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Tuesday, May 17, 2011, Chandigarh, India
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Yeddyurappa in Delhi with his 121 MLAs, to meet President today
* Says will parade his legislators before Patil to prove majority
* NDA delegation calls on PM, slams K’taka Governor Bhardwaj
Bangalore/New Delhi, May 16
The ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in Karnataka has taken the battle to save its government to New Delhi and plans to parade all its party legislators before President Pratibha Patil to prove its majority. Beleaguered Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa reached the national capital tonight along with his 121 MLAs. He will meet the President tomorrow.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa with BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu and MLAs in Bangalore on Monday. — PTI

Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday
New Delhi, May 16
Carrying a big bouquet in her hands and a broad smile on her face, Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister-designate Mamata Banerjee met Congress president Sonia Gandhi this afternoon and followed it up with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to invite them both to attend her swearing-in ceremony.

	PUNJAB: Don’t politicise blacklist issue: Gill
	HARYANA: Polytechnic teachers’ boycott call takes ugly turn
	J&K: BJP summons four ‘clean’ MLAs to Delhi to clear position
	HIMACHAL: Cement plant to be eco disaster: Survey
	CHANDIGARH: Assault on naib court: Lawyers move anticipatory bail plea
	LUDHIANA: Traffic cop on duty roughed up by motorist
	DELHI: BJP protests oil price hike at 14 places; leaders held
	OPINIONS: No more on blacklist
	BUSINESS: Withdrawal of DEPB scheme to hit exports, says CII
	NATION: Don’t write off Left: Politburo
	WORLD: Taliban kill Saudi diplomat in Pak
	SPORTS: Kings XI seek vengeance

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Rahul takes UP farmers to PM
Accuses BSP govt of brutalising villagers in name of land acquisition
New Delhi, May 16
Just five days after taking everyone by surprise by sneaking into Bhatta Parsual village in Greater Noida to express solidarity with farmers, who were agitating over ‘forceful’ land acquisitions, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi today upped the ante against the Mayawati government by taking up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

PM meets defence top brass, reviews security
New Delhi, May 16
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reviewed the overall security scenario with the military top brass in the backdrop of the killing of Osama bin Laden and Pakistan’s ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha’s reported statement that an Abbottabad-like operation by India would invite a befitting response from Islamabad.

Mass copying: IITs blacklist Bathinda engg college Bar principal, erring professors of premier institute from future academic collaborations New Delhi, May 16 In a major embarrassment to Punjab, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) today blacklisted a premiere engineering college in Bathinda and debarred its principal and two teachers from all future academic collaborations after finding them guilty of aiding mass copying during the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) held at the institute on April 10 this year.