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No plan to adopt pro-Eelam resolution at TESO meet: Karunanidhi

No plan to adopt pro-Eelam resolution at TESO meet: Karunanidhi

While maintaining that a separate Tamil Eelam was his “unfulfilled dream”, DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday said the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation Conference (TESO) slated for August 12 in Chennai would not adopt any resolution seeking creation of a separate ‘Eelam’. He,...
India-Pak ODI series may resume in December

India-Pak ODI series may resume in December

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has principally agreed to host Pakistan for one-day international (ODI) and Twenty20 (T20) series in December this year, sources told Headlines Todayon Monday. According to sources, three ODIs and two T20 matches would be played between the two cricket-crazy...
CBI plea for narco test on Jagan rejected

CBI plea for narco test on Jagan rejected

The Principal Court for CBI cases here on Monday rejected the investigative agency’s petition to conduct narco, polygraph and brain mapping tests on YSR Congress party chief and Kadapa MP, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his financial advisor, V. Vijay Sai Reddy. The CBI’s petition was rejected on the...
PM’s insult continues; UK daily calls him Sonia’s “poodle”

PM’s insult continues; UK daily calls him Sonia’s “poodle”

London, Jul 16: After the “underachiever” remark made by the Time magazine was slammed and celebrated by the Opposition and other UPA detractors, there seem to be more brickbats in the offing for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when international newspaper, ‘The Independent’ had...
Aamir Khan apprises PM about manual scavengers’ plight

Aamir Khan apprises PM about manual scavengers’ plight

New Delhi, Jul 16: Bollywood icon Aamir Khan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today and apprised him of the plight of manual scavengers. The society looks down upon those who remove human waste with their hands, the actor rued. He urged the PM to take immediate steps to stop the degrading practice. Aamir...
Jaswant is NDA’s Vice-Presidential candidate

Jaswant is NDA’s Vice-Presidential candidate

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh was today chosen by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as its unanimous candidate for the August 7 Vice-Presidential election against UPA nominee Hamid Ansari. The opposition alliance said it had reservations over the re-nomination of Mr. Ansari,...
Shettar retains key departments like Finance, Mines

Shettar retains key departments like Finance, Mines

Bangalore, Jul 15: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday allocated portfolios to his ministers and retained key departments like finance and mines and geology with him. Shettar has allowed the ministers who served in the previous DV Sadananda Gowda ministry to retain portfolios held...
Jayalalithaa flays Centre on training to Sri Lankan defence personnel

Jayalalithaa flays Centre on training to Sri Lankan defence personnel

Launching a scathing attack on the Centre for its “callous and adamant attitude” in training Sri Lankan defence personnel in India, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday demanded that New Delhi desist from such acts and that they be sent back to their county immediately. “The people...
Andhra Pradesh minister for minor irrigation T.G. Venkatesh wants lazy bureaucrats to be ‘shot dead’

Andhra Pradesh minister for minor irrigation T.G. Venkatesh wants lazy bureaucrats to be ‘shot dead’

Andhra Pradesh minister for minor irrigation T.G. Venkatesh has virtually put his foot in his mouth by calling upon the people to gun down the bureaucrats who have no commitment to their work. The minister made the comment while participating in an official function at Kurnool on Friday. “The...
NDA to name candidate for Vice-President today

NDA to name candidate for Vice-President today

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will meet on Monday to finalise its Vice-Presidential candidate even though the UPA’s nominee Hamid Ansari is a sure winner, given the arithmetic in the electoral college. The Bharatiya Janata Party Core Committee, at its meeting on Saturday, decided that even...