Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said the Telangana issue cannot be discussed in Lok Sabha unless the Andhra Pradesh assembly passes a resolution for a separate state
The Central Bureau of Investigation, on Tuesday, cited statements of witnesses, including an eye-witness Surinder Singh, to a local court in an attempt to justify its closure report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler.
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday that the impasse between the Congress and the Nationalist Congres Party over formation of government in Maharashtra will end on a positive note by Thursday.
Information technology czar Azim Premji foresaw on Friday emergence of a two-party system in the country, saying the recent Lok Sabha polls verdict was an indication to that effect. Addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry-organised fifth India Innovation Summit 2009 in Bangalore, he said the results of the recent Parliamentary elections suggested that Indian voter wants a two-party system.
The attack on India's financial capital is a "turning point" in tactics adopted by terrorists in such operations, officials including those from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department concluded while testifying before a Congressional Committee on lessons learnt from the Mumbai attack. It becomes all the more necessary to bring the perpetrators to justice, otherwise there could be more and more such attacks, they said
Ending the decade long Congress-Nationalist Party 'misrule' is more important than pursuing personal ambitions like being the Chief Minister, Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said on Monday.
Releasing the party's election manifesto at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi asked the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to come out with a white paper on Chinese incursions into this frontier state and have an action plan ready to tackle any eventuality along Sino-Indian border.
The Congress has been organizing these mock assembly sessions in every district headquarter.
They are Congress President Sonia Gandhi's field marshals -- the 100 men and women who will drive the party's campaign in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. The "war team" announced on Thursday night included state-wise screening committees constituted under the leadership of a dozen leaders for selection of candidates.
It is spring in Bengal, yet the scorching afternoon sun unleashed its unbearable heat as rediff.com decided to walk around Barrackpore, a sub-division under North 24 Parganas in West Bengal.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday opened an innings beyond the political arena when he was elected president of the Gujarat Cricket Association. Gujarat Minister of state for Home, Amit shah, was elected vice-president.
It is collective positive action that will enable the warring cousins to carry forward the Thackeray mantle in 2010 and beyond. Fighting over a limited votebank could see their downfall just like what befell Shivaji Maharaj's successors till the Peshwas came on the scene decades later.
'We are writing to request that you join us in signing the attached letter that we are sending to Secretary (Robert) Gates regarding a fundamental issue of fairness, justice, and religious freedom: the right of Sikh Americans to abide by their religious articles of faith while serving in the United States Armed Forces,' wrote Congressmen Rodney Frelinghuysen and Carolyn Maloney in a 'dear colleague' letter.
Seeking to put an end to the row over his alleged slapping of a rural bank manager, Congress Member of Parliament M Jagannath on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology to the victim. "I have no personal grudge against Ravinder Reddy, the rural bank manager. It was an unfortunate incident. The truth would come out later. However, I tender an unconditional apology to him to put an end to this," he told reporters in New Delhi.
Dikshit was elected at a meeting of 42 party legislators in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was attended among others by All India Congress Committee General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai, Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal and Delhi Pradesh Congres Committee chief Jai Prakash Aggarwal.
In the backdrop of escalated stand-off between the Congres-led United Progressive Alliance and its outside supporters the Left parties, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani on Thursday termed the Manmohan Singh government as a lame duck and said political uncertainity was prevailing in the country.
The Indian arm of the Union for Information & Technology Enabled Services is planning to file a public interest litigation against the alleged 'arbitrary policy' of many Indian and multinational IT/ITeS firms in India who have, for the past two months, reportedly been enforcing longer working hours that violate the daily eight-hour working mandate of the Indian Factories Act, 1948.
With campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections beginning to gain momentum, Congress has released a booklet on the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance government to arm the party leaders and the cadre with facts and figures to counter the opposition.
M Venkaiah Naidu launched a scathing attack on the Congress for calling statements of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi anti-national and saying he should be tried for treason. "What else can you expect from the Congress government but to launch treason proceedings against Modi and confer the Bharat Ratna on Mohammad Afzal Guru who was awarded death sentence for attacking Parliament in December 2001," he told rediff.com.
'But for Rajiv's bloopers, the Hindutva campaign would not have got off the ground,' Amulya Ganguli points out.
The BJP has nominated Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal as its candidate from Maharashtra for Rajya Sabha election.
A picture, they say, is worth a 1,000 words. Come the general election and we may find that a certain picture is worth 2,000 words.
The order of Speaker Raghubir Singh Kadian came on a petition filed against Lal seeking that he be disqualified as a legislator since he had voluntarily given up the membership of the Congress on whose ticket he was elected and formed a new party along with his son and parliamentarian Kuldip Bishnoi.
Germany's federal cartel office on Tuesday launched an investigation into the German football association's (DFB) sale of tickets for the national team's matches at Euro 2016.
Barring a minor scuffle between the polling agents of SAD and the Congress at Lambi and in Sector 71 of Mohali, the polling was peaceful, official sources said.
News about rebels raising their head in Samana, Hoshiarpur, Baranala and Sangrur are pouring in consistently.
"I cannot tell Ratan Tata to go back", the West Bengal chief minister said while speaking at the annual general meeting of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kolkata.
The United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) has categorically said that it was opposed to the nuclear deal and felt that the UPA government should proceed no further in that direction.
The apology letter addressed to Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Joginder Singh Vidanti was delivered to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Avtar Singh Makkar by Congress legislator from Bathinda Harminder Singh Jassi.
the US was ready to talk with any country who was on an acceptable list, who had a space programme and capability that could fly instruments or collaborate in missions.
The RBI Deputy Governor should be sent to China to learn how the Chinese do their exchange rate management.
An interview with B K Hariprasad, Congress general secretary incharge of Gujarat.
Ajay Maken, who has also served as the Speaker of the Delhi Assembly in the past, asked Deora to "leave Congress" before propagating "half-baked facts."
"The first big mistake was the imposition of Emergency, the second one was their stand on the Shahbano case and the third error was the affidavit which negated the existence of Lord Ram. The govt has committed a blasphemous act" said L K Advani.
With 100 nominations proposing Gandhi's name for the top party post, the election was a mere formality.
Roy, however, said Banerjee was in good spirits and was continuing her fast. "Doctors are monitoring her condition. We are all concerned about her health," said Roy, a close aide of Banerjee.
He said that the young Congress MP had made it clear that he had his sight on the 2009 Lok Sabha polls and not the Assembly elections.
Some of the Congressmen, though, are opposing such a alliance saying that the party would waste seats if they have pre-poll alliance with the NCP.
The Samajwadi Party is going all out against the Congress, drawing parallels to the Watergate scandal.
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