Amethi: Facing a barrage of complaints against local-level leaders, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised that those who harmed the party during the elections would be identified and shown the door. Continuing the review of the just-concluded elections [...]
Amethi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday cut short his visit to his parliamentary constituency here and rushed to Assam where over 100 people died in a boat tragedy in Brahmaputra. The Congress leader, who had to fly from [...]
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of controversy over Tatra truck deal, government today told the Rajya Sabha the purchases were made as per the requirement raised by defence forces and action will be taken if any wrongdoing was detected in [...]
New Delhi : BJP today demanded an assurance from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the country’s defence preparedness in the wake of a parliamentary committee report voicing concern over shortage of equipment and ammunition, issues which were raised by the [...]
New Delhi: Snubbed by its NDA ally Janata Dal (U) for unilaterally expressing its stand on Presidential elections, BJP on Tuesday said the views expressed by its leader Sushma Swaraj were those of the party and not of the alliance [...]
New Delhi: Differences surfaced in the NDA camp over President’s election with JD(U) disapproving BJP’s unilateral decision on the issue as Left parties and RJD backed Vice President Hamid Ansari for the post. Samajwadi Party, which is outside the UPA [...]
New Delhi: The Left parties, which have been advocating “maximum consensus” to elect a new President, may not be averse to supporting a candidate like Vice-President Hamid Ansari if the Congress comes up with his name. The Left parties were [...]
Amethi: Facing a barrage of complaints after the Congress’ poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday advised party workers to shun groupism and strengthen the organisation. “You all should shun groupism and work unitedly to strengthen the party. [...]
New Delhi: A Samajwadi Party leader today said his party was in favour of a Muslim candidate occupying the post of the President but maintained that it was against “communalising” the elections for the constitutional office. SP leader Kamal Farooqi [...]
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi later this week when the issue of Presidential poll candidate may come up for discussion. While Congress sources said the meeting between the two is billed for [...]
Coimbatore: Left parties will meet on May 4 to decide on the strategy for the coming Presidential elections, CPI National Secretary D Raja said today. However, CPI wanted a consensus canditate for President, whether political or apolitical, he told reporters [...]
New Delhi: Congress, which has begun talks with allies to decide on Presidential candidate, Monday said it was for “widest possible consensus” and “maximum consultations” on the issue and disfavoured any speculation about names. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari at the [...]
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, convicted by a Delhi court in a bribery case, on Monday resigned from the party’s national executive committee. Laxman, who has been sentenced for four years and fined Rs 1 lakh for accepting [...]
New Delhi: After Gen V K Singh pointed out critical shortage of tank ammunition in a letter to the Prime Minister, a Parliamentary panel today pulled up the Government saying it was alarmed over the way deficiencies were allowed to [...]
New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel today “strongly dismissed” a report about movement of troops near the capital in January after the Government stated that it was based on “wrong inferences, surmises and conjectures”. In the report tabled in Lok Sabha [...]
New Delhi: Giving a new turn to the Presidential race, BJP today ruled out supporting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari or any other candidate who may be put up by the Congress but is open to supporting anyone [...]
New Delhi: With reports suggesting that he is one of the candidates for the presidential post, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today parried questions on whether he is in the race for it. “Oh my goodness…oh my goodness..,” a smiling Mukherjee [...]
London: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be among those likely to be affected by new immigration rules under which non-European Union citizens accused of serious human rights abuses may be banned from entering Britain. Rights campaigners on Sunday said [...]
Amethi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday arrived on a three-day visit of his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, the first after his party’s dismal show in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. The Congress general secretary will meet party workers and review [...]
New Delhi: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today appeared not averse to be in the race for another term in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. “Let us wait for some time…After some time, you ask me,” Kalam told reporters here [...]
Hyderabad: All India Congress Committee general secretary, in charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs, Ghulam Nabi Azad will visit Hyderabad tomorrow to take part in the inauguration of a five-star hotel built by party MP T Subbarami Reddy but, importantly, he [...]
Mumbai: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited drought-affected areas in Satara district in western Maharashtra and interacted with villagers there. Rahul, who addressed a series of meetings with party workers in Mumbai on Friday, flew to Satara on [...]
Tumkur: Virtually setting the ball rolling for next year’s assembly elections in Karnataka, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the ruling BJP and asked her partymen to set aside individual ambitions and work together to [...]
New Delhi: Congress on Saturday stepped up its attack on BJP over the jail term awarded to its former chief Bangaru Laxman in a bribery case, saying the Opposition has lost the moral right to talk about corruption. “It is [...]
New Delhi: Government today rejected Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy’s allegations against Home Minister P. Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis equity issue saying they were “totally baseless”. After perusing records of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in the issue, a government [...]
Mumbai: Stating that every step that Congress takes has a selfish agenda, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday said there was a need to check the “motive” of that party in nominating cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to Rajya Sabha. [...]
Mumbai: “I hope to reach your heart again and make you all happy, just like you all have made me happy every moment.” This was how yesteryear Bollywoood actor Rekha reacted to her nomination as member of the Rajya Sabha. [...]
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday awarded four year in jail to former BJP President Bangaru Laxman, convicted for accepting Rs. one lakh bribe in a fictitious arms deal case. He has also been fined Rs. 1 lakh. Earlier [...]
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi today welcomed government nominating master batsman Sachin Tendulkar as member of Rajya Sabha. “We welcome it,” was his response to reporters’ queries in this regard. Various parties including BJP and CPI-M have welcomed Tendulkar’s nomination [...]
Kottayam: CPI on Friday alleged that the UPA government at the centre has converted itself into a sponsored government assisting capitalists of the world. Addressing a meet the press programme here, party state secretary Panniyam Ravindran said Kerala has to [...]
New Delhi: The Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi, today met amid indications that a number of states will be seeing change of Governors in the next few days. Sources said the issue [...]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, an avid cricket fan, today said he was “amazed” by the storm generated by nomination of cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha. “Amazing to see the storm that Sachin’s nomination [...]
Pune/ New Delhi: Stung by controversies, President Pratibha Patil today announced her decision to forego the accommodation allotted to her as post-retirement home in Pune. “Considering the fact that the issue has got linked with the issue of war widows [...]
New Delhi: BJP today attacked the government in Rajya Sabha on unilateral ban on export of cotton saying it has affected farmers and triggered suicides as cotton prices have fallen sharply and questioned whether the step was taken to favour [...]
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa today constituted a 43-member working group, which included almost the entire state cabinet, to oversee preparations for the June 12 byelection to the Pudukottai assembly seat. Several ministers as well [...]
New Delhi: The demand for dismissal of home minister Mr P Chidambaram grew strident in the wake of allegations against his son Karti’s dealings in a telecom company and stalled proceedings in the Lok Sabha today with agitated BJP, JD(U) [...]
Mumbai: Anna Hazare might have been impressed by Raj Thackeray but his close associate Prashant Bhushan on Thursday said their group is not in agreement with the MNS chief’s politics. “We do not support Raj Thackeray’s ways (like his opposition [...]
New Delh: Alleging political designs behind BJP raking up the Bofors issue, Congress on Thursday accused the opposition party of levelling ‘baseless and irresponsible’ allegations as Lok Sabha elections are approaching. “Whenever Lok Sabha elections are near, such issues are [...]
Chennai: Responding to reporters’ queries if his party would support the candidature of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, party General Secretary Prakash Karat said “we have not proposed” his name. “We are waiting to see what other parties [...]
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 39 yesterday, will now become a Parliamentarian with the government nominating him to the House of Elders, Rajya Sabha, along with actress of yesteryear Rekha and industrialist Anu Aga. The nomination of the three [...]
New Delhi: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and actress Rekha are among four eminent persons who have been recommended for nomination as members of the Rajya Sabha. Tendulkar, who has brought many a laurel to the country through his exploits in [...]
Lucknow: A day after Lokayukta suggested that Chief Minister be brought under the purview of the institution; Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav said that he was not in its favour. “I am not in its (bringing CM in purview of [...]
Lucknow: In a bid to ensure better functioning of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), its Uttar Pradesh unit has been divided in four zones, party sources said here today. The move comes after the state president of NSUI [...]
New Delhi: Amid controversy over his remarks on economic reforms, Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Basu is believed to have given clarification about his comments on economic reforms, which had generated a big debate [...]
New Delhi: After their suspension from Lok Sabha for obstructing proceedings, eight Congress MPs today protested by blocking Parliament’s main gate for 30 minutes and raised pro-Telangana slogans. The suspended Congress members–Ponnam Prabhakar, Madhu Yaskhi Goud, M Jagannath, K R [...]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka was today released unharmed by Maoists at a village in Koraput Clad in a green kurta and pajama, Hikaka was escorted by a group of tribals to Balipeta village in Maoist-affected Narayanpatna area, where he [...]
New Delhi: Claiming high moral ground for suspending eight party MPs from Telangana region for disrupting the Lok Sabha, Congress on Wednesday said it has shown the way and asked Opposition leaders to learn from the action and ensure that [...]
New Delhi: Brushing aside fresh allegations in connection with the Bofors deal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said the case is closed and there is no need to reopen it. The Law Minister also sought a public apology from [...]
New Delhi: Corruption has badly hit the ambitious task of providing jobs to rural poor through the MNREGA, a Congress member lamented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Datta Meghe said MNREGA may have [...]
New Delhi: The ghost of Bofors returned to haunt the Congress party today with the BJP targeting it following fresh allegations that Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister may have soft-pedalled the probe into kickbacks in the gun deal to protect [...]
New Delhi: BJP Parliamentary Party today decided to rake up the Bofors pay-offs issue in Parliament in wake of fresh allegations that the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have soft-pedalled the probe to protect Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Leader [...]
New Delhi: Continuing their agitation, suspended Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh today staged a dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi”s statue inside the Parliament complex demanding separate statehood for Telangana. The Lok Sabha had yesterday suspended eight Congress MPs from [...]
New Delhi: BJP today attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his “continued and persistent absence” from the Lok Sabha, alleging he was not around when his presence was required and important issues were being discussed. Soon after External Affairs Minister [...]
New Delhi: After getting them suspended from Lok Sabha for four days, Congress leaders on Tuesday night met eight party MPs from Telangana region and are understood to have told them that the action would be withdrawn if they cooperate [...]
New Delhi: With the second phase of the Budget session having commenced, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday held a strategy meeting with senior leaders. The meeting comes at a time when Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has issued an [...]
Hyderabad: The battle-lines are now drawn for political parties with the Election Commission today announcing the schedule for by-elections to 18 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh. The bypolls in 16 of the 18 seats are necessitated [...]
New Delhi: Repeated disruptions in Lok Sabha by Congress members from Andhra Pradesh over Telangana issue and suspension of eight MPs saw BJP and Left parties hitting out at the government for this unprecedented situation while the ruling party justified [...]
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha today suspended 8 Congress members from Telangana for four days for causing repeated disruptions in the house. Earlier, leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee had held parleys with Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj [...]
RJD president Lalu Prasad on Tuesday said his party would support Vice President Hamid Ansari as the Presidential candidate. “Our Vice President Hamid Ansari should be made the President. He is a good candidate for the President’s post. He should [...]
New Delhi: Terming the controversy over a CD purportedly involving Congress MP Abhishek Singhvi as an individual issue, the government today said it was not mulling any move to restrain the social media. “This government since 2004 has not taken [...]
Bangalore: Team Anna member and former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on Monday sought to down play the rift in the Anna Core Committee following expulsion of a Muslim leader and said “differences” are bound to occur in such a vast movement. [...]
New Delhi: Government today said that it was working towards a consensus on the issue of nominating a candidate for the Presidential polls expected to be held in July this year. “This is a very big issue. No political party [...]
New Delhi: Congress today termed as “the right step” the resignation by Abhishek Manu Singhvi as party spokesman and Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice but remained evasive on whether he was directed to do so. “Abhishek [...]
New Delhi: Embroiled in a CD controversy, Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi today resigned as Chairman of a Parliamentary Committee and party spokesperson in a damage control exercise ahead of the resumption of the budget session tomorrow.
New Delhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who had caused a flutter by pitching for a “non-political” person as the candidate for the Presidential polls, today said he had only talked about an “agreed” candidate. “I have not said this. I [...]
New Delhi: As fresh cracks appeared in Team Anna after the expulsion of a Muslim leader, Anna Hazare on Monday said there was no rift in the group over the “leakage” of information or yoga guru Ramdev. In his first [...]
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that current row between Congress and NCP after the Zilla Parishad and municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra would not affect the stability of the ruling coalition government in the state. “There is [...]
New Delhi: Congress on Saturday sought to play down West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s ultimatum to the Centre over moratorium on interest payment burden of the state saying “every Chief Minister or state has some legitimate expectations and aspirations [...]
New Delhi: RSS has cautioned that the move by Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh to release all jailed “innocent” Muslims is “dangerous” akin to giving them a license to do anything and alleged freeing saffron terror suspects in the [...]
New Delhi: Congress today dismissed as “baseless” BJP’s charge that Union Ministers G K Vasan and K V Thomas were trying to save the Centre and the Kerala government on the issue of Italian marines who allegedly shot dead two [...]
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee issued a 15-day ultimatum to UPA govt to accept her demand for 3-year moratorium on huge interest burden on loans.”I have made repeated appeals, my patience is running out. We are unable to pay. I have waited [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called upon civil servants to show ”boldness” in decision making, while assuring them there will be ”no witch hunting” in the name of fighting corruption. ”It is our government’s commitment to put in [...]
Kolkata: Facing criticism in the media on various issues, the West Bengal government today said it was mulling the possibility of having its own newspaper and a television channel. “Government work is not being highlighted properly. We need our own [...]
Mumbai: BJP president Nitin Gadkari called on Shiv sena chief Bal Thackeray late last night at his Matoshree residence in suburban Bandra. The meeting lasted for nearly an hour, sources said. Mr Gadkari, who refused to divulge anything on the [...]
New Delhi: Alleging that the country’s economy is in a ‘mess’, the BJP today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh answer the nation after Chief Economic Advisor of Finance Ministry Kaushik Basu’s statement that major economic reforms in India would [...]
Gurgaon: To corner the Central government on corruption and black money, social activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev will jointly sit on a one-day token fast in Delhi on June 3. ”We will sit on a one-day fast [...]
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today said that recommendation by the Central Empower Committee (CEC) appointed by the Supreme Court suggesting a CBI inquiry into land denotification and graft charges against him was not final. ‘CEC is [...]
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today underlined India’s role as the world’s largest democracy in welcoming nations that are embracing the democratic form of governance, which promises freedom and justice for all. Participating in the inaugural function of the platinum [...]
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here today on a day-long visit amid tight security arrangements. His special flight touched down at the Lokpriya Gopinath International airport at Borjhar on the outskirts of Guwahati at 1050 hrs. Assam Governor JB [...]
Srinagar: Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference (HC) was put under house arrest yesterday. Official sources said the step was taken to prevent any law and order problem. Spokesman of the HC Aiyaz Akbar said security forces and police personnel [...]
Pune: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare will kick off an awareness campaign for a strong Lokayukta in Maharashtra From May 1. The 74-year-old Gandhian said today that he will begin his campaign from world famous temple town of Shirdi in Ahmednagar [...]
New Delhi: After the Congress’ rout in MCD elections, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today used sarcasm to downplay BJP’s victory and accused it of creating a “tragic situation” by bringing top leaders like Nitin Gadkari to campaign for the [...]
Shimla: After a spat between the Army and the Himachal Pradesh government on control over Annandale ground here, today sought to distance itself from the controversy saying it was a “closed chapter”. BJP National General Secretary J P Nadda and [...]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and 12 others were today declared elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council. After the expiry of the deadline for withdrawal of names for the council polls this afternoon, Returning Officer and Vidhan [...]
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 2G spectrum scam has sought a copy of the Presidential Reference made by the Centre before the Supreme Court on its February 2 decision on allocation of second generation radio waves. “Three [...]
New Delhi: Setting aside internal differences, BJP today declared S S Ahluwalia- its outgoing Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha- as the party candidate from Jharkhand for the biennial elections to the Upper House. Ahluwalia, who completed fourth term as a [...]
New Delhi: After the party’s dismal show in recent bypolls, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today said Congress would do better in the by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. “I think we will do [...]
Amritsar: The recent drubbing of Congress in Delhi’s municipal elections connotes that the party is losing its identity in the nation’s politics, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said. “The recent Delhi Municipal Corporation results proved that in [...]
Jaipur: Rajasthan Assembly today passed a resolution to create a legislative council in the state in order to provide “extensive” representation to the people. Parliamentary affairs minister Shanti Dhariwal moved a resolution for the same in the Assembly, which was [...]
New Delhi: Having suffered successive electoral defeats in the past two years, the Congress in Andhra Pradesh is fine-tuning its strategy in the state where by-polls to 18 assembly and one Lok Sabha constituencies would be held soon. As part [...]
New Delhi: Amid reports about a CD involving him, Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi has kept away from party briefings this week. “At this moment, we can only say this much that he was not available for briefing on Monday”, Congress [...]
New Delhi: BJP is banking on party rebels, who won the municipal polls, to muster majority in South Delhi Corporation even as it is initiating discussions for finalising the Mayors in three newly created civic bodies. Out of the 104 [...]
New Delhi: As Congress received a drubbing in the Delhi municipal polls, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today sought to downplay the party’s poor showing saying it was civic elections and could not be compared with anything else. In her first [...]
Lucknow: In an attempt to put a lid on the controversy over induction of tainted former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party, the BJP on Tuesday said that “he is neither in the party nor would he [...]
New Delhi: Congress and Left members today demanded in the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee meeting that CAG should quantify the exact loss incurred by the government till now in the Reliance India Limited-run KG Basin project. In the PAC meeting [...]
Hyderabad: TRS today decided to contest the Parakala assembly constituency in Telangana region where the by-polls will be held soon. A committee headed by senior leader Naini Narasimha Reddy was appointed to select the candidate for the by-poll, TRS MLA [...]
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the core issue in formation of NCTC was the violation of the federal principle and emphasised on the need for more consultations and collaboration between the Centre and the states to [...]
New Delhi: A stiff opposition from non-Congress CMs and a Congress ally over NCTC and other issues of Centre allegedly encroaching upon the states’ policing powers today cast its shadow at the conference on internal security here. Modi and Patnaik [...]
Bhopal: The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Monday charged the Opposition Congress of “disrespecting” River Narmada and “hurting” the sentiments of people who considered it to be the sacred river. “The Congress MP from Dewas, Sajjan Singh Verma in [...]
Lucknow: Reacting to BSP supremo and ex-CM Mayawati’s reported statement that her life was under threat from the present government, senior SP leader and Uttar Pradesh Minister Shivpal Yadav today said that no one faced any threat in the SP [...]
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