Stalin leaves for Delhi, likely to meet Kanimozhi

CHENNAI: DMK tresurer and party chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin on Monday left for New Delhi. The leader is likely to meet his sister Kanimozhi, lodged in Tihar jail for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Stalin, also DMK's Legislature Party Leader, left by a government carrier. Karunanidhi, who met Kanimozhi at the jail last week, had told reporters here on his return from Delhi that his daughter was shut in the...

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Rahul Gandhi visits hospital, meets young girl attacked

New Delhi:  Rahul Gandhi today met a 14-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, undergoing treatment at AIIMS after being stabbed in the eye by two young men who tried to rape her. Mr Gandhi went to the Rajendra Prasad Eye Centre at the AIIMS at 10.45 am and spoke to the girl and her parents for, sources said. They said doctors briefed Mr Gandhi about the treatment being given to the minor girl. His visit comes close on...

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Yeddyurappa visits temple, skips 'Truth Test'

Bangalore:  BS Yeddyurappa kept his promise to visit the Lord Manjunatha temple in Dharmasthala this morning. He offered prasad, but did not make references to the controversial face-off he had set up with his political rival. The Karnataka Chief Minister had dared HD Kumaraswamy, leader of a major Opposition party, to meet him at this temple. Mr Kumaraswamy, in the presence of God, he said would have to testify that...

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India gives into China at the border

Leh:  China has done it, but India can't. One can see Chinese construction next to the Indo-China border, but after a confrontation with China last year - over an Indian shed being made - New Delhi has banned all construction on the Indo-China border in Ladakh. The Ministry of Home Affairs in a letter, written in November 2010, to the Jammu and Kashmir Government said: "You are not to undertake any construction work...

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Sai Baba Trust money: Puttaparthi wants clarity

Puttaparthi:  In Sathya Sai Baba's Puttaparthi, things are changing. Following the spiritual leader's death there are serious doubts about financial irregularities in the way the enormously rich Trust is functioning - with police even questioning two Trust members - something unheard of in the past. A public meeting was held in Puttaparthi's Hanuman temple today - the first of its kind - organised in the little town...

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Baba Ramdev back in Delhi, hits out at government

New Delhi:  Returning to Delhi three weeks after he was bundled out from here, yoga guru Ramdev today attacked the government claiming that it has no will to fight corruption or create a Lokpal to check the menace. Ramdev said he would continue his fight against corruption alongside "anybody from any party, any religion". He said he was willing to fight the menace but he did not make it clear whether he would join Anna...

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