Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt Saturday night announced his resignation as general secretary of the Samjawadi Party, but said he would stay in the party for the time being.
‘After (my mentor) and elder brother Amar Singh stepped down as general secretary, I have no right to hold this post,’ Dutt said at a press conference at [...]
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh announced formation of his new Jan Kranti Party on his birthday Tuesday and said he would work as its ‘patron’.
‘I will work as a patron for this party. The party will be led by Rajvir Singh alias Raju Bhaiyya,’ Singh told reporters.
A former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, [...]
London, Dec 21 (IANS) British Business Minister Peter Mandelson – the number two in the country’s cabinet – plans to run for the job of London mayor in 2012 if Labour loses the next general elections, a former mayor was quoted saying Monday.
Ken Livingstone, former London mayor who has publicly announced his desire to wrest [...]
Shimla, Nov 24 (IANS) Piyara Singh’s hopes of casting votes in the next general elections along with his wife Hansa Devi have come to an end.
Hansa, 103, with whom he shared his life for 87 years died Sunday at her residence in a village located on the outskirts of Dharamsala town in Kangra district, some [...]
Ranchi, Nov. 9 (ANI): The Centre on Monday assured full security to Jharkhand voters in the wake of a recent Maoist call, boycotting the five-phase assembly elections in the state.
“Over 300 companies of para-military forces will be placed at the disposal of [...]
Ranchi, Nov 6 (IANS) A former Maoist leader and the wife of an arrested rebel Friday joined the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and will be fielded by the party in the five-phase assembly poll beginning Nov 25.
Shobha Pal, wife of jailed Maoist leader Jeeval Pal who faces serious charges of murder and attacking a police [...]
Kozhikode (Kerala), Nov 3 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday said the central forces were sent to Kannur district ahead of assembly polls Nov 7 as the state government had failed to ensure free and fair elections.
Antony was reacting to a comment of Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan during a campaign speech Monday that the paramilitary [...]
London, Nov 2 (ANI): Those who think that watching soap operas and reality TV shows is an easy way to kill time should now change their opinion, for such programmes act as “powerful educators” and make the world a better [...]
Kuala Lumpur, Sep 30 (ANI): Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) chairman P. Waythamoorthy is angry over news that there are plans to connect the movement with the newly-registered Malaysian Makkal Sakthi Party (MMSP).
He said in a statement that the MMSP to be launched by [...]
Amritsar, Sep 21 (IANS) Congress activists Monday put up posters claiming that cricketer-turned-politician and Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu was ‘missing’ and also filed a police complaint.
Congress leader and former legislator Raj Kumar Verka told IANS that the posters of the ‘missing’ Sidhu had been put up outside government buildings and other prominent places across [...]
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The government Thursday extended the term of the 13th Finance Commission by three months to Jan 31 next year.
The commission, which was supposed to submit its report by Oct 31, had sought extension as it could not complete the deliberations due to the general elections.
‘The commission has requested for [...]
Mumbai, Sep 12 (ANI): Congress party has begun shortlisting candidates aspiring for party’s nomination for the October 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra.
Congress party, which is running a coalition government with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra for the [...]
Chennai, Aug 16 (ANI): The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) kept off a controversy brewing in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Newspapers and television channels have been reporting that there was a tussle in the BJP as to who would succeed Advani when he [...]
New Delhi, Aug 14 (ANI): Over fifty legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Rajasthan met party president Rajnath Singh on Friday to shore up support for former chief minister Vasundhra Raje.
Raje supporters thronged the national capital in a bid to pressure the party’s central leadership to put of a decision to remove her [...]
New Delhi, Aug 14(ANI): In her address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, President Pratibha Patil on Friday urged the nation to be prepared to face any situation arising out of poor monsoon and asked fellow citizens to cooperate with [...]
