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Articles 5021 through 5120 of 9764:
- Uma Prescribes 'Ideological Dna Tests' For Bjp Leaders (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
Continuing her tirade against senior BJP leaders, firebrand sanyasin Uma Bharti today suggested that they undergo "DNA tests" to reveal the quantum of party ideology and principles present in them.
- Bjp For Extension Of Assembly Session (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded extension of the Assembly session to discuss important irrigation projects of Telangana and implementation of the G.O. No. 610.
- Blasts Blow Up Uk Fuel Depot (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Dec 12, 2005)
At least 39 people have been injured, one seriously, in a series of explosions outside London that was sufficiently powerful to be heard across the sea in neighbouring Holland.
- Pm To Lure Investments From Asean (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
With its ‘Look East’ policy bearing fruit, India will strive to take economic cooperation with ASEAN to a new high as South East Asian countries were emerging as new magnets and new pole of growth and stability in the world.
- Uma Prescribes Dna Tests For Bjp Leaders (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
Giving a new twist to her attack on senior BJP leaders, expelled party leader Uma Bharti on Sunday suggested that they undergo “DNA tests” to reveal the quantum of party ideology and principles present in them.
- Vajpayee Kin Issues Legal Notice To Bhandari (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's foster son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya on Sunday issued a legal notice to former Governor Romesh Bhandari for accusing a "very close" associate of the senior BJP leader of involvement in Iraqi oil scam and . . .
- Sonia Should Quit As Chief Of National Advisory Council: Ananth Kumar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
`BJP will continue to press for her resignation in Parliament'
- Rjd Threatens Stir Against Mahajan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
"Nitish Kumar must sever all ties with the BJP in protest against Mahajan's remarks on Biharis"
- One Too Many Power Centre (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Dec 12, 2005)
Former Minister for External Affairs Natwar Singh has finally resigned from the Union Cabinet. Despite his exit, chaos prevails within the Congress because of the existence of dual power centres. With Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi...
- Mahajan In Denial Mode (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Senior BJP leader Mr Pramod Mahajan has denied the alleged anti-Bihar remarks attributed to him after the Bihar chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, disapproved of his comment. The denial also came amid protests and agitation in Maharashtra and Bihar . . .
- Relations With Uma Not To Be Affected: Sushma (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday her "cordial relations" with Uma Bharti would not be affected following the latter's expulsion from the party.
- Lotus Will Bloom Again, Says Advani (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Emboldened by the NDA’s victory in Bihar, BJP national President L K Advani on Saturday hoped that his party would bounce back to the power at the Centre by focusing simultaneously on development issues and Hindutva ideology advocated by the Sangh parivar
- Sonia Is The Target; If She’S Down Upa’S Out (Deccan Herald, Bhim Singh, Dec 11, 2005)
“That the Congress should marginalise Mr Natwar Singh... ...shows that the party continues to suffer from internal crisis.”
- Bjp Favours Planning Panels (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Party releases manifesto for zilla, taluk panchayat elections
Promises
Panchayat development council to be formed
Primary schools in all villages in five years
- Bjp Into Low-Key Revamp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently but that has not deterred it from going in for a sustained behind-the-scene revamp of the party organisation.
- Nitish Seeks Special Status For Bihar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Meets Kalam, Manmohan, Montek Singh Ahluwalia
State of administration and finances was "pathetic"
Full-fledged budget to be presented in March
- Advani Demands Jpc Probe Into Volcker Issue (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani today demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on the Iraqi oil pay-offs so that the people would know what it was all about.
- Volcker: Jpc Probe Ruled Out (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The Government on Friday ruled out a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the findings of the Volcker Report but assured the Lok Sabha that Parliament would be taken into confidence on the Justice Pathak Inquiry Authority's findings.
- Bjp Rejects Allegations Against Vajpayee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh, on Friday rejected as baseless the allegations and insinuations that a "close associate" and kin of the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was closely associated with one . . .
- Lame In Lucknow (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2005)
In UP, Mulayam seems more at home with modern politics than the BJP or Congress
- Dual Power Centres (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Dec 10, 2005)
Natwar Singh has resigned but look at all the pain and suffering over the last forty days as confusion and chaos prevails between the dual power center's = PM who has no power to 'act' and another power center [Sonia Gandhi] who runs away from
- Bjp Should Turn Mirror Inward (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2005)
Fresh from a morale-boosting victory in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has returned to its favourite legislative pastime — disrupting House proceedings, staging noisy walkouts, and forcing adjournments.
- Govt Rules Out Jpc Probe (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The demand by the Opposition for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on food-for-oil scam was rejected by the government in both the Houses of Parliament today saying Justice R.S. Pathak Inquiry Authority had . . .
- Volcker: Bjp Wants Jpc, Govt Says Nothing Doing (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Keen to keep the spotlight on the Volcker Committee report as long as possible, the BJP-led Opposition today raised a new demand—a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) enquiry into the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scam—and staged a walkout of the Lok Sabha . . .
- Generation Ex (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2005)
Geriatrics are becoming history Left and Right. What are they doing in the Congress, at the expense of young talent?
- Volcker: Govt Says No To Jpc Probe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The UPA government on Friday rejected the Opposition demand for setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the Volcker committee report on the Iraqi oil-for-food scam, saying the Justice R S Pathak Inquiry Authority has a wide scope . . .
- One Medical College Gets Mci Nod (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
start new medical colleges during 2005-06, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended permission for one......
- Volcker Pay-Offs: Govt Rules Out Jpc Probe (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Government today ruled out a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on pay-offs in Iraqi oil deals saying the Justice R S Pathak Inquiry Authority had already started its work and its scope was "very wide".
- In Defence Of The Drama Queen (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Dec 10, 2005)
I’m going to come right out and say this at the very beginning — so now is the time to let your jaws drop if you are going to look incredulous — but I am completely on Uma Bharti’s side.
- The Year That Was... (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
It was the coldest winter I can recall: late winter monsoon added dampness to the chill to usher in morning mists.
- Lotus Stemmed (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Dec 10, 2005)
Three chief ministers in less than three years. This is what has happened in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP, after a landslide win during the last assembly polls in 2003, is now facing a revolt from within.
- Vajpayee Aide Accused Of Involvement In Iraqi Oil Scam (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Former Indian foreign secretary Romesh Bhandari has accused a "very close" associate of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of being involved in the Iraqi oil scam and suggested a thorough probe into the matter to "expose" several faces of . . .
- Women Cab Drivers To Greet Tourists (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani on Friday strongly criticised the manner in which the Manmohan Singh government is being run and expressed his doubts over how long the United Progressive Alliance could continue in power at the Centre.
- We Won't Allow Centre To Bury Volcker: Advani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP president and Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Friday demanded that the UPA Government must constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal.
- Congress Inc. (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Dec 10, 2005)
Its 45 days since the United Nations Independent Inquiry Committee headed by Paul Volcker submitted its final report. Yet, we are nowhere near the answer to the central question: Was the Congress party as a whole engaged in trading activity with . . .
- Probe Ram Naik's "Business" Delegation Too (Pioneer, CP Bhambhri, Dec 10, 2005)
The Volcker Commission of Inquiry was instituted by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to investigate into the irregularities, if any, during the implementation of the UN "Oil-for-Food" programme in Iraq.
- Sonia, Vajpayee Targeted In Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Opposition and treasury benches traded charges on the Volcker report with the NDA staging a walk-out in the Lok Sabha today demanding the resignation of National Advisory Council head Sonia Gandhi.
- Bjp Objects To Pm’S Remarks (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The BJP today took strong exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement describing the Opposition’s protest over the Iraqi oil-for-food scam as “drama”.
- Upa Ignored, Bjp Wrangles With Left In Rajya Sabha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The decrease in Employees Provident Fund interest rate to 8.5 per cent, announced yesterday by Labour Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, led to an uproar in Parliament today.
- Nda Walkout Over Sonia (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
NDA members today walked out of the Lok Sabha demanding the resignation of Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson of the National Advisory Council, a post of Cabinet rank, in the wake of the Volcker report naming the Congress as . . .
- Liberhan Panel Sets Deadline For Centre (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
"Last chance to express its view on masjid demolition" "... Who is the author of the [demolition] movement — BJP, RSS, VHP or the Shiv Sena? Let the Centre come out clear on its perception of those responsible for the incident"
- Bjp Headquarters Attacked (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Party calls for protest against attack; RSS denies role
- Volcker Issue Rocks Parliament Again (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Manmohan's clarifications next week
Rajya Sabha witnesses two adjournments
Matter raised in Lok Sabha
Demand for Sonia's resignation
- Setting The Priority Right (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The change in fortune is of course on account of the stunning outcome of the Bihar poll: it has recreated the opening the BJP had, in its mode of despondency, feared had closed for ever.
- All For Votes (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2005)
The tribal world of Jharkhand, it seems, is up for grabs. The sangh parivar and the left are competing for the soul — some would say, the votes — of the state’s tribal population.
- Bjp Counters Pm's Charge Of Indulging In "Drama" In Par (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Taking strong exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's charge that BJP was indulging in a "drama" by disrupting Parliamentary proceedings, the main opposition party today alleged that the Prime Minister had himself engaged in such an act . . .
- Bjp Gives Centre A Week To Increase Flood Relief To State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
C.P.Radhakrishnan threatens to launch agitation
- Saarc: No Reservations About China, Japan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Obligations, rights to be settled at ministerial meet: Manmohan
No proposal to admit Myanmar Afghanistan going through a rough patch
- Natwar Off Its Back, Cong Gets Its Iraq Moment: Targets Atal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
K Natwar Singh has reason to be disappointed. He quit the Cabinet claiming he was doing so because he didn’t want to be an “excuse” for Parliament to be paralysed. No one listened.
- Cong Seeks To Take Volcker Battle Into Bjp Camp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Congress today sought to take the Volcker battle into the BJP camp by demanding that the Pathak Inqui should also take go into accusations that an unnamed "very close" associate of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was involved in the Iraqi . . .
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2005)
Uma throws a tantrum and all’s well with India
- Anatomy Of A Botch-Up (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 09, 2005)
Kalyani Shankar says amidst the brouhaha surrounding Natwar Singh, the question remains: Where did the money go?
- Bjp Playing Drama, Says Manmohan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its stand on the Volcker report, saying the party’s internal politics was coming in the way of national interest.....
- Bjp Slams Cut In Epf Interest Rate (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Condemning as "betrayal of the working class" the EPF Board's recommendation for one per cent cut in interest rate to 8.5 per cent this fiscal, BJP today alleged a "Left-Congress nexus" in the move and said it would protest against it vociferously . . .
- ``Advani Resignation Not On Mumbai Meet Agenda'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Says it's celebration time, not for resignations or coronation
- Manmohan: Bjp Staging A Drama (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 08, 2005)
Natwar's resignation accepted
- Patil Insists On Talks With Naxals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
He says they are our brothers and sisters
- Ups And Downs, Part Of Politics: Natwar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
"From tomorrow, I shall be writing a book and having a damn good time"
- Natwar Ripples Still Felt In Rs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Having tasted blood after forcing the resignation of Union minister Natwar Singh over the Volcker Report, BJP is now training its gun on the Congress party.
- Nda Targets Sonia (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Smelling blood with the fall of Mr Natwar Singh, an increasingly belligerent NDA today trained its guns on Mrs Sonia Gandhi in Parliament over the Volcker report.
- Voice In The Wilderness (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Negative signals at Mamata rally
There have been starvation deaths in West Bengal and some districts are particularly hard-hit by poverty and distress, made worse by the fact that the Left Front government has politicised the BPL lists.
- Advani Not To Quit This Year (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The national convention of Bharatiya Janata Party, to be held in Mumbai from 28 to 30 December, will not deliberate upon the present president, Mr LK Advani’s successor since the proposed grand show would be confined to the silver jubilee celebrations of
- Party Must End (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
When will we learn something better?
- Natwar Hands Over Resignation To Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Having been pushed to the wall to quit the UPA government after being removed as a member of the high power Congress Steering Committee late at night on Monday, Union Minister without Portfolio K Natwar Singh called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . . .
- Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp) Has Demanded That Gandhi Resign Her Post As Head Of The National Advisory Council, An Important Government-Appointed Body (India Daily, Anil Rane, Dec 08, 2005)
BJP has decided to go all out against the super PM – Sonia Gandhi.
- Cong-Bjp Hostilities Hit New Low (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The hostility between the Congress and the BJP has touched a new low in the backdrop of the raging Volcker controversy, with both parties going for each other’s jugular today.
- Opposition Targets Sonia, Walks Out From (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set the proverbial cat among the pigeons when he described the ongoing disruption of Parliament by the BJP as a drama and an attempt to deflect attention from its internal problems.
- Bjp Drama To Divert Attention, Says Pm (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set the proverbial cat among the pigeons when he described the ongoing disruption of Parliament by the BJP as a drama and an attempt to deflect attention from its internal problems.
- Singh Mid-Air Missile Flies At Bjp (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Dec 08, 2005)
Natwar Singh leaves the Prime Minister’s residence on Wednesday. At a book release event later in the evening, Natwar termed the UN a “quasi-bankrupt” organisation with no ability to carry out its political responsibilities efficiently.
- Natwar Off His Head, Pm Slams Bjp, Says Noise To Cover Uma Expulsion (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Manmohan: ‘BJP’s trying to divert attention from internal trouble, people are forced to think of what’s unimportant’.
- Opposition Targets Sonia Gandhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Turning the attack off the beleaguered former external affairs minister Natwar Singh, as least for the moment, main Opposition party the NDA on Wednesday focussed its attention on Sonia Gandhi in Parliament
- Nda: No Double Standards, Sonia Should Resign Too (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
After forcing Union Minister Natwar Singh's resignation on the Volcker issue, the Opposition on Wednesday trained its gun on Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
- Natwar Off His Head, Pm Slams Bjp, Says Noise To Cover Shouting Over Bharati (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Dec 08, 2005)
With K Natwar Singh sending his resignation letter last night in the wake of the Volcker controversy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched a counter-offensive of sorts on the BJP which has not allowed Parliament to function over the issue.
- Bjp Asks Govt Not To Succumb To Pressure At Wto (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The opposition BJP today demanded a catgorical assurance from the UPA government that it would not succumb to pressure of developed countries at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial and that India's interests, especially of farmers, would be fully protected.
- Bjp Targets Sonia, Stages Walk-Out In Parliament (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Buoyed by Union Minister Natwar Singh's decision to resign on the Volcker controversy, an aggressive BJP-led opposition today targeted Sonia Gandhi in Parliament demanding her resignation as chairperson of the National Advisory Council, saying . . .
- What Is Nc Up To? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 08, 2005)
What is the father-and-son leadership of the National Conference up to? What does it intend to gain by pledging support (even though it is unsolicited) to the Congress-led coalition Government almost every day?
- Volcker Row Stalls Both Houses (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The main opposition NDA disrupted proceedings in Parliament on Tuesday over the Volcker controversy, for the fourth day in a row.
- Opening Up The Socialist Space In Indian Politics (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 07, 2005)
In the coming post-George Fernandes era, the socialists will have many opportunities in various parts of the country to tap the alienation of the poor from the mainstream economy.
- Natwar Announces Resignation (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Minister without portfolio K Natwar Singh tonight announced his resignation from the Union Cabinet saying he did not want to be an excuse for paralysis of Parliament after the opposition stalled both the Houses insisting on his immediate exit.
- The Farooq Show (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
If ever an award is instituted for a political leader of the State employing tongue like a double-edged weapon it will certainly go to National Conference patriarch Farooq Abdullah.
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