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Sharad Pawar will not contest LS polls: NCP
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The NCP said that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has no Prime Ministerial ambitions and will not contest the next Lok Sabha elections.Hitting out at Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray for his comments that Pawar nursed ambitions to become prime minister while his nephew Ajit Pawar wanted to be chief minister, NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said Uddhav has been away from mainstream politics...
5-year-old victim dies   30 April, 2013
The five-year-old girl, who was brutally raped in Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh on April 17, died at a hospital in Nagpur last night, a hospital spokesman said."The five-year-old girl died of cardiac arrest at around 7:45 p.m," the spokesman of Care Hospital in the city, where the girl was admitted, said. Her body was sent to the Government Medical College for...
Mamata demands Centre pay back duped investors   27 April, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that Rs 500 crore would be demanded from the Centre to pay back defrauded investors of Saradha Group as SEBI and RBI failed in their duty to check such companies."A storm has come because of the deeds of the earlier [Left Front] government and casual approach of the Centre. The SEBI and RBI also did not do their duties. They are talking...
Boom gone bust   26 April, 2013
West Bengal seems to be lurching from one crisis to another. A chit fund collapse threatens to ruin the lives of millions, raising the spectre of a major social unrest. The depositors of Saradha group, which ran a major chit fund, have been allegedly duped by the company, spreading panic across the state and driving some of them to suicide. With the lack of industrialisation and job opportunities...
CPI(M) flays Trinamool's relief fund   25 April, 2013
CPI(M) sharply criticised the Trinamool Congress government's move to set up a relief fund of Rs 500 crore, part of which will be collected through taxes, to compensate investors hit by the collapse of Saradha Group.Party leader and finance minister during the Left Front regime, Asim Dasgupta said it was surprising that instead of paying off the investors by auctioning the confiscated assets...
Candidates flock to 'lucky' tamarind tree   25 April, 2013
Scam snowballs into political controversy   24 April, 2013
Electronic legs help paraplegic Jogi walk   24 April, 2013
Drinking alcohol on beaches banned   24 April, 2013
No policeman acts without my orders: Minister   24 April, 2013
Saradha Group chairman detained in J&K   23 April, 2013
WB government in damage control mode   23 April, 2013
Scorching sun makes campaigning tough   23 April, 2013
Making water   20 April, 2013
Helping hand   20 April, 2013
BMC notice to Ajit Pawar, Munde on illegal alterations   19 April, 2013
Kodnani moves HC for suspension of sentence   18 April, 2013
DMK members suspended en masse from Budget session   17 April, 2013
MP's Tribal Welfare Minister quits   17 April, 2013
Arrested SFI leader chained to hospital bed   17 April, 2013
Mild earthquake in Assam, Odisha   16 April, 2013
Kerala jumbos get noon break   15 April, 2013
Structural damage   12 April, 2013
Second innings   12 April, 2013
Future tense.   12 April, 2013
Gone with the guru   11 April, 2013
10-year-old rape victim jailed   09 April, 2013
Ajit Pawar apologises for 'urine' remark   08 April, 2013
Water scarcity raises political temperature   08 April, 2013
Hopping mad in Madurai   05 April, 2013
Turf war   05 April, 2013
Homegrown misery   05 April, 2013
NaMo all the way   06 April, 2013
Mamata questions protests   04 April, 2013
CAG report slams Modi government   03 April, 2013
Lokayukta Bill tabled in Assembly   02 April, 2013
Row over shoe   02 April, 2013
Kerala min quits, uproar in Assembly   02 April, 2013
Crossfire of words   01 April, 2013
The Bharti charm   01 April, 2013
Modi impresses US delegation   30 March, 2013
Alagiri skips crucial DMK meet   25 March, 2013
Fine and the not so fine   22 March, 2013
Comeback trail   22 March, 2013
Cheap whiff   22 March, 2013
Stalin's house raided for evasion of car import duty   21 March, 2013
Rice & shine   16 March, 2013
'Poll pledges will be kept'   01 March, 2013
Missing in devotion   16 March, 2013
Survival of the oldest   22 February, 2013
Battle for Bellary   06 December, 2011
Newshound collared   06 December, 2011
Valley of death   16 March, 2013
Cash lords   22 February, 2013
Hug fest   28 November, 2011
Long route to hope   16 March, 2013
Wedding woes   25 February, 2013
Rebel yell   28 November, 2011
Party's over   16 March, 2013
Desert storm   19 November, 2011
Modi on a roll   11 March, 2013
IPS officer arrested   22 February, 2013
Fighting fit    11 November, 2011
Increase in HIV+ cases   11 March, 2013
Grumble strip   08 March, 2013
Bangalored!    04 November, 2011
Party poopers   08 March, 2013
The J spot    04 November, 2011
Trail runs cold   08 March, 2013
Didi’s war cry    31 October, 2011
'Bill’owing anger   27 October, 2011
Trial run   08 March, 2013
Baramulla firing: Curfew hits normal life   06 March, 2013
Cops in the wild   02 March, 2013
Mysterious end   07 October, 2011
Blood oath   07 October, 2011
Dangerous dose   01 March, 2013
Mamata asked me to continue: Kabir   02 March, 2013
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