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Reports of Hurriyat leaders ready for talks with Centre a conjecture: Faro
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday downplayed reports of Hurriyat leaders being ready for talks with Central government, saying it is all a 'conjecture'.
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Councillors who joined BJP will face consequences: TMC
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 23 (ANI): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday sought to downplay its councillors joining the BJP and said that they would face the "consequences."
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Cong leader downplays Nehru's call to go solo in local body polls
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 22 (ANI): Congress leader Karate R Thiagarajan on Saturday sought to downplay senior DMK leader K N Nehru's call to go solo in local body polls and said that the final call has to be taken by their party chiefs.
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Salman Khurshid downplays Centre's 'politically motivated' minority outrea
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), June 14 (ANI): Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday sought to downplay the Centre's minority outreach programme which includes a scholarship to minorities and modernisation of Ismalic seminaries, terming the move as "politically motivated".
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JDU has nothing to do with Prashant Kishor's work, says Nitish Kumar
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], June 8 (ANI): As his key strategist and the party's vice president Prashant Kishor is said to be working for the TMC in the coming Assembly polls in West Bengal, Bihar Chief Minister and JDU president Nitish Kumar on Saturday tried to downplay the issue.
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Trump hopeful of deal with N Korea, hints at third summit with Kim
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Dublin [Ireland], Jun 6 (ANI): Downplaying North Korea's warning that the United States must change the course of its negotiations before its patience runs out, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday was of the view that Pyongyang desires to make a deal with Washington.
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India downplays impact of GSP withdrawal on trade relations with US
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): India on Saturday downplayed the possibility of any negative impact on trade relations with the United States, a day after US President Donald Trump said Washington will end its preferential trade treatment on June 5.
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Kamal Nath downplays claims on resigning as MP Cong chief
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 26 (ANI): A day after Congress general secretary Deepak Babaria claimed that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath offered to step down as the state's Congress chief, the latter on Sunday said the offer was made during the Assembly elections held la
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Raghuvansh Prasad Singh downplays Tejashwi Yadav not casting vote
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], May 20 (ANI): Defending Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav who did not cast his vote on Sunday, senior party leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said, "one will certainly not go to cast vote only for a photo option."
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TV channels projecting NDA win are famous for their 'Raag Darbari': Shatru
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 20 (ANI): Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha on Monday downplayed the exit polls, which project BJP-led NDA government returning to power at the Centre, saying the TV channels which give these results have "no credibility."
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Congress leader Rahman Khan downplays NDA victory in exit polls
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 19 (ANI): Former union minister and senior Congress leader Rahman Khan on Sunday sought to downplay the "largely failed" exit poll results, which projected a return to power of the BJP led NDA.
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Differences erupt in open in EC, meeting on May 21 to thrash out issues
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Differences in the Election Commission have burst out in the open with Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa boycotting the meetings of the full Commission over his dissent on crucial decisions not being recorded but Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora so
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