Congress wants to send a message to the rank and file by taking ’strong’ action against rebels.

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M T Stolt Valor, a cargo ship with 18 Indian sailors on board and hijacked by Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden two months back, has been released, National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) said on Sunday. The cargo ship, owned by a Japanese company and managed by Fleet Marine Ltd in Mumbai, was hijacked by the armed Somali pirates on September 15.

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Margaret Alva, who faced the wrath of the Congress high command, was ‘an enemy for herself’ as she questioned the morality of the party with the charge of sale of tickets in Karnataka, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily has said.

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US President-elect Obama’s transition team has given ‘positive indications’ to India about bilateral ties, PM Singh said.

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Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi has alleged that AIADMK seemed to be behind the campus violence.

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The cash-for-vote scam that rocked Parliament during the trust vote is catching up three BJP MPs in a different way.

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Plagued by dissidence, Congress is going all out to woo back rebels who failed to make it to the candidates’ list, with Digvijay Singh citing the example of President Pratibha Patil, who was ‘denied a ticket’ in 1998 but later ‘rewarded’ with the nomination for the top post.

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Ahead of the polls, BJP appears set to revive the liberal-hardliner Atal-Advani combination with party chief Rajnath Singh now donning the right wing colours of the former Deputy Prime Minister.

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Indian-American management expert Anjan Mukherjee has been roped in by US President-elect Barack Obama into his transition team, the fourth person from the community to be part of the 15-member high-profile group.

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Wasim Akram lambasted Matthew Hayden for his comments about India being a ‘third world’ country.

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