PA Sangma, who broke away with the NCP in 2012 to contest the presidential elections, though unsuccessfully, on Saturday launched National People's Party (NPP), and chosen a book as its symbol. Sangma has chosen to align his party with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). ...
08:36 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Shillong: Former union minister of state for rural development Agatha K. Sangma of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Monday expressed her discontent with the manner in which she was "dropped" from the council of ministers, ahead of the Sunday reshuffle. On Saturday evening, a communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan stated that President Pranab Mukherjee had accepted the resignation of seven union ministers, including Agatha Sangma, based on the advice of...
11:47 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: Amid talks of a new-look UPA Cabinet, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday accepted the resignations of seven Union ministers ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle, which will take place on Sunday. Resignations of as many as four senior and three junior ministers were accepted by the President. This came ahead of the Sunday UPA Cabinet reshuffle where some major changes are expected to take place. The senior ministers whose...
08:05 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the stand off between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress. The NCP leadership met in New Delhi on Monday and decided to skip the dinner being hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the honour of outgoing President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, sources told CNN-IBN. The dinner is at 8 PM at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. NCP chief Sharad...
02:01 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma is confident of winning the Presidential election despite UPA's Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee emerging stronger with more support. Sangma, however, feels he will win with the help of conscience votes. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Sangma said he had never lost any election so far and would win this one too. Following is the full transcript of Rajdeep Sardesai's interview with Purno Agitok...
02:11 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: With the BJP supporting PA Sangma in the Presidential race, the NCP on Thursday regretted that he has become the nominee of "communal forces" in a contest in which UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee will have a "decisive victory". Party spokesman DP Tripathi said the development also showed the "bankruptcy" of BJP, which had to "import" a candidate from the UPA. "It is most unfortunate that Sangma has decided...
02:50 PM, Jun 21, 2012
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
If politics were to mirror celluloid, then clearly our netas seem out of step. A fortnight ago, two Hindi films were released: 'Budha Hoga Tera ...
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Underdevelopment remains the main problem of the Northeast. ...
01:04 PM, May 30, 2009
It was a change of generation but continuity of the family name. ...
03:05 AM, May 29, 2009
Agatha Sangma fumbles but gets appreciative nods from dignitaries. ...
02:10 PM, May 28, 2009
The new entrant in the council of ministers promises to serve the nation. ...
03:39 AM, May 28, 2009
At 27, Agatha Sangma is already a political force to reckon with in Meghalaya. ...
05:40 PM, Apr 09, 2009
Mumbai: The Indian board’s tour, programme and fixtures committee has issued the schedule for tours by New Zealand and England between August 2012 and February 2013. New Zealand will play two Test matches, in Hyderabad starting August 23 and in Bangalore from August 31, followed by Twenty20s in Visakhapatnam on September 8 and Chennai on September 11. Following the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka after the New Zealand series,...
08:47 AM, May 26, 2008
