M.S. Swaminathan, top farm scientist and one of the architects of India’s green revolution, has warned that the country would face a food crisis if agriculture and farmers were ignored.
‘We are on the verge of a disaster. We will be in serious difficulty if food productivity is not increased and farming is neglected,’ Swaminathan told [...]
Hyderabad, Jan 1 (IANS) Senior leaders of the Congress party from Telangana region Friday warned Chief Minister K. Rosaiah that they would not keep quiet if any action was taken against state minister K. Venkat Reddy, who has accused the chief minister of opposing the Telangana demand.
Rosaiah has already complained to the party’s central leadership [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 1 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan came under attack from his own aides at the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) state committee meeting here Friday for violating the party’s discipline, sources said.
CPI-M sources said that known Achuthanandan aides like state Minister for Labour P.K. Gurudasan, Fisheries Minister S. Sarma and former Rajya [...]
Kochi, Dec 30 (IANS) Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan, an accused in the Rs.374 crore scam in a deal with Canadian firm SNC Lavalin, was Wednesday granted bail by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here.
The bail application was moved by the CPI-M state secretary’s counsel M.K. Damodaran and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The Congress continued to grapple with divisions in its ranks on Telangana with senior party leader K. Keshav Rao stating Thursday that there would be no compromise on separate statehood and the MPs were ‘even prepared to sacrifice their lives’ for the cause.
Rao, who is All India Congress Committee (AICC) [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Eleven out of 12 Congress party MPs from the Telangana region and as many as 80 legislators — cutting across party lines — Thursday decided to resign to protest the central government’s move to put on hold the process of forming a Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.
Congress MP Madhu Yashki [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Eleven out of 12 Congress party MPs from the Telangana region Thursday decided to resign to protest the central government’s move to put on hold the process of forming a Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.
Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud from Nizamabad and MP Ponnam Prabhakar from Karimnagar said they had [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Congress party MPs from the Telangana region Thursday decided to resign to protest the central government’s move to put on hold the process for forming a Telangana state.
Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud from Nizamabad and his colleague Ponnam Prabhakar from Karimnagar said they had decided to quit respecting the sentiments of [...]
Ranchi, Dec 22 (IANS) A day ahead of the assembly election vote counting, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren Tuesday asserted he was the ‘key’ to formation of the next state government and was open to supporting either the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) or the Congress, if approached.
‘The key to formation of the next [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha Tuesday witnessed the rare site of Congress ministers and MPs applauding a suggestion by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member on improving the country’s civil defence preparedness.
‘You have two billion eyes in this country. Involve them in your civil defence measures,’ BJP’s Anil Madhav Dave said while [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to make a statement Tuesday in a bid to resolve the crisis over the issue of separate Telangana state, an MP from Andhra Pradesh said after meeting him in New Delhi.
A delegation of Congress MPs from the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions met the prime [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Tension prevailed at a Hyderabad hospital Monday as a large number of pro-Telangana activists gathered and demanded that Congress MP L. Rajagopal, on a fast against the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh, go back to Vijaywada hospital from where he slipped out Sunday night to surface here 15 hours later.
Rajagopal escaped [...]
Panaji, Dec 17 (IANS) Insisting that Goa was a safe place, state Home Minister Ravi Naik Thursday told the Goa legislative assembly that a Russian woman who has accused politician John Fernandes of rape knew him since 2008, and ‘you make friends and while going on the road some trouble happens’.
Naik was replying to a [...]
Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) The Goa state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded a public apology from the state’s lone Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik for his controversial comments on rape.
Addressing a press conference, party spokesperson Govind Parvatkar said the Congress MP had defamed Goa’s credential as a safe state.
‘He should [...]
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The move to seek the impeachment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran has gathered momentum with more than 50 Rajya Sabha members signing a petition seeking his removal.
This development comes as the Supreme Court panel of five senior-most judges and the union government have tacitly decided not to [...]
Bangalore, Dec 12 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu Saturday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had handled the Telangana issue in an ‘immature and irresponsible’ manner.
‘They have messed up the issue. It is an immature and irresponsible act of the government,’ Naidu, who hails from Andhra Pradesh but is a [...]
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party Sunday accused the central government of misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for favouring ‘persons close to the party.’
Party general secretary Amar Singh said Sunday that cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were withdrawn based on the advice of the solicitor general but the advice of [...]
Ranchi, Dec 6 (IANS) Senior political leaders like the BJP’s Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Raman Singh and the RJD’s Lalu Prasad addressed rallies in Jharkhand as campaigning for the third phase of assembly polls ended Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitely also campaigned for the party.
The third phase of elections is on Dec [...]
New Delhi, Nov.27 (ANI): Former Defense Minister George Fernandes and Rajya Sabha member has appreciated the 5th Parliamentarians’ Convention on Tibet which was held in Rome between November 18 to 19 this [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (ANI): Parliamentarians of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi party (SP) heckled each other as the enquiry report of the Liberhan Commission, which probed the circumstances leading to the demolition of the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha witnessed some unsavoury moments Tuesday after tabling of the Liberhan Commission report when, provoked by the raising of religious slogans, Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh attacked Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) S.S. Ahluwalia. However, both apologised to each other later.
When some BJP members raised slogans like [...]
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The communist Party of India (CPI) has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ‘immediately intervene’ to cancel the ‘in-principle clearance’ given to two projects in the tribal dominated areas of Jagatsinghpur and Lanjigarh in Orissa.
‘Handing over people’s resources without complying with the Forest Rights Act first, and respecting their rights [...]
Bagalkot (Karnataka), Nov 2 (IANS) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday lauded the corporate sector for coming forward to build houses and other facilities for the flood affected in north Karnataka.
‘I appreciate corporates are giving back to the society which sustains them,’ the minister said here after laying the foundation stone for relocation of Shirabadagi [...]
Gandhinagar, Oct 26 (IANS) Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Purshottam Rupala was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad Monday after he suffered a mild heart attack, a party official said.
Rupala, 55, was rushed to the SAL Hospital in Ahmedabad from the state capital here after he complained of chest pain around 4.30 a.m.
Attending doctors [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (Marxist) insisted that the Union Government should take appropriate steps to ensure accountability in the controversial spectrum allotment issue in the wake of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raid on offices of the Department of Telecom (DoT).
Addressing the media here on Friday Rajya Sabha [...]
Ranchi, Oct 11 (IANS) Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Jharkhand unit Sunday staged a demonstration in front of the Governor’s House here, demanding early elections to the state assembly.
Thousands of BJP workers, holding banners and cut-outs, joined in the party’s ‘Raj Bhavan gherao’ programme, expressing their unhappiness over the worsening law and [...]
Ranchi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Jharkhand unit Friday handed over a cheque of Rs.1 lakh to the widow of Induwar Francis, a police officer beheaded by Maoists, to help the family overcome financial crisis.
Induwar was not paid his salary for five months due to technical reasons.
A BJP delegation headed by state [...]
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Sacked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh will lead the Lok Morcha, a group of Independent MPs who have come together due to ‘commonality of issues’.
A Rajya Sabha member associated with the group confirmed to IANS that non-BJP and non-Congress MPs have come together and will be led by [...]
Hyderabad, Sep 30 (IANS) A senior Congress leader in Andhra Pradesh has termed as ‘bogus’ the shock deaths of 600 people following the demise of chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash early this month.
Giving a bitter twist to the war of words with the loyalists of the late [...]
Chennai, Sep 27 (ANI): Tens of thousands of enthusiastic people including international athletes participated in the ‘Idea Chennai International Marathon’ held here on Sunday.
The race was dedicated to under-privileged children.
This 21- kilometres long marathon was organised from the War Memorial to [...]
