The issue of cross border terrorism must be addressed to find a 'pragmatic' solution to the Kashmir issue, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has said as leaders from India and Pakistan favoured making the border 'irrelevant' to promote people-to-people contacts and discard the 'mistrust'.
There are red faces in the government and the leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee is reported to be furious at the mismanagement and lack of co-ordination within the government of its floor managers, casual attitude of ministers and pressure from allies which has put it in a bad light and given the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party a new lease of life to take on the government. It appears to be "withdrawal" time in the government.
The government had earlier this week briefed top BJP leadership on the same foreign policy issues.
A survey of action taken by the state governments suggests that while most govts are under political pressure to control prices, few have actually taken proactive steps to do anything about them. Delhi & Maharashtra are the exceptions. Midnight raids on retailers in both the states have made hoarders wary. While the state govt was attempting to stave off the effect of food inflation, industry said it was steel prices that were going to affect the state's fortunes in long run.
The beginning of the month-long session will coincide with the vice presidential election, in which the victory of United Progressive Alliance-Left nominee Hamid Ansari appears to be certain.
BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi insisted that no parallel can be drawn between the election of A P J Abdul Kalam as President and the present move by UPA in the upcoming election for the highest office.
Mamata Banerjee's party won 132 seats and was all set to pocket two more to post a hat-trick of wins, decimating a frail challenge from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the Left Front and the Congress, officials said.
The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said that the CBI clean chit to former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case has 'shaken the faith of the common man' and 'exposed the hypocrisy of Congress'.
While a total of 377 reports on Congress appeared in the Delhi edition of four leading English newspapers -- Indian Express, Times of India, Hindustan Times and The Hindu the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party could get their affairs onto the front page only 138 times during the first six months of this year.
Also, the discussion on the India-United States nuclear deal is likely on November 27 or 29 subject to the availability of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The UPA government came under the mat for the 13-year-high in inflation with both its outside supporter Left and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party saying it was a "direct result" of hiking fuel prices steeply and "faulty" policies.
His comments came amidst a fierce attack that BJP mounted on the UPA for its range of plans aimed at the uplift of minorities, especially Muslims, in the light of the Sachar committee report.
The party also wanted to know from Pranab as to why he did not bring up the issue of terrorism during his discussions with the Pakistan administration.
In Parliament, the BJP will raise other issues, such as the India-US nuclear deal and the woes of Kashmiri Pandits, which it has on its agenda for the remaining session, he said.
In the Lok Sabha, Deputy Leader of the Opposition V K Malhotra demanded suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the issue.
The civic body resumed its controversial sealing drive on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee decided to go ahead with the operations, despite protests from traders.
The district and sessions court also convicted three others in the case, including a driver of the Women and Child Development Minister, and awarded them three months rigorous imprisonment. They were also fined Rs 15,500 each by the court of district and sessions judge Urmila Joshi.
Lok Sabha adjourned for the day on Wednesday following uproar over the Sethusamudram project.
The BJP has accused the government of attempting to destroy evidence of the existence of ancient 'Ram Setu' (bridge) linking India and Sri Lanka through the Sethusamudram ship channel alignment.
Mishra accused Kejriwal of accepting Rs 2 crore from health minister Satyendar Jain.
The BJP leader said the demand for reducing the level of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir was being made by anti-national forces and those who did not want to anger Pakistan.
Members of opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday stalled proceedings in Lok Sabha over the issue of suicides by farmers across the country, forcing brief adjournment of the House.
The adjournment comes as no surprise as Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party had on Sunday hinting at going ballistic on the Centre's silence about the events in the area.
Decks were cleared for tabling the report of Justice Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots with the union cabinet clearing the action taken report.
Sources in the United Progressive Alliance said the offer for a discussion was made afresh during Monday's UPA-Left committee meeting.
The BJP alleges that the U C Banerjee Committee Report, which described the train fire as an accident, was made public with an eye on the polls.
The BJP has said the joint mechanism seems like a 'fig-leaf' gesture.
The rupee had gained 6 paise to close at 60.07 against the dollar in Thursday's trade on fresh selling of the American currency by banks and exporters in view of strong capital inflows.
Goa, the only Indian state to have legalised casinos, will allow 10 betting houses to come up in the state as part of the government's plan to regulate gambling activities.
All 5 candidates, three from Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United and two from the opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party, were on Friday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from the state.
The actor toured several areas of the four legislative assembly constituencies that constitute the Parliamentary constituency, in a motorcade.
BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman V K Malhotra expressed dissatisfaction with the prime minister's statement saying he should have instead allowed a 'sense of House' resolution on the pact.
Both are severe critics of the Indo-US N-deal.
The BJP has questioned why the party is exonerated when one of its leaders has been indicted.
Two incidents of hurling of crude bombs were reported in Sealdah and Khanna areas of Kolkata, and police contingents were rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control, a State Election Commission official said.
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