| Give priority to locals in jobs: MNS to SBI | 15-NOV-09 |
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| Continuing its agitation for the cause of Maharshtrian youth, Raj Thackeray-led Maharasthra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has written a letter to State Bank of India (SBI) for considering locals for its new job openings. |
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| Sunil Sethi: The crisis of identity proofs | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Bhim Mahto, a tribal from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, had his wallet pickpocketed on a Delhi bus recently. He lost cash, his driving licence and his voter’s identity card. In more than 20 years that he has worked for me, I have rarely seen him in such distress. It wasn’t the theft of the money or the driving licence he was agitated about — these could be acquired again with some effort — but the loss of the pehchan patra, his voter’s ID, was incalculable. |
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| Will apologise to House, not to Azmi: MNS | 11-NOV-09 |
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| Raj Thackeray-led MNS, whose members assaulted SP legislator Abu Asim Azmi in the Maharashtra Assmebly, today said they would apologise to the House for their action but not to the MLA. |
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| Hindi oath row: Petition in SC against Raj Thackeray | 10-NOV-09 |
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| A writ petition was today filed in the Supreme Court seeking registration of an FIR against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for assaulting SP MLA Abu Azmi in the Maharashtra Assembly for taking oath in Hindi instead of Marathi. |
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| MNS-Azmi rivalry goes a long way | 10-NOV-09 |
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| It is not the first time that Raj Thackeray and Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi, who was assaulted by MNS members in the Maharashtra Assembly, have crossed swords. |
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| MNS legislator slaps Azmi over taking oath in Hindi | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators today created a ruckus in the Maharashtra Assembly after Samajwadi Party (SP) member Abu Asim Azmi took oath in Hindi despite their call that all legislators take the pledge in Marathi with one of the members from Raj Thackeray's party slapping him. |
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| Hurt by poll rout, Thackeray attacks Marathi Manoos | 25-OCT-09 |
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| Upset over Shiv Sena’s electoral debacle in Maharashtra, party chief Bal Thackeray today said it was not “outsiders” but Maharashtrians themselves who had stabbed him in the back. Quoting an English newspaper headline “MNS gives Cong Raj a hand”, (Raj Thackeray-led MNS helps Congress retain power), the Sena chief said, “This sums it all”. |
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| Poll defeats set BJP thinking about the road ahead | 22-OCT-09 |
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| The defeat of BJP today, especially in Maharashtra and Haryana where it had been part of coalition governments earlier, has come as a severe blow to the party that is already reeling under the Lok Sabha debacle and serious internal discord. |
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| 66% turnout in 3 states, 1 killed | 14-OCT-09 |
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| Apart from a few incidents of violence in Naxal-affected Gadchiroli area of Maharashtra, Assembly elections in three states went off peacefully today. Till evening, polling percentages in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh were recorded to be 60, 66 and 72 per cent, respectively, but the Election Commission said these were likely to go up after the final figures were calculated. |
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| Cong-NCP looks to repeat LS clean sweep in Mumbai | 12-OCT-09 |
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| In the overcrowded local trains, auto-rickshaw stands, BEST buses and long queues at the Bandra-Worli sea link toll plaza, the staple language of Mumbai is Hindi, unlike most of the other cities of Maharashtra, where Marathi still dominates the public conversation domain. |
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| Congress looks to gain from MNS-Sena crossfire | 10-OCT-09 |
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| “You have taken enough shots. Now sit down. Let the people see me,” Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray orders a battery of TV cameraman (mostly with handycams) trying to capture his election rally. |
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| Raj chooses Nashik to raise 'Marathi' slogan | 09-OCT-09 |
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| Have you seen the former finance minister and the current Home Minister P Chidambaram? He always wears traditional south Indian dress, including the ‘mundu’. But when he speaks, it is only English” — this is not Jayaram Jayalalitha taking on her rival in the Dravidian politics. |
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| Sonia, Raj hold poll rally in Nashik | 07-OCT-09 |
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| Within a gap of seven hours, two high-profile but diametrically opposite campaigns in this city set the tone for the coming Maharashtra Assembly elections. While Congress President Sonia Gandhi pitched for an inclusive growth with greater emphasis on poorer and backward section, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s high-decibel slogans catered only for the ‘Marathi issue’. |
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| The case for migration | 07-OCT-09 |
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| It takes courage to defend migration these days. At a time when the movement of people, within nations and between nations, is coming up against political and social barriers, the United Nations Development Programme has boldly set out a package of reforms in its Human Development Report (HDR), 2009, to make the life of migrants easier. |
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