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BHOPAL: The tragic death of more than one hundred pilgrims on Sunday following stampede on a bridge over Sindh river at Datia in Madhya Pradesh has given a big jolt to the state administration headed by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan at a time when the Congress is making a show of unity to take on the BJP in the state assembly elections on November 25.

New Delhi: India’s National Security Advisor has defended Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at the sidelines of the recent 68th UN General Assembly at New York.

New Delhi: India has said that the US ship detained by the Coast Guards off the coast of Tamil Nadu for carrying arms, was involved in gunrunning.

New Delhi: Admitting that India’s imported computer hardware a security threat, the Indian Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that the government has decided to set up manufacture of semi-conductors and computer chips.

New Delhi: The countdown for the 2014 Commonwealth Games has begun and as the Queen’s Baton relay is in India, UNICEF emphasized the critical role of sport and play in the holistic development of every child in the country.

LUCKNOW: Major political parties have launched their campaign for 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh through rallies and rath yatras to reach out to voters.

Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni of the Sri Lanka navy, who tried to hit Rajiv Gandhi in 1987 by his rifle butt during a guard of honour, has turned an astrologer. He says he follows Indian politics too. Asked who will win in the 2014 general election, Wijemumi says without blinking an eye-lid: “BJP will come to power”. What about Rahul Gandhi? “He will become the Prime Minister, but in the elections after May 2014 Lok Sabha poll”, he says unhesitatingly.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The solar scam case, which was threatening to fade from public memory, has staged a ‘banging’ comeback to the political centre-stage.

Now that the rupee appears to have somewhat stabilised and with the nomination of Janet Yellen to the chair of the US Federal Reserve, which makes tapering a distant possibility, the Reserve Bank of India should be in a position to pay more attention to growth. It appears from what the RBI governor is going about town saying that he is set to do some walking of his talks.

One of history’s greatest faults is its asymmetry of acclaim, catapulting some figures into legend status while leaving many worthy others behind as mere footnotes. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to be one such unsung hero of Indian politics whose economic reforms in the early 1990s have shaped fundamental aspects of modern Indian life. The sudden rise of Singh, basically a government economist, to the top level of Indian politics as the union finance minister in 1991 was like a baptism by fire.