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Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra BJP’s leader has been sworn in as BJP’s new President. The politician, right after ascending to the throne, has made open acknowledgements to RSS as one of BJP’s prime supporters. Gadkari, famous for maintaining a really low-profile thus becomes the youngest president for the party. Fearless as he asserts himself to be, the Maratha President echoes the importance of willpower to the credit of the individual: “When there is a strong political will, all problems can be solved,” he was heard saying.

Reminding us once again, the former PWD minister of Maharashtra talks about his previous feats such as the fact that he had built the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in just two years and at a cost of Rs2,000 crore when more expenses is expected in projects such as these in other states. He informed the media that he always is willing to vouchsafe for politics as the most important factor in developing social and economic conditions of the country. Thus he said, ” I don’t work as if I am making a political career. I work for the poor and downtrodden sections of society who don’t have food to eat, house to live in or clothes to wear. I strive to bring about a transformation in their lives.”

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Finally, after a spate of several days, the new Maharashtra government is formed constituting 18 Congressmen and 20 more ministers from its ally the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). While Ashok Chavan has taken the oath as Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal is from NCP under the watchful eyes of Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir.

The government shall include 12 Congree Cabinet ministers and 15  NCP ministers. 16 days after the power battle between Congress and NCP, the Maharashtra government has been formed.

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Vodafone has launched a new plan to let its prepaid customers  avail the pay per second tariff for both local and STD calls. New  subscribers get an additional bonanza of free SIM card bundled with lifelong validity. The main purpose of launching this plan is to provide customers with excellent customer service and among the best GSM network in the state.

This is what the tariff for Mumbai says-

” Now make local and STD calls from Vodafone to Vodafone @ 1p/sec with the Rs 52 Recharge Card.

Validity 365 days

Note:

Calls from Vodafone to other mobile phones @ 1.2p/sec ”

The plan has been priced differently for different states. Currently the plan has been launched in the  following states with the mentioned prices-

Andhra Pradesh- Rs. 66

Chennai- Rs. 63

Gujarat- Rs. 58

Karnataka- Rs. 74

Kerala- Rs. 64

Maharashtra and Goa- Rs. 64

Mumbai- Rs. 52

Punjab-Rs.  66

Rajasthan- Rs. 69

Tamil Nadu (except Chennai)- Rs. 63

West Bengal- Rs. 63

The SMS, Roaming and ISD rates remains same as per the customers’ base tariff plan.

For Karnataka, Vodafone has included several options

“With the Rs 251 Recharge Card, now we can enjoy:

Talktime of Rs 225.50

Local & STD calls @ 1p/sec

Note:

No specified validity attached to talktime

Except Rs 28 SMS Pack @ 10p/SMS & Rs 49 SMS Pack @ 2p/SMS, no other Bonus Cards/Packs are applicable on this recharge. ”

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Following the leads of telecom service providers Tata and Aircel, Bharti Airtel has also launched oen second billing plan. According to the new scheme, customers will be charged one paise for one second to any local and nation number in the same network and Rupee 1.20 paise for any external networks.

Airtel distribution network currently covers around 4.25 lakh cities and villages. Its network covers 110 million customers, has 100,000 sites and this new Freedom scheme will be available nationwide. President of mobile services, Atul Bhandari stated that the scheme has been dessigned “In keeping with our ethos of providing the best to our customers” and that the company is ” delighted to offer a one-second pulse to customers.”

Incidentally Aritel has also another scheme that coincidentally releases with Vodafone’s. Called Airtel Advantage, subscribers to this plan will have to pay  50 paise for every minute while calling local and national numbers in same network and 60 Paise for those with external networks.

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Extending a hand of friendship towards Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the neighbour to carry it “forward” and show “sincerity and good faith”. As I have said many times before, we will not be found wanting in our response,” Manmohan Singh said while addressing the public at Anantnag where he, Sonia Gandhi and other VVIPs flagged off the new train service that connects South Kashmir to North. He stressed that such a step is vital to the interests of both the people of India and Pakistan.

PM was however, firm in his stand of disagreement over Pakistan’s careless curbing of terrorism directed at India. “For a productive dialogue it is essential that terrorism must be brought under control,” he said in Urdu.

The PM believes that a majority of Pakistani actually want good co-relations and support from their Indian counter-parts and a lasting peace, something which the PM stressed, is reflected by Indians as well.

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“Today I felt for the first time that things have changed here since the prime minister and the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) chairperson would not be addressing people from behind a bullet-proof screen,” Omar Abdullah said at a press meet after Manmohan Singh and Congress Chairperson Sonia Gandhi decided not to use a bullet proof while flagging off a new train service linking south Kashmir with Srinagar and other places in north.

Welcoming the change, Omar told the media that the situation is perhaps less critical in his state and the need now is concentrating on strengthening both political and economic scenario of J&K.

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If the value based CBSE curriculum was not enough, the board has decided to examine students on the basis of their interaction with the general world(read fellow students and teachers), an issue that has raised eyebrows nationwide.

While many have nodded their heads in support of the new gradation system citing examples of morality incorporation among youngsters as one of the main reasons behind such a decision, others have simply dismissed the whole theory stating that it may affect the general academic standards and performance of the students.

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