| Railway police rescue tortoises in Patna |
| Railway police has rescued about 40 tortoises from Baksar in Bihar and handed them over to a zoological park in Patna. |
2008-07-19
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| Key Samajwadi Party MP Siddiqui quits ahead of July 22 trust vote |
| The Samajwadi Party suffered a setback on Saturday when one of its general secretaries and Rajya Sabha MP Shahid Siddiqui quit the party to join the rival Bahujan Samaj Party. |
2008-07-19
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| Naidu in Delhi to firm-up UNPA-Left opposition to nuke deal |
| Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, reached the capital today to strengthen the United National Progressive Alliance-Left opposition to the United Progressive Alliance Government confidence motion on July 22. |
2008-07-19
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| BSP students' forum to stage protest on July 21 |
| The Bahujan Students' Front (BSF) today announced that it would stage a demonstration in the capital on Monday to protest discrimination against Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Religious Minorities students in institutions of higher education. |
2008-07-19
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| Deora directs IGL to address CNG shortage in Delhi |
| Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora today told senior officials of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) and the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) to address the shortfall in compressed natural gas (CNG) in the capital. |
2008-07-19
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| CPI (M) Central Committee meeting today |
| The CPI (M)'s Central Committee will meet in the Capital today to chalk out its future strategy in the prevailing political turmoil. Only yesterday, the party had issued a three-line whip to their Members of Parliament to be present in the Lok Sabha on July 21 and 22. |
2008-07-19
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| Congress refutes allegations of horse-trading ahead of vote count (Update-Congress) |
| All India Congress Committee General Secretary and the in-charge of the party's Uttar Pradesh affairs, Digvijay Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today separately refuted allegations of horse-trading of MPs made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Tuesday's vote of confidence in Parliament. |
2008-07-18
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| Congress refutes allegations of horse-trading ahead of vote count |
| All India Congress Committee General Secretary and the in-charge of the party's Uttar Pradesh affairs, Digvijay Singh and External Affairs Ministerranab Mukherjee today separately refuted allegations of horse-trading of MPs made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Tuesday's vote of confidence in Parliament. |
2008-07-18
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| Lucknow airport named "Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport" |
| The Government today approved the naming of the Lucknow Airport as "Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport". |
2008-07-17
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| Patna High Court permits jailed MPs to take part in trust vote |
| The Patna High Court on Wednesday allowed two jailed Members of Parliament -- Mohammad Shahabuddin and Surajbhan Singh -- to take part in next week's trust vote in Parliament, providing some relief to the Manmohan Singh Government, which reportedly has been scrambling for numbers. |
2008-07-16
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| If the UPA govt falls on July 22, let it fall, says Rahul Gandhi |
| AICC General Secretary and Nehru-Gandhi family scion, Rahul Gandhi today said that the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal was in the national interest, and if the Congress-led UPA Government falls on July 22 during the trust vote on the deal, "let it fall". |
2008-07-16
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| 'Lal Salaam' and 'Dalal Salaam' heated exchanges between SP and BJP |
| They often correctly say - "there are no permanent foes or friends in politics". If one glances back a few years, the Samajwadi Party, which then ruled in Uttar Pradesh, had extended a five-star treatment to the BJP during its national executive meeting in Lucknow. Then it was an open secret that the SP had unofficially given a "state guest" honour to the BJP, because both were at a distance from the Congress, which virtually ruled, and still does, at the Centre. |
2008-07-15
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