Posts Tagged ‘state’

Reuters – Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” claimed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for a second consecutive week.

AP – Colorado coach Dan Hawkins will get a fifth season in Boulder instead of a pink slip and a $3.1 million buyout.

Union MoS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor dismissed as “unfounded and misleading” the charges by Kerala CM V S Achuthanandan who had accused him of using public platforms to deride the LDF govt in the state.

Mumbai marked the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks that left 166 people dead. Most people still feel that another such attack could shake what has so far proved to be a resilient economy.

Farmers, protesting the state government’s sugarcane pricing policy, stopped trains, threw stones at cars and buses, blocked highways and clashed with the police in UP’s Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Faizabad districts.

Six farmers have committed suicide in last two days in various parts of Vidarbha region, an NGO, said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wound up his four-day State visit here, first by a foreign leader under the 10-month-old Obama Administration.

Though the Indian govt’s is reluctant to offer dual citizenship to expatriate Indians, PM Manmohan Singh gave his official stamp of approval to the transcontinental, bi-national Indian professional who straddles two countries.

AP – President Barack Obama’s top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

AP – President Barack Obama’s top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.