Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday dissolved the Tamil Nadu Students Congress and sacked its chairman Kalaiarasan through an email order.
Poll preparations for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Delhi have begun, and the preliminary conference of chief electoral officers of these states will be held in Delhi in the first week of June.
Pakistan Muslim League-N President Mian Muhammad Nawaz Shaif condemned the unlawful treatment given to prisoners in the jails of both countries.
A body discovered in a river in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, has been confirmed to be that of Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Indian American student who went missing on March 16.
The most wanted man of Bengal, Sudipta Sen, along with his close aide Debjani Mukherjee, their driver Rajeeb and another Saradha group official were apprehended from Kashmir's Sonemarg on Tuesday.
Former telecom minister A Raja, the main accused in the 2G scam, was not allowed to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is looking into the alleged mishandling in the allocation of 2G spectrum.
Former telecom minister A Raja on Monday wrote a strongly-worded letter to Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairman P C Chacko, slamming the draft report of the committee on the 2G scam.
"The decision of whether or not to grant you permission to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee will be taken on the basis of the members' opinion."
Parliamentary reporting is likely to come to a grinding halt, as the policy on recruitment and promotions is stalled by the Lok Sabha secretariat
Violence has erupted in Bengal on Tuesday after Students' Federation of India activists heckled West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra.
Industrialists were reportedly in two minds about attending Modi's address lest it should draw the ire of the Mamata Banerjee-led government
Another all-party meeting will attempt to resolve political concerns about the Land Reforms Bill.
A six-member delegation of Indian parliamentarians will visit Sri Lanka from April 8 to 12. The multi-party delegation visiting Colombo and Jaffna will not, however, include MPs from Tamil Nadu.
Conspicuous by their absence with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmad Patel and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
The Congress president had in September last year made a similar trip abroad for a routine medical check-up after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed ailment in August 2011.
Mittal asked the Supreme Court to quash CBI court summons.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's proposal about setting up an all-women bank -- first suggested in this year's budget -- received much acclaim.The proposed bank will lend mostly to women and women- run businesses, support women self-help groups and women's livelihood, Chidambaram had said.
The United Progressive Alliance government and the Opposition seem to be heading for yet another showdown on the subject of key appointments -- this time over National Investigation Agency director S C Sinha being named as a member of the National Human Rights Commission
The ministry of external affairs has ratified an agreement with Italy that will allow convicted nationals of both countries to be transferred back to serve sentences in their own country, an officer in the ministry said.
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