| Can't do without Pranab | 22-NOV-09 |
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| For the past one-and-a-half months, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has stopped her informal interactions with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee after a sharp exchange on telephone over a municipal election issue. But Banerjee had to budge as she found it difficult to deal with other ministers without the help of Mukherjee. Banerjee wanted a meeting with Law Minister Veerappa Moily but the latter started avoiding her. She had no other choice but to request Mukherjee to arrange the meeting. Mukherjee, the number two minister in UPA, obliged, and the meeting was scheduled in his room in Parliament House on Friday. |
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| Koda puts net assets at just Rs 1 cr at LS polls | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, facing charges of money laundering of over Rs 2,000 crore, had put his net assets at nearly Rs one crore at the time of the Lok Sabha polls. |
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| Ticket-seeking for Jharkhand | 15-NOV-09 |
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| While ticket distribution for Jharkhand elections was on, hundreds of aspirants thronged the Congress headquarters. The Congress managers, desperate to avoid this crowd, met at various undisclosed locations. But this could not save all the leaders. One day, K Kesava Rao, the general secretary in charge of Jharkhand, came to his office at 24, Akbar Road, to take some documents when an irate crowd gheraoed him. Rao was almost physically assaulted amid a heated exchange of words as the aspirants accused him of taking bribes. Congress workers in the office had to rush in to rescue Rao. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Crown of thorns | 14-NOV-09 |
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| The class most sensitive to the political barometer — who’s up and who’s down in politics — is the bureaucracy. So it was with pity, and just a little bit of satisfaction too, that the Haryana bureaucracy watched as Chief Minister (CM) Bhupinder Singh Hooda did something he had never done before. |
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| 20% polling till mid-day in bypolls | 07-NOV-09 |
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| Around 20 per cent polling was recorded till mid-day in the by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly seats spread over seven states today. |
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| Cong-NCP ministry to be sworn in today | 07-NOV-09 |
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| The swearing-in of the new Congress-NCP ministry in Maharashtra will take place on Saturday with the end of the fortnight-long deadlock over government formation in the state after the Assembly elections brought the two parties to power for the third time in a row. |
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| Cong-NCP govt to be sworn in tomorrow | 06-NOV-09 |
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| The swearing in of the new Congress-NCP ministry in Maharashtra will take place tomorrow, with the end of the fortnight-long deadlock over government formation in the state, after the assembly elections brought the two parties to power for the third time in a row. |
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| Maha CM meets Sonia Gandhi | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with ally NCP to form government in the state. |
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| NCP agrees on power sharing in Maha: Patel | 05-NOV-09 |
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| NCP has "broadly agreed" with its ally Congress on power sharing in Maharashtra and a new government would be in place in the state shortly, party leader Praful Patel said. |
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| Rejected consensus? | 05-NOV-09 |
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| US elections: The Republican surge in America’s November 3 off-off-year elections may re-open the economic policy debate. The party’s victories in the state houses of Virginia and New Jersey will bring no quick change at the national level. But a bipartisan economic policy consensus since 2007 has favoured government spending and state bailouts. The results suggest a popular distrust of both that may force policy modifications. |
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