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  Manohar Parrikar blames UPA government for ammunition shortfall

  National | May 18, 2015 7:56 IST

  Nagpur:  Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today blamed the previous UPA regime for not taking steps to maintain the stocks of arms and ammunition as preparation in case of a war and said the situation has

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  Government retains 51% FDI in multi-brand retail

  May 13, 2015 17:16 IST

  New Delhi: The BJP-led central government has retained the previous UPA regime's decision allowing foreign retailers to open multi-brand stores with 51 per cent ownership, a consolidated FDI policy document released on Tuesday shows.Multi-brand retail

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  Modi govt not much different from UPA: Govindacharya

  National | May 12, 2015 17:48 IST

  New Delhi: Days after Arun Shourie criticised Narendra Modi Government, BJP's former ideologue K N Govindacharya today too questioned its performance, saying it was not much different from the UPA dispensation and the PM has

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  Land law during UPA regime adopted in a hurry: Modi

  National | May 11, 2015 19:02 IST

  New Delhi: Amidst continuing row in Parliament over it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has implied that the UPA's land acquisition legislation was adopted in a hurry and that the BJP was also guilty of supporting

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  Left shouldn't have snapped ties with UPA over n-deal: Sitaram Yechury

  National | May 10, 2015 11:04 IST

  New Delhi: The Left parties should not have withdrawn support to UPA-I government on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal, says CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on the steep decline of the communists eversince.  Instead,

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  New land bill will check distress migration, create jobs: Birender

  National | April 19, 2015 16:37 IST

  New Delhi: The new land bill will enable faster growth and check distress migration from rural areas by creating local employment, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh has said while hoping that the legislation will be

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  Modi vows to 'clean up mess' in India

  World | April 16, 2015 17:34 IST

  Toronto: In a Madison Square-like event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wowed diaspora Indians with jibes at the UPA government when he pledged to clean up the “mess left behind” and change the country's image

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  PM Modi targets UPA govt over coal scam

  World | April 12, 2015 7:46 IST

  Paris: Targeting the previous UPA government on the coal scam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said coal blocks, whose earlier allocation had raised questions even against the then PM, had now fetched over Rs 2

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  Land Act passed under UPA was conspiracy against farmers: Arun Jaitley

  National | April 10, 2015 7:27 IST

  Bhopal: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday alleged that the Land Acquisition Law passed in 2013 under the UPA regime was a "conspiracy" to shun rural areas from development and render landless people jobless."With an

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  NDA govt restored India's global credibility: PM Modi

  National | April 09, 2015 17:04 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said his 10-month-old government had restored India's global credibility in terms of its politics, governance and economy, replacing the "policy paralysis" during the UPA regime with "dynamism".Modi also

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  Govt decides to oppose 'Dalit' status for converts

  India | March 30, 2015 14:03 IST

  New Delhi: The Centre has decided to oppose the demand for ‘Dalit' status for "converts" to Christianity and Islam.According to Centre, only Hinduism recognized 'caste system' and 'untouchability' that led to the creation of a

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  Spectrum auction: 'zero loss' theory of UPA proved false, says Jaitley

  National | March 25, 2015 23:35 IST

  New Delhi: With the telecom spectrum auction garnering the government close to Rs.110,000 crore, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the "zero loss" theory of the previous UPA government in relation to the official

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  Centre's improved real estate bill all set to rise and shine

  March 25, 2015 9:31 IST

  New Delhi: The Centre is all set to bring the revised real estate bill. The bill is in the final lap and will get approved by legislation in short time.The bill aims to shield property

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  Modi govt spends Rs 317 crore on travel, competes with UPA's average spend

  India | March 22, 2015 20:18 IST

  New Delhi: The Narendra Modi led NDA government has incurred a travel bill of Rs 317 crore in the year 2014-15, as per  the revised budgetary estimates, an increase of  about  59 crore over UPA-II's

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  Appropriation Bill 2015-16 cleared by Rajya Sabha

  National | March 20, 2015 8:39 IST

  New Delhi: The Appropriation Bill 2015-16 was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday by a voice vote with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying the Centre was keen to devolve more financial authority to the

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  UPA did not set up SIT as it wanted to 'save' somebody: PM

  National | March 03, 2015 22:41 IST

  New Delhi: Targeting the previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said it had not formed SIT on blackmoney because there was an attempt to “save somebody” and rejected suggestions that his dispensation was

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  Opposition may make a political battle of land bill: Jaitley

  National | March 03, 2015 20:57 IST

  New York: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has acknowledged that the government may be bracing for a "political battle" on the Land Bill in Parliament but is confident that the insurance law will get "through". The

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  PM Narendra Modi's brother Prahlad protests against PDS policy

  National | March 03, 2015 9:20 IST

  Mumbai:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's younger brother Prahlad Modi participated in an agitation against Central government in Mumbai on Monday.The agitation held in Azad Maidan, saw Prahlad Modi, the national vice-president of All-India Fair Price

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  Budget focusses only on corporates, income tax payers: Chidambaram

  February 28, 2015 21:16 IST

  New Delhi: Accusing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of pleasing just the corporates and the income-tax payers, his predecessor in the UPA regime P Chidambaram today said the Modi government's first full Budget has failed the

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  UPA's land law defective, posed threat to India's security: Arun Jaitley

  National | February 27, 2015 9:30 IST

  New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack on the Congress, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the previous UPA regime's land law has had "disastrous impact" on India's national security as Pakistan could get