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Manmohan appointed PM
Swearing-in on Friday, UPA’s tally touches 322
New Delhi, May 20
Amid hectic lobbying for key Cabinet posts by “pre-poll” UPA constituents, Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday met President Pratibha Patil and staked claim to form the new government.  		 President Pratibha Patil presents a letter to Manmohan Singh appointing him as the Prime Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday.
President Pratibha Patil presents a letter to Manmohan Singh appointing him as the Prime Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. — PTI
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First session of new LS in June first week
 New Delhi, May 20
With the stage set for the formation of the new government, the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha is expected to be convened in the first week of June. There is a likelihood of the new House commencing from June 2 for a brief session before it is adjourned and recalled later for a full-fledged Budget session.

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 Patna, May 20
Drubbing of the Congress and its old allies - the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) - at the hands of the NDA in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls in Bihar is likely to cost the state dearly in terms of its presence in the Union Cabinet.

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 New Delhi, May 20
Outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee finally found support in the Left Front. Few days after the veteran communist blamed CPM leadership’s narcissistic attitude for its worst-ever electoral loss, the Communist Party of India (CPI) today came out openly in admission of the fact that arrogance did the Left in.

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New Delhi, May 20
Outgoing Lok Sabha (LS) Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today took strong exception to Samajwadi Party general-secretary Amar Singh’s remarks that the former had asked his party to support the government on the N-deal issue.


As numbers swell, success rate slides
Chandigarh, May 20
 While there has been a 34 per cent increase in the number of students appearing for CBSE’s All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Class-XII) from this region since 2007, there has been a consistent decline in the success rate of students from government schools and Kendriya Vidalayas during the same period.

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Chennai, May 20
Pro-LTTE leaders and Tamil nationalist organisations have rejected Sri Lankan army’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran was dead and have raised several questions over the video clippings of the body released by the island nation.

School van rams into train at unmanned crossing; 8 dead
Ghumtala (Bilga), May 20
Tomorrow would have been the last day in school before the summer vacation. But 25 and odd students of Akal Academy, Bilga, around 45 kms from Jalandhar, never reached school today.

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