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Pankaj Vohra | New DelhiThere is speculation within top Congress circles on whether Rahul Gandhi is adopting his sister Priyanka's son, Rehan, so as to enable him to use the Gandhi surname. Rehan, who had taken admission at ... |
New IITs in various states get Budget nod
The NDA government's pet project of setting up IITs in every state has finally got a good share in the Union Budget 2014-15. However, the bureaucracy still believes it is going to take a "slow and balanced" approach to accomplish the task. This is in view of maintaining the "brand-IIT", said ministry officials. According to Higher Education offici 
Sunni Arabs fume at Hamas, Iran for Gaza crisis
As Palestinian casualties rise following Israel's ground invasion of Gaza, there has been significant criticism of Hamas in the mostly Sunni Arab world. Hamas, which has been ruling Gaza since 2005, is seen as an Iranian proxy in a region where every move of Shiite Tehran is eyed with suspicion and derision. Yasser Arafat's Fatah, currently headed LAKSHMAN MENON | 20th JulTwo Pakistani diplomats have avoided serious criminal charges because of their diplomatic immunity, it has been disclosed. One official evaded a charg... MADHAV NALAPAT | 20th JulPrime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping "bonded together" in their first meeting at the Fortaleza BRICS summit, say individuals ... |
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BJP’s Chances of forming government in Delhi recede
Pankaj Vohra | 20th Jul
Saji Chacko | 20th JulIt is almost a sad end to what might been one of the most promising chapters in India's athletics' history. Dutee Chand, the 18-year-old sensation fai...
TMC driving away industries from Bengal
SUSENJIT GUHA | 20th JulSenior management officials at Asansol's Jamuria-based Shyam Sel and Power Ltd were allegedly threatened with murder or live burial, if they did not pay a percentage on the value of raw materials unloaded daily and transported to their factory. A local Trinamool Congress leader, Alok Das allegedly m... Sanjay Sharma | 20th JulThe Haryana government has ignored the Union home secretary's directive to the governor asking him to withdraw his assent to the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara...
Congress, Marandi discuss alliance
NAVTAN KUMAR & ABHIMANYU K. SINGH | 20th Jul
Malaysian Airlines ticket prices hit rock bottom, yet Indian flyers opt for expensive options
Kirti Pandey | 20th Jul
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Trinamool volte face surprises
Did the Trinamool Congress support the TRAI Amendment Bill in Parliament for fear of the CBI? The agency is probing the Saradha chit fund scam, in which some TMC leaders are alleged to be involved. Else how does one explain the volte face by the party? TMC MP Saugata Roy had opposed the bill when it was being introduced by saying that they could not support a bill that was meant to help an individual. But just two days later, Sudip Bandopadhyaya, theTMC's leader in the Lok Sabha got up and to much surprise said that they would support the bill because it was the Prime Minister's prerogative to choose his own officers. When asked about this, Bandopadhyaya said that whatever Saugata Roy said w... 
Two States
With both the party president and the Prime Minister from Gujarat, it looks as if the BJP is looking to only one state to recruit its talents from. But not so according to Law and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The legal eagle that he is, he pointed out that Modi was not from Gujarat, but Uttar Pradesh as he had been elected from Varanasi.... 
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Rahul maintains hold on party
ABHIMANYU SINGH | 20th JulCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi appears to be in control of the Indian National Congress in spite of the party's heavy defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. The party is soon going to hold organisational elections, one of his pet projects. Gandhi's key aides are also involved in drawing up the lis... NAVTAN KUMAR | 20th JulThe Department of Post, under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, is scaling down its traditional service of postcards. It is p...
Delhi varsity may get new VC
Vatsala Shrangi | 20th Jul
ABHIMANYU SINGH | 20th JulThe Congress is likely to undertake for a major organisational reshuffle after the end of the Budget session of Parliament, which ends on 14 August,...
Government may curtail Budget session
NAVTAN KUMAR | 20th Jul
Urdu media ambivalent on ISIS
MOHAMMED ANAS | 20th JulIndian Urdu newspapers are confused about the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq. While some are calling it an extremist organisation projected by the United States to keep Iraq and Syria unstable, others see it as the voice of the oppressed Sunnis in the region. This corr... |
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