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The United Progressive Alliance government has released a report card of its performance in the last nine months.

When the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership gathered yesterday morning at the residence of the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to take stock of the results coming out from Maharashtra, it did not take much time for the mood to grow sullen, even as suppressed excitement was visible in the Congress headquarters just about a kilometre away.

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy who is scheduled to hold historic talks with Naxal groups tomorrow called upon them to form a political party and fight for their goals through the democratic process.

It was a rather strange tea party, which former defence minister George Fernandes hosted at his residence yesterday. The participants formed what they termed as the Rashtriya Swabhiman Manch. But they were cagey about the aim or purpose behind it.

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Celebrity duo cause flutter in parliament

When he was alive he was humiliated and short changed. When he is no more, former Karnataka chief minister and union minister Ramakrishna Hegde's family continues to be short-changed by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Karnataka wriggles out of impasse

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