Kolkata, Nov 22 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is the second largest constituent in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ...

New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) plans to target the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in parliament on the issue of the Madhu ...

Kolkata, Nov 22 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday said the central government's decision to import rice lacked transparency. In an editorial in daily Ganashakti, its Bengali mouthpiece, the CPI-M accused ...

New Delhi, Nov 20(ANI): The Congress party on Friday defended the Union Government's sugarcane pricing policy, which has led to farmers unrest and adjournment of Parliament. Digvijay Singh, General Secretary of ...

Dhanbad, Nov 19 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday asked the people of Jharkhand to vote for her party in the coming assembly elections so that the state could have a ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) A united opposition forced three adjournments of the Rajya Sabha Friday, the last one for the day, as it vociferously protested the United Progressive Alliance's new ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The cabinet meeting Thursday did not discuss the government's sugarcane pricing policy, which has come under attack from opposition parties and farmers. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi that the government would suitably amend the ordinance regarding fair and remunerative pricing (FRP) system ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The union cabinet Thursday approved a Rs.7,266 crore package for drought relief and agricultural development of the Bundelkhand region, that spans Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) They weren't fashion models, but when MPs young and old walked in on the first day of the winter session of parliament Thursday, they sure made ...

Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday submitted to Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi a 'chargesheet' against state Chief Minister Mayawati seeking action against her and functionaries ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's constituency in Jammu will reach 100 percent sanitation and toilet coverage by the year 2266 - taking the longest time ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a key partner in the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, Thursday opposed the government's decision to fix sugarcane price at ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Right to Information (RTI) activists from across the country Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that the next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) be appointed ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said it will protest the new sugarcane pricing policy in the winter session of parliament beginning Thursday. Claiming that "wrong policies" of ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Monday rejected reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unhappy with party leader and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and had asked her for ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Saturday led the nation in paying floral tributes to ...

Ranchi, Nov 14 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will counter the Congress' poll campaign led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi for the Jharkhand assembly elections ...

Ranchi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday alleged that the Congress was trying to shield former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is facing charges of laundering Rs.2,500 ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) All leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), particularly its politburo member Sitaram Yechury, have a close association with Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) along with other civil society groups has charged the government with planning to "emasculate" the Right to ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The government will act only as a facilitator for foreign direct investments (FDI) in print media and make amendments in the existing laws to ensure this, ...

New Delhi/Hyderabad, Nov 9 (IANS) Ahead of his planned fast-unto-death to achieve separate statehood for Telangana region, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Monday met President Pratibha Patil in ...

New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday not only resolved the crisis in its first government in Karnataka but also became the first major political party in ...

Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Condemning the Maoists for their violent activities, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday said the Left Front government would work hand in hand with the central government ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt held wide-ranging talks here Thursday to give a fresh impetus to their ties in the fields ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Thursday termed as a "gross violation of the constitution" the Kerala government guidelines to departments regarding interaction ...

Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) In an obvious attack on former ally the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has accused national level parties of trying to marginalise regional outfits ...

Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has virtually hit out at former ally the Congress, saying national level parties were trying to marginalise regional otufits to ...