Suspected Maoists killed three villagers and abducted four others from Kanaudi village in Bihars Jamui district, police said today. Superintendent of Police R N Singh said the ultras raided the village late last night and killed Mumtaz Ans
In the light of the ongoing crisis in India`s microfinance sector, there is a need for an `early warning system` that would predict disruptions in the sector, says, Elizabeth Larson, the regional manager for Asia at Microfinance Information Exchan
Team Anna on Friday attacked the government for its failure to get Lokpal Bill passed by rajya sabha and accused it of not doing enough home work to bring other political parties on board to respect the `Sense of the House` on this issue.
Attacking the opposition for Rajya Sabha`s failure to pass the Lokpal Bill, parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Bansal today said the Bill will be taken up for consideration in the Bedget session of parliament. "The Conduct of the op
It is unfortunate that vice president of India Hamid Ansari while presiding over a choreographed Rajya Sabha sitting for the debate on the Lokpal bill on Thursday failed in his duty by not taking any instant and strong action against Rajniti Prasa
The Gujarat high court on Thursday issued a notice to special investigation team (SIT) on a petition by a convict sentenced to death in the Godhra train carnage, demanding that additional evidence in form of CDs of a TV sting operation be brought
All three major anti-corruption bills -- Lokpal, Judicial Accountability and Protection of Whistleblowers -- could not be passed in the winter session of parliament as the government was not able to muster support from its allies and the oppositio
(This piece, first published in the September 16-30 issue of the Governance Now magazine, is relevant after the midnight fiasco in Rajya Sabha last night.) Some fortresses are so sturdily built that the only danger they are
The Lokpal Bill has always appeared to be a jinxed affair, the history of last 40 years shows. With the rajya sabha adjourning sine die midnight amid uproar without passing the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011, even after day-long debate, i
Under fierce attack from the opposition, the government tonight defended the move to adjourn the rajya sabha sine die saying it needs time to study the nearly 200 amendments moved by the opposition on the Lokpal Bill. "We have to stud
Political parties, including UPA ally Trinamool Congress, on Thursday night cried foul after the rajya sabha failed to pass the Lokpal Bill terming it as a "black day" for democracy and the opposition demanded resignation of the governme
A day after Anna Hazare called off his agitations on Lokpal, Team Anna on Thursday admitted that his fast did not create the desired pressure on government and said there was no point in passing this "completely useless" bill. Th
Key UPA ally Trinamool Congress on Thursday strongly opposed the Lokpal Bill, asserting that it seeks to encroach upon the authority of states and weaken the country`s federal structure. Participating in the debate on the Lokpal and Lokayu
The opposition put the government on the mat on the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday citing a dozen infirmities that will make it impossible and unworkable to punish the corrupt and reduce it to be a hollow and weak
The Samajwadi Party, which has 5 MPs, and RJD with 4 MPs may vote against the Lokpal Bill in the rajya sabha on Thursday. Party sources said its 22 MPs, who walked out of the Loksabha before voting on the Lokpal Bill on Tuesday, said that
Government today admitted that 25 per cent of children affected by Japanese Encephalitis die while 40 per cent of those who survive become mentally or physically handicapped, but maintained that effective steps were being taken to tackle the disea
With the fate of the Lokpal Bill remaining uncertain, prime minister Manmohan Singh today held consultations with the Congress top brass including Sonia Gandhi. The meeting of the Congress core group was held at a time when government is s
Moving a step further towards enactment of a historic law for setting up Lokpal, government today tabled a bill to this effect in the rajya sabha, but it was rejected by the opposition as "constitutionally vulnerable". The Lokpal
Among the many contributions of Peter Heylyn’s book ‘Ecclesia Restaurata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England’ (1661) is an etymological one also: an attempt to trace the origin of the popular phrase ‘ro
Opposition on Thursday slammed the Lokpal Bill saying it would lead to "constitutional havoc" as the centre would be encouraged to "usurp" rights of states through the provision of setting up of Lokayuktas. Initiating t
