The bills were passed by voice vote.
A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against Union Minister Uma Bharti by a local court in Bhopal on Thursday for not appearing before it in connection with a 13-year-old defamation case filed against her by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.
Chennai Super Kings may not be playing its home matches at the M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai anymore, but they will not be short on support, as fans are travelling to Pune to cheer them in Friday's Indian Premier League match against Rajasthan Royals.
Rediff Labs analyses the current storage departure of water in 91 reservoirs across the country.
For the fourth day, the Lok Sabha House fails to take up trust vote notices.
RIL-BP, who are currently producing about 11.8 million standard cubic metres per day of gas from the flagging eastern offshore KG-D6 block, is targeting newer fields in KG-D6 block and gas discoveries in neighbouring north-east coast and Cauvery basin to raise output.
Seeking the Centre's "hand of friendship" in solving inter-state water disputes, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said his party's alliance with the Congress was for national integrity and harmony.
Indications are that Modi will have words of encouragement for Stalin, and the meeting is likely to be much less acrimonious than critics of either would want it to be. notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Palaniswami said, "I will take up with PM Narendra Modi the demands put forward by the farmers. I urge them to end this protest."
All rivers in Tamil Nadu will be linked in next eight years, a top Public Works Department official has said.
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd set up a crude oil jetty in Nagapattinam at Rs 960 million to meet requirements of Cauvery Basin Refinery.
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The Makkal Needhi Maiam founder-president said he would prefer to 'stay in the centre' and talk about things benefiting women.
Chandrakant Khaire said his party -- the partner of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the National Democratic Alliance - was not consulted on the decision of NDA MPs sacrificing 23 days pay to protest the disruptions in Parliament.
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It does not stop here, though. According to field information, state ministers, AIADMK candidates and campaigners are asking BJP cadres accompanying them not to carry party flags at common rallies and also avoid their saffron shawl on those occasions. BJP cadres are also asked to stay out of the common campaign when it enters a minority-dominated areas, especially of Muslims, and re-join later, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
At the launch of his political party, actor Kamal Haasan said he was seized of a guilty conscience when he thought of what he had done for the people who showered him with their love.
'Our party cadre does not want her in the party.'
'It will get worse if we continue to behave like it is business as usual. At all levels at the central, state official level and the people's level, we are not treating it as seriously as we should' says Ashok Jaitly, director of water resources at The Energy Resources Institute.
'It will get worse if we continue to behave like it is business as usual. At all levels at the central, state official level and the people's level, we are not treating it as seriously as we should' says Ashok Jaitly, director of water resources at The Energy Resources Institute.
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The Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid title dispute case, the Sebi-Sahara payment row, the Aadhaar privacy issue and the Cauvery water dispute are only some of the legal puzzles he will have to deal with.
'OPS did not back off.' 'He wanted transparency and he got it.'
Flight services were disrupted in Karnataka while in Tamil Nadu, heavy rains battered Karur, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and coastal Pudukkottai and Nagapattinam districts.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The chief minister had stated that the project would be commissioned by 2012 and this time frame would be adhered to, state minister M K Stalin said replying to a debate on the demands of grants pertaining to his departments.
Members of the Kannnada Rakshana Vedike disrupted the screening of Tamil movies across Bangalore on Monday to protest against the statement of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi on the power plant issue. Tamil Nadu is setting up a power plant near the Karanataka border. However, Karnataka is opposed to the project as the plant will be built along the Cauvery River, and both states have been locked in a legal dispute over the issue.
Facing flak from fellow Tamil actors that he tendered an 'apology' for remarks during the Cauvery row to ensure release of his film 'Kuchelan' in Karnataka, film star Rajnikanth declined to join issue saying he would not like to add anything more to the 'speculation'.
The imapsse continues over issues like bank scams and special status demand for Andhra Pradesh.
The time has come to recommend Field Marshal Cariappa for the award of Bharat Ratna. If others can get it, I see no reason why he should not,' the army chief said.
Students of MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology chipped in to help B'lore civic authorities over a delayed project.
Giving the go ahead for resumption of work on the Hogenakkal project, which he had put on hold till the completion of Karnataka Assembly polls in the face protests, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has directed state officials to complete the work as scheduled by 2011.The Rs 1,334 crore project envisaged drawing of water from river Cauvery at Hogenakkal, on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, to provide water to water-starved districts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri.
Normal life returned in various parts of the state, including the Cauvery Delta districts, as there were no rains since Thursday.
"The harsh language used by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, whom we consider an elder statesman, has naturally provoked the protagonists and as a result of which the unhealthy development is taking place," Krishna said in an obvious reference to the violence in the state.
For members of the Tamil community, which comprises almost 30 per cent of the 55 lakh population in Bangalore, the resurgence of the Cauvery issue brings back nightmarish memories of the anti-Tamil riots of 1992.
Interlinking of rivers, retrieval of Katchatheevu island and inclusion of fishermen in the Scheduled Tribes list are also listed in the memorandum.
They said the picture did not feature any 'life support system like a ventilator' and it was reassuring that their Thalaivar (leader) was recuperating well.
