Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi was Wednesday issued notice by a local court on a petition filed by a city-based NGO over the issue of price rise. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry issued a notice and fixed April 7 as the next date of hearing in the case. “The [...]
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Price rise: Court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi
January 19th, 2011 |
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Sonia calls on PM, cabinet reshuffle likely
January 18th, 2011 |
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid speculation about an imminent reshuffle of the union council of ministers. Gandhi, the chief of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), met Manmohan Singh at his 7 Race Course Road residence in New Delhi for nearly two hours, party sources disclosed. She was accompanied [...]
Orlando Bloom Miranda Kerr Can’t Decide What To Name Their Son
January 14th, 2011 |
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He’s already a week old, but the infant son of supermodel Miranda Kerr and dashing actor Orlando Bloom still doesn’t have a name! Baby Bloom was born in Los Angeles last Friday and he’s still waiting for his parents to make up their minds about what to write on his birth certificate. “They are both [...]
Sonia pays homage, thousands gather to bid Karunakaran adieu
December 24th, 2010 |
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A large crowd gathered at the Congress headquarters here Friday to bid farewell to four-time Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, with party president Sonia Gandhi also paying her last respects to the veteran leader who died at the age of 92 a day earlier. Karunakaran’s last journey began from the capital city – a place [...]
Andhra CM Kiran Reddy in Delhi to discuss state cabinet with Sonia Gandhi
November 27th, 2010 |
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior party leaders. Reddy said that he was in the Indian capital to meet Gandhi and thank her for giving him the responsibility of the state. “Basically, I have come to New Delhi to [...]
Sonia Gandhi to address rally in Allahabad
November 25th, 2010 |
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address a public rally here today on the occasion of the party completing 125 years. She will also flag off the last leg of the Congress Sandesh Yatra. The Congress initiated the Sandesh Yatra in the state with objective of bringing people closer to the party. She would also address [...]
Sonia Gandhi meets East Delhi building collapse victims
November 16th, 2010 |
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met survivors and relatives of those killed in the four-storey building that collapsed in East Delhi”s Lakshminagar area last night. Gandhi offered sympathy to the injured and their family members at Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital, where 28 of the 130 wounded have been admitted. Earlier, Delhi Lieutenant Governor [...]
I think in two years I will get married: Katrina
April 9th, 2010 |
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Katrina Kaif, who is busy promoting her forthcoming film “Raajneeti”, says she may get married in the next two years.
“I think in two years I will get married. But still two years is a long time. I think I still have some time. Lets see. You know as the saying goes, ‘Man proposes god disposes’ [...]
Madras High Court dismisses Nalini’s plea for release
April 6th, 2010 |
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The Madras High Court Tuesday dismissed an appeal for premature release by Nalini Sriharan, serving a life sentence for the 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Agreeing with the submission of the Tamil Nadu government, a bench of Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice K.K.Sashidharan said that in a case investigated and filed by [...]
Women’s Bill passage was impossible without DMK support: Sonia
March 14th, 2010 |
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UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said the passage of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha could not have been possible without the support of DMK.
“It could not have been possible without his (DMK president M Karunanidhi) support,” Sonia said at the inauguration of the new Tamil Nadu Assembly and Secretariat complex in Chennai, [...]
Sheikh Hasina, Sonia Gandhi to attend Basu’s last journey
January 18th, 2010 |
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be among a host of dignitaries scheduled to arrive here Tuesday to pay their last respects to Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will represent the central government, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) West Bengal state secretary Biman Bose [...]
Sonia campaigns in Haryana, says NDA-rule discriminatory
October 12th, 2009 |
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UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said that while the Congress ensured equitable and uniform development in all areas, the NDA rule was biased against states ruled by her party.
In her 13-minute address to an election rally in Jhajjar on the last day of campaigning in poll-bound Haryana, Sonia said that while the BJP [...]
Sonia kickstarts Maharashtra poll campaign
September 14th, 2009 |
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Even as the Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) continue to engage in seat sharing talks, Congress President Sonia Gandhi kickstarted her party’s campaign for the coming Maharashtra Assembly polls on Monday.
Inaugurating the renovated Congress Office in Mumbai, which has been named after Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia called on the workers to reach out [...]
Sonia backs Manmohan Singh on Indo-Pak joint statement
July 30th, 2009 |
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Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi backed Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on the issue of the Indo-Pak joint statement.
Addressing the meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) here on Thursday, Sonia said, “The party fully supports and welcomes the Prime Minister’’s reply on the Indo-Pak joint statement.”
“Talks with Pakistan can resume once it actually [...]
Haryana youth beaten to death for marrying girl of same clan
July 23rd, 2009 |
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A 21-year-old youth who had married against the wishes of the community has been beaten to death in Narwana in Haryana on Wednesday.
Ravinder, who had gone to bring his wife from her parent’’s house, was killed by the residents of the girl’’s village.
Ravinder was accompanied by a police officer when the incident took place.
“We [...]
Jason Daley: Dear Sonia: Sotomayor’s Lost Year
July 22nd, 2009 |
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In 1980, Sotomayor was in Michigan, dishing out a distinctive brand of saucy advice for the Port Huron Tribune-Undertaker.
Hillary meets Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi
July 21st, 2009 |
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The visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton called on Congress President and United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her residence at 10, Janpath in New Delhi on Monday.
Both the leader discussed several issues, including cross-border terrorism and Indo-US relations.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Congress leader Karan Singh were also present [...]