Bangalore : Asserting that Congress has not sought Karnataka Janata Paksha’s support for Lok Sabha bypolls, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said party leader D K Shivakumar meeting KJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, to seek support for the by-election to Bangalore rural Lok Sabha constituency was his own decision. “DK Shivakumar hasn’t spoken to me on […]
Bangalore : Former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular president H.D. Deve Gowda Monday denied his party had entered into a tie-up to fight the Aug 21 bypolls to two Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka. “Reports of a tie up or understanding with the Bharatiya Janata Party are baseless,” he told reporters here. However, the ruling […]
Chennai : Slamming the latest hike in prices of petrol and diesel, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa yesterday expressed regret that the Centre was concerned more about the welfare of oil companies rather than people’s lives.From hiking fuel prices twice a year, the Centre was doing the same twice a month now which was a […]
Bangalore :Efforts to bring back Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) founder to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have not yielded any result. However, as a prelude to this, the BJP, KJP and Badava Shramika Raitha Congress (BSR Congress) have begun putting up a united front in the ongoing legislative Assembly session to take on the ruling […]
New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the anti-rape bill which provides for life term and even death sentence for rape convicts besides stringent punishment for offences like acid attacks, stalking and voyeurism. Mukherjee accorded his assent to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill-2013 yesterday, brought against the backdrop of the country-wide […]
New Delhi : Demands for dismissal of Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily were made in the Lok Sabha today by BJP members following reports alleging that a corporate giant provided funds to his family-controlled trust when he headed the Corporate Affairs Ministry. “Dismiss Moily” chanted BJP members during the Zero Hour.Their shouts were drowned in […]
New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday moved a resolution ‘totally rejecting’ Pakistan National Assembly’s resolution on 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged last month. Reading out the resolution, the LS Speaker said, “Kashmir is and will always be a part of India.” The statement was welcomed with thunderous […]
New Delhi: After a heated debate in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the government remains confident of winning the vote on FDI in both the Houses. With Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal leading the government in the FDI debate against BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, the government expects to gain the numbers in a vote which will happen […]