Parliament's monsoon session began amid sloganeering and protests from opposition of different issues.
Banerjee also alleged that instead of using the spyware for the security of the country, it was used by the central government which she claimed purchased it, for "political" reasons against Judges and officials.
Bandh demanding statehood for Telangana, protests on streets and shutdown in the state is what Andhra has been witnessing for years now. But what is it that makes Tuesday's agitation different? Vicky Nanjappa analyses
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close confidant and Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Amit Shah was Sunday appointed in charge of politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.
Anita Katyal explains why the Congress party is virtually in a Catch-22 situation in politically significant Andhra Pradesh over the sensitive Telangana issue.
From a gram panchayat ward member to a member of Parliament, elected representatives at different levels of the political pyramid, cutting across party lines, have resigned from their posts in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to protest the 'unilateral decision' of the Congress to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.Ministers, both at the Central and state level, hailing from the region, haven't yet decided on their resignations, despite mounting pressure.
'...it gets a survey report that they are going to lose elections.' 'The fear of losing elections will make them immediately conduct a caste census.'
What would Parliament be without these nine ladies?
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear on March 24 a plea by K Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, seeking protection from arrest and challenging the summons by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case arising out of the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
'The others have been looting the people all these years. If you don't do that, you can do a lot for the people,' says Tamil star politician Vijayakanth.
The joint statement was issued by senior leaders of 13 opposition parties, including interim president of Congress Sonia Gandhi, the Nationalist Congress Party patriarch Sharad Pawar, and the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Firebrand Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia alleged that hate speech cases lodged against him in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra were an attempt by "vote-greedy political people" to engage him in legal tangles before elections in many states and, later on, at the Centre.
"I am ready to die to keep the state united, as I consider the decision of the Congress to be a very bad one. If the Bill is tabled in Parliament, there will be a self-immolation and I am very serious about it," Ankapalli MP Sabbam Hari tells Vicky Nanjappa.
A party demanding meaningful change seems to have touched a deep chord among voters, says Sreelatha Menon
Some of our leaders were busybusy over the weekend.
Sibal, a prominent Opposition voice and a former Congress leader, also said that instead of a common minimum programme, the Opposition parties should talk about a 'new vision for India'.
It has been virtually a ten-year wait that's coming to a happy end for the 47-year-old leader, who nurtured the ambition of becoming chief minister soon after his father's death in September 2009.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Wednesday reserved its order till September 23 on the bail plea of the jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in a case related to alleged quid-pro-quo investments in the companies owned by him.
Tamil Nadu, which boasted of as many as nine ministers in the UPA-II government in 2009, did not get any representation in Modi 2.0 government.
Today, with the Lok Sabha polls only months away, any inter-state dispute over the Cauvery water dispute has the potential to take more political turns than otherwise, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
This will pave the way for emergence of 24,000 new panchayat-level leaders in Telangana, he said.
With Central Bureau of Investigation raids continuing unabated against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy in both Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the road ahead does not look easy for the leader who has been threatening to erode the Congress base in Rayalseema and Andhra.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy "three-days mission" to Delhi from Sunday is a politically sensitive one. His stay in Delhi for three days inidcates that he has serious business with the All India Congress Committee.
It is thanks to the policy of liberalisation conceived by Manmohan Singh and enforced by P V Narasimha that the Indian economy has now become the world's 5th largest economy by nominal GDP, asserts Dr Sudhir Bisht.
The political buzz in Delhi Corridors of power is not good for the Congress, especially when the President of India elections are near.
The worst flood in Andhra Pradesh, which left a trail of death and destruction, has dampened the campaign to make late Andhra Chief Minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy's son Jaganmohan Reddy the Chief Minister and helped interim CM K Rosaiah to consolidate his position.
Slamming Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for his comment that political parties in Andhra Pradesh should first make up their mind on Telangana issue, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday demanded that the Centre should conduct a referendum in the region.
Kavitha has spent around 18-19 hours at the ED headquarters in central Delhi during her two appearances on March 11 and March 20.
According to the officials, the funds to the Congress were sent by Hyderabad-based Megha Infrastructure and Engineering.
The new social and political order calls for a reorganisation; but it is no guarantee for effective administration. We present a Business Standard debate where two experts have put forth their views.
The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill and The Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill passed amid din.
Keeping their eyes on the assembly elections, the BJP has been trying to win favour with the southern regional parties, observes R Rajagopalan
The new Council of Ministers has representation from almost all the states, except Andhra Pradesh and the north-eastern states of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.
The Andhra Pradesh government appears to be unwilling for engaging in talks with Communist Party of India (Maoist), even as the general secretary of the banned outfit Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy said his group is ready for a dialogue with the Andhra Chief Minister K Rosaiah's administration, but with certain pre-conditions.
The government on Wednesday hoped that four political parties in Andhra Pradesh -- Congress, Telugu Desam Party, MIM and YSR Congress -- will take a call on Telangana issue by end of December, enabling it to convene an all-party meeting.
Biju Janata Dal members had staged a walk-out while NDA ally Shiv Sena did not participate in the voting.
In a bid to find a way out on the Telangana issue, the Centre and the Congress on Tuesday began hectic consultations with MPs from Andhra Pradesh, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said a decision would be taken soon to "bring everything in order".
Normal life in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh continued to remain affected for the second consecutive day on Suday due to the ongoing 36-hour 'rail roko' call given by the Telangana Joint Action Committee in support of their demand for separate statehood.
Chidambaram appealed to political parties in Andhra Pradesh to read the recommendations of the Justice Srikrishna Committee on Telangana with an "open mind" and give "impartial consideration" to them.
Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu blamed the ruling Congress for the present state of affairs in Andhra Pradesh and asked the party to bail the state out of the crisis. "This has become such a complex issue that divisions have taken place in political parties. Congress is responsible for this and they should solve the problem," Naidu, on a tour of West Godavari and East Godavari districts in coastal Andhra, said at Tanuku.
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