`Soft' Home Secretary B P Singh shunted out
Union Home Secretary B P Singh was yesterday shunted out of the Home Ministry and replaced by Agriculture Secretary Kamal Pandey, a 1965 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Go full steam ahead, Govt told
Cabinet Secretary Prabhat Kumar has modified his earlier guidelines to say that the present Government has ``full powers'' since there's nothing in the Constitution that provides for a ``caretaker'' Government.

Oppn put pressure on Narayanan over trust motion -- PM
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said that President K R Narayanan took the decision to ask him to seek trust-vote in the Lok Sabha under ``pressure'' from the Opposition parties.

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