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  Aam Aadmi Party to release 1st list of candidates this week

  National | November 09, 2014 21:14 IST

  New Delhi:  Aiming to recapture power, the Aam Aadmi Party has finalised a list of 30 candidates, which includes former ministers as well as party Chief Arvind Kejriwal, for Delhi assembly polls and it will

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  Tough fight ahead, stay united : Trinamool Congress leader

  National | November 09, 2014 21:05 IST

  Kolkata: With election to 81 civic bodies, including Kolkata Municipal Corporation, due next year and BJP making inroads in the state, a top Trinamool Congress leader today said there would be tough fight in the

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  Suresh Prabhu quits Sena, joins BJP

  National | November 09, 2014 20:46 IST

  New Delhi:  Former Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu today formally joined the BJP before being sworn in as Cabinet Minister in the first expansion of the Narendra Modi government.Prabhu, who was Power Minister in the

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  Congress stays away from swearing-in ceremony

  National | November 09, 2014 20:33 IST

  New Delhi: Congress on Sunday kept away from the oath-taking ceremony of 21 new Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers.“Both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were invited to the ceremony,” Power Minister

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  Berth for Birender Singh makes it 5 from Haryana in Modi govt

  National | November 09, 2014 18:51 IST

  Chandigarh:  With the induction today of Haryana leader Birender Singh as a minister in the Narendra Modi government, the state where BJP recently won in Assembly polls for the first time now has five representatives

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  'Kurta-pyjama' is the favoured attire at the oath ceremony

  National | November 09, 2014 18:35 IST

  New Delhi:  Most of the ministers who were sworn-in today in Modi's expanded council of ministers were dressed in traditional kurta-pyjama except Manohar Parrikar, Suresh Prabhu and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.  While Parrikar and Prabhu were

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  Narendra Modi Cabinet leaner than UPA and previous NDA

  National | November 09, 2014 18:12 IST

  New Delhi: The big expansion of his Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today has taken the number of ministers to 66  but it is still leaner than those headed by Manmohan Singh

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  Parrikar lands in UP, to file RS nomination

  National | November 09, 2014 23:15 IST

  Lucknow: Newly inducted Union Minister and former Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar arrived here today to file his nomination for Rajya Sabha.   Parrikar will file his nomination at 12 noon (rpt 12 noon) tomorrow at

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  PM Modi to chair first meeting of revamped Cabinet tomorrow

  National | November 09, 2014 18:03 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tomorrow chair the first meeting of the expanded Cabinet which will be followed by a meeting of Council of Ministers. “A Cabinet meeting would be held at 5:30 PM

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  Babul's induction will help in BJP's fight in West Bengal: Siddharth

  National | November 09, 2014 17:25 IST

  Kolkata: Induction of singer-turned-BJP MP Babul Supriyo in the Union Ministry will help BJP in its fight against “misrule” of Trinamool Congress before the 2016 state assembly polls, party National Secretary and its West Bengal

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  Three day Maharashtra Assembly session begins today; CM Fadnavis to seek trust vote

  National | November 10, 2014 7:43 IST

  Mumbai:  A three-day special session of Maharashtra Assembly will begin here from tomorrow, during which Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will seek a trust vote. State Governor C Vidyasagar Rao will administer oath to Jeeva Pandu Gavit

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  All except two of the new Ministers take oath in Hindi

  National | November 09, 2014 16:15 IST

  New Delhi:  Barring TDP's Y S Chowdary and BJP MP from West Bengal's Asansol seat Babul Supriyo, all other 19 inductees in Modi ministry today took oath in Hindi.  Chowdhary, who is from Hyderabad, and

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  Women representation in PM Modi ministry goes upto 8

  National | November 09, 2014 16:21 IST

  New Delhi:  First time Uttar Pradesh MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti is the lone woman face in today's expansion of the Union Cabinet which took the total representation of the fairer sex to eight.47-year-old Jyoti is

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  Jharkhand polls: Congress releases list of seven candidates

  National | November 07, 2014 22:07 IST

  New Delhi: Congress today released its third list of seven candidates for Jharkhand Assembly polls, taking to 35 its nominees for the 81-member House.  It had released a list of 14 candidates on November 5

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  Arun Jaitley hints at giving up Defence portfolio on Sunday

  National | November 07, 2014 21:42 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today indicated that he may not hold additional charge of the Defence Ministry from Sunday. “When I took over charge of that Ministry, I had said it is a

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  Vasundhara Raje asks media to maintain credibility

  National | November 07, 2014 21:32 IST

  Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today asked the media organisations to maintain credibility and suggested them not to flash misleading news in a hurry to earn ratings."Channels as well as newspapers should maintain credibility

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  Congress declines to pay much heed to Janata Parivar's revival

  National | November 07, 2014 21:21 IST

  New Delhi: Congress today did not attach much significance over the possibility of the “Janata Parivar” emerging again with likely merger of parties which were part of the erstwhile Janata Dal.“I am all for unity

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  J-K polls: BJP unlikely to raise Article 370 during campaigning

  National | November 07, 2014 18:45 IST

  New Delhi: As it aims to capture power in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP is unlikely to rake up in campaign its pet issue of revocation of Article 370, which the party maintains stops complete integration

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  Man without entry pass shared dais with PM Modi at Fadnavis's swearing-in

  National | November 07, 2014 7:09 IST

  Mumbai:  In a major security lapse, a man claiming to be a BJP activist managed to gain entry into the swearing-in ceremony of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis here without possessing a valid pass and

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  Buddhadeb mocks 'demagogue' Narendra Modi

  National | November 06, 2014 21:34 IST

  Kolkata:  Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Swachh Bharat' campaign and calling him a ‘demagogue', CPI(M) politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said sweeping streets will not remove poverty in the country.  “Our previous prime minister Manmohan