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• Court gives green signal to DDA to allot flats

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday gave the green signal to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to start alloting flats under the 2008 housing scheme, which was mired in controversy.Justice G.S. Sistani accepted the report of the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of the Delhi Police, which gave a clean ...
  5 days ago

• After Nitish, now Modi under attack on land reforms

  
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  Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) After Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi is facing heat on the state government’s much-publicised land reforms and Thursday had to clarify that credit cards for farmers would not mean ownership of land for sharecroppers.A day after an open revolt on the issue in his own ...
  6 days ago

• Left parties in Bihar to agitate for land reforms

  
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  Patna, Nov 1 (IANS) The Left parties in Bihar plan to launch a state-wide agitation against the Nitish Kumar government’s “failure” to implement land reforms in the state, an official said.“The left parties will launch an agitation to expose the Nitish Kumar government’s failure to implement land reforms to ...
  1 week ago

• DDA to allot flats in November after clean chit in scam

  
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  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Thursday said allotment of nearly 5,000 flats under its 2008 housing scheme would start in November as the final report into a multi-million rupee housing scam has given it a clean chit.The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police, in its report, ...
  1 week ago

• Radio Pakistan’s latest worry is adulteration of food in Punjab

  
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  Abohar, Oct.29 (ANI): Radio Pakistan in its latest broadcast has expressed concern on adulteration of food in Punjab. The allegation is that all traders are Hindus and they are doing so to hurt the Sikh community. People living in border villages of Punjab are aware that adulteration does happen, but it is not ...
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• Massive ‘Reconversion’ Event in India Aimed at Christians

  
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  Hard-line cleric leads campaign in Maharashtra, ideological capital of Hindu nationalism.MUMBAI, India, October 27 (CDN) — Hundreds of tribal Christians and adherents of aboriginal religion from villages in Maharashtra state were reportedly “reconverted” to Hinduism yesterday in the Mumbai suburb of Thane at a ...
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• Absconding property dealer held in DDA scam

  
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  New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) A property dealer who financed retired Delhi Development Authority (DDA) employee M.L. Gautam in the civic agency’s multi-million housing scam was arrested Saturday, police said.Sleuths of Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested Rakesh Boyet, a resident of Uttam Nagar in west ...
  2 weeks ago

• 50 percent of seats reserved for women in urban agencies

  
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  New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The union cabinet Thursday approved 50 percent reservation of seats in urban local bodies for women, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said.Soni said the ministry of urban development will move a bill for a constitutional amendment in the next parliamentary session, to increase ...
  2 weeks ago

• Govt has no plans to favour bataidars: CM

  
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  PATNA — In a move to placate upper castes, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday assured them that their lands were safe and his government has no plans to enact a new law to protect sharecroppers. He also alleged that his political rival and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad was instigating upper ...
  3 weeks ago

• Congress names candidates for Himachal by-poll (Lead)

  
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  Shimla, Oct 16 (IANS) Ending days of speculation, the Congress party finally Friday announced its candidates for the Himachal Oradesh assembly bye-elections from the Rohru and Jawali constituencies.“Manjit Singh Thakur and Sujan Singh Pathania are the Congress candidates from Rohru and Jawali, respectively. Their ...
  3 weeks ago

• US envoy Roemer wishes India a happy Deepawali

  
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  New Delhi, Oct.16 (ANI): On behalf of the American people, U.S. Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, today expressed his best wishes for a happy and prosperous Deepawali. “Shubh Deepawali!” the Ambassador said.“Deepawali is not just a time or day, but a state of mind, an inspiration for reflection, and an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Virbhadra’s wife not to contest Himachal by-poll

  
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  Shimla, Oct 16 (IANS) Pratibha Singh, wife of Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Friday said she will not contest the assembly by-elections in Himachal Pradesh Nov 7. There has been speculation that the Congress party would nominate some other candidate from Rohru constituency.“I have decided not to contest the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Buddhadeb orchestrating violence in Hooghly, says Mamata

  
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  Kolkata, Oct 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday charged West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with orchestrating attacks on her party supporters in Hooghly district and demanded his immediate arrest.Banerjee, also the country’s railway minister, called up union Home Secretary G.K. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mayawati’s rural cleanliness project bridges social divide

  
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  By Brij KhandelwalAgra, Oct 3 (IANS) When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati launched a rural cleanliness scheme in 2008, not many realised the revolutionary potential of “this seemingly innocent and unattractive scheme” now being implemented all over the state. More than 100,000 ’safai karamcharis’, or ...
  5 weeks ago

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