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    Lok Sabha passes Railway Budget amid pandemonium
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Lok Sabha today passed the Railway Budget through a voice vote amid scenes of bedlam. Incessant slogan shouting by both sides on the Uma Bharti issue rocked the House from the moment it met this morning, forcing the ...

    Shekhawat's advice to treasury members
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Vice-President, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, today told the treasury benches in the Rajya Sabha that they had no business disrupting question hour and warned that Parliament was losing its prestige by the day. Mr. Shekhawat ...

    A case of rioting, say Congress, Left
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 23.The Congress and the Left parties today dismissed the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim that the outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, was facing trial in a case relating to the hoisting of the Tricolour and said the ...

    BJP to capitalise on Uma Bharti episode
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Bharatiya Janata Party seems set to make political capital out of the events that have led to the resignation of Uma Bharti as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. If she is arrested — a court in Hubli has ordered that ...

    Government taking Left parties for granted: Amar Singh
    CHENNAI, AUG. 23. The Congress is taking advantage of the need of the secular parties to keep out the Bharatiya Janata Party from power, the Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary, Amar Singh, said today. In an interview to The Hindu , ...

    Government, truckers may resume talks
    NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. Initiatives for an early end to the three-day old countrywide truckers' strike suffered a setback with the talks between the Government and the representatives of the truckers failing tonight. There are indications that the ...

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