We
should not have included Speaker’s name: Yechury
New Delhi, July 15
“We should not have included
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s name in our list of MPs while withdrawing
support from the UPA. Or, at least, there should have been an asterisk
denoting his status as Speaker,” said Sitaram Yechury, Politburo
member, in an interview to a private news channel.
PMO
defends meet with Ambani
New Delhi, July 15
A day after Reliance Industries Ltd
(RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it was
confirmed that the meeting was primarily to get support on the trust
vote on July 22. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) also confirmed that
the meeting had nothing to do with the “corporate affairs” of the
warring brothers.
Captain
alleges harassment, Army cites ‘mental weakness’
Chandigarh, July 15
A woman Army officer posted at
Kalka, near here, has complained of physical and mental harassment at
the hands of three senior officers of her unit. The Army, on the other
hand, has denied the allegations. Captain Poonam Kaur, who has been in
the Army for three years and is serving with an ASC battalion at Kalka
since October, has blamed the battalion’s commanding officer, the
second-in-command and the adjutant for harassing her.
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