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  Indian states, Chinese provinces should interact more: Jairam Ramesh

  National | July 03, 2014 16:49 IST

  Kolkata: Terming Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh's ongoing and Vice President Hamid Ansari's just-concluded China visit as "significant", former union minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday India needs to "deepen the political dialogue" and that

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  Poll defeat is collective responsibility: Ramesh

  National | May 31, 2014 23:19 IST

  Ranchi: Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Rahul Gandhi did his best during the electioneering for Lok Sabha polls and the party's drubbing was a collective responsibility.“It's (defeat) a collective responsibility. Rahul Gandhi tried

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  Speculation that Rahul and Sonia could offer to resign at CWC meet

  National | May 17, 2014 17:27 IST

  New Delhi: As Congress searches for answers for its worst-ever electoral performance, daggers are already out in the party ahead of the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting scheduled on Monday. Senior party leaders speaking

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  Difficult days ahead if Modi governs India like Gujarat: Jairam Ramesh

  India | May 16, 2014 17:50 IST

  New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today termed as “deeply disturbing” Narendra Modi-led BJP's massive victory in the Lok Sabha polls and said that “very difficult days” are ahead if he rules India the

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  Congress was out-funded in this election: Jairam Ramesh

  National | May 13, 2014 21:12 IST

  New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Tuesday said his Congress party has been "out-funded" as far as this election was concerned, but maintained that the exit polls which predict a BJP clean sweep would

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  Ramesh bats for 'serious audit' of poll expenditure by parties

  National | May 13, 2014 20:40 IST

  New Delhi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today demanded a “serious expenditure audit” of the money spent by parties in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, claiming Narendra Modi's campaign spending had reached an “obscene level”

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  Not in the game now, Congress eyes 2019 polls in Seemandhra

  National | May 01, 2014 17:00 IST

  Hyderabad: Certainly not in contention for power in Seemandhra, Congress sees the May 7 elections in this successor State of Andhra Pradesh as preparations for the 2019 polls even as it hinted that it may

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  Ramesh questions YSRCP's election expenditure

  National | April 30, 2014 23:42 IST

  Kurnool (AP): Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today said a probe should be conducted into the YSR Congress's election expenditure.“Money is flowing like water...wherefrom all this money is coming? All parties spend

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  BJP's 'issue-centric' campaign will succeed: Jaitley

  National | April 29, 2014 17:42 IST

  Amritsar: A day ahead of polling in Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today expressed confidence that his issue-centric campaign will succeed against the “rude and discourteous” campaign of his Congress rival

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  No Modi wave, only Modi poison, says Jairam Ramesh

  National | April 21, 2014 13:24 IST

  Ranchi: There is no Modi wave but only "Modi poison" in India, said union minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday."Modi ka koi lahar nahi hai, Modi ka zehar hai (There is no Modi wave. There is Modi

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  Modi never speaks truth: Ramesh

  National | April 20, 2014 20:06 IST

  Dhanbad (Jharkhand): Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today accused BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of never speaking truth.“I would not comment on any allegations levelled by Modi as he never speaks truth,” the Union Rural

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  Modi making bizarre accusation, spreading blatant lie: Ramesh

  National | April 14, 2014 19:10 IST

  New Delhi: A day after Narendra Modi took him on in his home district of Chikmagalur, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today wrote to the BJP leader accusing him of spreading “blatant lie” about his four-year-old

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  Manmohan Singh: A good man let down by the party

  National | April 13, 2014 13:20 IST

  I have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early '90s he took transformational

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  Jairam Ramesh to campaign in Telangana

  National | April 10, 2014 12:47 IST

  Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader and union Minister Jairam Ramesh will start campaigning for the party in Telangana Thursday.On the first day of his three-day visit, he will address a meeting of party workers at Nirmal

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  B'day Special: Jairam Ramesh “ The IITian-turned-Congress minister

  National | April 09, 2014 7:52 IST

  Jairam Ramesh is a senior politician of the Indian National Congress. He was born on 9th April, 1954 in Chikmagalur, Karnataka.He is presently the Rural Development Minister in Dr Manmohan Singh's cabinet.Jairam Ramesh is known

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  BJP 'party of Kumbhkarnas', promises underway schemes: Jairam

  National | April 07, 2014 19:57 IST

  New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Monday termed the BJP as a "party of Kumbhkarnas" and said its election manifesto is a hastily prepared document which promises programmes already underway over the past 10

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  Performance must replace parikrama: Ramesh

  National | April 06, 2014 17:40 IST

  New Delhi: “Performance must replace parikrama (sycophancy)” in the Congress party, senior Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said today, urging Rahul Gandhi to have a young team.Ramesh, who recently suggested that all Congress leaders should retire

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  Bukhari's appeal to vote for Congress his personal opinion: Ramesh

  National | April 05, 2014 23:35 IST

  Ranchi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today described Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari's appeal to Muslims to support Congress as his "personal" opinion and said the electoral battle was between RSS and Congress.

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  SC order on Land Act has drawn clear lines on implementation says Jairam Ramesh

  India | April 01, 2014 16:00 IST

  New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the Supreme Court judgement upholding the retrospective clause of the new Land Acquisition Act has drawn “clear and humane lines” for the implementation of a significant

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  Ramesh slams EC's decision on gas price

  National | March 28, 2014 11:26 IST

  New Delhi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today hit out at the Election Commission for asking the government to defer notifying new gas price from April 1, saying the poll panel cannot sit in judgement on