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Tuesday,
May 24,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Bihar Assembly dissolved
Nitish pre-empted; NDA cries foul
New Delhi, May 23
Feeling cheated with JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar being pre-empted from staking his claim to form the government in Bihar, the BJP-led NDA dismissed the quickfire dissolution of the Bihar Assembly in the wee hours today as a “fraud on the Constitution and murder of democracy” even as the Manmohan Singh government defended its intervention to “avoid horse-trading.”
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| Bihar Legislature Party leader Nitish Kumar just before a Press conference after the NDA meeting on the Bihar issue in New Delhi on Monday.
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Can law alone stop child marriages?
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Paswan blames Lalu
To play Muslim-Dalit card
New Delhi, May 23
Even as he blamed the NDA of taking recourse to horse-trading to get the numbers in the Bihar Assembly, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan today squarely held Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav responsible for the dissolution of state Assembly, saying that efforts to install a secular UPA government headed by a Muslim did not succeed because of the intransigence of the RJD chief.
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Forum, provides our readers with an opportunity to express their
views on some of the vital issues facing the country. The new
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Should foreign coaches be appointed for the Indian cricket team?
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Pakistan and President-in-uniform
By H.K. Dua, who recently visited Pakistan
Bhurban, Murree Hills:
An hour-and-a-half's drive from Islamabad, Bhurban is emerging as a hill station frequently visited by those who have been having a good time in Pakistan all these years. Beyond layers of hills and pine trees the Himalayan snowline can be seen in distance in clear weather. |
Lashkar militant held in Delhi
One hurt in another blast
India a responsible N-nation: Kalam
Calls for closer ties with Russia, China
Moscow, May 23
Asserting that India is a responsible nation, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today said it would never be a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction.
“When we are surrounded by nuclear armed countries, we did not have any
other alternative but to become a nuclear weapon state,” he told senior
members of Duma, Russian Parliament, including its Speaker, here.
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CBSE Class X
results today
New Delhi, May 23
The results for Class X for Chennai, Chandigarh and Ajmer regions will be declared tomorrow and for Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad it will be declared on May 26, CBSE Chairperson Ashok Ganguly said here today. The result will be posted by 6 pm.
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QUOTE OF THE
DAY
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Paswan has not
only played with the sentiments of his party MLAs, but has
also ‘betrayed’ the people of Bihar by playing a part in
the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
— Nitish Kumar
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2 dead, 50 hurt in
Delhi cinema blasts
May 23, 2005
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LJP
on verge of split
May 22, 2005
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PM
favours tenure security for bureaucrats
May 21, 2005
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Cabinet clears mid-term appraisal of 10th Plan
May 20, 2005
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UPA, Left rift widens
May 19, 2005
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More
charges framed against Lalu Yadav
May 18, 2005
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CWC
pats Sonia, Manmohan
May 17, 2005
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Punjab to promote religious tourism
May 16, 2005
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Opposition is fine,
but be responsible: Sonia
May 15, 2005
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