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New Delhi, June 6: There has been a major embarrassment for the Congress. A day after the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi hit out at the civil society for targeting the Prime Minister, key UPA ally Sharad Pawar met Baba Ramdev and expressed support for his fight against black money. "He (Baba Ramdev) has taken up the issue of black money. Till the money stashed

Trichy, June 5: In a bid to prevent female foeticide, the Trichy district medical and rural health services department on Monday introduced the windows version of the web-based software to keep track of ultrasound scan centres in Trichy district. District collector Jayashree Muralidharan unveiled the software, the first-of-its-kind initiative in the state to integrate and network all the 224

Ahmedabad, Jun 5: In signs of growing dissent within the BJP, hoardings supporting party leader Sanjay Joshi have came up at various places in the city, targeting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the state elections scheduled in December this year. The hoardings and posters with Joshi's pictures say, "Chote man se koi bada nahi hota, tute man se koi bada nahi hota (nobody becomes big

New Delhi, Jun 5: South-west monsoon, the key to the agriculture driven trillion-dollar Indian economy, today brought showers to Kerala bringing much-needed relief to farmers. "Monsoon has reached Kerala," a top India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. Kerala usually receives monsoon showers by June 1, but scientists said there was no need to paint a gloomy picture as the progress of

New Delhi, Jun 5: Reflecting the growing bonhomie between the two parties, Congress has decided not to field any candidate against UP Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav, the Samajwadi Party candidate in the Kannauj Lok Sabha by-election. "We had not contested the seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha election and we are not contesting it now," party General Secretary Digvijay Singh said

New Delhi, June 5: Lok Sabha members would soon be able to use iPads in the house with a parliamentary panel clearing Wi-Fi connectivity in the Lower House of Parliament. The facility is already available in the Rajya Sabha. According to Lok Sabha Secretary General TK Vishwanathan, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked to extend Wi-Fi facility to the Lower House before the monsoon

New Delhi, June 5: First, Congress president Sonia Gandhi lit into the Opposition; then a combative Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took on Team Anna, without naming it, for the second time in a week, sharply attacking its members for spreading “canards and falsehoods” about him and his senior Ministers. On Monday, as the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's apex decision-making

New Delhi, June 5: Days after he was supposed to have been pulled up by BJP mouthpiece Kamal Sandesh for being a man in hurry, Narendra Modi received a shot in the arm with another Sangh Parivar publication, Organiser, saying that only the Gujarat CM has the potential to catapult the party to power single-handedly, just like Atal Bihari Vajpayee did in the 1990s. An article in the latest issue of

New Delhi, June 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday backed Baba Ramdev's movement against black money, with the yoga guru meeting party president Nitin Gadkari at his residence here. "Baba Ramdev's fight against black money is very important. We as the party support Baba Ramdev in this 'andolan' (movement). This is an agitation above party lines; this is for the benefit of the country,"

New Delhi, July 4: A combative Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday made a scathing attack on the Opposition and civil society for levelling “baseless” allegations against the Prime Minister and the party, saying it was part of a conspiracy and told partymen to fight back. “In a democracy, it is the job of the Opposition to oppose but the manner, in which the Opposition and some anti-Congress