Yangon, March 10 (DPA) Myanmar's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls planned this year, state media reports said Wednesday.
Under the Political Parties Registration Law, published in state-run newspapers Wednesday, all prisoners are barred from joining
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India -Marxist (CPI-M) welcomed Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari's decision to suspend seven MPs disrupting the house and asked the government to discuss and pass the women's quota bill Tuesday itself.
Furious at the continuous disruptions
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday met the three Yadav leaders, Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janata Dal-United's Sharad Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lalu Prasad, in a bid to resolve differences over the contentious Women's Reservation Bill.
The three leaders asked the prime minister to convene
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Monday said they had decided to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government over differences on the Women's Reservation Bill. However, it is unlikely to impact the existence of the Congress-led government.
'We have
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Ahmedabad, March 6 (IANS) Former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel has been relegated from the post of chairman to a member in the state advisory committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has announced 14 new faces in the party's new list of 20 office bearers.
No new chairman's name
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The man who seemed incapable of raising his voice has changed. The soft-spoken Manmohan Singh is no longer as mild-mannered as before. Behind the amiable exterior, a hint of steel is now visible, as the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader L.K. Advani learnt to his cost in the Lok
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Beijing, March 5 (IANS) The year 2010 will be a crucial and a complicated year for China's economic development, Premier Wen Jiabao said at the parliament's annual session Friday, adding 'we will balance maintaining stable and comparatively fast economic growth, adjusting economic structure and preventing possible inflation'.
'This is a crucial
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi told party MPs Thursday that she would accord the 'highest priority' to the women's reservation bill that would be introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 8, International Women's Day, party sources said after a Congress Parliamentary Party meeting here.
The food
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Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) In a new twist, the UN Commission, probing into the assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is now suspecting involvement of Pakistani soldiers in the plot.
Pakistani officials said they were searching for four military personnel who had disappeared just before the suicide attack on
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Gandhinagar, March 2 (IANS) There will be a statewide protest in Gujarat March 6 against the government's move to acquire farmland and allot it to industry.
The protest will be known as Mahuva Day.
Farmers of Mahuva area in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district have been agitating against a Rs.1,400 crore 214 hectare cement
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