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Soul of nation is secular: Sonia
NEW DELHI, MAY 15. The Congress Parliamentary Party today unanimously re-elected Sonia Gandhi as its chairperson, paving the way for her to become the next Prime Minister. Pranab Mukherjee, senior leader, proposed her name and it was seconded ...

Paswan, JMM pledge support
NEW DELHI, MAY 15. The Lok Janshakti Party and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha have written to the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, informing him of their decision to support the formation of a secular government headed by the Congress president, Sonia ...

RSP Secretariat to meet tomorrow
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 15.The RSP Central Secretariat and Central Committee will meet in Delhi from May 17 to 19 to decide on the party's support to a Congress-led Government at the Centre. The party has announced that it would not join the ...

Congress, Left for selective disinvestment
NEW DELHI, MAY 15. Though stock markets reacted in panic on Friday to comments on disinvestment, both the Congress and the Left parties today gave their support to "selective disinvestment" barring the strategic oil sector and profitable ...

An election amidst anarchy in Outer Manipur
SINGNAT (MANIPUR), MAY 15. About the only evidence that this small border town is in fact a part of India is the beaming visage of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Printed on a poster pinned above Singnat's sole water tank, Mr. Vajpayee's photograph looks ...

Some Governors may face the axe
NEW DELHI, MAY 15.The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, K.C. Pant, has become the first political appointee to resign in the wake of the Vajpayee Government's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Other members of the Commission too are ...

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  • Trial in Bofors case to begin on June 9
  • NC seeks protection for its workers
  • Common entrance test for MD, ME on August 7, 8
  • Not a vote for Congress: BJP
  • Supreme Court Judge's son commits suicide
  • Swamy writes to President
  • Anand Margi shot dead
  • Congress leader quizzed in cash-on-camera case
  • Hectic parleys on Karnataka front
  • BJP not demoralised, says Mahajan
  • Soldier guns down superiors



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