Meira Kumar
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Opposition briefs media after naming Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate
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Opposition Chooses Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate
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Opposition Chooses Meira Kumar as Its Presidential Candidate
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President elections: Opposition pits Dalit face Meira Kumar against NDA's Ram Nath Kovind
National | Jun 22, 2017, 06:29 PM ISTKumar 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
National | Jun 22, 2017, 08:17 AM ISTThe 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
National | Jun 20, 2017, 01:33 PM ISTEither 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Security covers of former Ministers, Meira Kumar withdrawn
National | Feb 21, 2015, 05:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: Security of several VIPs including former Union Ministers and Speaker Meira Kumar has been totally withdrawn while the elite ‘Black Cat' NSG commandos provided to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh may be replaced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
National | Dec 06, 2014, 11:16 AM ISTNew 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
National | Aug 10, 2014, 04:19 PM ISTNew 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
National | Jun 06, 2014, 01:21 PM ISTNew 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
National | Jun 04, 2014, 08:17 PM ISTNew 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
National | Jun 02, 2014, 01:00 PM ISTLucknow: 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, 02:47 PM ISTPatna: 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, 01:23 PM ISTPatna: 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
National | Apr 10, 2014, 05:46 PM ISTPatna: 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
National | Apr 10, 2014, 03:46 PM ISTPatna: 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
National | Apr 03, 2014, 05:39 PM ISTPatna: 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
National | Mar 27, 2014, 05:18 PM ISTGaya: 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
National | Mar 24, 2014, 12:22 PM ISTPatna: 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
National | Mar 22, 2014, 09:55 AM ISTPatna: 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