There is little to dispute that our health care is in a shambles. All the crucial health indices like maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, malnutrition and anaemia levels continue to be very high. Health infrastructure is awfully inadeq
Six Trinamool Congress Ministers on Friday submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who expressed sadness over the ally`s decision in protest against allowing FDI in retail. The Ministers -- Mukul Roy, Sudip Bandhyopad
In relief to consumers, government on Friday abolished the import and excise duties on non-subsidised domestic LPG cylinders that will bring down their price by Rs 97 a unit in Delhi. It also asked states to subsidise LPG cylinders.
Enthused by the success of women`s Self Help Groups (SHGs) during last one year, Koraput district administration in Odisha plans to set up a bank for them. If things move as per plans, the proposed Mission Sakti Credit Cooperative Society
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and Air India on a plea seeking a CBI/SIT probe into alleged irregularities, including purchase of aircraft for the national carrier and giving up of profit making routes to private airlines,
In a big relief to Congress on a day Trinamool Congress pulls out of UPA, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday pledged to continue support to the government as it "does not want to let communal forces to come to power".
With Trinamool Congress set to exit the UPA, the Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, will meet this evening to decide the future course of action. A meeting of the Congress Core Group h
Andhra Pradesh governor ESL Narasimhan met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday. The meeting lasted for 45 minutes and a source indicated that both the leaders discussed the current political situation in the state. Accord
Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday described Anna Hazare`s decision to snap ties with the pro-politics group in the anti-corruption movement as "shocking and unbelievable" and said the veteran activist`s principles will be the foundation of the
Seeking to adopt a wait and watch attitude on its future strategy in the wake of Trinamool Congress` decision to withdraw support to UPA, Samajwadi Party on Thursday said while its supports the ruling dispensation as of now, it cannot say for how
A bandh called by NDA, Left parties and SP to protest against diesel price hike, FDI in multi-brand retail and cap on subsidised LPG on Thursday evoked mixed response as protesters disrupted road and rail traffic in parts of UP, Bihar, West Bengal
Samajwadi Party workers on Thursday held demonstrations in some parts of Uttar Pradesh and stopped a train in Allahabad in support of the bandh against FDI in retail and hike in diesel prices. Raising slogans against FDI in retail, a group
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was caught in a pandemonium as all Opposition parties stalled proceedings on different issues on the third day of the ongoing monsoon session on Thursday. The House was adjourned twice this morning a
The Trinamool Congress’ withdrawal of support may reduce the UPA government to a minority but that doesn’t pose any threat to it so long as the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party continue their outside support, thereby keeping the
Editor`s note: This is an article our former editor, B V Rao, wrote in September 2012. We revisit the piece on a day prime minister Manmohan Singh showed some of that ferociousness, while still being largely inert, during an interaction with the medi
Parliament`s 49 standing committees and eight ad hoc committees have come to a standstill because the Congress has not recommended names of its MPs for induction. These committees are constituted every year before July 31, but Lok S
Anna Hazare on Wednesday met activists and experts here to discuss the future course of action of the anti-corruption movement, a day after he made it clear that he was against forming a political party. The meeting was attended by Arvind
A day after Trinamool Congress decided to withdraw support to UPA, the Congress top brass was on Wednesday huddled in a meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deliberating over the strategy ahead. The m
Asserting that the UPA government has lost its moral right to continue, Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh step down and seek a fresh mandate. "Before accepting the resignation o
BJP members on Tuesday walked out of the proceedings of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam, claiming that they were not allowed to raise the issue of finalising the list of witnesses. On August 22 also, BJP members had walked out o
