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Govt took huge risk, says Sonia

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Relieved at the passage of Women's Reservation Bill by the RS, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said the government had decided to take the "huge risk" as it involved the larger issue of empowering women. Acknowledging that she was "tense" when ...
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'Disruptive' Indian MPs suspended over women's bill

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Seven Indian MPs have been suspended by Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari for disrupting proceedings in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) on Monday. The MPs had shouted slogans, snatched papers from Mr Ansari's table, torn them and thrown them at ...
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Lalu, Mulayam ask PM to defer women's quota bill

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Showing no signs of relenting on the Women's Reservation bill in its present form, the Yadav trio on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to defer the measure and call an all-party meeting to evolve a consensus. Samajwadi Party chief ...
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War over Women's Bill, PM calls all-party meet

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There is war now over the Women's Reservation Bill.  Both Houses of Parliament have been adjourned four times already on Monday. Voting on the Bill in the Rajya Sabha is likely to take place at 6 p.m., and could happen ...
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Women's Bill: Mulayam, Lalu withdraw support to government

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The Congress-led UPA government finds itself in a spot. Set to table and get the Women's Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha, it now has to contend with the threat of withdrawal of support from two traditional opponents of ...
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On Women's Day, women's Bill in Rajya Sabha today

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Today is Women's Day and it may go down in the history as the day the women's bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha. Opposition to the bill seems to be thinning down, but will there be a watering down ...
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UPA plans passage of women's Bill on Women's Day

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It could be the UPA's greatest gift to Indian women on Women's Day next week. The Women's Reservation Bill is all set to become a reality soon and will grant women 33 percent reservation in the Lok Sabha and state ...
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PM, Advani spar in House on Indo-Pak talks, Kashmir

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday took on BJP leader LK Advani in the Lok Sabha to reject the latter's charge that India was talking to Pakistan under US pressure and was altering its position on Jammu and Kashmir. "You ...
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