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October 5th, 2009 AMBALA - It was only in May this year that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) organised a big rally in Punjab's industrial city of Ludhiana two days before the final phase of general elections in a show of strength and solidarity of all alliance partners. Just five months and a few hundred kilometres thence, the NDA partners have taken different directions.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vdopia, the leading online and mobile video monetization player, announced the roll out of Talk2me Ad platform/unit, an innovative ad format from its VDO LAB (the research lab focussed on Online Video Advertising and innovation). This is part of Vdopia's strategy to keep on adding innovations to its offerings on regular intervals.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kumari Selja, the young minister for tourism, housing and urban poverty alleviation, is thinking jobs. She wants to alleviate urban poverty by establishing a convergence between the portfolios she holds.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The annual per capita income in Delhi is twice the national average, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday said, citing the Human Development Report (HDR). "It is also a fact that only 14.7 percent of the population belong to BPL (below poverty level) category against the national average of 27.5 percent.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi is an institution builder like his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, claims his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Revealing this aspect of Rahul's personality to NDTV during an interview, Priyanka also said that her brother was right in consistently saying that he is not ready to be Prime Minister, even if that post were to be offered to him in the near future.

April 20th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday divulged from his earlier stand on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, and said that one cannot forget that LTTE was behind former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's death.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday challenged the Left parties claim to being secular and cited their aligning with the Bharatiya Janata Party to back the V.P. Singh government in 1989 to say they were 'responsible for the BJP's electoral growth'.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh has strongly defended party candidate Varun Gandhi saying the Allahabad High Court order on his alleged hate speeches does not prove he was guilty of making them. 'Let the final judgement come, as you know in many cases there is a prima facie case and then later the person is found innocent.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, who plays a pivotal role in Nandita Das's directorial debut 'Firaaq', admits the film's team was often criticised of 'raking up old wounds', but maintains that it is a 'hard-hitting picture' of what happened in the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. 'This film is a very accurate and hard hitting picture of what happened.

March 19th, 2009 GURGAON - uReach Technologies announced today that it has formed a partnership with MARS Telecom Systems that is focused on delivering world-class Value Added Services to the Indian mobile, wireline and broadband service provider markets. The partnership strengthens uReach's ability to deploy and support its Converged Services Framework (CSF) and leading-edge value added services in the region with the help of MARS Telecom's team of implementation, test and technical support experts.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Term it excess in times of a global economic slump, but two parallel events - the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) and the Delhi Fashion Week (DFW) - are again set for a head-to-head clash for their autumn/winter editions later this week. Organised by the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), the 12th edition of WIFW will be held during March 18-23 at Eros Intercontinental hotel while the Fashion Foundation of India's second DFW showing is scheduled for March 19-24 at the swish Emporio mall.

March 2nd, 2009 NASHIK - Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Sunday urged the Congress to take a lead in declaring national-level, pre-poll alliances with its partners. 'As a big party, the Congress should come out with the pre-poll alliance and alliance partners should get a chance to contest from constituencies in which they are strong,' he said, addressing the party's crucial state-level convention here.

February 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi Friday assured all the team owners that none of the sponsors or partners are pulling out of the second edition of the Twenty20 extravaganza. 'I want to make it amply clear that all our sponsors and partners are still on board.

February 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian media and entertainment (M&E) companies are increasingly looking overseas to expand, according to the annual joint study of a leading chamber and a consultancy released here Tuesday. 'Similar to their global counterparts, who have been increasing their scale by entering the emerging markets, M&E companies in India too have started to eye international markets by targeting media consumers outside India,' says the joint study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and KPMG.

January 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - After Aamir Khan's directorial debut 'Taare Zameen Par' failed to get an Oscar nomination in the foreign film category, the superstar has said that he does not make films for 'awards' but for the 'audience'. 'I don't make films for awards.