As Telangana stands suspended, Pranab Mukherjee ensured while meeting a delegation of Congress MPs from the state’s Andhra and Rayalaseema regions in the Parliament House that the statehood of Telangana will not be discussed in Lok Sabha unless and until Andhra Pradesh passes  a resolution keeping into view the wishes and demands of the leaders [...]

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Perhaps Andhra Pradesh splitting into two states is acting as a catalyst to haste the formation of smaller states. For Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister of India to consider the trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh. She has requested Dr. Manmohan Singh to let the rise  of independent states of Bundelkhand and [...]

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Union home secretary G K Pillai hinted that Hyderabad will be the capital of Telangana, the proposed state to be cut out of the state of Andhra Pradesh. “Hyderabad, I think, will always be the capital of Telangana, Pillai stated at a press meet today. This statement comes a day after atleast 130 MPs have [...]

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Failing Madhu Koda’s scheduled appearance at a special vigilance court today, the Vigilance Bureau has sent fresh summons (read December 4) to the former Jharkhand Chief Minister to appear on the controversial case of money laundering worth Rs. 4000 crores, of the year in which Koda is one of the prime accused. “He was to [...]

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Uttar Pradesh is earning really dirty names. Only today, a pregnant woman was stripped and paraded naked around the village after she refused to hand over a piece of land that belonged to her husband to the encroachers. On Sunday evening at Karnawala village in Bijnor district, about 400 km from Lucknow, four villagers charged [...]

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Sleuths have arrested a suspected Pakistani spy from the Indira Gandhi Airport. Security officials have detained him and photographs and certain other documents have been seized from him. Union Home Secretary G K Pillai refused to indulge in further talks. Investigations are on, according to police and will be released to the press when they [...]

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Mumbai city has, after almost a year pending 18 days (26/11, 2008 attacks) finally got its first group of Force One Commandos who have been trained in the lines of National Security Guards who “will become operational,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Chandra Iyengar said. The commandoes have been provided with rigorous training by Israeli and [...]

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Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, minutes after release from the Apollo hospital where he was being treated for a severe stomach ache, has pleaded innocence. He has been accused of money laundering worth Rs.2,500 crore. He claims that “Charges against me are false.” He refuted charges against him and when asked about the strong evidence [...]

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Five railway employees,  Ramesh, Ram Rattan, Pooran, Ajay and Radhey, working on maintainance of Ghaziabad railway tracks , couldn’t see two trains speeding towards them and got hit and were killed at the spot. At around 11.10 a.m. “They were doing maintenance work on the tracks,” Anant Swarup, chief public relations officer of Northern Railways, [...]

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29 fresh cases of Dengue were reported today in Delhi taking the toll of victims struck with this deathly vector-borne disease to 527. Chief Medical Officer, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, N.K. Yadav told the media that “about 203 challans were issued in last one week. At least 5,166 challans have been issued since January where [...]

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