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5 killed, 58 injured in serial blasts
GUWAHATI, AUG. 26. Five persons, including a minor girl, were killed and 51 injured in a series of bomb blasts triggered by the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom in different parts of the State since last night. Condemning the attacks, ...

Manmohan gives vent to his anguish
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today gave vent to his anguish at the standoff between the Government and the Opposition that disrupted Parliament and culminated in the boycott of the passage of the Finance Bill by the ...

Somnath speaks out against `Super-Speakers'
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26.Even as the Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, adjourned the House sine die this evening — six days ahead of schedule — as per an understanding scripted by the ruling and Opposition benches, he spoke out ...

A threat to Parliamentary system: Left
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26. The Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) today came out strongly against the attitude of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance towards the Parliamentary system. The CPI(M) ...

Uma Bharti to be lodged in university guesthouse
DHARWAD, AUG. 26. The former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Uma Bharti, will be lodged at the guesthouse of the University of Agricultural Sciences till her judicial remand ends. The Deputy Commissioner has issued a notification in this ...

Pranab cites chapter and verse on PM-NDA meet
NEW DELHI, AUG. 26. The Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha and Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, today gave a blow-by-blow account of the controversial meeting yesterday between the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the National Democratic ...

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Let us introspect, says Shekhawat

On fast for rebuilding mandapam at Tirupati

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