The prime minister said that the rail transport system will reduce traffic congestion and pollution
Although no accord is likely to be reached, the talks with the Indian leadership are expected to boost the efforts to bring peace to Nagaland, the sources said.
With the BJP under attack from its parent organisations and plagued by rift within, will the BJP be able to regain its past glory?
Just under a year after he was dislodged from the prime minister's post by a Congress-led coalition, some people want him out of the BJP too.
"If the Central government does not agree, we will oppose the Bill," party spokesman V K Malhotra said.
It is not a question of being visible or not. It is the conduct of the government, which should be taken note of, he said.
'I tried to find out the element of indiscipline in yesterday's action, but I could not get any,' she said in a letter to Advani. \n
The Manmohan Singh government issued the orders on Wednesday, more than a week after the 70-year-old former Union home secretary quit the post.
'There is a limit to character assassination for winning election,' he said.
He criticised the Congress for its last-minute attempts to cobble alliances
The Hurriyat leadership is scheduled to meet in Srinagar early next week to decide whether to continue holding parleys with the government.
The Briton is serving a life term in a Kolkata prison for dropping crates of missiles, rifles and rocket launchers in Purulia district of West Bengal on the night of December 17, 1995.
Pakistan Interior Minister had said last week that Advani may be invited to Pakistan to discuss an extradition treaty.
Welcomes Jayalalithaa's assurance that 'the orders of the apex court are being fully complied with and implemented by the state police'.
The confidence vote in the UP assembly is scheduled for September 8.
"There should be a check on the number of ministers in a government like in Delhi and Pondicherry, which are Union\n\nTerritories but have assemblies," Deputy Prime Minister Advani said.
'There are certain states that need special attention. In terms of electoral records it is very bad,' Lyngdoh said.
The panel, which is probing the demolition of the Babri Masjid, rejected a plea to summon Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his deputy L K Advani.
US Ambassador in New Delhi Robert Blackwill also said that the troops, if sent, would be used for non-combat operations.
Advani had said that during his visit in April, Fernandes had raised the issue of the alternate route to Mt Kailash via Leh and that China had rejected this suggestion.
The two-day meeting to be attended by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and other senior party leaders is expected to adopt two resolutions -- one political and the other economical.
Naidu says he is not in the race for BJP chief's post
Hurriyat had held the second round of talks on March 27 with the then deputy prime minister L K Advani.