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Stephen not under anti-defection law : Babulal

Ranchi, Sep 13 (UNI) Jharkhand Vikash Morcha (Democratic) president Babulal Marandi today said Mr Stephen Marandi did not legally fall under the anti-defection law as the party was yet to be registered.

Talking to newsmen here, Mr Marandi said petitioner against the JVM leader, now an Independent MLA supporting the UPA, alleged that Mr Stephen Marandi won the election as an Independent but he later joined the JVM.

In the Arjun Munda government, Mr Ekka and Mr Singh were rebel Ministers, who along with Mr Madhu Koda and Mr Hari Narayan Rai (both Ind) resigned on September 5 reducing the NDA government to minority.

The pleader for Mr Ekka and Mr Singh wondered why the Speaker took more than a year to serve defection notice to them.

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NATO gets no offers of extra Afghanistan troops

BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (Reuters) NATO members failed to offer any extra troops for a tough peacekeeping mission in southern Afghanstan at talks today and it could be weeks before reinforcements are committed, an alliance spokesman said. ''No formal offers were made at the table,'' spokesman James Appathurai told a regular news briefing. However, he said there were ''positive indications'' that some allies might consider providing additional forces. It could take until a meeting of.....

Kazakh leader says still intends to chair OSCE

ASTANA, Sep 13 (Reuters) Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev today made clear he was intent on chairing the OSCE, a European rights group, in 2009 -- a decision that could set him on a collision course with the West. Western states have for at least three years dangled the carrot of the annual chairmanship of the 55-member Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as a reward for the Central Asian state if it improves.....

Puskas in intensive care-agency

BUDAPEST, Sep 13 (Reuters) Hungarian soccer great Ferenc Puskas has been taken into intensive care in hospital, state news agency MTI reported today without giving any details. Puskas, 79, has been in hospital with form of Alzheimer's disease for six years and no one from his family or the hospital could be reached immediately for comment, although his biographer Gyorgy Szollosi confirmed the agency's report. News website Index said this was the second time.....
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