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Can UP be Rahul Gandhi's stepping stone? 4/18/2007 11:40:47 PM BL KAK A development of much significance: Rahul Gandhi's critics within the Congress party have been clearly outnumbered by his admirers--'yes-men' will be the appropriate description. Going by impressions, young Congress parliamentarian, Rahul Gandhi, is being projected as the future Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Both Rahul and his party have taken little effort to be discreet with hints about the possibility during campaigning for the ongoing UP Assembly elections.The master plan seems to let political novice, Rahul, get hands-on experience at running a government before being projected as the Prime Minister candidate during the 2009 general elections. Intriguingly, the Congress party on its own is in no position to emerge victorious in the 403-member UP Legislative Assembly. It could end up fourth behind the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress managed only 25 seats in the 2002 State elections. "We are not predicting numbers, but it is sure that we are going to be in a position...   READ MORE

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Governor inaugurates Junoon, painting exhibition 4/18/2007 11:39:40 PM JAMMU, APRIL 18 Governor Lt. Gen. (Retd) S K Sinha today said that greatness of people and nation gets reflected through art and culture and hoped that budding artists would work for promoting glorious Indian ethos on a larger canvass. Inaugurating ‘Junoon’ a painting exhibition by Mamta Mathur at Kala Kendra Art Gallery here this morning, the Governor said that paintings speak silently and convey message to innermost thoughts. General Sinha referred to Mrs Mathur’s stints in various parts of the country and said that she has artistically captured and portrayed the Indian life on canvass. Projection of diverse culture adds to the feeling of national integration and promotes harm...   READ MORE   China creates artifical snow in Tibet 4/18/2007 11:38:24 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 18: For the first time in Tibet, located across Ladakh in eastern Kashmir, China has created artificial snow. This news has come from government-controlled Xinhua news agency of China on Wednesday. All this months after experts warfned of melting glaciers and drought in the Himalayan region. Xinhua news agency said that the Tibet meteorological station had performed a "successful artificial snowfall operation" last week in northern Tibet, about 4,500 metres above sea level. The snowfall was measured at 2.2 mm and the accumulated snow on the ground reached one cm after the artificial snowfall. The agency, in fact, quoted Yu Zhongshui, a...   READ MORE   Foreign mediapersons, too, descend on Mumbai Abhi, Aish wedding – a big news 4/18/2007 11:37:29 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 18: Even as the bigwigs from the ruling Congress at the Centre have, for obvious political reasons, chosen to avoid attaching any importance to the upcoming wedding of Abhishekh Bachhan and Aishwarya Rai, official agencies admit that a number of foreign journalists have begun to descend on Mumbai, Maharashtra's capital city, for covering the event. The 'Great Indian Wedding' is slated for this Friday. What can possibly be a bigger media spectacle in India these days? Move over Team India, the blue billion have now set their eyes on Team Bachchan. Or so the media would have it. The media, print or otherwise, are simply awash wi...   READ MORE   Minorities matter in UP Assembly polls Sonia Gandhi's new trick to woo Muslim voters 4/18/2007 11:36:00 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 18: Muslim opinion makers in politically-important State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) seem to have gained much importance, with the Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, openly reckoning the fact that the Muslim vote bank has a decisive role to play in making or marring the fortunes of the contestants from various parties in the battle of the ballot. Clearly, ahead of the third phase of polling, which began on Wednesday, the Congress leadership adopted yet another way to reach out to the Muslims. Sonia Gandhi dashed off a letter to 15,000 Muslim opinion makers asking them to vote for the Congress party. In the letter Sonia Gandhi says that the communi...   READ MORE

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