Angrily reacting to Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi describing Mulayam Singh Yadav as a "BJP agent", senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Thursday said he is not worth giving any importance. "If a person turns
Reconciling with division within NDA over Presidential poll, BJP today announced its support to P A Sangma to pit him against UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee. The party, which failed to persuade allies like Shiv Sena and JD-
At the G20 meet on Tuesday, prime minister Manmohan Singh pledged $10 billion for bailing out crisis-hit Eurozone. From being a regular seeker of loans and grants from the developed countries, we have now reached a stage where our prime mi
The frequent by-elections in Andhra Pradesh, five times since the 2009 assembly and Lok Sabha polls, are putting substantial burden on the public exchequer. According to official sources, the cumulative cost of all the five bypolls
With former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma determined to go ahead in the Presidential race, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said other political parties should come forward to back his candidature. Various leaders had be
In comments that can fuel a controversy, Congress leader Rashid Alvi has described Mulayam Singh Yadav as the "biggest agent" of the BJP at a time when the SP supremo`s party is coming closer to the ruling alliance at the Centre.
States performing better in providing health facilities to rural people under the national rural health mission (NRHM) will get additional incentives in terms of more funds. Better performing states may gain up to 28 percent above last year’
Agatha Sangma could face the axe from the Union Council of Ministers if she campaigns for her father P A Sangma, who appears set to be the opposition candidate in the Presidential poll, a senior NCP leader said. "If she campaig
A court at Ramanagar on Wednesday granted police permission to subject controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda to a medical test as sought by the CID in a sex scandal case in 2010 reportedly involving him. The CID had approache
Nine months after the announcement of the Saranda Development Plan (SDP), this 850 sq km sal forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum is still at the crossroads. The people of the region are yet to feel at ease after the eleven years of Maoist c
Amid the flutter created by Nitish Kumar`s remark that NDA`s prime ministerial candidate should have secular credentials, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday hit out at the Bihar chief minister, saying he was pandering to his vote bank.
As NDA struggled to firm up a decision on its support to P A Sangma in presidential polls, leader of one of its constituent Janata Party on Wednesday met the former lok sabha speaker and claimed consensus in the opposition alliance for his cand
Maharashtra BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar on Wednesday said the 25-year-old alliance with Shiv Sena would not be snapped although Bal Thackeray`s party had extended support to Pranab Mukherjee for presidential polls. "We (Shiv Sena
Apparently toeing the central party leadership`s move to keep Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in good humour ahead of the Presidential poll, the West Bengal Congress which had threatened to pull out of the state government, on Wednesday c
Determined to contest the Presidential poll, founder member of NCP P A Sangma on Wednesday resigned from the party which was opposed to his candidature for the top post and had warned him of disciplinary action. The former Lok Sabha Speake
Estranged BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee is a "suitable man" for the post of President, but that the party central leadership would take an appropriate decisi
LJP president Ramvilas Paswan on Wednesday dubbed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar`s call for a secular person to be projected as the NDA`s prime ministerial candidate as a `political stunt`. "It is nothing more than a politic
As leaders from developed and developing nations meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss and reach an agreement on their political commitments for sustainable development at the UN Rio+20 Summit, Greenpeace India’s investigative repor
As leaders from developed and developing nations meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss and reach an agreement on their political commitments for sustainable development at the UN Rio+20 Summit, Greenpeace India’s investigative repor
With uncertainty over P A Sangma`s candidature for the Presidential poll in the wake of NCP`s threat to sack him, BJP on Wednesday decided to adopt a wait and watch attitude and deferred the NDA meeting. Party sources said the NDA meeting,
