Guv invites Yeddi, swearing-in on Monday B S Yeddyurappa was invited to form a coalition government in Karnataka as the stage gets ready for the first-ever BJP-led government to be installed in South India on Monday. Yeddyurappa offers tributes to Deendayal Upadhyay before party meeting in New Delhi. BJP's first Chief Minister in South
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa, for whom the adage the slip between the cup and lip had stretched a little too far, finally saw a long cherished dream come true, both personally and for the party, when he was installed as Karnataka's first BJP chief minister. HDK not likely to accept deputy CM's post
Former CM H D Kumaraswamy is non-committal on accepting the deputy chief minister's post as the BJP-JDS coalition gets ready to form Government. JDS wants equal share in ministerial berths Tacit understanding between BJP, Cong: Bangarappa
Benazir under house arrest ahead of rally Armoured cars and hundreds of policemen in black riot gear cordoned off Zardari House, Bhutto's home in the national capital, and blocked off all streets leading to it. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her supporters try to push their way through a police barbed wire barricade outside her home in Islamabad, on Friday.
Lakshmi taken off ventilator
Two days after separating two year-old girl Lakshmi from her parasitic conjoined twin in a complex surgery, doctors on Monday took her off from ventilator, achieving yet another milestone in her path to recovery.
40,000 workers on strike in UAE
In perhaps the longest such stir in the UAE, nearly 40,000 construction workers, a majority of them Indians, are on strike for the last eight days demanding better salaries and living conditions.
A sand sculpture created by artist Sudarshan Patnaik on the occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights campaigns against the use of crackers at the Puri beach in Orissa. AP
A man lights a candle at the Berlin Wall memorial during commemorations of the 18th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, on Friday. The Berlin Wall, that divided the city during the Cold War, was opened on Nov. 9, 1989, following the collapse of communist East Germany. AP
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B S Yeddyurappa was invited to form a coalition government in Karnataka as the stage gets ready for the first-ever BJP-led government to be installed in South India on Monday.
Armoured cars and hundreds of policemen in black riot gear cordoned off Zardari House, Bhutto's home in the national capital, and blocked off all streets leading to it.
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