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Team Anna To Pay Rs 7 Lakh For MMRDA Ground
India | Dec 23, 2011, 10:59 PM ISTRalegan Siddhi/Mumbai, Dec 23: Anna Hazare today braced himself up for a three-day fast in Mumbai from December 27, forced to cough up about Rs seven lakh as rental for the MMRDA ground after Bombay
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Anna To Go Ahead With Fast From Dec 27
India | Dec 20, 2011, 10:22 PM ISTRalegan Siddhi, Dec 20: Accusing the UPA of ignoring the voice of people, Anna Hazare today said he will go ahead with his fast and ‘jail bharo' agitation from December 27, alleging that a “weak”
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Sadhbhavana Fast Answer To My Detractors, Says Narendra Modi
India | Dec 19, 2011, 08:20 AM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 19: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the response to his ‘Sadbhavana mission' was a slap in the face of those who want to tarnish the image of the state.“The
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DMK's Day-Long Fast Begins
India | Dec 12, 2011, 12:01 PM ISTChennai, Dec 12 : DMK leaders are observing a day-long fast today to draw the Centre's attention towards the vexed Mullaperiyar Dam issue and also assert the state's rights.Party General Secretary K Anbazhagan kicked off
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BJP Backs Hazare's Decision To Go On Fast On Lokpal Issue
India | Nov 28, 2011, 07:51 AM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 28: BJP on Sunday backed Anna Hazare's decision to go on fast next month if the governmnet fails to pass the Lokpal Bill in this Parliament session, saying it stands firmly behind
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Hazare Wary Of Dilution Of Credit, Says Jaiswal
National | Nov 02, 2011, 10:41 PM ISTAllahabad, Nov 2: Taking a dig at Anna Hazare who has threatened to go on yet another fast for a strong Lokpal, Union Minister Sriparkash Jaiswal today said the Gandhian appeared to be wary of
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Modi Holds Day Long Fast At Dwarka For Harmony And Peace
India | Oct 16, 2011, 09:20 PM ISTDwarka(Guj), Oct 16: Launching the second round of his Sadhbhavna mission, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today observed a day long fast here saying that it would help create communal harmony and brotherhood in the
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Kudankulam Protesters Call Off 11-Day Fast
India | Sep 21, 2011, 09:33 PM ISTChennai, Sept 21: The 11-day-old fast by locals demanding the scrapping of the Kudankulam nuclear power project was called off on Wednesday after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa agreed for a cabinet resolution to
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Sikkim Recovering Fast, Says Bhaichung Bhutia
India | Sep 20, 2011, 06:33 PM ISTKolkata, Sept 20: Indian football icon Bhaichung Bhutia, back today from Gangtok in Sikkim which was rocked by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake on Sunday evening, said the state was recovering fast and he was planning
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Lucknow Shia Cleric Gives Call For Fast On Friday To Protest Modi's Fast
India | Sep 19, 2011, 09:57 PM ISTLucknow, Sep 19: A prominent Shia cleric today termed all those, including Muslims, who attended the three-day fast by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, as “gunahgaar” (culprit) of riots.“All those attending the fast with Modi
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Congress Fast Is Panic Reaction, Say BJP Leaders
India | Sep 19, 2011, 04:38 PM ISTAhmedabad, Sep 19: Although Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi chose not to comment on the fast launched by the state Congress leaders to counter his three-day Sadbhavna mission, his party members did not mince any
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Vaghela, Modhvadia Start Fast To Counter Modi
India | Sep 17, 2011, 12:20 PM ISTAhmedabad, Sept 17: Gujarat Congress leaders Shankarsinh Vaghela and Arjun Modhvadia today began their fast as a counter to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's three-day fast here.The Congress leaders launched their fast an hour before Modi's
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Modi's Fast From Saturday, Jaya Sends Emissaries, Badal To Come
India | Sep 16, 2011, 09:42 PM ISTAhmedabad, Sep 16: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi kicks of his three-day fast tomorrow with support also coming from his counterparts from Tamil Nadu and Punjab—Jayalalithaa and Prakash Singh Badal—and Shiv Sena leaders.Badal, leader of
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Advani, Jaitley Among Those Who Will Attend Modi's Fast
National | Sep 15, 2011, 10:00 PM ISTNew Delhi, Sep 15: In an indication of the growing clout of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the BJP, senior party leaders, including L K Advani and Arun Jaitley, have decided to attend his
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Narendra Modi To Fast For Three Days, Congress Says, It's A Gimmick
India | Sep 14, 2011, 10:35 AM ISTNew Delhi, Sep 13: Buoyed by the Supreme Court verdict in Gulbarga Society riot case, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at his detractors for “defaming” him for the 2002 riots and announced
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Hazare Greeted By Cheering Crowd
India | Aug 28, 2011, 10:21 AM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 28 : A roaring crowd greeted Gandhian Anna Hazare this morning at Ramlila Maidan as he emerged on the dais to break his fast. Clad in his trademark white dhoti-kurta and Gandhi
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PM Holds Consultations With Mukherjee, Deshmukh
India | Aug 26, 2011, 02:47 PM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held consultations with Union ministers Pranab Mukherjee and Vilasrao Deshmukh, who are negotiating with activist Anna Hazare and his associates.The consultations took place close on the
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Hazare Fast: Signs Of Breakthrough
India | Aug 25, 2011, 10:57 PM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 25: Signs of a breakthrough emerged tonight with the government being open to a discussion in Parliament tomorrow on key elements of Jan Lokpal Bill, a step forward towards ending the impasse
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Plea Accuses Manish Tewari Of 'Defaming' Hazare
National | Aug 24, 2011, 09:09 AM ISTIndore, Aug 23 : A petition has been filed in a local court accusing Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari of “defaming” activist Anna Hazare and hurting the sentiments of Gandhians in the country.The petitioner Mohammed Haneef
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Manmohan Reaches Out To Anna Hazare
India | Aug 23, 2011, 07:33 PM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 23: On the eighth day of Anna Hazare's agitation, a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today directly reached out to him with an appeal for ending fast and a promise that his