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  Opposition briefs media after naming Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate

  Politics | June 22, 2017 19:01 IST

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  Opposition Chooses Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate

  Politics | June 22, 2017 18:25 IST

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  Opposition Chooses Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate

  Politics | June 22, 2017 18:27 IST

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  President elections: Opposition pits Dalit face Meira Kumar against NDA's Ram Nath Kovind

  Politics | June 22, 2017 18:29 IST

  Kumar had yesterday met Sonia Gandhi along with other senior party leaders, fuelling speculation that the party was willing to support her candidature.

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  Presidential poll: Opposition divided ahead of today's crucial meet, Congress pushes for Meira Kumar

  Politics | June 22, 2017 8:17 IST

  The Opposition seemed divided ahead of Thursday’s crucial meeting on the presidential poll, with the JD-U extending its support to NDA’s candidate Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday

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  Presidential polls: Opposition plans ‘caste card’ to counter Kovind’s candidature

  Politics | June 20, 2017 13:33 IST

  Either former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar or former Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde – both Dalit leaders from Congress - could be projected to contest against Ram Nath Kovind.

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  Security covers of former Ministers, Meira Kumar withdrawn

  Politics | February 21, 2015 17:40 IST

  New Delhi: Security of several VIPs including former Union Ministers and Speaker Meira Kumar has been totally withdrawn while the elite ‘Black Cat' NSG commandos provided to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh may be replaced

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  Lack of cleanliness a blot on the country: Meira Kumar

  Politics | December 06, 2014 11:16 IST

  New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday underlined the need for a "clean India", saying the lack of cleanliness is a blot on the country."What is this patriotism which allows you to

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  Noisy protests by MPs go against parliament's rule book

  Politics | August 10, 2014 16:19 IST

  New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's recent storming to the Lok Sabha Speaker's podium and noisy protest might have charged up his party members, but it grossly violates the code of parliamentary etiquette laid

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  Eight-time MP Sumitra Mahajan elected Lok Sabha speaker

  Politics | June 06, 2014 13:21 IST

  New Delhi: New Delhi: BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan, an eight-time member of parliament, was Friday unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha.The name of Mahajan, MP from Indore, was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra

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  Sumitra Mahajan to be next Speaker

  Politics | June 04, 2014 20:17 IST

  New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan, one of the most experienced Parliamentarians, is set to be the next Lok Sabha Speaker, becoming the second woman to occupy the key position.The acceptance of 71-year-old Mahajan,

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  BJP seeks home ministry's intervention in Uttar Pradesh

  Politics | June 02, 2014 13:00 IST

  Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sought the union home ministry's intervention in the failing law and order situation in the state, a party leader said Monday.This follows a

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  Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar loses

  India | May 16, 2014 14:47 IST

  Patna: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar lost from the Sasaram Lok sabha constituency in Bihar by around 61,000 votes.The Congress candidate was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party's Chedi Paswan, a former minister who resigned from

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  Meira Kumar files another plea in land-grab case

  India | May 01, 2014 13:23 IST

  Patna: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has filed yet another petition in the Patna High Court that some people have occupied a land bought by her father in Bihar's Bhojpur district, her lawyer said on

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  Bihar votes, two die in blast

  Politics | April 10, 2014 17:46 IST

  Patna: Nearly half of the electorate in six Lok Sabha constituencies of Bihar cast their ballot Thursday even as two troopers headed for poll duty were killed in a landmine blast."About 45 percent of the

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  Bihar balloting picks up amid incidents of violence

  Politics | April 10, 2014 15:46 IST

  Patna: Nearly 32 percent of the electorate voted in the first six hours Thursday in Bihar's six Lok Sabha constituencies despite incidents of violence in the state."So far about 32 percent of the electorate has

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  UPA has fulfilled most promises: Sonia Gandhi

  Politics | April 03, 2014 17:39 IST

  Patna: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday said that the UPA government fulfilled most of the promises made to the people in the last Lok Sabha polls and was committed to work hard to improve the

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  Commotion at Modi rally in Bihar, Police lathicharge crowd

  Politics | March 27, 2014 17:18 IST

  Gaya: Commotion broke out today at the venue of a rally here in Bihar shortly before BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was to address it prompting Police to resort to a mild lathicharge.The police

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  Modi, Sonia, Nitish to campaign in Bihar

  Politics | March 24, 2014 12:22 IST

  Patna: Star BJP campaigner Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are set to hit the campaign trail in Bihar along with the state's two best known faces: Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad.Modi, the BJP's

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  Shatrughan Sinha among 12 to file nominations from Bihar

  Politics | March 22, 2014 9:55 IST

  Patna: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha was among 12 candidates to file nominations from different Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar today.Accompanied by actress-wife Poonam Sinha, leader of the opposition, Nand Kishore Yadav and party MLAs, Sinha submitted