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Government protecting corrupt ministers: Advani
Oct 03, 2011
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Monday slammed the central government for "having no qualms" in jailing whistle blowers while doing "its utmost" to protect the corrupt.... Read More
Plan panel misleading Supreme Court on poverty: BJP
Oct 03, 2011
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday termed as "absurd" the Planning Commission's defining urban poor as one earning Rs.32 per day or less and accused it of "trying to mislead the Supreme Court".... Read More
Cash-for-votes: BJP MP Ashok Argal booked
Oct 03, 2011
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashok Argal was Monday made an accused in a second supplementary charge sheet filed in a court here by Delhi Police in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam that rocked parliame... Read More
No poverty cap for food allocation: Montek
Oct 03, 2011
The Planning Commission Monday clarified that it was not going by a set poverty line for allocation of subsidised food and supported an approach of giving benefits based on various economic factors... Read More
PM to meet TRS chief Chandrasekhar Rao
Oct 03, 2011
As the movement for a separate state of Telangana intensifies, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Monday evening.... Read More
Poverty line issue sorted out, new definition soon
Oct 03, 2011
Consensus has been reached within the government on the contentious Rs.32 a day criteria for defining people below the poverty line, which drew flak from food rights activists, Planning Commission Dep... Read More
Pandemonium in Kashmir assembly as PDP demands Omar quit
Oct 03, 2011
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly saw some ugly scenes Monday as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demanded Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's resignation over the alleged custodial death of a ru... Read More
2G case: Bail plea hearing of five deferred
Oct 03, 2011
A Delhi court Monday deferred the hearing on the bail pleas of five accused in the 2G spectrum scam.... Read More
'High court judge can't probe Kashmir custodial death'
Oct 03, 2011
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has turned down the state government's request that a sitting judge of the court probe the custodial death of National Conference (NC) worker Sayeed Muhammad Yousuf, o... Read More
Rao stages sit-in for Telangana at Rajghat
Oct 02, 2011
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao Sunday held a sit-in at Rajghat here in support of his demand for the creation of a new Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh and said the ag... Read More