POTO: Opp wants a win in RS for whatever it’s worth
When
the curtain rises on the second act in the POTO drama in the Rajya
Sabha tomorrow afternoon, exhausted opposition leaders will know
whether their frenzied efforts of the past two days have paid off.
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Ayodhya case: High Court says it will step on the gas
Accepting the Centre’s plea, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad
High Court today ordered day-to-day hearings in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri
Masjid title suits and decided to appoint a commission to record
statements of the witnesses to facilitate speedy hearing. [
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Partisan Poto
On
Poto, it’s down to bald arithmetic now. If the Rajya Sabha defeats
the Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha, the government has threatened
to convene a joint session of Parliament, in which the numbers are
expected to speak in its favour.
Hear, hear
The Allahabad High Court’s decision to hear the Ayodhya case on
a day-to-day basis raises hopes of an early resolution of the dispute.
Uneasy
sits the crown
In recent years, the internal contradictions in the Commonwealth
have made its functioning ambiguous at best and difficult at worst,
writes J N Dixit.
Bomber blasts hope in W Asia again A
Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven people on a bus in northern
Israel on Wednesday, posing a threat to US efforts to secure a halt
to nearly 18 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
RBI mulls minimum cap for foreign bank units The
Reserve Bank of India will examine setting a threshold capitalisation
level for foreign banks seeking to opt for the 100 per cent subsidiary
route in the country, and will look at the practice prevailing overseas
for the purpose.
