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EC says no to use of
helicopter by Badal NEW DELHI, Nov 18 The Election Commission has turned down a request to allow Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal to use the official helicopter on payment basis for campaigning in the Assembly polls. Congress, BJP manifestos: Price rise non-issue for parties NEW DELHI, Nov 18 The spiralling prices of essential commodities, which continue to affect the electorate, seems to be a non-issue if the manifestos of the two major political parties, the BJP and Congress, released for the coming assembly elections, are any indication. |
Govt not communal: PM NEW DELHI, Nov 18 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today refuted the charge of the Opposition that the BJP-led government was "communal," saying that in the past eight months that his government had been in power, there had been no communal flare-up in the country. Sonia cool to CPM offer BAYANA (Rajasthan), Nov 18 Congress President Sonia Gandhi today made it clear that her party was not eager to seek the CPMs support to come to power at the Centre by toppling the Vajpayee government.
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Yeltsin deputes Primakov for India visit MOSCOW, Nov 18 Russian President Boris Yeltsin today cancelled his scheduled visit to India next month and instead asked Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov to make the trip, an announcement from the Kremlin said.
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