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K.P. Narayana Kumar and Ashish Sharma 12:22 AM | August 22,2008
The government’s delay in convening the monsoon session of Parliament is beginning to hurt its employment generation scheme which is running out of funds
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Ashish Sharma and Ruhi Tewari 08:06 AM | July 23,2008
Congress cobbles together motley coalition, giving it time to show voters it can tackle inflation, push ahead on policies
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Ashish Sharma and Ruhi Tewari 12:03 AM | July 22,2008
Pranab Mukherjee says govt had a simple majority, with backing of 276 MPs, even when Left withdrew support
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Ashish Sharma 08:52 AM | July 21,2008
Three men who have never won an election - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh - will determine the outcome of the 22 July trust vote. To a large extent, the three will also influence the long-term equations across the political spectrum. Mint provides short takes on the three men in the thick of things.
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Ashish Sharma, K.P. Narayana Kumar and Ruhi Tewari 11:43 PM | July 14,2008
The Left parties, which withdrew support to the UPA on 8 July, attacked the government for moving ahead with the nuclear deal despite being reduced to a minority in Parliament as they flagged off their campaign against the coalition government
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Jyoti Malhotra, Ashish Sharma and Ruhi Tewari 12:17 AM | June 20,2008
The UPA government’s attempt to push India-US nuke deal forward picked up momentum today with key allies backing it
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Ashish Sharma 12:08 AM | June 17,2008
Party has no clear leader to rival Sheila Dikshit, hopes inflation and anti-incumbency will work in its favour
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Ashish Sharma and Bajinder Pal Singh 01:23 AM | June 14,2008
State announces support price of Rs1,000 per quintal, while the Union govt has fixed it at Rs850
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Ashish Sharma 12:13 AM | June 13,2008
The riots took place during the Congress rule, causing its appeal to fade
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Ashish Sharma and Ruhi Tewari 12:13 AM | June 12,2008
With monsoon setting in early in the country, several states are demanding their quota from the central govt
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Teena Jain and Ashish Sharma 11:56 PM | June 08,2008
Confidentiality is the key to K&R cover, and the premium is normally in the range of 1% of the insured amount
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Ashish Sharma 11:05 PM | June 02,2008
They are around 10% of the Capital’s population and can influence two Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly seats
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Ashish Sharma 11:56 PM | June 01,2008
Out of the four Lok Sabha seats, the TRS managed to retain only two, while Congress and TDP bagged one seat each
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Ashish Sharma 01:34 AM | May 31,2008
An insider’s take on how and why APJ Abdul Kalam changed the President’s office
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Ashish Sharma 12:55 AM | May 31,2008
BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said his party would use the meet to highlight the failures of the UPA government rather than introspect on its handling of the Gujjar agitation
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