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11 Indians among 15 dead in Nepal plane crash

Updated: Monday, at 12:05 hrs (IST)
Eleven Indians were among 15 passengers killed on Monday when a private plane with 21 people on board crashed in northern Nepal while trying to land at high- altitude Jomsom a...   | Read..
 

Inflation rises to 7.23% in April as vegetable prices shoot up

Updated: Monday, at 13:40 hrs (IST)
Inflation moved up to 7.23 per cent in April on account of spurt in prices of vegetables, meat, milk and pulses, although onion and fruits showed a declining trend....   | Read..
 

Pranab calls for agricultural marketing reforms to check inflation

Updated: Monday, at 16:11 hrs (IST)
Expressing concern over rise in food inflation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said the prices could be kept under check through institutional reforms in agricul...   | Read..
   • Rise in inflation limits scope for RBI policy moderation: Rangarajan
Updated: Monday, at 17:11 hrs (IST)
 

No talks unless pilots resume work, says Govt

Updated: Monday, at 18:12 hrs (IST)
Dubbing their seven-day-old stir “meaningless” after a court order, Government on Monday refused to hold talks with the agitating pilots till they ...   | Read..
 

Yeddyurappa says he won’t quit party for now, but claims support of 70 MLAs

Updated: Monday, at 18:55 hrs (IST)
Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader B S Yeddyurappa on Monday said he has kept in abeyance his decision to resign from the party but ...   | Read..

   • BJP rebel Yeddyurappa to announce his next move in a few hours

    Updated: Monday, at 14:10 hrs (IST)
 

Imperfect but mock not

Best line (LS) Governments have never been toppled here by guns and bloodbath, governments changed only by vote. A government has fallen here by one vote. This is the maturity of the Indian Parliament...   | Read..
 

House seeks to battle scepticism

MPs today celebrated the survival and growth of Indian democracy against onetime predictions of doom as Parliament marked its 60 years, but regretted its failures such as the...   | Read..
 

Gadkari-Munda talk punarjanam

BJP president Nitin Gadkari spent around half an hour with Arjun Munda in hospital today, discussing punarjanam in the context of life and politics....   | Read..
 
The joint session in the Central Hall of Parliament on Sunday. (PTI)
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PM dignity prod to Houses
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