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Tough time for Gogoi in selecting ministry
GUWAHATI, May 16 – Tarun Gogoi is set to get re-elected as the leader of the Assam Congress Legislature Party tomorrow as the newly-elected legislators of the party are meeting at the State Guest House to elect their new leader. ...
India scoffs at ISI chief’s threat
NEW DELHI, May 16 – India is unlikely to give any credence to Pakistan’s ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha’s threat that any Abbottabad-like attack would invite a befitting response, calling it a “tall claim” to hide his own failure, reports PTI. ...

intervention
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE, May 16 – The BJP today launched a campaign against Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj demanding his immediate recall and knocked at the doors of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who gave an assurance that “nothing unconstitutional” wil ...

Pending criminal cases against 13 new MLAs
NEW DELHI, May 16 – The new Assembly in Assam would have the dubious distinction of having the highest number of 13 MLAs with criminal background, with All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) leading the pack with six MLAs with a shady past includi ...

Kalmadi tarnished country’s image: CBI
NEW DELHI, May 16 – “Suresh Kalmadi’s conduct has tarnished the image of the country,” was how CBI described him while opposing the bail plea of the former CWG Organising Committee chief arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in t ...

SC raps IT dept over 2G scam probe
NEW DELHI, May 16 – The Supreme Court today pulled up the Income Tax department for not taking timely action against the companies involved in the 2G spectrum scam and said had it not intervened, the officials would have “slept over it” and the overs ...

Govt may hike PF interest rate
BANGALORE, May 16 – Union Minister for Labour and Employment M Mallikarjun Kharge today said the government was looking at further hiking the interest rate on Provident Fund from the present 9.5 per cent, reports PTI. .