The Congress Wednesday said the list containing caste description of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and its Bihar unit office-bearers was not released formally and that the party was inquiring how the document became public.
‘We are ascertaining if and why such a list was made. It was not released formally. It is a matter [...]
Medical services were hit as doctors called a one-day strike in Jharkhand Wednesday to protest the rising attacks on medics in Jamshedpur city.
OPD services in both private and government hospitals as well as services in private nursing homes were affected due to the doctors’ strike, and adversely affected patients.
The emergency services were, however, [...]
With the central government yet to make an announcement on initiating the process for statehood to Telangana, the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) will hold a crucial meeting Tuesday to chalk out its future course of action.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) legislator Harish Rao told reporters Sunday that the JAC would intensify the agitation if the [...]
Allying with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad was a big mistake, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has said, as his party prepares for the Bihar assembly elections by highlighting central welfare schemes and targeting youth through Rahul Gandhi.
‘The alliance with the RJD was the biggest mistake,’ Tytler, a former union minister who [...]
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Sing Chouhan Friday sought cooperation from all political parties and social groups in reaching consensus of electoral reforms, such as fixed terms for legislatures and simultaneous elections to parliament and state assemblies.
In separate letters to legislators, members of parliament, national leaders of various political parties and social activists, Chouhan suggested [...]
Indians living abroad and holding dual citizenship should accept tax obligations from their mother country just as they seek and often get many privileges and benefits that go to Indians living and working at home, according to eminent economist and professor of Columbia University Jagdish Bhagwati.
‘…Alongside… improved rights, we in the diaspora need to recognise [...]
The new Jharkhand government headed by Shibu Soren Thursday sought a trust vote in the assembly to prove its majority.
The trust vote was moved by Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das as Soren continues to be Lok Sabha MP. He has six months within which to get elected to the assembly.
Soren, who became Jharkhand’s seventh chief [...]
West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen Wednesday said investment flow into the state has not dried up because of the violent protests over acquisition of farmland at Singur and Nandigram for industrial projects.
‘The state is still receiving a stream of investment proposals despite what has happened,’ Sen told reporters on the sidelines of [...]
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday said she would consider suggestions by Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza that there should be a Women’s Parliamentary Caucus in South Asia.
‘I will look into it,’ Meira Kumar said on the sidelines of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) when asked about the [...]
Dozens of pro- and anti-Telangana activists protested in the capital Tuesday when Home Minister P. Chidambaram was chairing a multi-party meeting to resolve the controversial issue of statehood to Telangana by hiving off a part of Andhra Pradesh.
The demonstrations were held outside the home ministry when leaders from Andhra Pradesh were deliberating on a mechanism [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday heaped praise on Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, saying she had an ‘iron fist beneath a velvet voice’.
‘I am pleased that the speaker facing these challenges … is a very distinguished woman, Meira Kumar, who sheathes the proverbial iron fist beneath a velvet voice,’ he told the Conference of Speakers [...]
India’s journey to a multi-party democracy has been marked with ’stresses and strains’ but it has worked, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while making a strong case for a meaningful voice for women in political and developmental processes.
‘India’s own tryst with democracy drew its inspiration from our freedom struggle. And so, at a time [...]
Mobilising the ‘vast latent capabilities of our women’ was imperative to democracy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while advocating a a more meaningful voice for women in political and developmental processes.
‘The representative bodies (in India) should think of ways to marshal the energy and the impatience of the young and the vast latent [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The 20th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), hosted by the Indian parliament, started here Monday with a meeting under the chairmanship of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
However, the conference, being attended by 50 speakers and presiding officers from 42 parliaments in the Commonwealth Jan 4-8, [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil was greeted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice President Hamid Ansari and a group of specially-abled children on the occasion of the New Year at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.
The President was also greeted by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Prime Minister Singh [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) There is good news on New Year’s day from the country’s agriculture sector.
The rabi (winter sowing) season shows signs of improvement in production of wheat, rice and pulses.
‘Data received from states reveals that sowing of rabi crop is progressing well,’ said an agriculture ministry statement here Friday.
The worst monsoon [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) India’s annual food inflation based on wholesale prices rose to 19.83 percent for the week ended Oct 19 from 18.65 percent the week before as prices of essential commodities continued to rule high.
As per official data on the wholesale price index released Thursday, the annual inflation of primary articles [...]
Ranchi, Dec 30 (IANS) He is a politician to the core, known as a champion of the poor and hugely popular despite being dogged by bribery allegations. Shibu Soren, who became Jharkhand’s chief minister for the third time Wednesday, will also face two murder cases not long after getting the top post in the [...]
Bhopal, Dec 29 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Congress Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for ‘violating’ the security of Bhopal airport by holding a function within its premises to welcome newly-appointed Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj.
Taking strong exception to the incident, the Congress has asked the BJP leaders [...]
The year 2009 saw a major turnaround in the Indian political scene which augurs well for the future.
For the first time after a longish period, the divisive elements have taken a back seat. Since these include both the Communists and the rightist forces represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the list encompasses those cutting [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Former Test cricketer and member of Lok Sabha Kirti Azad Tuesday said he was insulted and interrupted when he tried to raise at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) Sunday’s fiasco at Ferozeshah Kotla, leading to the abandonment of the India-Sri Lanka [...]
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Tourism in Darjeeling has been hit by the sustained agitation of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) for a Gorkhaland state, West Bengal Tourism Minister Manabendra Mukherjee said Monday.
‘The ongoing political turmoil is no doubt affecting tourism in Darjeeling, but Darjeeling is still the queen of hills and it will continue to [...]
Bhopal, Dec 28 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Monday said there was nothing wrong in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) decision to support a Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government in Jharkhand, as he had been absolved of murder charges by the high court.
‘The party’s parliamentary board was unanimous [...]
Ranchi, Dec 27 (IANS) As he prepares to rule Jharkhand for the third time, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren will hope he does not land into trouble again.
Soren first took over as the state’s chief minister after the March 2005 assembly elections despite the numbers being against him. He had to step down [...]
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) It was a sorry end to an illustrious political career. Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who quit as governor of Andhra Pradesh Saturday after being caught on video in an alleged sex romp with three women in the Hyderabad Raj Bhavan, has been one of the longest serving Congress leaders in the [...]
Mumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) Newly-appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Saturday expressed confidence that the saffron alliance will sweep to power at the centre and in Maharashtra in the next elections.
Addressing party workers here Saturday evening, Gadkari said that the party had won in both the places earlier and ’shall win in the [...]
Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists Saturday started a relay hunger strike at four places in Darjeeling district in West Bengal in an apparent attempt to keep up the pressure for creation of a separate Gorkhaland state.
‘This relay hunger strike will continue till our demand for Gorkhaland is met,’ GJM general secretary [...]
Bangalore, Dec 26 (IANS) Young women assaulted for going to a pub, an incident that triggered nationwide outrage, financial clout used to bring the first BJP government in the state to the brink of collapse – these instances blackened Karnataka’s fair image in 2009.
And the devastating floods that hit large parts of north Karnataka, killing [...]
New Delhi/Lucknow, Dec 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday observed the 85th birthday Friday of party stalwart and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by organising feasts for the poor and a blood donation camp. Senior party leaders visited his residence to greet him as did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Manmohan Singh reached Vajpayee’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) While paying fulsome tribute to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 85th birthday Friday, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani has, however, admitted to differences with him on issues like the Ayodhya movement and the removal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the 2002 Godhra [...]
