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By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 05 — Home secretary Gopal K Pillai said on Friday the Maoists have plans that by 2050 they will overthrow Indian democracy with the support of their armed struggle and can control the government then.
Pillai said this while addressing a seminar on the “Left Wing Extremism Situation in India” and [...]
By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
London/New Delhi, March 5 – Railway minister Mamata Banerjee would be soon seen in Britain to ascertain the possibilities of collaboration with industry there on railway infrastructure. According to an official report, British high commissioner Richard Stagg invited Ms. Banerjee to visit UK in early April. However, unofficial sources close to railway minister [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 04 — Congress President Sonia Gandhi signaled supports on Thursday to the finance minister for a move to fuel price hike.
The rise in fuel prices after the budget was met with anger from the opposition and also from the government allies.
Sonia Gandhi has a past record of supporting the populist [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Pratabgarh, March 04 — At least 65 people were killed and many others injured in a stampede on Thursday at the Ram Janki temple in district Pratapgarh of Uttar Pradesh.
Brij Lal, Additional Director General of Police (Law ans Order), said: “Sixty bodies had been recovered and more could have been killed in [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 03 — Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday government would talk to the allies on fuel price hike issue. He also indicated that rollback on price hike would be difficult.
According to party sources, FM briefed the MPs of Congress about the salient features of the union budget 2010-11 in [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Hyderabad, March 03 — Indian Navy’s trainer aircraft of Sagar Pawan aerobatics team crashed during an air show into a two-storied building on Wednesday in Hyderabad.
Police commissioner A K Khan confirmed the death of the pilot Maurya and also his co-pilot Nair.
HJT-16 Kiran Mk2 trainer aircraft crashed just few couple minutes before [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
On Board Air India One, March 01 — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that he had asked King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia to persuade Pakistan from his good offices to stop abetting terrorists on its territory.
Dr. Singh said, “I know Saudi Arabia has close relations with Pakistan.” Singh [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Pokharan, Feb. 28 — India said on Sunday forty-two terror camps in Pakistan are “still active” and it is the “main cause of concern for us” due to lack of a serious attempt or effort by Pakistan to dismantle them.
A K Antony, defence minister, said it was not expected by India about a [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 28 — Congress and BJP made it clear on Sunday that in India-Pakistan ties there was no scope for a third party.
A source close to Congress president Sonia Gandhi while commenting on the remarks of Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs, on Saudi Arabia’s potential as an interlocutor [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Islamabad, Feb. 28 — Hafiz Mohd Saeed, the chief of JuD, said if New Delhi is not prepared to hold talks then Pakistan have to “fight a war at all cost”.
In an interview Hafiz Saeed said, “India wants war… If India is not prepared to hold talks, Pakistan will have to fight a [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Riyadh, Feb. 28 — Shashi Tharoor quickly clarified his remarks that between India and Pakistan, Saudia Arabia can be a “valuable interlocutor”. He added later that he did not mean Riyadh should be a mediator.
According to PMO sources, the remarks of Shashi Tharoor have “embarrassed” the government.
Tharoor is currently in Saudi Arabia accompanying [...]
By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, Feb. 27 – Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has left for three day visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Abdulaziz Al Saud, hoped to discuss various issues with Saudi leadership. He added that he had a “vast agenda” in his mind.
“My visit carries special significance. I am conscious [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Mumbai, Feb. 27 — Shiv Sena also comes forward to recommend ‘Bharat Ratna’ for Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, a day after Ashok Chavan, chief minister of Maharashtra, said that his government decides to recommend the country’s highest civilian honour for him.
Uddhav Thackeray, executive president of Shiv Sena said, “Sachin definitely deserves ‘Bharat Ratna’. [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 27 — TMC chief Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday she had written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for roll back of fuel price hike.
Mamata said, “I have told my MP Sudip to brief the government about our stand on the issue. We were not [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 26 — Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says, “Our task is to quickly revert to high GDP growth path.” He also mentions that we have to sustain the food security in the rural areas. He adds manufacturing has been a growth driver and the government hopes to breach 10% growth mark [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 25 — Foreign secretary of Pakistan Salman Bashir after the meeting with counterpart Nirupama Rao at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Thursday said that the talks focused extensively on Kashmir and not briefly. In a press conference he said that India’s concerns on terrorism were valid and Pakistan wanted [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 25 — In the foreign secretaries meeting of India and Pakistan on Thursday at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India asks the Pak government to arrest Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The two foreign Secretaries, Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir, sat down for talks along with their [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 25 — The Economic Survey of India predicted on Thursday that the country would bounce back in 2011-12 to nine per cent growth paving the way of becoming the fastest growing economy in the world in four years.
Economy Survey assesses the state of India’s economy and it warned in its [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
Gwalior, Feb. 24 — Sachin Tendulkar creates history with super double century in ODI on Wednesday and took India to mammoth 401. He became the first cricketer in the world to score 200 runs, breath-taking unbeaten, in one-day internationals.
Tendulkar played heart-stopping knock and reached the mark in just 147 in the second one-day [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 24 — Social responsibility, says Mamata Banerjee, to be top consideration of railways. She adds that railway connectivity is the key to the growth of the country and delayed administration and also delayed prosecution should be addressed. Ms. Banerjee also came up with 10-year plan ‘Vision 2020′.
Mamata Banerjee says it [...]
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