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December 21
BSP wants to split upper-caste vote
'A weak government in New Delhi suits our interests best. We look forward to a majboor (dependent) rather a mazboot (strong) government,'' firebrand BSP leader Mayawati tells Rediff On The NeT.
'Biju was killed by people like Srikant Jena'
'Biju Babu treated Jena like a son and the latter repaid his debt by stabbing by the former in the back.' Dilip Ray, who resigned from the Gujral ministry this week, reveals why the Janata Dal split in Orissa and has decided to form an alliance with the BJP.
Thackeray 'elected' Sena leader
The party bows down to the Election Commission diktat.
Congress, UF have to come together after poll: V P Singh
Stressing that such a compromise is inevitable, the former prime minister said the secular parties should remember that the Bharatiya Janata Party would be on the prowl again after the election. It may try to engineer defections, like in Uttar Pradesh, to form a government at the Centre.
Fear over the City
'Outside the commissioner's office sat three women. The slain constable's widow sat at the centre. She carried a ten-month-old baby in her arms. She could not answer any questions and sobbed silently. The baby began to cry...' A Ganesh Nadar reports on the explosive situation in Coimbatore.
Anti-Muslim feelings plague Bradford
In the aftermath of the Luxor massacre in Egypt, there had been an increase in racial slights in Bradford, home for a large population of immigrant Muslims. This was yet another act of extremism which would call them to account on behalf of their faith.
December 20
BJP tries to woo Muslims
Apparently dumping the Ayodhya temple issue from the agenda, Advani told the party's national executive meeting, ''Our list of candidates should fairly reflect the social composition of the Indian society. We should make added efforts to identify deserving candidates from among religious minorities, especially Muslims.''
SP plans 'seat adjustments' with Congress
The party is now willing to tie-up with any secular party in its bid to defeat the communal Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra.
Gujral caught in JD-RJD crossfire
Several United Front constituents are up in the arms against Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral for his reported soft stand towards former Bihar chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal.
Govt faces flak over Kesri case
The Delhi high court today took the central government to task for not filing the share-holding pattern of the four foreign companies which made a Rs 37.5 million donation to the Congress between 1993-95.
Poll panel pulls up Telugu Desam
The Election Commission has taken a serious note of the Telugu Desam Party's decision to drop provisions relating to socialism, secularism and democracy from its constitution.
Another legal battle in Pak
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief has landed himself in another legal tussle as a provincial high court judge suspended an overnight Election Commission order, rejecting the nomination of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)'s candidate for the December 31 presidential poll.
Bihar: CBI asked to explain slow progress on fodder scam probe
Maharashtra: Furore over shifting mega city
December 19
Church to issue moral manifesto for election
Though Church officials say their agenda is meant to help parties bring
in a stable and secular government, many see it as an indirect effort to
oppose the BJP from coming to power.
Kesri's dithering costs Congress dear
Pressure is mounting on the Congress president. His rivals in the party are likely to kick up a storm. Over stormy petrel Mamata Banerjee's revolt. Over the Tamil Nadu fiasco, where the BJP caught the Congress napping by striking an alliance with the AIADMK....
Supreme court places safeguards to protect CBI from political pressure
Central Vigilance Committee to become a more powerful body, keeping an eye on central investigating agencies and their functioning.
Mani Shankar Aiyar 'snaps ties with Kesri'
Former Lok Sabha member Mani Shankar Aiyar today 'disassociated' himself from the Congress, saying that party president Sitaram Kesri cannot be forgiven for having driven the secular Tamil Nadu into the Bharatiya Janata Party's evil hands.
Goa:President's four-day visit begins on Friday
Maharashtra: Konkan Railway Corporation bags contract for expressway tunnels
Maharashtra:Mayor-in-council system for Bombay, Nagpur
Maharashtra:Bickering in Congress
Maharashtra: With 'proof', Joshi refutes charges of insulting Majrooh Sultanpuri
Rajasthan:Jaipur curfew relaxed
December 18
BJP ties up with AIADMK
Though it was a welcome decision for the AIADMK, the BJP's course
was strewn with confusion. What is more, the saffron brigade had a tough time as the media grilled the party about the corruption cases involving former chief minister and AIADMK chief Jayalalitha.
'The army commanders had no say in the IPKF operation. Wars are not fought this way'
'The IPKF operation was a politically guided operation in which the army had little or no say... Wars are not planned and fought this way. The Jain Commission sheds new light on what the IPKF was up against, both at home and in Sri Lanka...' An IPKF veteran speaks out!
President's intervention ends poll panel crisis
Narayanan's advice seems to have had the desired effect, and Krishnamurty, who stayed away from office in protest against Gill's remarks over the Shiv Sena issue, today attended office.
Sena ready to support Seshan: Thackeray
The former CEC is an outstanding Indian citizen and deserves support from all quarters. Therefore, even if he contests as an independent, the
Sena will go all out to support him, the Sena chief said.
BJP has an edge in UP
With both Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
and Bahujan Samaj Party vice-president Mayawati ruling out
any kind of rapprochement, the BJP seems to be in a stronger position.
JD asks PM to drop RJD ministers
Janata Dal leaders today mounted pressure on Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral to drop the three Rastriya Janata Dal ministers from his ministry as the latter had joined hands with the Congress for the general election.
RJD-BSP announce poll tie-up
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Kanshi Ram says his party will enter into an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal for the general election.
Clinton clears doubts about his India visit
The US president last night reaffirmed his decision to visit India, setting at rest media speculation about the trip in the wake of the forthcoming general election.
Andhra Pradesh:Tirumala temple seeks IIM help to streamline darshan
Himachal Pradesh:Assembly, LS polls may be held simultaneously
Rajasthan:More Jaipur areas come under curfew
Jammu & Kashmir:Amir Kabir shrine gutted, one militant killed
December 17
Poll panel heads for major crisis
Election Commissioner G V G Krishnamurty has levelled serious allegations against Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill.
Sonia breaks her silence for Mamata
The fiery West Bengal Congress leader has succeeded where all Sonia Gandhi 'loyalists' had failed. As Mamata stepped up her campaign against Congress president Sitaram Kesri, Sonia felt it was time to intervene. And save the party from disintegration.
Dilip Ray joins Biju Dal, to quit Gujral ministry
The minister has played a key role in the formation of the new regional outfit.
A subversive agenda and mayhem on their minds
The bomb that exploded on the Madras-Alappuzha Express symbolised
a rude awakening for Kerala to the spectre of terrorist violence.
Barring the sporadic outbreak of communal disturbances, the state
has enjoyed a degree of calm that could well be a thing of the
past.
Party pressure may force Advani to contest from Gujarat
BJP cadres oppose party chief's decision against contesting the poll.
Internet rates slashed in India
Prices cut 50% for 500-hour slab. Other slabs include Rs 3,000 for 100 hours, Rs 6,500 for 250 hours and an incremental subscription for every 20 hours at Rs 30 an hour.
Sharief's move catches Pak unawares
Even the prime minister's cabinet colleagues did not know that a retired judge was being fielded in the December 31 presidential election.
Vajpayee's new avataar
An audio cassette containing eight songs, written by Bhartiya Janata Party leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will soon be released.
Jammu & Kashmir:15 per cent of CRPF staff suffer from stress-related ailments in J & K
Karnataka: 106 in fray for legislative council poll
Manipur: New govt sworn in
Rajasthan:Army moves in as Jaipur curfew continues
December 16
Kesri's on a roll!
Ten days after the dissolution of the 11th Lok Sabha, the
Congress is hammering a grand alliance of secular parties
to contest the coming general election. It has already
tied up a firm electoral alliance with Bihar's biggest vote-catcher
-- Laloo Prasad Yadav.
Election commissioners lock horns over Sena
The Commission's ultimatum to the Shiv Sena for its failure to hold organisational elections has triggered a war of words between Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill and Election Commissioner G V G Krishnamurty. Following this, the latter has cancelled his Orissa trip and stayed away from office.
Laloo vows to ruin JD
No one in the UF, who had dared to carry out a smear campaign against the RJD chief, will be spared, says former Bihar chief minister's close aide Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.
'Lady Amitabh' eyes politics
Vijayashanti has sent jitters down the spines of various leaders in Andhra Pradesh, with subtle hints that she is all set to storm the political world. She has already met BJP president L K Advani. Will the Telugu superstar plunge into the murky waters of AP politics?
Biju's son splits JD in Orissa
The Janata Dal in Orissa split today with as many as 29 of the 43 party MLAs forming a separate outfit called 'Biju Janata Dal', to be headed by the late Biju Patnaik's youngest son Naveen Patnaik.
BSP to contest 300 seats
''The party would like to have state-level seat adjustments with the Congress and other parties,'' says BSP chief Kanshi Ram.
Nipamcha Singh to be new Manipur CM
Governor O N Srivastava today invited United Front leader and Manipur State Congress chief W Nipamcha Singh to form a government after Chief Minister Rishing Keishing lost the vote of confidence in the assembly and resigned.
Fear and loathing in Tamil Nadu
N Sathiya Moorthy examines the factors responsible for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the southern state.
Children floor Assam chief minister
''Will Assam become another Hiroshima? What will you do if you get the magic lantern of Alladdin? Why should we study?'' These were some of the questions put to Prafulla Kumar Mahanta by a group of children.
Indira Gandhi canal sparks green revolution in Rajasthan
Crops of mustard, cotton and wheat now flourish in the semi-arid
western region of the state where nothing but sand ruled the roost
for years.
280-gram artificial limb developed
Besides distributing the light artificial limb to the needy, the Bharat Vikas Parishad, a voluntary organisation, plans to set up a rehabilitation centre at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, where the handicapped would be given vocational training.
Maharashtra:Sena's reply to EC on Dec 24
Punjab:Gujral to inaugurate museum on Chandigarh
Tripura:Tribal militants plan major offensive
to disrupt polls
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