| Aditi Phadnis: Fired and brimstone | 22-AUG-09 |
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| Ahead of cabinet reshuffles in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, a group of five used to take all the important decisions: Atal Behari Vajpayee (now virtually bedridden), George Fernandes (ditto), Pramod Mahajan (dead), Jaswant Singh (expelled) and L K Advani. |
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| Govt gets cracking on disinvestment | 09-JUL-09 |
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| Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet the Securities & Exchange Board of India board on Friday to discuss, among other things, the disinvestment roadmap and the Budget proposal to raise the threshold for non-promoter public shareholding for all listed companies in a phased manner. |
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| My score card | 16-APR-09 |
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| At a time when there’s so much emphasis on transparency, BJP MP Ananth Kumar has sent out a mail to his potential voters listing his achievements. This includes a web-link to all his interventions in Parliament, especially those concerning Bangalore; another link gives you the list of projects he has spent his MPLADS fund on; other achievements include the highways built in the state when he was urban development minister in the NDA government, the approval given for the Bangalore metro project, even the MoU he signed for the new airport for Bangalore — the last one may not go down too well with the city’s citizenry, which has to spend more money, and time, reaching the new airport. |
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| Parliament to call RBI again for Satyam briefing | 28-JAN-09 |
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| Having questioned the RBI for about two hours on the Satyam fraud issue, a Parliamentary panel has decided to call apex bank representatives again on February 4 along with three other government agencies, including Sebi, for a second round of quizzing. |
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| OIL may raise debt if IPO falters | 20-SEP-08 |
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| Oil India (OIL), India’s second largest producer of crude oil, could raise debt to fund its investment plans worth Rs 4,575 crore in India and overseas, if the volatile equity market derailed |
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| BJP pressures EC for early polls in Karnataka | 19-FEB-08 |
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| The BJP today demanded early elections in Karnataka and went to the Election Commission to put on record its apprehension that the central government had notified the report of the delimitation |
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| Quota Bill passed | 22-DEC-05 |
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| The Lok Sabha today passed the 104th Constitutional Amendment Bill which will allow the government to impose a quota for scheduled castes and tribes in private educational institutions.
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| Factional feud hits BJP in Karnataka | 22-FEB-05 |
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| The north-south divide in the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit has boiled over after senior leaders and leaders of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly and Council, Yediurappa and |
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| Six former ministers face eviction | 06-OCT-04 |
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| A week after serving them a notice, the urban development ministry has issued a reminder to six former ministers, including Kanshi Ram Rana, Vinod Khanna and VP Goel, to vacate their official |
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| Advani, other BJP leaders held | 02-SEP-04 |
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| The leader of the opposition in Parliament L K Advani and 21 BJP leaders were arrested on Wednesday afternoon for launching satyagraha (peaceful agitation), seeking the withdrawal of cases against |
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| Advani, other BJP leaders held | 02-SEP-04 |
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| The leader of the opposition in Parliament L K Advani and 21 BJP leaders were arrested on Wednesday afternoon for launching satyagraha (peaceful agitation), seeking the withdrawal of cases against |
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| No troops to Iraq, PM assures House | 08-JUL-04 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to issue a statement that the government had no intentions of sending troops to Iraq, as External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh came under fire for his remarks on |
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| No troops to Iraq, PM assures House | 08-JUL-04 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to issue a statement that the government had no intentions of sending troops to Iraq, as External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh came under fire for his remarks on |
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