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  Manmohan Singh leaves a legacy of achievements and failures

  India | May 15, 2014 13:31 IST

  New Delhi: Manmohan Singh, the economist credited with playing a key role in ushering in economic reforms in the 1990s, demits office of Prime Minister after 10 years, leaving a mixed legacy of achievements and

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  Sonia hosts farewell dinner for PM, Rahul skips it

  India | May 14, 2014 23:05 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was tonight lavishly praised at a farewell dinner hosted by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and attended by a galaxy of party leaders except Rahul Gandhi who skipped it, raising

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  Patnaik non-commital on supporting NDA

  National | May 14, 2014 14:26 IST

  New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today remained non-committal on supporting NDA in government formation at the Centre.  “No talks at all. We have not discussed anything. We have not thought

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  NCP rubbishes speculation of BJP-NCP pact

  National | May 14, 2014 13:50 IST

  New Delhi: NCP today rubbished reports that it was cosying up to BJP ahead of formation of the next government, a day after its senior leader Praful Patel's “stable” government remark triggered speculation of a

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  Minority welfare: UPA government faulted on poor implementation

  National | May 13, 2014 15:43 IST

  New Delhi: Even as the UPA government projected itself as a champion of minorities as part of its "secular agenda" for the nation, schemes initiated for the community's benefit have continued to function poorly with

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  A poor show in polls not reflection on Rahul's leadership: Nath

  National | May 13, 2014 15:04 IST

  New Delhi: With exit polls painting a grim prospect for Congress, Union minister Kamal Nath today rejected suggestions that a likely poor show in the elections will be a reflection on Rahul Gandhi's leadership, saying

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  Nitish refuses to accept exit poll projections

  National | May 13, 2014 15:04 IST

  Patna: With the exit polls showing a poor performance by JD (U) in the Lok Sabha elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today dismissed the projections and said the results should be waited for.“Yah to

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  Manmohan Singh gets standing ovation at PMO farewell

  National | May 13, 2014 14:08 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a standing ovation by his staff at South Block Tuesday during a farewell they hosted for him. It also saw some moist eyes.Around 110 staff of the

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  Relaxed Manmohan Singh winds down, no holiday plans

  India | May 11, 2014 19:29 IST

  New Delhi: It has been business as usual for Manmohan Singh - with back-to-back appointments, official meetings and clearing off pending files. But the prime minister is a much relaxed man these days with just

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  If PM had quit after Rahul incident, UPA regime would have collapsed: Baru

  India | May 08, 2014 23:30 IST

  New Delhi: If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had quit last year when Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi publicly trashed the ordinance to save convicted legislators from disqualification, the UPA government would have "collapsed", said the

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  Manmohan Singh to address nation on eve of demitting office

  National | May 08, 2014 15:22 IST

  New Delhi: On the eve of his demitting office after ten years at the head of a UPA coalition government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to "address the people" in a farewell address.Prime Minister Manmohan

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  Priyanka should apologise to the nation, says BJP leader

  National | May 06, 2014 18:01 IST

  Kolkata: BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad today demanded an apology from Priyanka Gandhi for making personal remarks against Narendra Modi, saying the comments showed her elitist attitude and bias against the poor.  He said that

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  Govt to name 'snoopgate' judge before May 16: Sibal

  National | May 02, 2014 14:16 IST

  New Delhi: The UPA government will name a judge for investigating the Gujarat ‘snoopgate' before May 16, Law Minister Kapil Sibal today said and rubbished BJP leader Arun Jaitley's claim that no judge will “lend”

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  NDA, UPA govt exposed India to China threat: Mulayam

  National | May 01, 2014 18:34 IST

  Bahraich/Gonda: SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today accused Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government and incumbent UPA regime of exposing the country's borders to external threat by accepting Tibet as the part of China.  “By accepting

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  Economic growth of 6% in 2015 is possible: Chidambaram

  National | May 01, 2014 18:34 IST

  New Delhi: India's economy is likely to recover and achieve 6 per cent growth in 2014-15 on the back of sound economic policies and a pick-up in investment, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.  “If

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  No judge will lend himself: Jaitley on snoopgate commission

  National | May 01, 2014 15:04 IST

  New Delhi: Amid reports that the UPA government may name a judge for the ‘snoopgate' commission, BJP today hoped that no judge will “lend” himself to the “political and malafide” exercise keeping in view the

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  Advani casts vote in Gujarat, parries queries on Modi

  National | April 30, 2014 17:46 IST

  Ahmedabad: BJP leader L K Advani today described this year's Lok Sabha polls as the “most remarkable election ever held in the history of India” but parried queries on the prospects of Narendra Modi becoming

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  I wouldn't have done a Baru: Chandan Mitra

  National | April 29, 2014 14:43 IST

  Chinsurah (West Bengal): Asserting that people in high places should refrain from coming up with kiss-and-tell accounts, BJP candidate Chandan Mitra, who is a well known editor and a prominent face on TV for the

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  Sushma lauds leadership quality of Narendra Modi

  National | April 28, 2014 15:01 IST

  Madhubani (Bihar): Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today lauded the leadership quality of Narendra Modi and said only her party could pull out the country from ‘hatashaa aur Nirashaa' due to the “misrule of Congress”.“We

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  Digvijay backs Mamata as Modi, TMC spar

  National | April 28, 2014 14:20 IST

  New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today backed erstwhile UPA ally Mamata Banerjee as Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress sniped at each other with the later calling the BJP's the Prime Ministerial candidate “butcher