NEW DELHI: A day ahead of the crucial seat sharing parleys between the Congress and Samajwadi Party, a six-member Coordination Committee of the outfits is meeting on Saturday to discuss key government policy issues.Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and general secretary Amar Singh are expected to represent SP while Congress is expected to be represented by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party president Sonia Gandhi, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherji and Defence Minister A K Antony.The meeting,...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Congress leaders discuss revised NSG draft
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday held deliberations with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and some other senior colleagues over the nuclear issue ahead of the NSG meeting in Vienna. The meeting, also attended by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Ahmed Patel, Political Secretary to the Congress president, is understood to have assessed the revised draft prepared by the US for consideration of the Nuclear Suppliers Group at its meeting on September 4-5.The meeting is...
Jaffna mc polls to be held soon
In the wake of the Eastern, North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council elections, the government is now planning to hold elections to the Jaffna Municipal Council to gauge public opinion in the northern capital, a Minister said yesterday.EPDP leader and Social Services Minister Douglas Devananda told Daily Mirror the election would be conducted soon and the government was holding a series of discussions to work out the preliminaries. “We will be able to conduct it before the end of this year....
BNP will not make any deal with govt in releasing Begum Zia: Hannan Shah
BNP Chairperson's Adviser Brigadier ASM Hannan Shah on Friday said the party would not accept any government conditions in releasing Begum Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman. "If the government tries to set any condition for the release Begum Zia, BNP will not accept(The Bangladesh Today)it and the party will go for tougher movement in order to free its Chairperson. Like Awami League, BNP will not make any secret deal with government in releasing its Chairperson. We want to free our Chairperson...
Cong to seek waiver of road tax
JALANDHAR: As lakhs of devotees from Punjab would flock to Hazoor Sahib, Nanded, for Guruta Gadi Divas celebrations , Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee has decided to urge the Prime Minister that road tax of vehicles carrying devotees to Nanded be waived.Stating this here on Friday, PPCC president Mohinder Singh Kaypee and former Adampur MLA Kanwaljit Singh Lalli said as buses and trucks carrying devotees would have to pass through nearly half-a-dozen states and the cumulative road tax would be...
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