New Delhi, Nov.18 (ANI): Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources, Pawan Kumar Bansal, said today that the Winter Session of Parliament would commence from Thursday and subject to exigencies of ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (ANI): Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee along with both Ministers of State for Railways, E. Ahamed and K. H. Muniyappa, the entire Railway Board and the Railway ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Nov 9 (IANS) In trying to become the first party in 30 years to return to power in Haryana for a second consecutive term, the Congress, along with ...

By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) There are as many as 10 new faces, including two women, in the 37-member ministry of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in Maharshtra that ...

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party's Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday. Both ...

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party's Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday. Both ...

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Ending a 16-day tussle between coalition partners the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Ashok Chavan took oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra Saturday evening along ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) All seven independent legislators supporting the Congress in Haryana were Saturday accommodated in the new government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Four were made ministers while ...

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Ending a 16-day tussle with its ally over power sharing, Ashok Chavan took oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra Saturday evening along with 37 more ministers. The new ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) A traffic jam on the busy Ambala-Chandigarh highway Saturday held up a minister of state in Haryana from reaching the Raj Bhawan to take oath of office. Sukhbir Kataria, ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday set up a coordination committee for Haryana, hours after Chief Minister Bhoopinder Singh Hooda expanded his new ministry. The seven-member coordination committee ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) All seven independent legislators supporting the Congress in Haryana were Saturday accommodated in the new government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Four of the independents were ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Huda on Saturday inducted six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state in his cabinet. They were sworn in by the Haryana Governor ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia Saturday administered the oath of office to six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state here. Five of the cabinet ministers - Capitan Ajay Singh, ...

Dhaka, Oct 29 (IANS) The Bangladesh government has accorded the status of ministers of state to its high commissioners in New Delhi and London and its ambassador in Washington. The three ...

Bhopal, Oct 28 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Wednesday inducted nine more ministers into his council of ministers while one minister of state was promoted to cabinet rank. One ...

The 55th National Awards ceremony was held yesterday at New Delhi. Actor Prakash Raj, Priyadarshan were honoured by Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India. Prakash Raj was honoured as "Best Actor' ...

New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Leaders cutting across the political spectrum Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, on his 140th birth anniversary by offering floral tributes ...

New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A group of cabinet ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to send a team to ...

Kathmandu, Sep 2 (IANS) The rift in Nepal over the use of Hindi for official work continued to widen Wednesday with new ministers from a regional party taking their oath of office ...

Kathmandu, Sep 2 (IANS) The row over the use of Hindi as Nepal's official language continued Wednesday with a defiant politician taking his oath of office in Hindi as Prime Minister Madhav ...

New Delhi, Aug 12 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will release the draft of the 'Direct Taxes Code' here today. It will be released in the presence of Union Home Minister ...

New Delhi, Aug.11 (ANI): The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC) was reconstituted on Tuesday with Dr. C. Rangarajan named as its Chairman. Other members of the Council are Dr. Saumitra ...

New Delhi, Aug 5 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the first ever 'Only Ladies' EMU train services in Northern Railway between Delhi-Palwal at New Delhi station today. In the ...

Srinagar, July 11 (IANS) A woman politician who has survived at least five assassination attempts was among the 13 new ministers inducted in the Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday. With this, the strength ...

New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) In a move to overcome the "overwhelming shortage" of doctors and paramedical staff, especially in the remote corners of India, the government Wednesday announced it ...

Dehradun, July 1 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday inducted eight new ministers, including four Cabinet ministers. This has taken the strength of the Uttarakhand Ministry to 12. State ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, June 24 (IANS) Within 72 hours of Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon's visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal ...

Midnapore (West Bengal), June 21 (IANS) Two central ministers of state were Sunday obstructed allegedly by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists at Salboni in West Midnapore district when they were going ...

Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) The West Bengal government Sunday appealed to central and state ministers, NGOs, intellectuals and journalists to stay away from the troubled zone of Lalgarh saying it was not ...