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News from May 2009

Bypoll for two RS seats on 20th June

Bye-elections to two Rajya Sabha seats — one each in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh — will be held on 20th June, the Election Commission said on Saturday. The seat in Jharkhand fell vacant after senior JD(U) member Digvijay Singh, who contested as a rebel, got elected to the Lok Sabha in the recent elections. The [...]

Cong Core Group meets in Delhi to decide on LS Speaker nominee

Top leadership of Congress, including PM Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, met in New Delhi on Saturday to finalise the name for the post of the Lok Sabha Speaker. The meeting of the Congress Core Group was held at the residence of the Prime Minister on Saturday afternoon. Besides Gandhi and Singh, other [...]

Venus crashes out of French Open

Venus Williams was sent packing from the French Open after a humiliating 6-0 6-4 defeat by Hungary’s Agnes Szavay in the third round on Friday. The American, who lost at the same stage in 2007 and 2008, did not recover from a miserable start as 29th seed Szavay advanced to meet Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova after [...]

Pak should dismantle terror infrastructure: Govt

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said that dismantling of terror infrastructure in Pakistan would make a “good case” for India to resume dialogue with the neighbouring country and Islamabad should accord top priority to it. While talking to reporters in Bangalore on Friday, the External Affair Minister said that it depends how Islamabad responded [...]

India asks Australia to ensure security of its nationals

In the wake of attacks on its students, a concerned India asked Australia to ensure safety of its nationals there and got an assurance that such incidents will not be allowed to recur. The Ministry of External Affairs also summoned Australian High Commissioner John McCarthy to register its concern over a series of attacks on [...]

Cabinet discusses the agenda for brief Parl session

The first meeting of the Cabinet on Saturday approved the President’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament on 4th June and took up issues of policies and programmes of the government. The meeting, which took place at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 7, Race Course residence and lasted for nearly two hours. President Pratibha Patil’s [...]

Kerala, Railways, Mizoram enter pre quarter finals

Former champions Kerala, Railways and Mizoram enter the pre-quarter final knock out stage from their respective clusters in the 63rd national football championship for Santosh Trophy on Thursday. Former champions Kerala, Railways and Mizoram defeated Chhattisgarh 3-0, Assam 1-0 and Jammu-Kashmir 3-0 respectively. In Coimbatore, five times champion Kerala topped three team cluster I, having [...]

Federer, Venus Williams rally for wins at French Open

Roger Federer won a tough match on his least favorite surface, while Venus Williams rallied to advance to the third round of the French Open on Thursday. Federer,trailing 5-1 in the third set before getting past Jose Acasuso 7-6 (8), 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Williams came close to an early exit, needing to save a [...]

Sensex ends more than 329 points higher on good GDP numbers

Driven by the good news on the GDP front and the positive outlook expressed by new central Ministers taking charge, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex zoomed by another 329 points, continuing its upward journey for the third straight session. Firming trends in global markets on the back of positive economic data by the US [...]

Rate cut after bankers meet with FM, says SBI

The country’s largest lender, State Bank of India, said that it will consider a cut in interest rates after the bankers’ meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee scheduled for early next month. “As far as interest rates are concerned, we will take a view after (bankers’ meeting with Finance Minister),” SBI Chairman O P Bhatt [...]

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