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Ruchika molestation case: Home Ministry to serve show cause notice to Rathore
27 Dec 2009, 2041 hrs IST, AGENCIES

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NEW DELHI: In a move to fast forward its proceedings for stripping former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SPS Rathore of his coveted police
medal following his role in Ruchika molestation case, the Central Government has decided to place his case before an awards committee.

Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said the concerned issue would be put up before an awards committee, which will meet on January 4, 2010.

Steps would be taken to issue show cause notice to former DGP Rathore, he further added.

The Haryana state government has also planned to open up all the cases against former DGP Rathore for his alleged involvement in the Ruchika molestation case and other related harassment cases.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said in New Delhi on Saturday, "The cases against former DGP Rathore will be opened up following legal consultations."

Hooda has also asked the senior police officials to provide full security to Ruchika's family.

The Haryana Police have removed all information related to Rathore from their official website.

Meanwhile, Ruchika's family has said that it will file a suit in the High Court to claim one crore rupees as monetary compensation for the damage caused by DGP Rathore to the prestige of the family.

Rathore, charged with alleged molestation of teenager Ruchika Girhotra, a promising young tennis star in 1990, was then an Inspector General of Police and the head of Haryana Lawn Tennis Federation.

Teenager Ruchika killed herself three years after the incident by drinking poison.

CBI's Special Magistrate J S Sidhu sentenced 67-year-old Rathore to six months rigorous imprisonment (RI) during an in-camera proceeding and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000, but Rathore got bail immediately.
 
US probes al Qaeda involvement in jet incident
WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda involvement is a "subject of investigation" in Friday's incident in which a Nigerian man has been charged with trying to blow
up a US passenger jet bound from Amsterdam to Detroit, US homeland security chief Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.

Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs, appearing on ABC's "This Week," also said the White House is reviewing US security watch list policy. The US government created a record of 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab last month in the intelligence community's central repository of information on known and suspected international terrorists, a US official said on Saturday.

But there was not enough negative data to put him on a "no-fly" list, the official said. Asked whether al Qaeda was involved in the incident, Napolitano also told ABC's "This Week" program, "That is now the subject of investigation, and it would be inappropriate for me to say and inappropriate to speculate. So we will let the FBI and the criminal justice system now do their work."

Gibbs said the administration was reviewing "how can we revise watch-listing procedures going forward to ensure that there is no clog in the bureaucratic plumbing of information that might be gathered somewhere going to the very highest levels of security in government."
 
 
 
 
Pranab asks unrelenting Telangana ministers to withdraw resignations
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today reportedly promised "some good news" on Telangana and asked his party ministers from that region
in Andhra Pradesh to withdraw their resignations, but they were not in an immediate mood to relent.

State Information and Tourism Minister Geeta Reddy, who led a delegation of 13 ministers who have quit in protest against Centre putting the Telangana on the backburner, told reporters after a meeting with Mukherjee that they would discuss his request among themselves first before taking a decision on their resignations.

"Pranab Mukherjee asked us to withdraw our resignations and assured us that there will be good news on Telangana issue in the near future. We are also waiting for some special news on the issue," Reddy said.

"We will discuss it (request to withdraw resignations) among ourselves. Our aim is not being in posts or power, but meeting the expectations of the people of Telangana. Their aspirations is to have a separate state and they are longing for it. This is the right time to have Telangana," she added.

Her cabinet colleague and Water Resources Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said the Ministers conveyed the ground situation in Telangana, especially Hyderabad.

"We impressed upon Mukherjee to take steps to clear the doubts of separate statehood created by Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement on December 23, which gave an impression that Telangana was taking a backseat," he said.
 
Shibu Soren to take oath Dec 30
RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren will be sworn in as Chief Minister Dec 30 at the Marabadi grounds here.


Soren met Governor K. Sankarnarayanan Sunday afternoon and expressed his desire to take the oath Dec 30 and the governor accepted his request.

"Now Soren will be chief minister and I appeal to the people to remain awake," Soren told reporters after the meeting.

Earlier, the governor asked President Pratibha Patil to revoke President's rule in the state to allow a new government to be formed, Raj Bhavan sources said Sunday.

The governor sent a report to the president on the political situation in Jharkhand after the Nov 25-Dec 18 assembly elections, a source in the governor's house told IANS.

Soren Saturday staked claim to forming the government with a list of 45 legislators supporting him in the 81-member house.

He is being supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and two independents.

The BJP and JMM have 18 legislators each.

Jharkhand came under President's Rule Jan 19 after no party came forward to form the government following Soren's resignation following his defeat in the bypoll to the Tamar assembly seat. Soren, who took over as chief minister Aug 27, 2008, had to get elected to the state assembly within six months in accordance with the constitutional provisions.
 
RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren will be sworn in as Chief Minister Dec 30 at the Marabadi grounds here.


Soren met Governor K. Sankarnarayanan Sunday afternoon and expressed his desire to take the oath Dec 30 and the governor accepted his request.

"Now Soren will be chief minister and I appeal to the people to remain awake," Soren told reporters after the meeting.

Earlier, the governor asked President Pratibha Patil to revoke President's rule in the state to allow a new government to be formed, Raj Bhavan sources said Sunday.

The governor sent a report to the president on the political situation in Jharkhand after the Nov 25-Dec 18 assembly elections, a source in the governor's house told IANS.

Soren Saturday staked claim to forming the government with a list of 45 legislators supporting him in the 81-member house.

He is being supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and two independents.

The BJP and JMM have 18 legislators each.

Jharkhand came under President's Rule Jan 19 after no party came forward to form the government following Soren's resignation following his defeat in the bypoll to the Tamar assembly seat. Soren, who took over as chief minister Aug 27, 2008, had to get elected to the state assembly within six months in accordance with the constitutional provisions.
 
After sex sting, AP governor Tiwari ejects prematurely
27 Dec 2009, 0100 hrs IST, TNN

27 Dec 2009, 1728 hrs IST, IANS
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: A day after his pictures in a sex romp were flashed in the media, the Centre got veteran Congressman N D Tiwari to step down
as Andhra Pradesh governor, disregarding his claim that he was a victim of a frame-up.

An embarrassed UPA government decided to ask Tiwari to vacate Raj Bhavan after a high-level meeting held that pictures purportedly showing Tiwari in, to put it mildly, the "intimate" company of three women had rendered his continuation as governor untenable.

The Centre did not even wait for the report that it has sought from the Andhra Pradesh chief secretary Ramakanth Reddy. The decision was conveyed to the governor. For his part, Tiwari tried to argue that he had done no wrong and spoke of a conspiracy, in line with the version put out by Raj Bhavan on Friday, to malign him. He, however, gave in after realising that the leadership was in no mood to relent.

Curiously, in his resignation to the President, the stalwart cited "health grounds" as the reason for putting in his papers.




The quick action by the central leadership was designed to put a lid on the controversy which landed streams of women protesters at the gates of Raj Bhavan while triggering an avalanche of demands for his resignation from across the political spectrum.

Coming at a time when passions are running high in Andhra over the Telangana issue, the unsavoury controversy over the purported peccadilloes of the governor would have undermined the firefighting the Centre has been engaged in.

The additional charge of Andhra Raj Bhavan is likely to be given to the Chhattisgarh governor. The final name may be decided as part of a larger exercise involving the vacancies in Maharashtra, West Bengal and Punjab next month.

The media in Hyderabad had flashed purported pictures of the governor in a compromising position with three women, which created a furore. While Raj Bhavan denied it and secured a high court injunction against public airing of footage, it had stirred a controversy which Congress could not ignore.

A relieved Congress welcomed the resignation. AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters, "I think he has taken an appropriate decision keeping in view the high standards of public life. We welcome it."

While Tiwari has stepped down, the report of the chief secretary will determine whether there is need for any inquiry into the incident.

Tiwari's exit from the Raj Bhavan is being seen as an unsavoury end to a glittering career, which has seen him become the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice and the first elected chief minister of Uttarakhand besides holding key positions in AICC and at the Centre.

His positioning as a "loyalist" became his calling card over the years. The gubernatorial assignment was a post-retirement arrangement for him after Congress lost elections in Uttarakhand.
 
FBI's polite "NO" for extradition of Headley to India
27 Dec 2009, 1712 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The FBI has politely turned down India's request for extradition of terror suspect David Headley to this country on the ground he will
have to first undergo a sentence which could be imposed on him in the US for the offences committed if convicted.

Indian officials were told there was no realistic possibility of the Pakistani-American being handed over since the sentence could range between 200 and 300 years of imprisonment.

The US stand was conveyed to the Indian investigators by the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) officials during their regular interaction to discuss the case related to Headley, whose links with the banned Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) were being probed by the two countries, official sources said here today.

The polite turning down of the Indian request for extradition of 49-year-old Headley, arrested in Chicago on October three last, came in the wake of repeated statements including that by Union Home Secretary G K Pilai that India would press for the extradition of the terror suspect.

Pillai had said earlier that India will seek his extradition after completing investigation by January next year into his links with the Mumbai terror attacks.

However, FBI seems to be in no mood to hand over him to India and very politely conveyed that he could be handed over once the sentence ranging to 300 years is completed. He can also be sentenced to death, the sources said.

Headley has been charged by the FBI for 26/11 attacks in Mumbai also on December seven. He is alleged to have conducted reconnaissance of all targets attacked by Lashker militants on November 26 last year besides drawing the routemap for their landing on the Mumbai coast.
 
China may become second largest economy in 2010

27 Dec 2009, 0350 hrs IST, Bloomberg
 
BEIJING: China raised its 2008 growth estimate to 9.6% from 9% and said this year's quarterly figures will increase, narrowing the gap with Japan,
the world's second-biggest economy. Gross domestic product was 31.405 trillion yuan ($4.6 trillion) last year, the statistics bureau said at a briefing in Beijing on Friday. That compares with a previous 30.067 trillion yuan and the World Bank's estimate of $4.9 trillion for Japan.

China's expansion will be more than 8% in 2009, according to government officials, and the nation is poised to overtake Japan next year, International Monetary Fund projections show.

Friday's figures result from an economic census which showed a bigger contribution from services and continue a pattern of China revising up preliminary growth estimates. "The big underlying factor propelling China's growth is the continued migration of people from the agricultural sector to the more modern economy — industry and services," said David Cohen , an economist at Action Economic in Singapore. "There's no stopping China."

For 2009, revisions will mainly affect the value of the year's gross domestic product, with a "very small" impact on the growth rate, said Peng Zhilong, the head of the bureau's national economy calculation department.

China's expansion in 2008 compares with US growth of less than 1%. Japan's gross domestic product shrank 1.2%. The Indian economy expanded 6.7% in the fiscal year ended March 2009.


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This year, the Chinese economy grew 8.9% in the third quarter from a year earlier , 7.9% in the second and 6.1% in the first. The government has pledged to maintain a "moderately loose" monetary policy in 2010 to sustain a rebound driven by a stimulus package and record lending.

The pace of growth is attracting more investment . Foreign direct investment climbed 32% in November to $7 billion from a year earlier . Luxury carmaker Bayerische Motoren Werke said last month that it will build a new factory worth 5 billion yuan in China to tap an auto market set to overtake the US as the world's largest.

"Investors are anxious to participate in what remains, with India, the biggest story that's out there," Action Economics' Cohen said. Friday's figures showed a 13.1 trillion yuan contribution from services in 2008, compared with 12 trillion yuan previously. The census, intended to give a better picture of the economy's make-up , focused on industry and services rather than agriculture.

Gross domestic product figures for 2005, 2006 and 2007 will also be revised as a result of the census, Peng said.

China's economy was 4.4% bigger in 2008 than originally estimated, today's figures showed. In comparison, a previous census in 2005 showed the statistics bureau had under- estimated the size of the 2004 economy by 17%.
 
China PM blasts trade protectionism, pressure on yuan
27 Dec 2009, 1719 hrs IST, AFP
BEIJING: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao blasted trade protectionism by China's trading partners on Sunday and vowed not to yield to pressure to allow the
Chinese yuan to appreciate.

In an Internet interview with Xinhua news agency, Wen said he would continue to implement macro-economic policies next year aimed at stimulating growth and fighting the global financial crisis, but would also rein in credit and curb rising land prices.

"The pressure on the yuan to appreciate is bigger and bigger... we have been getting this and that kind of pressure to appreciate, but we refuse to yield," Wen said in the webcast.

"I told foreign friends, I said, 'you are asking for us to allow the yuan to appreciate, while at the same time adopting all kinds of trade protectionism, actually you are trying to restrain China's development'."

The value of the Chinese currency, which has effectively been pegged to the US dollar since mid-2008, has been a bone of contention between Beijing and its Western trading partners, which say it is kept low to boost exports.

"This could be a big issue facing us next year in our economic work," Wen said in what he promised would become an annual webcast with Xinhua.

But he added: "I believe this year as major currencies around the world devaluated, that maintaining the value and stability of the yuan was a contribution to the international community."

He also lambasted a series of World Trade Organization disputes that have been filed against China this year, saying there were more such actions taken in 2009 than ever before.

"They are using every kind of trade obstacle, which is really placing a lot of pressure on China's overseas oriented industries, especially exports," Wen said, without naming nations.
Man flies by Air India plane without ticket, hiding in toilet
 
JAIPUR: In a major security breach, an Indian national working in Medina airport in Saudi Arabia managed to board an Air India flight, carrying 273
Haj piligrims back home, without ticket and passport and travelled here after hiding in the plane's toilet for half an hour.

Habib (25) from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, who was working at Medina airport with a Saudi ground handling company, got into the plane which returned to Jaipur last night, and hid in the toilet, Superintendent of Police, Jaipur East, B.G.Joseph told media.

Habib's presence came to light about half an hour after the flight took off from Medina when a passenger went to the toilet.

Air India sources he got into the aircraft on the plea of cleaning it.

During questioning by the cabin crew, it was ascertained that it was a case of stow-away and Habib did not intend to harm anybody. However, the captain of the flight had alerted the ATC in Jaipur where police arrested him.

Habib told the police today that he was working as a clearner at Medina airport and the contractor, who employed him there, had taken away his passport. He somehow wanted to come back home.

The man is being questioned by the Intelligence Bureau and the Special Operation Group of Rajasthan police, officials here said.

FBI's polite "NO" for extradition of Headley to India
27 Dec 2009, 1712 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The FBI has politely turned down India's request for extradition of terror suspect David Headley to this country on the ground he will
have to first undergo a sentence which could be imposed on him in the US for the offences committed if convicted.

Indian officials were told there was no realistic possibility of the Pakistani-American being handed over since the sentence could range between 200 and 300 years of imprisonment.

The US stand was conveyed to the Indian investigators by the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) officials during their regular interaction to discuss the case related to Headley, whose links with the banned Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) were being probed by the two countries, official sources said here today.

The polite turning down of the Indian request for extradition of 49-year-old Headley, arrested in Chicago on October three last, came in the wake of repeated statements including that by Union Home Secretary G K Pilai that India would press for the extradition of the terror suspect.

Pillai had said earlier that India will seek his extradition after completing investigation by January next year into his links with the Mumbai terror attacks.

However, FBI seems to be in no mood to hand over him to India and very politely conveyed that he could be handed over once the sentence ranging to 300 years is completed. He can also be sentenced to death, the sources said.

Headley has been charged by the FBI for 26/11 attacks in Mumbai also on December seven. He is alleged to have conducted reconnaissance of all targets attacked by Lashker militants on November 26 last year besides drawing the routemap for their landing on the Mumbai coast.
 
Process to get back Tata land at Singur has begun: WB govt
26 Dec 2009, 2127 hrs IST, PTI
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has begun the formalities for taking back the land it had acquired for Tata Motors for its small car project in
Singur, a senior official said.

"Yes, we have started the formalisation process," state Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakraborty told newsmen this evening.

"When a land is leased out for a certain purpose and it is not fulfilled, then we have to think of alternatives."

The state government acquired about 997 acre of land at Singur for Tata Motors for the Nano car project. The Tatas, however, shifted the project to Sanand in Gujarat following an agitation by farmers led by Opposition Trinamool Congress.

After the Tatas shifted their plant, the state government invited BHEL to set up a thermal power plant at the site, but after its representatives visited the site, BHEL declined the proposal saying that the quantum of land available was inadequate for the project.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed willingness to set up a coach factory if the land was released from the Tatas and handed over to the railways.
 
 

US plane attacker "sneaked" into Nigeria -govt

Reuters - Nick Tattersall, Rosalba O'Brien - ‎40 minutes ago‎
LAGOS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A Nigerian man who tried to blow up a US passenger jet had lived outside the West African nation for some time and only returned on the eve of the foiled attack, the Nigerian government said on Sunday. ...

Bomb Suspect's Teacher, Family Dismayed, Shocked

New York Times - Raphael Satter - ‎48 minutes ago‎
By AP LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A Nigerian man who tried and failed to blow up a plane over Detroit ''sneaked'' into his native country the day before his botched Christmas Day attempt, leaving his father shocked and regretful, Nigeria's information ...

Officials Point to Suspect's Claim of Qaeda Ties in Yemen

New York Times - Eric Schmitt, Eric Lipton - ‎2 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities on Saturday charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, and officials said the suspect told them he had obtained explosive ...

"The facts are still emerging, but there are strong suggestions of a Yemen-Al Qaeda connection and an intent to blow up the plane over US airspace," Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat who leads the House Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence, said in a statement.
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Plane attacker lived outside Nigeria: government

Reuters - Nick Tattersall, Andrew Dobbie - ‎1 hour ago‎
LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a US airliner with high explosives had lived outside Nigeria for some time and returned only on the eve of the attempted attack, the Nigerian government said on Sunday. ...

Plane bomb suspect 'in Nigeria on December 24'

AFP - ‎51 minutes ago‎
LAGOS — A Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a passenger jet over the United States entered and left Nigeria on December 24, a day ahead of the attempt, Nigeria's information minister said Sunday. US authorities on Saturday charged Umar Farouk ...

Al-Qaida in Yemen Threatened US

New York Times - Maamoun Youssef - ‎1 hour ago‎
By AP CAIRO (AP) -- An Al-Qaida operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said ''we are carrying a bomb'' in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight. ...

Passenger tackles terror suspect

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Passengers and crew overpowered a 23-year-old man who was allegedly trying to ignite an explosive device on a plane travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit. Jasper Schuringa, a 32-year-old Dutch filmmaker, was one of those who tackled the terror suspect ...

Nigerian plotter used same explosive as shoe bomber

Telegraph.co.uk - Martin Evans - ‎1 hour ago‎
Farouk Abdul Mutallab allegedly used the explosive chemical Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) in his attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Martin Evans It is the same material used by shoe bomber Richard Reid ...

Bomb Suspect's Teacher Describes Exemplary Pupil

ABC News - Jon Gambrell - ‎1 hour ago‎
AP Unidentified men walk in front of the house of Alhaji Umar Abdul Mutallab, the father of Umar... Nigeria's information minister says the airline bomb suspect "sneaked" into Nigeria the day before his alleged Christmas Day effort to ...

US probes al Qaeda involvement in jet incident

Reuters - Corbett Daly, Vicki Allen - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda involvement is a "subject of investigation" in Friday's incident in which a Nigerian man has been charged with trying to blow up a US passenger jet bound from Amsterdam to Detroit, US homeland security chief Janet ...

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Raja Peter a bitter pill for Guruji to digest

Times of India - ‎25 minutes ago‎
RANCHI: Politics is a place where strangers become bedfellows. But when enemies are forced to tie the knot, the situation becomes really tough which is evident from the helplessness of CM-in-making Shibu Soren. If things go against his wishes and JD(U) ...

Shibu Soren invited to form government in Jharkhand

Livemint - ‎4 minutes ago‎
PTI Ranchi: Jharkhand governor K. Sankaranarayanan on Wednesday invited Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief and former Union minister Shibu Soren to form the new government in Jharkhand. Victory mode: JMM chief Shibu Soren along with senior party leader ...

The return of Shibu Soren

Livemint - ‎1 hour ago‎
The return of Shibu Soren to power in Jharkhand exemplifies all that is wrong with the idea of small states in India. The story of the 28th state of the Union should serve as a timely warning about the pitfalls on that path.Soren, a prototypical son of ...

Sounds of Soren

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
Though the people of Jharkhand have braved the Naxal strictures and turned out in strength a little over 60 per cent of the electorate cast votes the verdict for the 81-seat assembly is hazy. Jharkhand supplies 50 per cent of India's minerals and ...

Shibu Soren set to be chief minister for third time

Press Trust of India - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ranchi, Dec 27 (PTI) Shibu Soren, JMM supremo, who is set to be the chief minister of Jharkhand for the third time, took to politics after battling for years against exploitation of poor tribals by money lenders. Born in Nemhra village in Hazaribagh on ...

Congress, BJP unwilling to accept Soren as chief minister

Times of India - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
RANCHI: With the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) emerging as kingmaker with 18 seats, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are exploring the possibility of forming the next Jharkhand government with the JMM, but are finding it hard to accept ...

BJP wins 6 of the 14 seats in Kolhan

Times of India - ‎Dec 23, 2009‎
JAMSHEDPUR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that was expecting to do well in the Kolhan region managed to reach near the half way mark by winning six of the 14 seats in the division. The results delivered mixed response to the saffron party with two ...

Congress steps up efforts to pre-empt BJP-JMM pact

Times of India - Subodh Ghildiyal - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday moved in to preempt a tie-up between JMM and BJP, dispatching its managers to open communication with Shibu Soren after lying low for two days since the results threw up a badly fractured verdict. ...

Congress efforts at govt formation come a cropper

Times of India - Sonali Das - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
RANCHI: All efforts of the Congress to form the government in Jharkhand came to a naught on Saturday after Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), BJP and All Jharkhand Students' Union cobbled together the magic figure of 42 along with the support of an ...

JMM supoporters make merry as Soren takes centrestage

Times of India - Divy Khare - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
RANCHI: "Everything is fine and our time has come," were the few words that Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren spoke to his close ones before leaving for Raj Bhavan around 1.50 pm on Saturday. And, those very words spread like wildfire ...

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Raja Peter a bitter pill for Guruji to digest
‎25 minutes ago‎ - Times of India
Congress efforts at govt formation come a cropper
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - Times of India
Shibu Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - Times of India
Congress in no hurry for talks on govt formation in Jharkhand: Rao
‎Dec 25, 2009‎ - Hindustan Times
Shibu Soren elected JMM legislative party leader
‎Dec 25, 2009‎ - Times of India
Congress and BJP vying for JMM's support
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - Hindustan Times
BJP wins 6 of the 14 seats in Kolhan
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - Times of India
Cong, BJP, JMM look for post-poll allies in Jharkhand
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - IBNLive.com
Stephen says no to Cong-JMM post-poll alliance
‎Dec 21, 2009‎ - Times of India

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Raja Peter a bitter pill for Guruji to digest

Times of India - ‎25 minutes ago‎
RANCHI: Politics is a place where strangers become bedfellows. But when enemies are forced to tie the knot, the situation becomes really tough which is evident from the helplessness of CM-in-making Shibu Soren. If things go against his wishes and JD(U) ...

Shibu Soren invited to form government in Jharkhand

Livemint - ‎4 minutes ago‎
PTI Ranchi: Jharkhand governor K. Sankaranarayanan on Wednesday invited Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief and former Union minister Shibu Soren to form the new government in Jharkhand. Victory mode: JMM chief Shibu Soren along with senior party leader ...

The return of Shibu Soren

Livemint - ‎1 hour ago‎
The return of Shibu Soren to power in Jharkhand exemplifies all that is wrong with the idea of small states in India. The story of the 28th state of the Union should serve as a timely warning about the pitfalls on that path.Soren, a prototypical son of ...

Sounds of Soren

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
Though the people of Jharkhand have braved the Naxal strictures and turned out in strength a little over 60 per cent of the electorate cast votes the verdict for the 81-seat assembly is hazy. Jharkhand supplies 50 per cent of India's minerals and ...

Shibu Soren set to be chief minister for third time

Press Trust of India - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ranchi, Dec 27 (PTI) Shibu Soren, JMM supremo, who is set to be the chief minister of Jharkhand for the third time, took to politics after battling for years against exploitation of poor tribals by money lenders. Born in Nemhra village in Hazaribagh on ...

Congress, BJP unwilling to accept Soren as chief minister

Times of India - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
RANCHI: With the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) emerging as kingmaker with 18 seats, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are exploring the possibility of forming the next Jharkhand government with the JMM, but are finding it hard to accept ...

BJP wins 6 of the 14 seats in Kolhan

Times of India - ‎Dec 23, 2009‎
JAMSHEDPUR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that was expecting to do well in the Kolhan region managed to reach near the half way mark by winning six of the 14 seats in the division. The results delivered mixed response to the saffron party with two ...

Congress steps up efforts to pre-empt BJP-JMM pact

Times of India - Subodh Ghildiyal - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday moved in to preempt a tie-up between JMM and BJP, dispatching its managers to open communication with Shibu Soren after lying low for two days since the results threw up a badly fractured verdict. ...

Congress efforts at govt formation come a cropper

Times of India - Sonali Das - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
RANCHI: All efforts of the Congress to form the government in Jharkhand came to a naught on Saturday after Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), BJP and All Jharkhand Students' Union cobbled together the magic figure of 42 along with the support of an ...

JMM supoporters make merry as Soren takes centrestage

Times of India - Divy Khare - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
RANCHI: "Everything is fine and our time has come," were the few words that Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren spoke to his close ones before leaving for Raj Bhavan around 1.50 pm on Saturday. And, those very words spread like wildfire ...

Timeline of articles

Timeline of articles
Number of sources covering this story
Raja Peter a bitter pill for Guruji to digest
‎25 minutes ago‎ - Times of India
Congress efforts at govt formation come a cropper
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - Times of India
Shibu Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - Times of India
Congress in no hurry for talks on govt formation in Jharkhand: Rao
‎Dec 25, 2009‎ - Hindustan Times
Shibu Soren elected JMM legislative party leader
‎Dec 25, 2009‎ - Times of India
Congress and BJP vying for JMM's support
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - Hindustan Times
BJP wins 6 of the 14 seats in Kolhan
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - Times of India
Cong, BJP, JMM look for post-poll allies in Jharkhand
‎Dec 23, 2009‎ - IBNLive.com
Stephen says no to Cong-JMM post-poll alliance
‎Dec 21, 2009‎ - Times of India

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Andhra Governor ND Tiwari denies involvement in 'sex scandal'

Hindustan Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
A day earlier, Andhra Pradesh Governor ND Tiwari’s office had dismissed the television footage allegedly showing him having a romp with three women as “a pack of lies†. On Saturday, though, the governor, a Congress veteran, resigned from his ...

Narayan Dutt Tiwari, 86, resigns after 'cavorting with three young women'

Times Online - Jeremy Page - ‎2 hours ago‎
An 86-year old Congress Party leader was forced to resign today after a local news channel broadcast footage of him allegedly cavorting in bed with three young women in his official residence. Narayan Dutt Tiwari, the governor of the southern Indian ...

Chhattisgarh Governor Narasimhan gets additional charge of Andhra

Central Chronicle - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Chhattisgarh Governor ESL Narasimhan will have additional charge as Governor of Andhra Pradesh. President Pratibha Patil has accepted the resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor ND Tiwari, says a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. ...

"We have a woman President and and another managing the biggest party in the country. We will petition them to take stern action against this man," said V Sandhya of the Progressive Organisation of Women.
more by Sandhya - Dec 25, 2009 - Times of India (2 occurrences)

ND Tiwari denies role in sleaze tape

Times of India - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
HYDERABAD: T-trouble took a back seat in Andhra Pradesh with another form of T-trouble grabbing centre stage. Telangana mania was drowned out on Christmas Day as a full-fledged sex scandal involving Raj Bhavan was aired by the ABN Andhra Jyothi, ...

Tiwari may be on way out

Times of India - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: The raging controversy that has engulfed Andhra Pradesh governor ND Tiwari may lead to his being removed from the constitutional post. ( Watch Video ) The octogenarian former Uttarakhand CM hit the news in an unexpected manner when a local ...

Tiwari's career: from CM, PM candidate to shame

IBNLive.com - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
AP Governor denies involvement in 'sex scandal' New Delhi: It was a sorry end to an illustrious political career. Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who quit as governor of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday after being caught on video in an alleged sex romp with three ...

Sex scandal: President accepts ND Tiwari's resignation

Zee News - ‎8 hours ago‎
New Delhi: Ending all speculations President Pratibha Patil on Sunday accepted the resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor ND Tiwari, says a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh Governor ESL Narasimhan has been given additional charge ...

ND Tiwari embroiled in controversy

The Hindu - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has restrained a television news channel from telecasting a news story showing visuals of an elderly person, who was alleged to be Governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari, in a compromising position with three women in the ...

Tiwari quits in the wake of TV exposé

The Hindu - Nagesh Kumar - ‎20 hours ago‎
HYDERABAD: Under pressure from political parties and women's organisations to quit after a television channel showed him, allegedly in a compromising position with women, Andhra Pradesh Governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari resigned on Saturday, citing 'health ...

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Andhra Governor ND Tiwari denies involvement in 'sex scandal'
‎3 hours ago‎ - Hindustan Times
Sex sting fallout: Chhattisgarh governor gets additional charge of Andhra
‎9 hours ago‎ - Times of India
Unstately scenes at Raj Bhavan?
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - Express Buzz
Tiwari's career: from CM, PM candidate to shame
‎Dec 26, 2009‎ - IBNLive.com
HC stops telecast of alleged sex clips of Andhra governor
‎Dec 25, 2009‎ - Times of India

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'The West didn't get away at Copenhagen'

IBNLive.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How should we view the Copenhagen accord? As a failure or as a success? Karan Thapar asked this to Shyam Saran, the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on climate change.

Govt hikes iron ore export duty

Hindu Business Line - ‎22 hours ago‎
A pick-up in iron ore export volumes this fiscal and better export realisation have prompted the Finance Ministry to raise the export duty on iron lumps from the current 5 per cent to 10 per cent.

Health-plus-life combo insurance in two months

Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
In about two months from now, you will have the option of buying an insurance product that combines a life insurance policy with one that covers a medical expenses.

Najafgarh drain 11th among highly polluted industrial clusters

Times of India - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
PTI 25 December 2009, 06:57pm IST NEW DELHI: There could be bad news for the Delhi government, which is bracing for next year's Commonwealth Games, as the Najafgarh drain basin in East Delhi has been being ranked eleventh in the country's highly ...

BS Motoring Jury Award 2010: Tata Nano

Business Standard - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
The Nano is a small car from a big idea. The people's car attained immortality the moment it was unveiled at the Auto Expo in New Delhi, causing a seismic shift in the automotive world.
India's coming-out party Times of India

Now, you can use your mobile to transact Rs 50000 in a day

Economic Times - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has hiked the daily ceiling for banking transactions through mobile phones to Rs 50000 - a significant jump from the present cap of Rs 15000.

Cost-push element behind rise in food prices: Pranab

Hindu - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
KOLKATA: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said increasing food grains productivity, ensuring effective distribution of subsidised essentials to vulnerable groups and allowing duty-free import were some of the steps taken to control ...

Congress, Centre mishandled Telangana issue: CPM

Times of India - ‎17 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: The CPM on Saturday blamed the Congress and Centre for mishandling the Telangana situation and asked the government to begin the process of consulting other parties immediately.

Now on, FDI policy to be updated every six months

Economic Times - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday promised to bring out an updated foreign direct Investment (FDI) policy every six months as it unveiled a comprehensive press note consolidating the entire regime for foreign investments in one place for easy ...

RIL ups cash offer for LyondellBasell

Financial Express - ‎Dec 26, 2009‎
Mumbai: Reliance Industries (RIL) has updated its non-binding proposal to acquire bankrupt Dutch petrochemicals company LyondellBasell (LB), media reports said on Saturday.

Bhai-bhai again? President to visit China

Times of India - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: Continuing with the recent bonhomie between India and China, foreign minister SM Krishna has said that President Pratibha Patil has been invited to visit China in 2010.
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Centre lists its objections on GST draft paper

Indian Express - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
The views of the Centre and the states don't seem to be in congruence regarding the modalities of the Goods and Services Tax. The Centre wants a common threshold for both goods and services and a single rate for the Goods and Services Tax.

Maharatna status to boost ONGC plans

Calcutta Telegraph - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
New Delhi, Dec. 25: Armed with new-found financial autonomy, ONGC Ltd plans to bid aggressively for a Venezuelan oil block after suffering a reverse in Iraq.

WorldSpace won't make music in India anymore

Economic Times - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
NEW DELHI: The first mail Thejaswi Udupa read on Christmas morning brought bad news. It was an announcement from WorldSpace satellite radio service saying it was discontinuing its operations in India at the end of this year.

Forex kitty shrinks

Calcutta Telegraph - ‎19 hours ago‎
Mumbai, Dec. 26: The country's foreign exchange reserves declined to $283.64 billion for the week ended December 18 against $285.74 billion in the previous week.

Maruti to unveil its designed-in-India car at auto show

Livemint - Samar Srivastava - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
New Delhi: The Auto Expo 2010 in January will see India's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, showcase the concept version of its first vehicle designed in the country.

Provide cash to poor instead of subsidy: Infosys' Pai

Sify - ‎4 hours ago‎
Infosys Technologies director TV Mohandas Pai has advocated transfer of cash in place of subsidy schemes for the rural poor to eliminate poverty.
Smugglers were Pai's inspiration Daily News & Analysis

Ranbaxy's US unit under FDA scanner; not to impact biz

Business Standard - ‎Dec 24, 2009‎
The warning comes at a time when exports from two of the company's manufacturing sites in India continue to be suspended by the US regulator.
US FDA warns Ranbaxy arm Times of India

BSNL expansion plan hits rough patch

Business Standard - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
PTI / New Delhi December 26, 2009, 0:31 IST A big controversy on procurement of Rs 35000-crore worth of equipment by telecom behemoth BSNL is brewing, with the position taken by the two government nominees on the board threatening the expansion ...

Jewellery body seeks TDS amendment in Direct Tax Code

Business Standard - ‎Dec 25, 2009‎
The Rs 1,12000 crore domestic gems and jewellery industry has urged the government to modify tax deduction at source (TDS) structure suitably in the proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC).

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