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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
By Naveen Kapoor
New Delhi, Mar.11 (ANI): Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray''s daughter-in-law Smita Thackeray visited Parliament today and met with Congress leaders, whom she refused to name.
She, however, showered praise on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, describing her as her inspiration and lauded Rahul Gandhi''s style of politics.
Thackeray categorically expressed her ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Peshawar, Feb. 8 (ANI): Mohammad Ajmal Khattak, a household name in Pakhtun society because of his contribution to literature and politics died in Nowshera on Sunday night after protracted illness. He was 85.
Ajmal Khattak served as senator and MNA but lived in his tiny village ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_30183" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Narendra Modi"][/caption]New Delhi, Feb. 7 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram for their bold initiative in tackling terrorism and improving the security scenario in the country.
Interacting with media on the sidelines ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_30094" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="shahrukh khan"][/caption]Kolkata, Feb 5(ANI): Members of the Shah Rukh Khan Fan Club gathered in ample numbers to stage a protest against the Shiv Sena party in Kolkata on Friday.
Holding placards with the words condemning Shiv Sena, the Fan Club members raised slogans against it for the ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_30071" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rahul Gandhi Mumbai"][/caption]Mumbai, Feb 5 (ANI): Amidst violence and protests by Shiv Sena activists over his Mumbai visit, a calm and composed Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi stopped at an ATM in Santa Cruz and travelled by local train.
Gandhi was supposed to take a helicopter from ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_30068" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="rahul gandhi"][/caption]Mumbai, Feb.5 (ANI): Congress General Secreatry Rahul Gandhi completed an eventful four-hour-long visit to Mumbai on Friday afternoon, ignoring warnings of caution from the right-wing Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) about statements related to the city and other parts of Maharashtra.
Gandhi left ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_30042" align="alignleft" width="223" caption="Rahul Gandhi"][/caption]Mumbai, Feb 5 (ANI): The Nationalist Communist Party (NCP) has expressed disappointment over Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's remarks on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Mumbai NCP President Madhukar Pichad termed Gandhi's comments on north Indian NSG commandoes saving Mumbai from terrorists'' attacks as wrong.
"One must ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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Chennai, Feb 3 (ANI): Locking horns with the Shiv Sena over the ''Mumbai for Marathis'' issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said it has no takers in Maharashtra and dismissed all reports that said the people of the South were ''anti-Hindi''.
The DMK patriarch ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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Hyderabad, Feb 3 (ANI): After the announcement of the Telangana Committee by the Union Home Ministry, all political parties and also the Joint Action Committee (JAC) which is spearheading the agitation, refrained from reacting and said they would react only after the announcement of the terms ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_29743" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Amar Singh"][/caption]New Delhi, Feb 2(ANI): The Congress party on Tuesday said that Samajwadi Party’s (SP) decision to expel former General Secretary Amar Singh is its internal matter and the Congress party has nothing to do with it.
Earlier in the day, SP General Secretary Mohan Singh ...
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