| I'll welcome Rahul's entry into government: PM |
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said he would welcome Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi into the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
“I have always said that I will welcome Rahul’s entry (in the government),” Manmohan Singh told reporters after Vice President Hamid Ansari’s oath-taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
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| Our strategy needs to change: Ramdev |
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: With his three-day fast about to end, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said here on Saturday that he will not stop the agitation till the central government responded to his demands, but will change the strategy.
“Our principles will not change, but our strategy needs to change according to time,” Ramdev told his supporters at the Ramlila Maidan in the national capit... |
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| Akhilesh Yadav to speed up Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor |
LUCKNOW, August 11: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that his government would extend all possible help to the ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) since it was “an important project for extensive industrial development in the state”.
At a high-level presentation on the DMIC, the Chief Minister said the 1,483-km project would begin fr... |
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| Man arrested for questioning Mamata, activists condemn incident |
KOLKATA, Aug 11: A man, who had publicly questioned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee about her government policies towards farmers, was on Saturday arrested from West Midnapore district for “disrupting a public rally and assaulting police officers”, police said.
The step has come in for criticism from civil society who slammed Banerjee for her “growing intole... |
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| Don't draw unwarranted conclusions, PM tells rating agencies |
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday took international rating agencies to task for cutting India’s growth forecast and asserted that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. “The fundamentals of the economy are strong. We have the highest savings and investments rate in the world,” said the Prime Minister, adding that unwarranted conclusions should ... |
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| Ready to fight Bengal panchayat polls alone: Congress |
KOLKATA, Aug 11: Announcing the likelihood of Congress going all alone in the West Bengal panchayat polls, state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharjee on Saturday accused the Mamata Banerjee government of meddling with the rights of democratically-elected rural bodies. “If they (Trinamool) want to go alone in panchayat polls, then they are free to go. It is their political decision. We want to... |
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| Geetika suicide: Chaddha to be questioned for another day |
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: A Delhi court on Saturday extended by a day the police custody of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines’ official Aruna Chaddha in a case related to the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma here on August 5. Duty Magistrate Manish Khurana extended the time for custodial interrogation of Chaddha till Sunday after police said her custody was required for recovering docu... |
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| PM in denial on economic situation: BJP |
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of living in denial over the country’s economic situation. Talking to reporters after the Prime Minister’s comment that the “fundamentals of economy” were strong, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said it was time for the government to wake up. “Gov... |
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| Congress MP uses dialogue to describe Parrikar's work ethic |
PANAJI, Aug 11: A Congress MP on Saturday used a dialogue from the iconic film Sholay to describe what he believed was the work ethic of the 12-member Goa cabinet, led by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Addressing a press conference in Panaji, Goa’s lone MP in the Rajya Sabha, Shantaram Naik said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government was a “one man” oper... |
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