http://www.financialexpress.com/index.php Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05 : 49 : 09 +05:30 financialexpress.com http://static.expressindia.com/frontend/fe/images/financial-logo.gif http://www.financialexpress.com/index.php Feed provided by financialexpress.com http://www.financialexpress.com/news/during-26-11-omar-sheikh-posed-as-pranab-called-zardari/546658/ Detained Pakistani militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the three freed in 1999 by India at Kandahar in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane, was the one... http://www.financialexpress.com/news/pranab-advani-spar-on-mumbai-attack/546659/ The government and Opposition were visibly at odds with each other on the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attack in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/jharkhand-phase-1-52-polling-recorded/546181/ About 52% polling was recorded in 26 constituencies in the first of the five-phase Assembly elections in Jharkhand amid air surveillance and tight security on Wednesday, Election Commission officials said. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/ulfa-wont-bend-but-wants-political-solution/546180/ A day after Union home minister P Chidambaram made it clear in Parliament that the government would neither ease pressure on nor talk with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam unless they gave up violence, the outfit’s.... http://www.financialexpress.com/news/cong-bjp-connived-to-demolish-babri-masjid-mayawati/546179/ Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday alleged the Congress and BJP were trying to draw political mileage from the Action Taken Report on the Liberhan Commission Report, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/pak-court-frames-charges-against-lakhvi-six-others/546178/ A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today formally charged seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, with planning and helping execute.... http://www.financialexpress.com/news/would-choose-indias-values-over-chinas-gdp-pm/545718/ In what is clearly among the most candid assessments on China from the Indian leadership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday conceded that there was some amount of 'assertiveness' from the neighbouring country, but did.... http://www.financialexpress.com/news/maha-antiterror-unit-launched/545717/ Two days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, Maharashtra’s counter terror unit, Force One, an elite force formed on the lines of National Security Guards, became operational here on Tuesday. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/atal-too-tarred-by-babri-brush-liberhan/545716/ Calling former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee one of the party’s “pseudo-moderates”—along with L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi—the Liberhan Commission makes several.... http://www.financialexpress.com/news/lonely-kalyan-turns-nostalgic-bjp-hopes-for-mandir-plank/545715/ When leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani stood up on Monday to react to the contents of the Liberhan Commission report first revealed by The Indian Express, he recalled the statement that has come to define the ambiguity in the relationship of the man with the movement. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/babri-atr-silent-on-indictments-promises-speedy-hearing-of-cases/545714/ Making no reference to the indictment of top BJP and Sangh leaders in the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition, the government, in its Action Taken Report which was tabled on Tuesday in Parliament http://www.financialexpress.com/news/i-do-not-know-whom-to-deal-with-in-pakistan-says-prime-minister/545255/ Accusing Pakistan of not doing enough to bring to book the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India did not know whom to deal with in Islamabad as the army is the most powerful force in the neighbouring country. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/manmohan-to-meet-us-defence-secy-may-discuss-china/545254/ A day before he meets US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to have his first meeting with US secretary for defence Robert Gates Monday evening as both sides will look to discuss ways to further improve defence cooperation besides exchanging views on China and US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/babri-storm-engulfs-parliament-brings-both-houses-to-a-standstill/545253/ With the Indian Express report on the Liberhan Commission probe triggering a political storm, the BJP stalled proceedings in both Houses of Parliament on Monday. Its demand: the government must table the commission report along with the ATR without delay. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/traces-of-babri-villains-thrive-in-every-pillar-of-the-system-liberhan/545252/ Underlining that bureaucrats helped the then Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh to subvert the system so that the Sangh Parivar could achieve its goal of demolishing the Babri Masjid, the Justice Liberhan Commission of Inquiry is said to have observed that the infiltration of the government and of the administration by pro-Sangh elements was complete. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/advani-and-co-were-barely-200-m-away...-could-have-prevented-babri-demolition/545251/ The events on the morning and afternoon of December 6, 1992, that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid were facilitated by a compliant administration and a political leadership—including LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Vinay Katiyar—that stood barely 200 metres away and did nothing to prevent the kar sevaks from tearing the domes down. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/upcoming-events/544846/ It is the first state visit hosted by the Obama administration. It has been preceded by a diplomatic fuss over what Obama said about India, Pakistan and China in Beijing. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/fasttrack/544843/ One was the ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’, also the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya. The other became known as ‘Maulana Mulayam’ for his attempts to take the fight to the saffron camp in UP. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/after-a-lull-ulfa-mounts-fresh-offensive-blasts-in-assam/544841/ Six people were killed on Sunday and 54 others injured in the two blasts suspected to have been triggered by the Ulfa near a police station here, five days ahead of the banned militant outfit’s raising day. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/the-men-on-the-block/544839/ Born to a Pakistani diplomat, Salim Gilani, and American Serrill Headley, Daood Gilani changed his name to David Coleman Headley in 2006, “so as to raise less suspicion when he travelled,” according to the FBI dossier. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/so-many-issues-in-search-of-an-opposition/544838/ With the stalemate over the sugarcane pricing policy resolved, the Opposition BJP, as also the NDA, will now focus on issues like internal security, the first anniversary of the 26/11 attack, price rise, the Madhu Koda scam, the spectrum allotment controversy and issues related to climate change —not necessarily in that order —in the month-long Parliament session. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/suspected-sena-men-ransack-news-channels-offices/544261/ Suspected Shiv Sena activists on Friday vandalised the offices of a Marathi news channel in Mumbai and Pune and assaulted staff members, including journalists, for carrying reports that allegedly showed Bal Thackeray in bad light. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/govt-finds-way-out-of-sugarcane-impasse/544260/ Opposition parties tasted sweet victory on Friday as the government buckled under pressure to amend its sugarcane ordinance. It will bring forward a Bill that will allow states to fix a higher price for sugarcane than that fixed by the Centre without having to own up liability for the price difference. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/no-cm-candidates-in-jharkhand-campaign/543804/ Campaigning for the five-phase Jharkhand elections that begin on November 25 is in full swing, but the two main fronts in the poll fray have not yet named their candidates for the chief minister’s post. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/koda-fails-to-appear-before-ed-in-ranchi/543803/ Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is facing money laundering and corruption charges, on Thursday failed to appear before the enforcement directorate citing his election campaigning in interior areas of the state.