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Sonia slams regional chauvinists
MUMBAI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday targeted narrow minded regional chauvinists. Where did the people who helped Mumbai when it was attacked by terrorists on November 26 come from, she asked. People from all over the ...

We are surrounded by threats from all sides: Modi
MUMBAI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi told voters here on Sunday that Gujarat had become a “yardstick” for every Indian State because of its economic achievements and that the only way their State could achieve similar ...

Jaya Bachchan slams Congress
MUMBAI: While Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Union Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilizers Ram Vilas Paswan were rather restrained at a public meeting here on Friday, it was the turn of actor and Samajwadi Party member Jaya ...

Congress wants Modi to apologise
Party leaders term incident absolutely shocking and say it is a reflection of the hate culture injected by the BJP

Left has to choose between Mayawati, Mulayam: Amar
KOLKATA: As long as the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati was with the Left parties, the Samajwadi Party would have no truck with them, its general secretary Amar Singh said here on Sunday. “The Left has to decide whether it is ...

Advani faces ire again
AHMEDABAD: After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it was the turn of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani to face a “missile.” A middle-aged person dressed like a “sadhu” allegedly threw a ...

“India has received concrete assurances from Colombo”
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday said India had received “concrete assurances” from Sri Lanka on the “safety, security and rehabilitation” of the civilian non-combatant Tamil population directly affected by the ...

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ELECTIONS 2009
Sarees for the election-minded
With election fever gripping the country, the world of fashion doesn’t want to be left behind. A well-known designer duo from the city, Mona Lamba and Pali Sachdev (popularly known as MonaPali), have launched a new range of sarees, which ...

ELECTIONS 2009
“Restoration of democracy to Sikkim is our greatest achievement”


War of the masks
Going by the frenzy for Rahul Gandhi masks at election meetings in Mumbai, the youth leader is assured of popularity at least among future voters. Distributing masks at election meetings has become something of a norm now, starting with the ...

ELECTIONS 2009
Uphill struggle for Bangarappa
It is virtually a straight fight between the son of a Chief Minister and a former Chief Minister in Shimoga, one of the key constituencies in Karnataka. B.Y. Raghavendra, the elder son of the Chief Minister of Karnataka B.S. Yeddyurappa has ...

SOUNDBITES


BITSBYTES
One crowd — to go!
Gone are the days when political parties had to truck in people to attend election rallies and road shows. Now it has evolved into a smoothly functioning contract system, where women’s self help groups come in handy. All you need to do is ...

One in four a crorepati
One in every four candidates contesting elections in India’s financial capital on April 30 is a crorepati, with the average asset value of the candidates here a neat Rs. 3.4 crore, according to affidavits filed recently. Abu Asim Azmi of ...

Performance report
This will be the tenth election that former Union Minister of State for Railways Ram Naik of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be contesting. The BJP candidate from Mumbai North was first elected as an MLA in 1978 and this is his 31st year in ...

Ballot papers for blind
The Election Commission has made provisions for special ballot papers that can be read by touch for blind electors who are not conversant in Braille, a senior Himachal Pradesh poll official said here Sunday. “Out of 1,070 visually ...

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