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CAG pulls up NDA regime on disinvestments process
Says asset valuation did not seem to have been done seriously

"Bush dedicated to moving forward on nuclear deal"
Our legislature is actively engaged as your legislature: U.S. official

Furore over remarks against Sonia
Speaker condemns BJP member's comments; abrupt end to calling attention motion

Not my decision: Vajpayee
NEW DELHI: : The former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on Friday denied having personally taken the decision to release three hardcore terrorists, to deliver them to the Taliban, after the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in December ...

Medicos suspend protest
Reservation Bill has been referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee

Arrested Indians treated "inhumanly"
MUMBAI: The 12 Indians arrested following a security alert on a Northwest Airlines flight were treated "inhumanly", said a Dutch passenger who was on the plane. "The way they got arrested inside the plane with everybody seeing how they got ...

Disruptions galore, yet 17 Bills passed
Collective wisdom of all party leaders helped bring about order in Lok Sabha: Dasmunsi

Somnath asks members to introspect
Tells members that the entire country is watching them

Karat warns against SBI share dilution
Left parties will oppose any Bill to amend the SBI Act

Congress sending feelers, says TRS chief
To withhold letter to President withdrawing support to UPA

Telecast Patwardhan film within 8 weeks: court
DD excuses irrational; violation of right to freedom of expression

Using gold to trap pesticides in water
IIT-M scientists patent technology to use nanoparticles to trap pesticide residue

States can impose stock limits for wheat, pulses
Importers may, however, be asked to declare the receipts and stocks stored by them

Good signs for an endangered bird
AHMEDABAD: The sighting of nests of the Great Indian Bustard in the Kutch region has given a ray of hope regarding the endangered birds. These were spotted in the Nalia region of the Great Indian Bustard sanctuary, State Forest Department ...

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Tiger census report by December 2007

Gujarat: it's a leptospirosis epidemic

"CSE report inconclusive"

Racist profiling, says CPI (M)

Kalam concerned about House disruptions

Uproar over Farooq's comments

Monsoon active in North India

The nation is watching you, Somnath tells MPs

Withdraw court petition first, expelled MPs told

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