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No one can predict who will win here
With power, water and road problems everyday in Sangam Vihar, voters want a leader who can show visible results, reports Naziya Alvi.
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In downturn, India looks for uranium bargain
In every crisis, there’s opportunity. As India hopes to stitch up its first purchase of uranium from Kazakhstan in January, prices have fallen from a high of $138 (Rs 6,900) in 2007 to about $48 (Rs 2,400) per pound now. It’s time to buy. Amit Baruah reports.
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Sikh body slams Congress
A day after Rahul Gandhi termed the 1984 anti-sikh riots “wrong” and advocated punishment to the guilty, the Shiromani Akali Dal has launched a scathing attack on the Congress’ “crocodile tears”.
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Boom time for Bikaner bookies
The odds are even on the possibility of Sheila Dixit retaining her job as Chief Minister after the assembly elections in Delhi, reports Srinand Jha.
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Peaceful poll despite Naxal threat
The second phase of polling in Chhattisgarh remained largely peaceful, barring minor skirmishes between workers of rival political parties, reports Ejaz Kaiser.
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Witchcraft in Assam school curricula?
The National Commission for Women has mooted introduction of a subject relating to dayan pratha or witchcraft in the syllabus of primary education in Assam to eradicate the growing menace, reports Digambar Patowary.
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Congress fails to create a wave
Assembly polls 2008 in MP is markedly different from the last one in 2003 when the state was awash in a wave of anti-incumbency against the Cong Govt led by Digvijay Singh, reports Rakesh Dixit. See graphics
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Bharat Nirman, thanks to China
The fear of aggression from the other side of the bamboo curtain is, to a great extent, driving the Govt’s Bharat Nirman programme in the remote border areas in Seppa, reports Rahul Karmakar.
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Boost for landlords
The Delhi HC says that a landlord's right was supreme and even courts, forget the occupant, "cannot dictate terms". Harish V Nair reports.
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Metro tractor dumps earth on sleeping men
Two men were found dead under a heap of loose earth on the central verge of a road in Nangloi on Thursday morning.
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Blast accused wanted to kill saffron leaders
Members of Hindu right-wing organisation Abhinav Bharat, accused of carrying out the Malegaon blast, plotted to kill senior RSS leaders who they thought weren’t doing enough for Hindutva, show investigation reports accessed exclusively by HT. The plotters
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<P>Naseeb Singh (41)Congress Vishwas Nagar</P>
Singh has politics in his blood. His father Bhagat Singh had also contested two municipal elections in the 60s and 70s. Singh started his political career during his college days in 1985. Know your MLA
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JS Chauhan (60)Congress Not contesting Bhalswa Jahangirpur
Chauhan joined politics in 1998. He was the general secretary of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. He entered electoral fray for the first time in 1998, contested and won from Bhalswa Jahangirpuri seat. Know your MLA
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Good Friday for Nasir, returns home today
Nasir Sultan, the Pakistani teenager who had crossed over to India without valid documents, will return home on Friday, reports Harjinder Sidhu.
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'Cong trying to communalise terrorism'
BJP President Rajnath Singh alleged that the Congress was "hell-bent" on creating an issue of Muslim versus Hindu terrorism in the country in the name of Malegaon blast.
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Divorced woman entitled to provision for residence: SC
Divorced woman struggling to find a shelter despite getting alimony have been offered succour by the SC which has held that the maintenance given to them by their divorced husbands should include provision for residence.
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PM called Advani after sadhvi remark
PM Manmohan Singh called up LK Advani after the leader of the Opposition on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s allegation that she was tortured by the ATS, reports Shekhar Iyer.
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Purohit has mentally collapsed, says wife
Aparna Purohit, wife of Malegaon blast accused Lt Col Prasad Purohit, today claimed her husband "has mentally collapsed" after being accused of being a "terrorist".
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NSA, IB chief to meet Advani tomorrow
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan would meet Leader of the Opposition L K Advani tommorow to the Malegaon probe.
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PM, Advani discuss Sadhvi issue
Manmohan Singh called up BJP leader L K Advani and raised the issue of his allegations about torture of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in the Malegaon blast case, in connection with the ongoing ATS probe.
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