Chhattisgarh, one of the states worst hit by Maoist insurgency, has received Rs.149 crore aid from the central government since 2005-06 for modernisisng its police force, a minister said here Wednesday.
In a written reply in response to a question asked by the opposition Congress, state Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar told the state assembly that [...]
Bangalore, Dec 30 (ANI): The Karnataka State Assembly on Wednesday witnessed unbelievable chaos with both opposition and treasury benches exchanging blows.
The assembly was scheduled to take up the issue of the Speaker’s election but the opposition demanded [...]
Bangalore, Dec 30 (IANS) The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s K.G. Bopaiah was Wednesday elected Karnataka assembly speaker amid protests by opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular parties.
Congress and JD-S members trooped into the well of the house and began shouting as the poll process started. They demanded the poll to be put off in view of [...]
Dharamsala, Dec 18 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh assembly Friday passed a bill to protect medical and medical staff from violence, most often by relatives of a dead patient.
Health Minister Rajeev Bindal, who introduced the Himachal Pradesh Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Bill, 2009, said the measure [...]
Agartala, Dec 14 (IANS) The central government may amend the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, to set up a separate high court in Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Monday.
All the seven northeastern states, excluding Sikkim, come under the jurisdiction of the Guwahati High Court. Sikkim has a separate high court.
All parties in Tripura [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 11 (IANS) The winter session of the Punjab assembly ended here Friday with the opposition Congress boycotting its proceedings.
Congress legislators, demanding resignation of assembly speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, walked out of the assembly Friday and boycotted it. However, the assembly proceedings went on in the absence of the opposition.
‘We strongly demand the resignation [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 10 (IANS) The Punjab assembly, which witnessed a free-for-all Tuesday with ruling Akali Dal and opposition Congress members coming to blows inside the house, was adjourned Thursday for some time after members exchanged heated arguments.
The assembly was adjourned for one hour by Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon.
During the afternoon session, Congress legislators, led by [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 8 (IANS) Legislators of Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal and opposition Congress Tuesday got into a scuffle inside the assembly over the issue of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
The free-for-all started when Congress legislators moved towards Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal while he was replying to [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 7 (IANS) With prices of essential items sky rocketing in Kerala, rival political fronts in the state have started blaming each other for it.
The price of onions has shot up beyond Rs.40 a kg, while rice costs around Rs.30 per kg.
The opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front Monday blamed the ruling Left government for [...]
Bhopal, Dec 7 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government plans to write ‘I am poor’ on walls of houses of people with below poverty line (BPL) cards to discourage the non-deserving families from availing benefits of the scheme, officials said Monday.
An official of the food and civil supplies department said: ‘The department, in case it gets [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 6 (IANS) Orissa’s opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members continued to protest inside the state assembly Sunday against the abrupt adjournment of the winter session 14 days ahead of schedule.
The opposition members had staged a night long protest Saturday.
Orissa Speaker Pradip Amat had abruptly adjourned the assembly session Saturday. The [...]
Agartala, Nov 26 (IANS) The opposition Congress-sponsored dawn to dusk shutdown Thursday in the Tripura capital to protest the killing of a Youth Congress leader two days ago saw many shops and business establishments remaining closed and attendance in offices thin.
‘Around 50 Congress activists were arrested in the capital city when they tried to enforce [...]
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Normal life remained virtually unaffected in West Bengal Tuesday despite a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), an ally of opposition Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in the state. It is protesting on various issues including rises in the prices of essential commodities.
Police said the 12-hour shutdown from [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 19 (IANS) After coming under severe criticism from the opposition parties for ‘neglecting’ the farm sector, Orissa government Thursday set up a four-member commission to deal with problems of farmers.
Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout announced in the assembly that a State Farmers’ Commission has been set up to look into various issues relating to [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 19 (IANS) The Orissa assembly was repeatedly adjourned Thursday as the opposition Congress took up the issue of dozens of distressed farmers committing suicide allegedly due to their crops failing and government neglect.
Trouble began as soon as question hour started with leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh demanding that the deaths of the farmers [...]
Shimla, Nov 19 (IANS) The week-long winter session of the Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly will be held at Dharamsala from Dec 14, a minister said here Thursday.
Governor Prabha Rau has recommended convening of the winter session of the assembly from Dec 14 to 21 at Dharamsala, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs J.P. Nadda told IANS.
The last [...]
Agartala, Nov 11 (IANS) Life was paralysed in parts of northern Tripura Wednesday following a strike called by political parties to protest a terror attack on the families of surrendered militants that claimed eight lives.
The attack came even as peace had begun to prevail in the state. Police say the attackers may have come from [...]
Raipur, Nov 10 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress were Tuesday locked in a close contest in the Vaishali Nagar assembly seat as officials counted votes cast in the by-election last week.
BJP’s Jageshwar Sahu who was leading till the 11th round was trailing by about 600 votes at the end [...]
Shimla, Nov 10 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday bagged one seat and the opposition Congress one in the assembly by-elections held last week.
Congress candidate Sujan Singh Pathania won the Jawali seat by 5,249 votes, whereas the BJP’s Khushi Ram Balnatah won from Rohru by a margin of 8,473 votes, state chief [...]
Shimla, Nov 10 (IANS) Counting of votes began Tuesday morning in two assembly constituencies of Himachal Pradesh that saw by-elections Saturday.
The counting in Rohru and Jawali began at 8 a.m. The results are expected before noon, state chief electoral officer Anil Khachi told IANS.
While Rohru in Shimla district saw 69.36 percent polling, Jawali in Kangra [...]
Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) An estimated 50-55 percent of the over 200,000 electorate exercised their franchise in Chhattisgarh’s Vaishali Nagar assembly seat by-poll Saturday, officials said.
Election officials said that voting was peaceful at most of the 221 polling booths.
‘Voting was largely peaceful except for a few minor incidents. Though the final polling percentage will [...]
Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Polling for the assembly seat of Vaishali Nagar in Chhattisgarh began Saturday amid tight security, an official said.
Women were seen lined up at booths in urban areas of Vaishali Nagar in Durg district much before voting began at 8 a.m. However, polling began at dull note in village areas.
As many as [...]
Raipur, Nov 6 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress will battle it out for the lone assembly seat that goes to polls Saturday.
The BJP, which is in power since December 2003, is pulling no stops to retain the seat which was vacated by its legislator Saroj Pandey.
Pandey was elected [...]
Agartala, Nov 3 (IANS) Over 400 Congress activists were arrested in Tripura Tuesday as they tried to enfore a 12-hour shutdown in parts of the state to protest an alleged attack on their legislator by cadres of the ruling the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), police said.
Many shops and businesses establishments, government offices and [...]
Shimla, Nov 3 (IANS) With less than 56 hours left for the end of campaigning for the by-elections for two assembly constituencies, electioneering has finally picked up in Himachal Pradesh.
Though no national leader of either of the main political parties in the state – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress – [...]
Raipur, Oct 20 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress Tuesday announced candidates for the bypoll to Vaishali Nagar assembly seat scheduled for Nov 7.
After hectic lobbying, the BJP selected local heavyweight Jageshwar Sahu while the Congress has backed Bhajan Singh Nirankari for the lone assembly seat for which [...]
Raipur, Oct 17 (IANS) The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided not to contest an assembly bypoll in Chhattisgarh Nov 7.
‘The BSP will not put up a candidate for Vaishali Nagar seat, neither will we support any political outfit or independent candidate,’ Dauram Ratnakar, state BSP president, told IANS.
‘The decision to stay out of the [...]
Kottayam (Kerala), Oct 9 (IANS) The Kerala Congress-Secular (KC-S), supporting the state’s opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), Friday announced it will merge with the Kerala Congress-Mani (KC-M).
The mergers decision was unanimous, five-time legislator P.C. George, who heads the KC-S, told reporters after a party meeting.
‘The convention is that it is the river that merges [...]
Shimla, Sep 26 (IANS) Political activity in Himachal Pradesh has picked up ahead of by-elections to two assembly seats.
The two main political parties in the state – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress – have started wooing the electorates of the Rohru and Jawali (Fatehgarh post delimitation) constituencies.
Rohru and Jawali were [...]
Shimla, Sep 22 (IANS) Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Tuesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into police in Himachal Pradesh giving a clean chit to all the accused in an alleged high-profile call girl racket.
‘The state government has hushed up the matter as senior functionaries of the ruling (Bharatiya Janata Party) party [...]
