Election Results 2004
How India Voted: Verdict 2004

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CMP to be released today
NEW DELHI, MAY 26. The ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its supporting Left parties tonight arrived at a "broad consensus'' on the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) that will be formally released tomorrow. At the end of a four-hour ...

CPI(M) gives six suggestions
NEW DELHI, MAY 26.The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday forwarded suggestions on six broad perspectives for inclusion in the Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). These suggestions, adopted by the CPI(M) ...

Dixit, National Security Adviser
NEW DELHI, MAY 26.The former Foreign Secretary, Jyotindra Nath Dixit, was today appointed National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister for a three-year term. A member of the Congress party's foreign affairs committee, he will enjoy the rank of ...

Nuclear submarine project may get a kick-start
NEW DELHI, MAY 26. In the coming weeks, the Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, will open a file of which there is only one copy and which less than a dozen people have ever seen. His task will be to appoint a boss for the country's super-secret ...

RJD wins in Siwan, Bettiah
PATNA, MAY 26.The Rashtriya Janata Dal retained the Siwan seat while it wrested the Bettiah from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Md Shahabuddin, lodged in a jail in connection with criminal cases, won the Siwan seat for the fourth consecutive term by ...

'MTNL not to be privatised'
NEW DELHI, MAY 26.The Government today announced that the telecom policy would be revamped soon to give better service to consumers and said no to privatisation of profit-making MTNL and BSNL even as the new Telecom and IT Minister, Dayanidhi ...

Girls outshine boys
NEW DELHI, MAY 26.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today announced the Class XII results for Delhi and Allahabad regions covering seven States and Class X results for the Ajmer and Chennai regions. The Senior School Certificate ...

CBI raids 24 places in JBT case
NEW DELHI, MAY 26. The CBI today searched 24 places in Chandigarh and Haryana, in connection with the alleged bungling in the appointment of Junior Basic Teachers (JBT) by the Haryana Government. CBI sources said the agency had registered a ...

One killed in blast
KARACHI, MAY 26.An explosion in the port area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has killed at least one person and injured four, police and hospital officials said. Officials initially said it was a bomb, but Kamal Shah, police chief for ...

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