Press Complaints Commission, the watchdog for the newspaper industry, has rejected claims by The Guardian that a widespread and ongoing culture of phone-hacking existed at the News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday title. After investigation, the PCC reported that it "found no evidence that phone-message hacking is ongoing" at the tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International.The...
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both Congress and Prajarajyam confirming that an alliance was indeed beingworked out to fight the GHMC elections, hectic action was witnessed on Sunday inboth the parties as potential candidates flocked to their respective leadersseeking an assurance of their candidature.While PRP chief KChiranjeevi was closetted with his party's political affairs committee (PAC)members and other senior leaders at...
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Chairman of the Ozhukarai Municipality N S J Jayabal, who was expelled from the Congress party for anti-party activites, is likely to lose his position shortly.Following his expulsion, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) had appointed Tamizhselvi as the leader of the Congress councillors in the municipality, PCC President A V Subramanian told newspersons here today.Poongavanam alias Arumugham, Tamisharasi...
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Congress workers buoyed by the party’s success in retainingpower in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal, AICC has now turned its attentionto the election-bound state of Jharkhand. As first step, Congress focus has beenon its state-level organisation and resolving differences in the partyunit.To ensure that there is no split or rebellion, the Congresscentral leadership has tried to reach out to all factions....
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As the campaign ended for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Elections on Friday, the differences among the Congress workers came to the fore, that too, in the presence of PCC president D. Srinivas.Mr. Srinivas came to participate in the election campaign at Patancheru along with DCC president and MLA T. Nandeeswar Goud and MLC V. Bhoopal Reddy.While the PCC chief was addressing, supporters...
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HYDERABAD:Putting to rest all political uncertainty within the Congress party, PradeshCongress Committee (PCC) president D Srinivas is scheduled to meet the Congresshigh command in New Delhi on Monday.The PCC chief would call onVeerappa Moily, incharge of Congress affairs in the state and AICC generalsecretary Oscar Fernandes to keep them posted on the developments in statepolitics after the death...
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PCC chairman Peta Buscombe has said she does not want to regulate bloggers after all unless they sign up for itIn her letter she refers to "my apparent proposal to regulate the blogosphere" and clarifies"My point to him was about the dangers of over-regulation, the misplaced desire that can be common to governments to seek to control areas of freedom."Blogging, as your letter rightly suggests, is a...
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Urging partymen not to be swayed away by Congress's stupendous performance in 15th general elections and in the state, where it wrested power from the BJP, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot today called upon party cadre to take up the municipal polls slated for November 23 as a challenge."For the first time, voters would directly elect mayors, and chairmen in civic bodies, hence the party should...
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Congress party would finalise its campaign plan for the GHMC elections inthe next three days, even as two unlikely friends PCC president D Srinivas and DNagendar met each other thrice on Sunday to iron out the mess arising out of theannouncement of seats, especially for Serilingally division.Even asCongress seniors and ministers claimed that all matters were sorted outamicably, party legislators K...
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Lady Buscombe tells Matthew Bell that the Press Complaints Commission is in the clearBaroness Buscombe is terribly sorry when we meet. Since agreeing to an interview in May, a month into her role as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, her schedule has forced her to postpone countless times. But when we inform her we're running a piece with or without her input, she is in our office foyer within...
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