Tension grips Nandigram Tension has been building up again in Nandigram after the CPM-led Left Front government sent a directive on Sunday to CRPF DIG Alok Raj to shift locations of the five camps of the paramilitary force, triggering panic among hundreds of refugees.
Modi, 10 ministers in Gujarat first list The BJP on Sunday renominated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar Assembly Constituency while fielding all the 10 state ministers in the first phase of state Assembly polls as the partys Central Election Committee cleared 75 names for the two-phase elections scheduled to be held in December.
Maya seeks quota for upper caste poor The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Sunday asked the UPA government at the Centre to amend the Constitution to provide reservation to the poor among upper castes.
Intellectuals are biased: Brinda Hitting back at Left-leaning intellectuals who criticised the Bengal government on the Nandigram issue, senior CPM leader Brinda Karat on Sunday said that she was "puzzled" by their silence when hundreds of villagers were not allowed entry there for the past several months.
Six Indians killed in Saudi blaze Six Indians were among 28 people killed in a gas pipeline fire in an oil-rich desert area of eastern Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
A new government has been installed in Karnataka. What should be the priorities of the Yeddyurappa-led government? Transparency, focus on power sector and infrastructure, curbing graft and warding off terror threats to Bangalore... the list of priorities set by Deccan Herald readers for the government is endless. Some of them have also insisted that the Bharatiya Janata Party should prove that it indeed is a party with difference.
