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 ...

Guwahati, Nov 19 (IANS) Assam's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has sounded the poll bugle for the 2011 assembly elections by stressing on the need to unite all regional forces ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers. Referring to the recent ...

Bhopal, Nov 17 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Tuesday assured the state assembly that it would inquire into reports of farmers being deprived of the central government's loan waiver scheme. Chaudhary Rakesh Singh ...

Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS)The Samajwadi Party's Maharastra unit chief Abu Asim Azmi was Monday all praises for master blaster Sachin Tendulkar for declaring that he was an Indian first and then ...

Kolkata, Nov 14 (IANS) West Bengal's main opposition Trinamool Congress Saturday wrote to Union Home Minister P.Chidamabaram alleging that Communist Party of India-Marxist-led West Bengal government had ordered tapping of phones ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Equating Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray with Hitler, Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Saturday said that "if this Hitler of linguistic parochialism is ...

Kuantan (Malaysia), Nov. 13 (ANI): The caning sentence of the Malaysian 'whip-for-drinking-beer' model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno has not been carried out as a doubt (syubahah) was raised on the implementation. Replying to ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) A senior West Bengal minister Wednesday favoured early elections to the state assembly, saying "people have turned" against the Left Front government. "The people's mandate is against ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) The operation to flush out Maoists from Lalgarh in West Bengal would continue till the situation was "completely under control", senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday, ...

By I Ramamohan Rao New Delhi (ANI): The four members of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) created headlines this week when they slapped Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi for taking his ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh today alleged that he received a death threat call for Abu Azmi, a legislator of the newly elected Maharashtra State ...

Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) After putting up a better performance as compared to its ally Shiv Sena in the October 2009 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday bagged the coveted ...

New Delhi, Nov. 10 (ANI): Highlighting the hypocrisy of the Raj Thackray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Abu Asim Azmi on Tuesday accused the MNS of having resorted to ...

Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) While jolting Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the results Tuesday of bypolls to one Lok Sabha and 11 state assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh have come ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Enthused after wresting the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat from the Samajwadi Party, the Congress Tuesday said it would contest all the seats in the 2012 Uttar ...

Patna (Bihar), Nov 10 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the ruling Congress party of being the political beneficiary of the misdeeds of regional radical Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) ...

Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tuesday appeared to be heading towards victory in at least eight of the 11 state assembly seats that saw by-polls ...

Jaipur, Nov 10 (IANS) The by-election spoils were equally divided between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Congress in Rajasthan Tuesday with each winning one seat. While the BJP's ...

Lucknow, Nov.9 (ANI): Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said he was proud of Abu Azmi, the party deputy in Maharashtra Assembly, for taking his oath in national language, ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The home ministry Monday asked voters in Jharkhand not to get cowed down by threats of violence by Maoist rebels during the upcoming state assembly elections and ...

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday was all praise for his party's Maharashtra legislator Abu Asim Azmi for defying Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's ...

Jammu, Nov 9 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday welcomed the willingness shown by the separatist leaders to re-start the dialogue with the central government but ruled out ...

Mumbai, Nov 9 (ANI): Portfolios have been allocated to ministers in the new Maharashtra State Cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. While Chavan will handle the urban development and the cultural affairs ...

Mumbai, Nov. 8 (ANI): Maharashtra's newly appointed Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Deputy Chief Chhagan Bhujbal on Sunday visited Buddhist monument, Chaityabhoomi, to take the blessings of Dr. B R Ambedkar. "Today is ...

New Delhi, Nov.7 (ANI): By-elections for one Lok Sabha seat and 31 Assembly seats in seven states remained by and large peaceful, as over 60 per cent of voters turned out on ...

Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) About 49 percent of the 4.9 million electors in Saturday's by-elections in Uttar Pradesh turned out to cast their vote in 11 state assembly and one parliamentary constituency. Even ...

Jaipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Around 50 percent polling was reported Saturday in bypolls from Rajasthan's two assembly constituencies of Todabhim and Salumber where the main battle is between the ruling Congress ...

Panaji, Nov 6 (IANS) Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, allegedly at the centre of a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam, could have mining interests to the tune of Rs.400 crore ...

Lahore, Nov.5 (ANI): Criticising Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for tabling a legislation in the State Assembly, which legalises dances, the Jamaat-e-Islami deputy Secretary General Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha has said ...