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DMK, Didi keep Cong on toes Allies bargain hard for berths,
Karuna to give outside support New Delhi, May 21 The Congress was engaged in a battle of nerves with its key ally, the
DMK, till late tonight over the allocation of ministerial berths in the new UPA government, which is to be sworn in tomorrow.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee leaves after attending a meeting
on cabinet formation in UPA government, in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI
Sacking of Bengal govt tops Mamata’s wish list
New Delhi, May 21
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee certainly knows how to drive a tough bargain. And that “didi” with her temperamental and headstrong ways can prove a hard nut to crack, the Congress is learning fast, at least developments of the day all pointed toward this.
Apparently it is not just plum portfolios that “didi” is eyeing.
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3-fold hike in US aid to Pak
Washington, May 21
A three-fold increase in US non-military aid to Pakistan to a whopping $1.5 billion annually was approved today by a key Congressional Committee on the condition that it would not allow terrorist activity from its soil against “neighbouring countries” without mentioning India by name.
Aid to Pak
India disappointed with US
panel’s decision New Delhi, May 21
India is disappointed over the decision of a US Congressional committee approving a law tripling non-military aid to Pakistan and is expected to take up the matter with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is expected to visit New Delhi
soon.
No fullstops for
this KP boy
Jammu, May 21 A Kashmiri migrant family, which lost everything but will power to survive and succeed during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the kashmir valley, is on cloud nine these days.
Abindu Dhar, 17, whose family was one of several Kashmiri Pandits to
migrate from the valley and forced to live in poor conditions, has done
the entire community proud by topping the the NDA exam.
Indians on top of the world
11 gutsy climbers defy vertical limit to
scale Mt Everest
Dehradun, May 21
Twentyfive years after Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, another woman from Uttarakhand hill scaled the world’s highest peak
on Thursday. Kavita Budathoki (24) from Uttarkashi was part of the
ten-member team of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) that unfurled
the Tricolour on the Everest this morning, said an elated Col IS Thapa,
principal of NIM.
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The Congress was engaged in a battle of nerves with its key ally, the
DMK, till late tonight over the allocation of ministerial berths in the new UPA government, which is to be sworn in tomorrow.
A Kashmiri migrant family, which lost everything but will power to survive and succeed during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the kashmir valley, is on cloud nine these days.
Abindu Dhar, 17, whose family was one of several Kashmiri Pandits to
migrate from the valley and forced to live in poor conditions, has done
the entire community proud by topping the the NDA exam.