Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who has demanded that the Prime Minister replace Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi with her trusted lieutenant Mukul Roy, on Thursday said no one was above party discipline. "No one is above par
Chairman of the Legislature Committee probing the porngate episode involving three ruling BJP MLAs in Karnataka on Thursday said eight to 10 other legislators had also watched sleazy clips in the Assembly. Shrishailappa Bidarur, however, i
Taxpayers will be looking forward to some relief from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee who is expected to raise the income tax exemption limit to at least Rs 2 lakh in his budget proposals to be unveiled in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The mi
Bihar government would not allow illegal mining activities in the state and none involving in it would get `political patronage`, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said in the assembly on Thursday. Announcing this, Kumar urged Speaker Uday Naray
Accusing the government of large scale corruption, Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha on Thursday asked it to disclose the names of those who have stashed unaccounted money in foreign banks. Participating in the debate on the motion of th
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who is in the eye of a storm for raising passenger fares, on Thursday said it was his prime duty to ensure passage of the Railway Budget but he would quit whenever his "leader" Mamata Banerjee or Prime Mi
Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Thursday alleged that Team Anna was behaving like "naxalites" as they were "not keen on solutions" and instead bent on dragging the issue of corruption. "Though Anna Haza
Union Food & Public Distribution Minister Prof K V Thomas has assured to solve PDS crisis in Arunachal Pradesh by engaging more trucks to transport essential commodities, officials said on Thursday. As food crisis haunts the land-locke
Channels of communication between Congress and TMC on the change of Railway Minister continue to operate with Sudip Bandopadhyay on Thursday holding consultations with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the issue in the Lok Sabha on the sideline
Akhilesh Yadav, son of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the youngest-ever to hold the office. Akhilesh Yadav at 38 will be the 33th Chief Minister of the most populous state. He
In yet another mid-sea attack, Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly hurled petrol bombs at a group of fishing boats from here, sinking one of them and damaging 20 others near Katchatheevu in the Palk Strait, officials said on Thursday.
The issue of reported resignation of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday rocked the Rajya Sabha with the Opposition demanding a statement from the government on it, forcing Chairman Hamid Ansari to adjourn the House till noon. The
The Jammu and Kashmir government has utilised 84 percent of the Rs 592.61 crore received from the Centre under the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme. The state had received Rs 592.61 crore from the Centre under the NRHM
Stating that sanitation is a "complete disaster" in India, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the Planning Commission to make the issue "a national obsession" otherwise it would remain as a "scourge" o
Trinamool Congress on Thursday ruled out any threat to the UPA government but insisted that railway minister Dinesh Trivedi should go. "We are supporting the government totally," Trinamool Parliamentary Party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay t
Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, whose removal has been demanded by his party leader and TMC boss Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday said he has not resigned as yet. However, he made it clear that he would resign the moment the Prime Minister or Mamata
Ahead of Anna Hazare`s one-day fast in Delhi, which has now been rescheduled to March 25, to press for protection to whistleblowers, Team Anna today accused the ruling Congress of "sabotaging" the Jan Lokpal Bill. "Th
Israel has offered to help India clean up the river Ganga by providing the technological knowhow. “The Indian municipal bodies have to think about the local ecosystem and local needs, and then Israeli companies can fit into those projects,&r
Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi`s budget for the ministry ha no takers within his own party, the Trinamool Congress. Party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee refused to endorse the budget claiming at a public meeting in Nandigram
Alka, 27, was rushed to a government hospital in Karnataka’s Raichur district after she complained of labour pain. But she was pushed out of the hospital when she disclosed that she was a sex worker. Her baby was stillborn for lack of medica
