'We would like India to play a much more vigorous role. Of course, there are constraints and inhibitions, but it is still possible for India to play a meaningful and proactive role.'
The post of the speaker of Jammu and Kashmir assembly will go to the Bharatiya Janata Party with its MLA Kavinder Gupta likely to be the ruling People's Democratic Party-BJP alliance's choice for the chair.
The national executive will begin in Delhi on Monday.
Left parties have decided to launch a nationwide campaign against the centre's decision to support IAEA resolution against Iran.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will launch the National Food For Work Programme (NFFWP) at Aloor village in Andhra Pradesh's Ranga Reddy district on November 14.
Yechuri also appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to adopt the pattern followed by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in key policies
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said India needs to follow an independent foreign policy.
Left parties on Tuesday asked the government to correct the "negative" aspects of its economic policy and prioritise the implementation of those aspects of the Common Minimum Programme
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was the best example of how to run a coalition in the era of parties working on a common minimum programme," he said at the launch of a special-edition magazine named Sankalp brought out by Shyama Prasad Mukheree and Pandit Deendayal Trust in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The Left leaders are unhappy over the manner in which the UPA government is going ahead with disinvestment of profit\nmaking public sector companies or inviting foreign direct investment.
The Indian economy is in a strong footing. The only areas of apprehension are the impact of crude prices on the fiscal situation and on the interest rates.
The Congress-led government's common minimum programme, whose finalisation was being expedited, will balance reforms and development so that tough measures like containing the revenue deficit and cut in subsidies become "painless".
The SP hopes to rope in Telugu Desam Party, Dravida Munnetra Kazagam and the Nationalist Congress Party in the proposed front.
As per the scheme, rural electricity infrastructure will be set up and household electrification will be completed in the next five years.
India's stand was regrettable and not in conformity with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy.\n\n
The government said the\ndecisions taken by it last year were the 'highest' in the last ten years.
Divestment also was not covered. One would have expected divestment to be a major instrument for raising fund for various projects, as was the case in the last 3-4 budgets but we did not see it at all.
The Left parties will oppose opening of the retail sector to Foreign Direct Investment when they meet United Progrssive Alliance leaders at a meeting of the coordination committee to be held after a gap of four months on October 27
The government is planning to launch a scheme to improve healthcare in villages by involving private doctors and NGOs.
Four left parties on Wednesday asked the government to stop divestment of 35 public sector undertakings including BHEL, PowerGrid Corporation and Power Finance Corporation saying the move would adversely affect the development of PSUs and would also
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the historic bill providing 100 days employment guarantee to every rural household in the country.
The government on Tuesday announced that it has formally called-off plans to sell stakes in 13 profit-making central public sector undertakings.
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