Why Pawar Didn’t Act against Vilasrao Deshmukh...

Perhaps for the first time in last 22 years, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar revealed on Tuesday why he did not take any action against Vilasrao Deshmukh, then a minister in his cabinet, during the famous coup of January 2013. He said he did not touch Deshmukh simply because the latter did not act of his own and was guided from leaders in New Delhi. Pawar was speaking after releasing a book comprising of reminisces and tributes on late...

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Maharashtra BJP Demands Expulsion of Home Minister R R Patil

The Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday demanded the expulsion of state’s Home Minister R. R. Patil for his failure in controlling the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. The party also expressed its support for the ordinance issued by the state government for anti-superstition law with one condition. Devendra Phadnavis, state president of BJP, informed the media about the resolutions passed in the Executive meeting...

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Growth in India Has Slowed : Joe Biden

(Following is the text of Vice President Joe Biden's speech at Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai. I have done nothing in it nor do I have written it. I am reproducing it just as I received it as a press release through mail.) Thank you very much, Kaku.  I appreciate it.  Thank you all for giving me this opportunity.  It’s an honor to be back in India and to be here in Mumbai.  Off script for a second here, I was reminded -- I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29-year-old kid back in 1972, and one of the first...

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Power Struggle In BJP

The newly elected president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajnath Singh, has appealed to his party colleagues to stop talking about the Prime Ministerial candidate publicly. Poor leader had left with no choice as everybody who is anybody in his party was thinking aloud and blaring out some or other name as the prospective candidate for the next Prime Minister of India. They included former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister...

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