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Are we then seeing a new phase of dynastic politics in the Congress? Yes, sons and daughters will get a preferred treatment in the political party of their parents. But that preferred treatment will not guarantee succession immediately after the parent disappears from the scene. Instead, sons and daughters will have to learn to wait [...]

The Andhra Pradesh government has stressed that all the mandatory maintenance work and checks were carried out on the Bell-430 helicopter before it took off for its last journey on September 2 and crashed killing the state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who arrived in New Delhi after marathon talks with party leaders in Mumbai on poll preparations, said Congress has to take the initiative for the seat-sharing talks.He told reporters that “instead of wasting time in delaying the issue, let us accept the number (of seats) as last time”.

Al-Qaeda is obsessed with using commercial airliners to carry out terror attacks and it may try again to use aircraft to strike Western targets, a leading British defence think-tank warned on Tuesday. The warning comes a day after three British men of Pakistani origin were convicted of plotting to blow up flights from London to [...]

The Andhra Pradesh government has stressed that all the mandatory maintenance work and checks were carried out on the Bell-430 helicopter before it took off for its last journey on September 2 and crashed killing the state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.

Moving a step, the Mumbai Twestival 2009 is being organised by the active Twitter users. They will be supporting Help a Child, as their cause.

Irda to add 25 high-level staff

The administrative department of the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Irda) has been busy the past two months as the regulator is expanding its staff base.

RBI to regulate banks’ floating cash

Usha Thorat, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the central bank will shortly issue draft prudential guidelines on banks’ floating capital.

Gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd, along with its joint venture partner China Gas Holdings, is looking at joining a consortium to lay a gas pipeline from Myanmar to China.

But the cut cannot be across-the-board and in fact, impacts only a minuscule part of the totality of the expenditure so that it may not mean much in actual terms.

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