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Apr 30 2009
Gordon Brown’s authority took another battering yesterday when he suffered his first Commons defeat as Prime Minister amid growing criticism of his leadership by Labour MPs. In a surprise move, MPs voted by 267 votes to 264 to grant equal...
Apr 29 2009
Narendra Modi, India’s most incendiary politician, is trying to cast himself as the vanguard of India’s modern industrial future. The ghosts of this city’s savage past, though, are refusing to leave his side.
Apr 29 2009
At the fag end of campaigning for Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat, Congress sharpened its offensive against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani for his weak PM’ remarks on Manmohan Singh. On a whirlwind tour of Gujarat on Tuesday,...
Apr 25 2009
Suspected Maoist rebels killed seven people, including a polling official and two political workers, in separate attacks in eastern India taking the death toll in the latest election-related violence to nine, news reports said Friday.
Apr 25 2009
Thousands of Pakistani troops were massing for an assault on Taleban positions 65 miles from the country’s capital last night after giving the insurgents 24 hours to withdraw from their advanced positions or face attack. The threat of force follows a...
Apr 25 2009
LONDON: Amnesty International on Friday joined a growing list of individuals and organisations that have called for the release of Binayak Sen, a rights activist jailed in Chhattisgarh for alleged Maoist links. Amnesty described the charges against him...
Apr 22 2009
The Congress may be projecting Manmohan Singh as its prime ministerial candidate but key ally Lalu Prasad Tuesday put a spoke in the wheel by saying the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) would choose its prime minister only after the elections. As...
Apr 22 2009
As the end game, involving the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians, is being played out on a tiny sliver of coastal land in Sri Lanka’s North, Tamil Nadu’s electoral politics is witnessing some strange contortionist feats and...
Apr 21 2009
Pune: Sending a subtle message to the Congress party not to alienate potential allies by taking extreme positions on contentious issues and hence give political space to its rival Bhartiya Janata Party, Nationalist Congress Party supremo and Congress...
Apr 20 2009
While addressing an election rally in Lakhimpur (Assam) Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said “UPA government has fulfilled all promises made to the people five years ago. The government had promised to work for poor people, Dalits and for the...