SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and MPs from TDP and Left parties on Friday sat on a dharna in front of Parliament House to seek a judicial inquiry into coal blocks allocation. Eight parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Left, have
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Andhra Pradesh’s main opposition, plans to launch a large-scale campaign, and it is not against the ruling Congress, but against the news network NDTV. A survey by NDTV in late August has showed that if
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has once again ducked the question of who is No. 2 in the Union Cabinet in the working arrangements he made during his 4-day Iran visit from February 28. It is because of this ticklish issue that he could not
Parliament remained parlaysed for the eighth consecutive day on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation as BJP stuck to its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which was vociferously countered by the Congress-led allia
Political slugfest over the CAG’s report on allocation of captive mines to the private companies has followed an irritatingly predictable routine so far and is unlikely to change any time soon. Sharp exchange of charges and stalling of parli
For dummies, and those who just landed from the moon, India has a new chief economic adviser (CEA). This is a job held by the likes of IG Patel, Shankar Acharya and Deepak Nayyar, not to mention prime minister Manmohan Singh himself. His name is R
The Delhi government on Wednesday notified 917 unauthorised colonies as regularized. These colonies were among 1,218 which were issued provisional regularization certificates (PRCs) in 2008 just before the assembly elections. But after four years,
BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and a Bajrang Dal leader were among 32 people convicted by a special court on Wednesday in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case in which 97 people belonging to the minority comm
Appointments of more than 2500 special educators for Delhi government and MCD run schools will not happen any soon. This is because the advertisement given by the government did not mention the reservation for candidates belonging to disability gr
Putting the heat on government to withdraw operation Green Hunt, the Naxals have now opposed the Mendha Lekha model which allowed tribals to exercise rights to harvest bamboo under the Forest Rights Act, terming at as a "ploy to loot forests&
When William Blake penned his famous poem ‘Tyger’ and wondered ‘what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry’, little did he realise that in not too distant a future the mortal hand of humans would be enoug
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, saying that waging war against the country was the primary and foremost offence committed by the Pakistani terrorist.
Hitting back at the government for "lack of seriousness" and "cover up" on the coal blocks issue, BJP on Tuesday said it did not need a certificate of responsibility from Congress party. It also reminded Congress of acc
Accusing BJP of making "political bread and butter" by holding Parliament to ransom by "blackmail", a combative Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday took the battle to the opposition camp and asked the party to "stan
Parliament remained deadlocked for the sixth day on Tuesday as BJP stuck to its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the coal block allocation issue. As soon as the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha met for the day, BJP m
Finding two top officials missing from a departmental meeting, a fuming UP minister ticked off an officer asking him to shut up and calling him ill-mannered. Urban development minister Mohd Azam Khan, who had fixed a three-day meeting betw
After a day-long speculation that the UPA government may take the Bhartiya Janata Party head on by bringing a confidence motion in the Lok Sabha either next week or on Tuesday or Wednesday when prime minister Manmohan Singh is away in Iran to show
The Congress organised a detailed briefing to some 120 party MPs on the allocation of the coal blocks that have come under the critical audit of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and elaborated on the PM`s statement in parliament to empowe
The right to education is taking a beating in the states, some of which are yet to ratify the model guidelines (rules of the act) proposed by the union government. The human resource development ministry had come up with the Model Rules, 2009, of
Dubbing CAG`s computation of loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore in coal block allocation as "flawed" and "misleading", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday took the battle to the Opposition camp, blaming it for thwarting the Centre`
