian science congress being held in Thiruvanathapuram, Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) Director General V K Saraswat has informed news persons that “India is putting together building blocks of technology that could

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Japan has witnessed its steepest population decline since word war II! Yes, I typed correctly, no typo mistake. Indians or people from other South East Asian countries might find it hard to believe, but population of Japan has has decreased for 3rd year in row!Full Article :Population in India and Japan

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Ex-DGP(Director General of Police) of Haryana ( an Indian state) SPS Rathore was held guilty for molesting a 14 year old budding sportsperson Ruchika Girhotra in August 12, 1990. It took more than 19 years for the court to convict the ex-DGP SPS Rathore who was of IG rank at that time.Ex-DGP punished for child molesting 14 year old girl

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Nitin Gadkari of Maharashtra has become the new BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) on Saturday, 19th December 2009, succeeding Rajnath Singh.A day before, L K Advani resigned as leader of opposition in Loksabha ( Lower House) paving way for Sushma Swaraj to become leader of opposition. Most probably, this completes “Rule of Women” in India now. India has women as President, Speaker, Chairperson of

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New Delhi, Dec 2009 : Union Home Minister of India, P. Chidambaram late Wednesday announced that the process of forming a separate state of Telangana would be initiated and a resolution would be moved in the Andhra Pradesh assembly.‘The process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated. An appropriate resolution will be moved in the state assembly,’ Chidambaram said in a statement in

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On 6th December, 1992, Babri Masjid in India was demolished by karsevaks in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, Indian state. Hindus claim that, a mosque was built on Ram Temple after demolishing it. This history of Babri Masjid thus goes back to many years which can be read at Wikipedia.Babri MasjidFull Artilce :6th December 1992

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Recent, it is reported that Iran would build 10 uranium enrichment plants. It is a major expansion for its nuclear program. Irony is, Iran has announced it just after two days, U.N. nuclear watchdog rebuked it for carrying out covert nuclear program.Full Story :Iran would build 10 Uranium sites

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There was another bomb blast today in Peshawar, a border city in Pakistan. It was fifth attack in this city which took place today in a police check point killing at least 13 people. As usual, it was suicide bombing attack, reportedly by Taliban which detonated a truck laden with explosives.Full Article :More blast in Pakistan and Indian angle

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Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a psychiatrist with US Army. And he is accused recently of killing 13 people and injuring28 people in a US military base Fort Hood, Tex.Full Story :Major Nidal Malik Hasan

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Recent news from India depicts Indian diplomatic success in its eastern border. India has been trying to put pressure on both Bangladesh and Myanmar ( Previously known as Burma) for acting against anti-India separatist groups like ULFA(United Liberation Front of Assam), NSCN ( National Socialist Council of Nagaland) etc for long time now.Full Article :India News : Diplomatic succes in North East

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Today, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh agreed that there has been a systematic failure in giving stake to tribal people in modern India’s development. This acknowledgment is important due to recent spurt in Maoist/Naxalite violence across the Naxalite affected areas.Full Article :Indian PM reaches out to tribal population

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Last general election and recently concluded state assemblies in four states saw decline of BJP (Bharatiya Janta Party, the right wing Indian political party, who was the only non-congress government in independent India to complete a full term.Is BJP losing ground in India ?

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NEW DELHI: China had recently objected to Asian Development Bank (ADB) funding an irrigation project in Arunachal Pradesh which is a "clear violation" of the charter of the multilateral lending agency, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.Replying to questions, external affairs minister S M Krishna said India had made it clear to all member nations of ADB that political

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NEW DELHI: Velupillai Prabhakaran was waiting for the results of Indian elections to plan his next strategy in the 30-year-old civil war in Sri Lanka and was apparently hoping that either the NDA or the Third Front would come to power in New Delhi, but the army there had different plans.It has now emerged that the 54-year-old slain guerrilla leader was waiting till May 16, the day results of Lok

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NAGPUR: Criticising the BJP for its "inconsistency" in toeing the 'Hindutva' policy, senior RSS ideologue M G alias Baburao Vaidya said the party should give up the policy as it has "failed" to attract commoners. Narrating the history of the then Jana Sangh which later converted into BJP, Vaidya, in his weekly column in local Marathi daily 'Tarun Bharat', said BJP had adopted Gandhian socialism,

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LONDON: Former Pakistan President General Parvez Musharraf has conceded that his country's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) maintains link with militant commanders like Sirajuddin Haqqani, suspected of having masterminded the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. Musharraf said that ISI had "used Haqqani's influence" to get Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan, who was abducted by

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NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government moved the Supreme Court challenging the nixing of National Security Act (NSA) against BJP's Varun Gandhi by a state advisory board under the Allahabad High Court. The state government moved the apex court contending that the state advisory board scrapped invocation of NSA against Gandhi ignoring "cogent evidence" of the state government for invoking the NSA

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LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh has been accused of provoking actress-turned politician and party's Rampur Lok Sabha candidate Jayaprada to commit suicide, the police said Tuesday.The complaint against the SP general secretary was made by the supporters of the party's senior leader Azam Khan, the officials added."We have accepted the complaint against Amar Singh, but a

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KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has said he has been making efforts in his "own way" to bring leaders like Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee back into the CPM fold."I miss him. For us, losing a personality like Somnath and a leader like him ... on the part of the party and also on a personal level is a bit painful," Bhattacharjee said in an interview to a local

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LUDHIANA: Attacking the UPA on alleged delay in executing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the government was indulging in "votebank politics " and "hanging Guru does not suit its interests"."The Congress-led UPA is indulging in votebank politics and hanging Guru does not suit its interests," Modi said, a day after Rahul Gandhi defended his

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NEW DELHI: M Veerappa Moily, who launched a surprise attack on JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, has been abruptly removed as chairman of the Congress media department.He has been replaced by AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi, who had been holding the charge earlier, party sources said on Saturday.The removal of Moily is believed to be due to the displeasure of the party high command over his

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NEW DELHI: The spat between the Congress and its partners in the government, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), went up a notch Friday, with the Congress spokesperson accusing them of "insulting" it over seat-sharing in Bihar."We should be more angry. We never wronged them... It's only Paswan (Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP) and Laluji (Lalu Prasad of RJD) for reasons best known

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NEW DELHI: The UP advisory board said on Friday that the use of the National Security Act against BJP leader Varun Gandhi, invoked for his alleged communal remark, was not valid."NSA invoked against the BJP leader Varun Gandhi has been held invalid by the board," UP home secretary Javed Ahmad said, PTI reported.Varun had appeared in person before the advisory board on April 28 and explained that

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RAMPUR (UP): In an ultimatum to Mulayam Singh Yadav over the Azam Khan issue, SPleader Amar Singh has threatened to quit the party after the Lok Sabha polls, accusing the Muslim leader of making "intolerable utterances" against him.Singh said he would decide over continuing in the party after the end of the final phase of polls, referring to Yadav's statement that 'party mein rehna hai to Azam

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MAINPURI (UP): Virtually setting a pre-condition for post-poll alliance, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday said his party would extend support to any grouping that will "dismiss" the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. "The youth, farmers and traders, all are disheartened with the UP government. We will support whoever dismisses the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh,"

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LUCKNOW: Launching a scathing attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her comment `Aaj kal to har koi pradhan mantri banana chahta hai'(Everybody wants to become the PM these days), BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said if Sonia could bring someone like Manmohan Singh through the ``back door'' to Parliament and make him PM, ``why can't a well-educated `Dalit ki beti' like me, who has won

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The race for emerging as the single largest party and the largest pre-poll alliance in the Lok Sabha election has become really tight. Polling isyet to be held in 171 seats, although campaigning is over in all but 86 seats. And as parties go into the final stretch of the race, it looks like it will be a photo-finish.It also seems quite clear now that whichever party or formation emerges as the

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PESHAWAR: Taliban militants have completed their pullback from a district just 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Pakistani capital and troops have fanned out in their wake, a senior official said on Saturday. The Taliban's retreat to their stronghold in the Swat Valley brings some relief for Pakistani officials trying to salvage a controversial peace deal that halted nearly two years of bloody

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NEW DELHI: In what may be the first clear advocacy of Narendra Modi for PM by a senior BJP leader, former minister Arun Shourie said the Gujarat chief minister's leadership of his state was exemplary as he had already implemented programmes being promised by political parties in their manifestos.Speaking in Ahmedabad, Shourie suggested that it could be Modi's turn to be projected as BJP's prime

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka's northern war zone face a "catastrophic" situation, the Red Cross said, amid fears a final assault against the Tamil Tiger rebels would lead to a dramatic rise in casualties.The United Nations and others have called for a negotiated truce to allow civilians to leave the rebel-held coastal strip and the government says more

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NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the Election Commission during a press briefing. Mayawati alleged that the Election Commission was biased in favour of Congress and working on its directions."I would like to say that the EC officials are acting on the directives of the Congress and its allies. The EC under political pressure is trying

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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: Tens of thousands of civilians fled Sri Lanka's northern war zone in a record exodus ahead of the government 's deadline on Tuesday for separatist Tamil rebels to surrender, officials said. More than 39,000 civilians arrived at military checkpoints, within hours of a military operation that saw Sri Lankan soldiers break through a barrier that the Tamil Tiger rebels had erected

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ISLAMABAD: A resurgent Taliban in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley on Monday vowed to enforce Islamic laws across the country while ruling outthe possibility of laying down arms following the implementation of Sharia in the region.The Sharia or Islamic law regime approved recently by President Asif Ali Zardari will not be confined to Malakand division, which includes Swat, and the Taliban

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BHOPAL: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today expressed confidence that the NDA would definitely cross the magic figure of 272 in the Lok Sabha elections.Not only would the NDA get a majority on its own, the BJP would also emerge as the single largest party, Swaraj said while addressing a press conference at the Madhya Pradesh BJP office.Asked to specify the number of seats that the BJP was

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PATNA: Coming out in defence of his ally Lalu Prasad, locked in a bitter verbal duel with the Congress over Babri mosque demolition, LJP president Ramvilas Paswan today said that nobody can dispute what the RJD leader had said on the issue."Lalu ji has just said that there was a Congress government in Delhi led by P V Narasimha Rao when the Babri mosque was pulled down. Who can dispute this fact?

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NEW DELHI: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi called LTTE chief V Prabhakaran “a good friend”, he sought to clarify his remarkssaying his earlier comments had been twisted and taken out of context.“I never said LTTE is not a terror group,” Karunanidhi said on Monday. “I expressed concern for the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka,” he added. “But the LTTE did not start as a terrorist

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NEW DELHI: BJP candidate Varun Gandhi on Saturday expressed his gratitude to the party leader L K Advani for having stood by him during his incarceration after being booked under NSA for his alleged hate speeches. 29-year-old Varun, who was released on two-week parole from Etah jail in UP on Thursday, met Advani at his residence here.During the nearly hour-long meeting, Varun is understood to

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NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor and Samajwadi Party General Secretary Sanjay Dutt is courting controversy yet again after he offered ‘jaadu ki jhappi'to Mayawati.Dutt has been slapped with a notice by the district magistrate of Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh for passing ‘sexist’ comments against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, according to Times Now."I will give Mayawati a hug and a kiss (jaadu ki

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BALASINOR (Gujarat): Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today took a dig at science and technology minister, Kapil Sibal for asking him to be prepared to go to jail for speaking "nonsense" about Congress."My dear Congress friends, a jail that can hold Modi is yet to be built," the Gujarat chief minister told an election gathering here, in response to Sibal's remarks that Modi should stop

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NEW DELHI: "Varun Gandhi is not a criminal, why were such drastic measures invoked against him," asked the Supreme Courton Monday, triggering aVarun GandhiVarun Gandhi addresses media representatives in New Delhi. (AP Photo)rethink in the Mayawati government, which had slapped stringent National Security Act provisions against the young BJP leader for his communal speech at Pilibhit.This

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BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate Ashok Sahu was arrested on Tuesday for making an inflammatory speech inOrissa's Kandhamal region earlier this month."Sahu was arrested from Phulbani town," Kandhamal district collector Krishan Kumar said.Sahu, who is the BJP's candidate for the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat, is accused of delivering a communally charged speech on

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BALLIA: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh on Monday accused the Congressparty of trying to cut through the secular vote bank in Uttar Pradesh, called the party a 'vote-cutter'.Alleged that the Congress was not a true well wisher of Muslims, Singh said, "In the Congress ruled states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Assam, atrocities against Muslims are on the rise."He completely ruled

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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday said the replies filed by railways minister Lalu Prasad, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray to the panel's notices on poll code violation were not satisfactory."The Election Commission did not find the reply satisfactory and have conveyed its strong displeasure," Deputy Election Commissioner R.

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JAUNPUR (UP): Body of an Indian Justice Party (IJP) candidate from Jaunpur parliamentary constituency was found hanging from a tree near hisIJP candidate found dead residence here today, triggering massive protests in the area. The body of 35-year-old Vijay Bahadur Sonker was found hanging from a tree in Raja Saheb Ka Pokhra locality this morning, IG Police, Varanasi, Kamal Saxena said.Family

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NEW DELHI: Mayawati government has strongly opposed Varun Gandhi's challenge to his detention under the National Security Act. In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court through the district magistrate of Pilibhit, the UP government has justified the detention of BJP candidate by calling him a threat to public order and accusing him of causing fear among Muslims. The next hearing is on

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NEW DELHI: Acknowledging that Muslim youth are sometimes harassed in the "name of terrorists", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night asked security forces to observe "zero tolerance" for fundamental human rights violations while dealing with such cases.Interacting with a group of senior Urdu journalists here, he said the entire community could not be suspected of being terrorists and that

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SILIGURI (WB): BJP candidate from Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat Jaswant Singh on Friday said his party was in favour of smaller states but refrainedfrom saying if it was for creation of a separate state of Gorkhaland.He said BJP in principle favoured creation of smaller states and the NDA government had created three states in the country.Without uttering the word 'Gorkhaland', Singh told a press

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HYDERABAD: In a major setback to Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam ahead of the elections, its spokesman Parakala Prabhakar on Thursday quit the party describing it as a "poisonous tree"."I am one of the founding members of the party. I had even signed on the documents to register the Praja Rajyam as a political party. I expected that the party would strive for clean politics. But it proved to be

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SAIFAI (UP): In their first show of strength in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday addressed ajoint rally in Saifai, claiming that the next government at the Centre cannot be formed without them.Addressing the public meeting here, also his home town, SP supremo Mulayam Singh said, "No government at the Centre is possible without the three parties."RJD

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NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The fate of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler's nomination from Delhi North-East is hanging by a slender thread. With the"shoe throwing" protest by journalist Jarnail Singh triggering sharp reaction among Sikhs, Congress leadership is seriously considering to dump Tytler to secure its prospects in Punjab. ( Watch )The resentment triggered by Jarnail's action swept Punjab as

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LUCKNOW: Criticizing the Election Commission for transferring a top state official, UP chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday said that such actioncould demoralize the officialdom ahead of the first phase of polling and may lead to law and order problems in the state."Removing of the officer just due to political reasons on basis of their baseless allegation will demoralize officers of the state

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BADAUN (UP): BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday lodged a complaint with police against RJD supremo Lalu Prasad for his alleged remarks that hewould have "crushed" her son Varun Gandhi under a roller for his anti-Muslim speeches."The RJD chief Lalu Yadav has threatened to kill Varun Gandhi by crushing him with a road roller in front of crowd of thousands of people and used derogatory words," she

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NEW DELHI: Apparently concerned over the political fallout of hurling of shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram, Congress on Tuesday indicated it was open to review the candidatures of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, who were facing allegations of involvement in the anti-Sikh riots. "Congress is a large party and it takes considered decisions at appropriate time. Let us see what solutions emerge in

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HYDERABAD: Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi has expressed his support to the efforts to forge a "Fourth Front" at the national level."Being secular we cannot join BJP. Since TDP is part of Third Front and Congress part of UPA, we cannot join them. I thought like-minded parties will be there who are looking for support to form a "Fourth Front". This is mutual," Chiranjeevi, Praja Rajyam Party

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Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has threatened to quit over party member Azam Khan, who he said insulted him. “SP can exist without me but not without Azam Khan, it appears,’ said an upset Amar Singh. Trouble started when actress Jayaprada was renominated as the SP candidate from Rampur. Azam Khan asked the leadership to remove Jaya from what he saw as his political turf.Mulayam Singh Yadav

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KISHANGANJ(Bihar): RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday said he would have "crushed" BJP candidate Varun Gandhiunder a roller for his anti-Muslimspeeches if he had been the country's Home Minister."Had I been the country's home minister, I would have crushed Varun Gandhi under a roller and destroyed him without caring for the consequences for his hate speech against Muslims," Prasad told an election

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LUCKNOW: BJP has alloted nine seats to its allies Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Janta Dal(U) in UP. RLD will contest on seven parliamentary seatswhile JD (U) will fight on two seats. BJP will contest on 71 out of total 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.JD (U) has been given Salempur and Badaun seats. From Salempur, Ravi Shankar Singh alias Pappu Singh, MLC from Ballia, is expected to be JD(U)'s

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GORAKHPUR: Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi onSunday said those who did not have any other issue were raising the issue of terrorism.The BJP, before accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, should also remember the riots during the tenure of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, she said

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LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday filed his nomination papers from Amethi parliamentary constituency.Rahul was accompanied by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadara, brother-in-law Robert Vadara and state unit chief Reeta Bahuguna Joshi to Sultanpur district headquarters.Sonia will file her nomination papers at Rae Bareli on April 6, he said.

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LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday hit out at Pilibhit MP Maneka Gandhi for politicising the Varun Gandhirow.In a snub to Maneka Gandhi, Mayawati said if the BJP MP knew a mother's pain, she would not have endorsed the hate speeches of her son Varun Gandhi for which he has been booked under NSA, PTI reported.Hitting back at Maneka, who had said that the UP Chief Minister

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PHULBANI: Manoj Pradhan is the prime accused in last year's ethno-communal riots in Kandhmal and currently behind bars. But that hasn't stoppedBJP from giving a ticket to Pradhan to contest from the communally-split G Udayagiri assembly seat.More than 600 people were arrested in connection with the violence that left over 40 people dead in Kandhmal after the killing of senior VHP leader Swami

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NEW DELHI: The BJP has revived its pet Hindutva themes of rebuilding Ram temple at Ayodhya and abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir as it released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party also promised to give 35 kg rice or wheat per month at Rs two per kg for BPL families, which is seen as a counter to Congress' offer of rice at Rs

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PATNA: Though the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Janshakti Party have formed an alliance severing ties with the Congress, there is competition for the post of the prime minister.While RJD boss Lalu Prasad has always been vocal about his desire to become the prime minister, LJP counterpart Ramvilas Paswan, too harbours the amibition for the country's top job."Every person in politics wants to become

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MUMBAI: The BSP is eyeing north Indian and Muslim votes in the metropolis, with four of its six candidates from Mumbai seats being either of the two communities."The party will soon declare names of the two remaining candidates, who will also be either Muslim or north Indian, in a couple days," BSP state president Vilas Garud said on Thursday."North Indians, Muslims and Dalits form a major chunk

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Election Commission and Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi's party Praja Rajyam on the poll body's decision to allot the rail engine symbol to the southern party.A Bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam sought response from the Election Commission on a petition filed by Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party (RKSP).

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NEW DELHI: Kirorilal Meena. The man is widely believed to have sounded the death knell of Vasundhara Raje's dream of bucking anti-incumbency inRajasthan while helping Ashok Gehlot form the government.But the ambitious Meena strongman is now bargaining hard with Congressfor nominees of his choice in the tribal seats, triggering a deadlock on seven of 25 seats.If in three months, Congress is seeing

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CHENNAI: The deadlock over seat-sharing among allies in the AIADMK camp has apparently assumed crisis proportions with discontented alliancepartners - MDMK and CPM - reportedly thinking of “exploring other options” if party chief J Jayalalithaa does not concede their demands.As several rounds of discussions failed, the ball is now in Jayalalithaa’s court. The CPM, which was offered three seats,

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GORAKHPUR (UP): Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said he is not in the race for prime minister'spost, but his aim is to form a"secular" government at the Centre.He said for this reason only his party had supported the Congress on nuclear deal issue."The post of the prime minister or a union minister is not important for me than forming a secular governmentat the Centre. I am not in

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LONDON: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Pakistan as the "epicentre of terrorism in the world" and said it had failed to take effectiveaction against militants, in an interview published Wednesday.Speaking to the Financial Times, Singh said Islamabad was either "unable" or "unwilling" to control Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which New Delhi accuses of staging the November

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AHMEDABAD: Retired IPS officer Abdullah Ibrahim Saiyad, who was attacked by a mob during the 2002 Gujarat riots, has sprung a surprise by joining Abdullah Ibrahim the BJP, in another indication of the image make-over that Chief Minister Narendra Modi is striving for ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.He told TOI on Tuesday that he joined the BJP because of Modi. “Modi belongs to the same district

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BHUBANESWAR: BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday described the government action against Varun Gandhi as a blot on the country's history. "Thebaseless charges like attempt to murder and arrest under the NSA is both disproportionate and vindictive. It augurs badly for the Indian democracy," Jaitley said. He accused Congress, Samajwadi Party and BSP of speaking in tandem on the issue.Jaitley also

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LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to slap the dreaded NSA on Varun Gandhi for his hate speech in Pilibhit forcedarch-rival Mulayam Singh Yadav to dub it an "unjustified move", amid growing perception that Mayawati was using the issue to rally Muslims behind her prime ministerial aspiration.Mulayam called the stringent police action against Varun "completely wrong", even

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LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s attack on UP government on Monday coincided with support from prominent Muslim clergy and theinfluential All India Muslim Personal Law Board for the action against Varun Gandhi.Obviously, the question being asked is why Mayawati didn’t pre-empt the Varun roadshow, not a big task if she could stop L K Advani from holding a rally in Azamgarh just a

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LUCKNOW: Terming the invoking of the NSA against Varun Gandhi as "wrong", Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday alleged that thestringent Act has been used to settle political scores."The framing of charges under NSA against Varun Gandhi is completely wrong. In fact, National Security Act has always been used to settle political scores... why did the police fail to arrest Varun and

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LUCKNOW: Two trusted members of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's coterie - former chief secretary Neera Yadav and her husband Mahendra SinghYadav -left him for the saffron camp on Sunday. The high-profile couple was inducted into the BJP by party president Rajnath Singh amid fanfare in Ghaziabad.The development is being interpreted as a shrewd move by the master strategist Rajnath Singh to

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HYDERABAD: The so-called discipline in Prajarajyam Party ranks is in tatters. Loyal workers protesting denial of tickets to their leaders areresorting to violence, breaking furniture and setting party offices on fire.At Kalwakurthy in Mahbubnagar district, PRP activists attacked the party office as their leader Jupalli Prabhakar Rao was not given the assembly ticket. They went on a rampage,

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HYDERABAD: The rebellion in ranks of the TRS cadres over allotment of party tickets rocked the Telangana Bhavan on Sunday for the thirdconsecutive day. TRS activists on Sunday went on a rampage, damaged window panes and shouted slogans against party president K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for denying tickets to their leaders.The supporters of party state secretary S Kranthi Kumar barged into the

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NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday slammed the Mayawati government for being hand in glove with BJP, saying that permission to Varun Gandhito makea spectacle of his arrest with a procession in Pilibhit reflected an understanding between the two parties.AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters that it defied logic why the UP administration let Varun Gandhi turn his surrender in Pilibhit

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he SP is locked in a battle with the BSP for supremacy in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's son and two-term MP, Akhilesh Yadav, has been campaigning in the state for more than a month. Rustam Roy of Timesofindia.com caught up with Akhilesh on the campaign trail. Excerpts:Q: Looking back at your first two terms in the Lok Sabha, what did you learn from them? Who inspired

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GUWAHATI: In the mudslinging game, each party is trying to score more points than the other. And why should the ruling Congress be left behind?Firing a salvo at the AGP-BJP combine, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said the coalition is fielding a candidate who has been chargesheeted in a murder case.However, Gogoi refrained from naming the candidate. "Let them (AGP-BJP) deny it first, then

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Hitting the campaign trail, former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor, a Congress candidate for Thiruvanathapuram Lok Sabha seat,made his debut in the murky world of electoral politics here with attempts to establish his Malayali credentials.Tharoor, was born in London to Malayali parents hailing from a village in Kerala's Palaakad, surprised many in the media here at a meeting by

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PADRAUNA (UP): With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refusing his offer for a television debate, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Saturday said that if he was not willing, he could ask Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the same."I have told the PM several times that it would be so nice that like in foreign countries (US presidential debate), we should also have a debate. Instead of a BJP public

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KANPUR: After roping in Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta for canvassing, the Congress will bring another Bollywood star Salman Khan to campaignfor the party in Uttar Pradesh.Salman Khan will start campaigning for the party from neighbouring Unnao Lok Sabha constituency from Sunday.The actor is scheduled to take part in several party functions in the district, Congress candidate from Unnao, Annu

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NEW DELHI : Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss and minister of state for Railways R Velu on Saturday resigned from the union council of ministers, two days after the PMK quit the Congress-led ruling coalition.Quite a principled stand unlike RJD and LJP."Velu and myself have submitted our resignation from the council of ministers to the honourable prime minister," Ramadoss told reporters in the

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NEW DELHI: Former cricketer Mohammad Azharudddin, who joined the Congress last month, was today named by the party as its candidate for Moradabad Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. (Azharuddin, 46, is among 14 candidates declared by the party in the key state where it wants to revive its lost support base by going it alone in the polls.The former India batsman, who hails from Hyderabad, was

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