Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had been carrying on consultations with various political parties and individuals.
"I am deeply shocked to learn of the unfortunate Matsyagandha train accident," the prime minister said in a statement.
The Union government has reconstituted the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman.
Some armed men intercepted Sikander Rai's jeep near Paruri village, about 15km from Sasaram, in Rohtas district.
Five were injured in the violence in the Khanglabari in Darrang district.
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav is pitted against former civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Four persons were injured as stray incidents of violence.
Last Friday, Ojha had said political power in Bihar has gone into the hands of anti-socials in the state.
Masumi Makhija on her upcoming films, including Chupke Se which releases September 12.
Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP is accusing Laloo Prasad Yadav's RJD of 'sabotaging' the prospects of its candidates in the Lok Sabha polls.
The Sena chief blamed the divestment policy of the NDA regime for its poor showing in the Lok Sabha election.
Bharatiya Janata Party President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday described the mayhem in the stock market as a "trailer" of the coming political scenario.
The MPs took the Swarna Shatabdi Express to Amritsar and will cross the border at the Wagah check-post in the afternoon.
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Jha arrived at the RJD headquarters in Patna in a procession and joined the party in Yadav's presence.
'I have come to know that the sociology department of Harvard University is doing a research on me,' he said.
He has made known his concern over the continuing violence in Assam and Bihar.
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The RJD chief said four STF teams, each headed by a DSP, were working round-the-clock to secure the release of Hindustan Times photojournalist Ashok Karn, who was abducted on December 27.
Nitish Kumar had a week's time to prove his majority, but Laloo Yadav made full use of Siwan don Mohammad Shahabuddin. A revealing excerpt from Rajesh Singh's Baahubalis Of Indian Politics: From Bullet To Ballot.
'When he came to Bombay, he lived on the streets with his mother.' 'He had to sell whatever little they had in their bags -- their clothes, his toys.' 'When they did not have money, a bakery would sell the bread crumbs fallen on the floor for one paisa in a newspaper.' 'But before eating, they had to take out the rat and cockroach shit from the crumbs.'
Protesting the projection of Bihar as the most backward state in the country in an issue of India Today, a visibly angry Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday walked out of a chief ministers' conclave organised by the magazine in New Delhi.
Special Judge S K Goyal granted bail to the father-son duo on a bail bond of Rs two million each and a surety of like amount in the disproportionate assets case.
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