BJP launches Karnataka poll campaign, suspends rebel MPs
byBangalore, April 8 (IANS) Karnataka’s ruling BJP Monday launched its campaign for the May 5 assembly polls with a huge rally where party president…
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Sri Lanka denies killing Indian fishermen
byColombo, April 8 (IANS) Sri Lanka Monday described as “erroneous” media reports that its navy was killing and harassing Indian fishermen, and said that…
No easy solution to boundary dispute with Assam: Sangma
byShillong, April 8 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Monday admitted that the inter-state boundary dispute with Assam is not amenable to easy solution….
Chandraswamy predicted Thatcher would be PM
byLondon, April 8 (IANS) Indian godman Chandraswamy had reportedly told Margaret Thatcher when she was the opposition leader that she would become Britain’s prime…
Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi’s friend, is dead (Roundup)
byLondon, April 8 (IANS) Margaret Thatcher, a grocer’s daughter who became Britain’s only woman prime minister, died Monday after suffering a stroke, her family…
A gesture that had touched the ‘Iron Lady’ in India
byNew Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Margaret Thatcher did not approve of the state of emergency in force during her visit to India in 1976….
INLD demands probe into Hooda government’s land deals
byChandigarh, April 8 (IANS) The main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana Monday demanded a probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge…
Modi’s tryst with business, politics in Bengal Tuesday
byKolkata, April 8 (IANS) When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee engages with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the national capital seeking financial assistance for debt-stressed…
Thatcher admired Indira Gandhi
byNew Delhi, April 8 (IANS) With similar temperaments, Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman prime minister, was an undisguised admirer of Indira Gandhi, another woman…
Sari-clad Playboy bunnies giving Goa BJP sleepless nights
byPanaji, April 8 (IANS) Sari-clad Playboy bunnies are giving Goa’s ruling BJP sleepless nights, as a party legislator has alleged that the government is…