Kesri makes his move!
The Congress withdraws support to the United Front government, stakes claim to power.
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Decision to 'crucify' Deve Gowda was taken on Good Friday
"We decided to bring down the government as we felt that the time is up for the resurrection of the Congress party," K Karunakaran told Rediff On The NeT.
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Deve Gowda will not step down
The United Front prepares for trial of strength in Parliament.
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BJP to take a wait-and-watch attitude
The party believes the President should call it to form a government before he call the Congress to do so.
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Kesri's decision takes Pawar by surprise
"Would I be in Pune if I knew of this?" asks the party's leader in the Lok Sabha.
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'Deve Gowda wanted to undermine Congress'
What the Congress leader's letter to the President said.
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'Deve Gowda was aware of Congress move'
The United Front, one of its leaders told Star News on Sunday night, was already discussing the possibilities two days earlier and hence was not taken off guard.
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Kesri-Prasada tussle was smokescreen for withdrawal
The carefully-nurtured impression that Kesri and Prasada would contest the Congress president's post now appears to be a diversionary tactic for the actual purpose.
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Kesri bares his fangs, finally
Saisuresh Sivaswamy analyses Sunday's stunning political developments.
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The President has three options ahead of him
Meanwhile, a BJP leader hints at a secret deal between Dr Sharma and Sitaram Kesri.
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Industry hopes the withdrawal of support will not affect reform process
FICCI chief S Kasliwal hopes that the Finance Bill will still be passed with minor changes.
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How the United Front was put up
The Front has a thin majority in Parliament.
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It's a hat-trick for the Congress
The Congress is now going down in history as a party that is making a habit of withdrawing support to a government at the Centre, that it helps install in the first place
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MARCH 30

Kashmiris resisting Pak designs in valley
This is what a Congress team to Jammu and Kashmir discovered.
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'When the whole society is corrupt, how do you expect to throw up a non-corrupt leader?'
Where does the RSS go from here?
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Pupul Jayakar passes into the ages
The czarina of Indian culture dies of a cardiac arrest in Bombay.
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Karunanidhi wants to ease Stalin into government
No, not the late Rusian dictator, but his son and heir apparent. Politics in the DMK is family business.
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Will TN follow AP's lead and lift prohibition?
Cash-strapped Tamil Nadu, losing Rs 10 billion yearly because of the ban on country liquor, may also have to consider a similar step.
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United Front's policies worrying Congress, says Pawar
The former defence minister indulges in a little Pawar-play.
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Why the West was won
Why did Europeans conquer peoples of the Third World and not the other way around?
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'I don't blame the President at all. He was compelled by the force of circumstances'
Why Jyoti Basu did not become prime minister of India last year.
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MARCH 29

India will not negotiate Kashmir in talks with Pakistan
Kashmir is on top of the Pakistani agenda for the four-day foreign secretary talks that began in Delhi on Friday, but India is not willing to discuss the issue.
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Jayalalitha disproves alleged links with Rajiv Gandhi's assassins
The action, she says, is a 'diabolical conspiracy' by certain 'political bigwigs' to throw the Jain Commission inquiry off track
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Trishul all set for final test flights
After user-trial flights this year, India's answer to the Patriots will be put on production schedule.
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Fodder case: Patna high court pulls up CBI
The court asks why a contempt of court notice should not be issued to CBI director Joginder Singh.
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Once they spied for their country. Now, they work as daily wage workers
They hope the courts will correct the injustice done to them.
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V P Singh roots for Narayanan as President
He is the unanimous choice says the former premier.
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India's eunuchs gather for their annual convention
The eunuchs live a life of mystery and enigma. And that is the way they like to keep it.
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At 7, Sunita feeds her drunk father, ailing mother and two brothers
There are hundreds of children like Sunita begging or working in dhabas in the capital, exploited by their parents and, sometimes, by organised groups.
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MARCH 28

No Exit
20,000 Kashmiri pandit families live in nightmarish conditions in Delhi.
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Kashmir cops allegedly sold arms to extremists
Over 20 AK-47 assault rifles and one sniper rifle have been sold to groups like the PWG and the Ranvir Sena.
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Protests in US over killing of pandits in Kashmir
''Our community has paid a very high price for its loyalty to India,'' Kashmiri pandit representatives say.
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Russia says it will never sell arms to Pakistan
But Deve Gowda clarifies India will not be part of any military bloc.
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For India and Pakistan, building a mature dialogue will take the political will to look ahead instead of backwards
US Assistant Secretary of State Robin Raphel outlines the US role in South Asia.
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New police bill set to clean up Goa
Spitting, smoking, flying kites, firing crackers, throwing garbage will henceforth be considered serious offences in the sunshine state.
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Rape, acid attacks on women rampant in Bangladesh
Tough laws fail to rein in rising crimes against women.
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Rare stamps on display at Bombay philately show
Nearly a million valuable stamps including the rare 1852-issued Red Sind Dawk, the Penny Blacks of 1854 and the inverted head of Queen Victoria issued in 1854 are on show.
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MARCH 27

Evasive Action
Provoked by the OIC, the government dispatches the National Human Rights Commission to Kashmir.
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Ignore Pak sabre-rattling, focus on peace says J N Dixit
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed arrives in Delhi on Thursday for the first Indo-Pak official-level encounter in three years.
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India to buy more defence systems from Russia
India is and will remain Moscow's principal strategic partner in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Indian effort to simplify trade with Russia
New Delhi has cleared the way for Russian exports to India, identifying 10 Russian banks whose guarantees will be accepted by Indian banks.
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Tumult in AP assembly as TDP govt withdraws prohibition
A Delhi-style liquor regime will prevail in the state.
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Solanki grilled on contents of Davos letter
There's headway in the Bofors case, investigators claim.
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Narayanan still the most suitable candidate for the Presidency
Najma Heptullah is hoping to be vice-president.
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Pressure on Kesri to marginalise Prasada
The Uttar Pradesh Congress unit is in ferment and Jitendra Prasada is being held responsible for this state of affairs.
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Case against Karunakaran stirs hornet's nest in Kerala politics
The Left Democratic Front is expected to file cases against other ex-ministers shortly.
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AIDS strikes India-Bangladesh trade
Truckers carrying exports from India frequent several brothels along border check-posts, pick up the disease and then spread it as they move deeper into both countries.
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Change in US immigration laws sparks off spate of marriages
Misconceptions about April 1 schedule for new laws makes US citizenship-seekers marry Americans.
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MARCH 26

The Boss!
Home Minister Indrajit Gupta is now running the country in the prime minister's absence.
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India, Russia to go ahead with N-plant, strike seven more deals
''We were friends for many decades, and we remain friends,'' Boris Yeltsin tells Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda.
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A Hotline to Help
94,000 Indians committed suicide in 1995. Prerana, an organisation in Bombay, is now providing help to those who want to end their lives.
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Meditation may be the magic mantra to combat fear and stress in India's schools
At least eight students committed suicide in Delhi last week, a consequence of fear and nervous breakdowns inspired by the examination process.
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India decides to ignore OIC resolution on Kashmir
Indian officials are of the view that the resolution should not be allowed to overshadow Friday's Indo-Pak talks.
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Pakistan remains single minded on Kashmir
The Pakistan army apparently is not willing to let the Kashmir question be kept aside in favour of developing trade and economic relations with India.
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BJP chides govt for going soft on Pakistan
There should be no unilateral concessions, party officials warn.
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Pak remote-control spy plane was of Chinese make
Defence officials crack mystery of pilotless spy plane shot over Indian airspace.
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50 hurt in protest over killing of Kashmiri pandits
The pandits say there is little chance of them returning to the valley in the prevailing situation.
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India has new Chief Justice
Justice J S Verma, one of the heroes of judicial activism, takes over at the helm of the Supreme Court.
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Pawar to spearhead Congress deal with SP
The concern about the BJP advance in UP has even worried Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda who has okayed an SP plan to drive a wedge between BJP leader Kalyan Singh and the party’s central leadership.
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Election Commission will notify Presidential elections in May
For the first time members of the Delhi and Pondicherry assemblies will participate in the Presidential election.
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Sardar differed with Netaji over Congress policies
The two stalwarts of India's freedom movement argued hard over Bose's attempt to get re-elected as Congress president in 1939.
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