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PM Modi expresses grief over Akhilesh Das Gupta's demise
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr.12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his grief following the demise of former union minister and Congress leader Akhilesh Das Gupta, saying the latter's active contribution to public life will be remembered.
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Are Vajpayee, Advani 'anti-nationals' for talking to separatists
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 12 (ANI): Highlighting the burning need to find a solution to the escalating woes in the Valley, senior BJP leader and former union minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday called on the Centre to immediately engage in constructive dialogue with separatists and also drop
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Former union minister Akhilesh Das Gupta no more
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr.12 (ANI): Former union minister and Congress leader Akhilesh Das Gupta breathed his last here on Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 56 years old.
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Former union ministers slam Pak over death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 10 (ANI): Former union minister Ashwani Kumar on Monday condemned Pakistan for awarding death sentence to alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and urged the Centre to raise the issue with Islamabad.
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India, Pak should talk, resolve Kulbhushan issue amicably, says Tharoor
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 10 (ANI): Former union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday described the death sentence given to former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan 'unacceptable' and suggested that both India and Pakistan should resolve the issue am
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China has no locus standi on the Dalai Lama's visit: Tharoor
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 5 (ANI): Former union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday asserted that China has absolutely no locus standi on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's visit to India, adding New Delhi must take a firm stand without being unnecessarily inti
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Congress leader congratulates PM Modi for overwhelming victory in assembly
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar. 28 (ANI): Congress leader from Karnataka and former union minister M.V. Rajasekharan praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for winning the assembly elections with the support of young leaders.
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Krishna committing mistake by changing his 'principles' at this
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 22 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Karge, on Wednesday said that former union minister S.M. Krishna is committing a big mistake by changing his principals at this age.
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Congress rejects reports of alliance with Shiv Sena in BMC
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 25 (ANI): Clearing the air over the possible alliance between the Shiv Sena and the Congress in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary and former union minister Gurudas Kamat on Saturday refuted the coalitio
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Sriprakash Jaiswal casts vote, confident of SP-Congress victory with absol
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (UP) [India], Feb. 19 (ANI): Claiming the victory of Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Senior Congress leader and former union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Sunday said the state is forming a government of gathbandhan with absolute majority.
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Floor test in absence of Opposition is undemocratic, Governor worked again
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb. 19 (ANI): Condemning the recent floor test conducted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly in absence of the Opposition, former Union Minister and Congress leader M. Veerappa Moily on Sunday termed it as a 'black day' in the history of democracy and accused
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Congress calls on PM Modi to refrain from speaking ill of 'holy'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Bemused with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remark concerning the state of Uttarakhand, former union minister Oscar Fernandes on Monday said that he cannot think of reason as to why the former will make such a comment against a pious state.
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