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Babri verdict:
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offer course in PC hardware, networking |
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children are securing more seats in IITs: Director |
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India! says Pakistan with box of mangoes
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh Friday received an unexpected, yet pleasant, gift from
Pakistan when a box
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Pakistan
accepts Indian aid offer
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Indian aid, no role for politics in
disaster: US to Pak
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mathematics among young generation, says President
Noting that mathematics
inculcates the habit of rational thought
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President Patil to inaugurate International
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Liability Bill faces fresh hurdles from BJP, Left
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and the Left parties asserting that they would oppose any dilution
of the suppliers' liability. Both the BJP
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Arabia to launch official TV, radio for fatwa
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television channel and radio station for accredited Muslim scholars
to issue fatwas, or religious edicts, reports said
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children are securing more seats in IITs: Director
Fighting all odds more
and more poor children are making it to the prestigious Indian
Institute of Technology, some of them without even taking any help
from private
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to shed communal image, eyes Christian votes in Goa
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base, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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invites nominations for Sir Syed International Award
The Aligarh Muslim
University has announced its prestigious international award named
after its
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professor to spearhead major study on Indian judiciary
Jayanth Krishnan-a
professor of Indiana University Maurer School of Law-will serve as
project director
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from Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 50,000, for members of Parliament and doubled
their perks on Friday
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Nalanda University in Bihar as an international institute of
learning
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rights: Moily
Indian government is
planning to provide voting rights to Non-Resident Indians and steps
are being taken to make it a reality, Law and Justice Minister
Veerappa Moily has said. "The Law ministry
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flee as second wave of flood hits the country
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have inundated several areas in Balochistan even as the worst deluge
in Pakistan’s history took the
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Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh releasing the book titled "Keeping the Faith: Memoirs
of a Parliamentarian", written by former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath
Chatterjee, in New Delhi on August 21, 2010. Speaker Lok Sabha Smt.
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New Delhi:
CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat had decided to teach Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi a lesson
for the 'insult' meted out to him on the nuclear deal issue by
withdrawing support to the government in 2008.
With their larger-than-life image and influence on governance with
62 MPs, Karat, CPI's A B Bardhan and other Left leaders were of the
belief that their decision would be the last word for the
government, says former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.
These are his views on the bitter period in his last days of his
Parliamentary career contained in his autobiography "Keeping the
Faith: Memoirs of a Parliamentarian", which was released by Prime
Minister Singh on Saturday.
"After the formation of the UPA government with Manmohan Singh as
the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson, it gradually
became clear to all, specially those in the government, that the
Left parties -- which had 62 members in the Lok Sabha and on whose
outside support the survival of the government depended -- wanted to
play the role of the 'real power behind the throne' as it were,"
Chatterjee says.
"The party gave the unpalatable impression that the UPA government
could survive only with the blessings of the party's leaders,
primarily of its general secretary, Prakash Karat. Needless to say,
the common man took this to be nothing but unjustified arrogance on
their part," he says.
According to the 81-year-old Chatterjee, Congress' resolve to
operationalise the nuclear deal irked Karat.
"It seemed that Karat had decided that the prime minister and the
UPA chairperson had to be taught a lesson for the 'insult' meted out
to him," he writes in the chapter 'The Expulsion: A Great Shock'.
The former Speaker, who won 10 terms to the Lok Sabha on behalf of
the party that expelled him in 2008, writes that he had no role at
all to play in the decision of the Left parties to withdraw support.
"I feel that the supposed 'affront' to Karat by the Prime Minister
and UPA chairperson had upset him so much that he did not or could
not objectively consider the consequences of his decision to
withdraw support to the government," the book, published by
HarperCollins India, says.
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