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Lalu issue: Opposition demands statement, walks out
NEW DELHI, DEC. 21. The Opposition today sought to nail the Government in Parliament over its refusal to drop the Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad, from the Union Cabinet after the Election Commission (EC) lodged a First Information Report (FIR) ...

Zahira turns hostile at retrial
MUMBAI, DEC. 21.Zahira Sheikh, prime eyewitness in the Best Bakery case, today turned hostile in the retrial underway here at the sessions court, and said she did not know the identity of the people who threw stones and soda bottles at her and ...

Government disintegrating: Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, DEC. 21. The National Democratic Alliance chairman, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said today that the Manmohan Singh Government was "weakening and disintegrating" even as differences among the ruling coalition allies were coming out in the ...

Congress, CPI(M) decline comment on EC action
NEW DELHI, DEC. 21. The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) today refrained from making comments on the Election Commission's action against the Rashtriya Janata Dal president, Lalu Prasad, but questioned the right of the ...

India eligible for U.N. Council seat: Badawi
NEW DELHI, DEC. 21. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, described India as a "strategic partner" and a "very eligible candidate" to enter the United Nations Security Council tonight, but stopped short of open support for India's ...

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