New Delhi: Expressing concern over the deteriorating health of fasting Anna Hazare, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday urged the social activist to end his anti-graft hunger strike. According to sources in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to Hazare and said the parliamentary standing committee would consider his version of the […]

New Delhi: As a conciliatory step between UPA Govt. and its critics, BJP(Himachal)MP varun Gandhi(son of Menaka) who has offered his Mayur Vihar residence last Saturday to Annasaheb Hazare in the capital city on Tuesday(Aug 16) was moved to say that he plans to introduce Hazare’s Jan Lokpal Bill as a private member’s bill in […]

Mangalore: The D.K. Anti-corruption Forum will support veteran Gandhian and social activist Anna Hazre and will mark the second freedom struggle in India on August 16, Tuesday.  Speaking at the press meet held at press club on Aug 11, Thursday, T R Bhat said that It looks like the government is not willing to eradicate […]

New Delhi: Was Dr.M.Veerappa Moily expected to be shunted out of Low and Justice ministry? Not really. But he made it. He found a way out to join Corporate Affairs ministry, by his loud mouth and bare hands. He did not work like other law ministers before him. He suspected that there was a conspiracy […]

Mangalore: The District BJP Mahila Morcha staged a protest in front of DC Office against the UPA government for involvement in various scams on June 24, Friday. Addressing the protestors, BJP District Mahila Morcha general secretary Sumana Sharan said that the Congress as the source of all corruption, she said that the BJP will support […]

New Delhi:  The government has fixed July 3 for a discussion with all political parties on the Lokpal Bill, the basis of a tough new law against corruption.  Parties will study two drafts of the same Bill – one prepared by the government, the other by activists led by Gandhian Anna Hazare. The decision to […]

New Delhi: Powers to tap phones, issuance of letters rogatory and recommendations for changes in work practices to reduce scope for corruption are among the proposals made by the Anna Hazare team in their Jan Lokpal Bill which do not find a mention in the government draft. The draft submitted to the joint committee on […]

New Delhi:  The ministers working on the Lokpal Bill feel their meeting today with activists headed by Gandhian Anna Hazare was a significant step forward. While agreeing that today’s talks  were “cordial,” the activists said that all key points of differences remain, and in fact two new ones have emerged. The  Drafting Committee of the […]

New Delhi:  The growing chorus over Lokpal Bill and battling corruption, it seems, has the Congress-led UPA worried. And a meeting of the Congress Core Group at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signals that. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and other senior congress leaders are attending the meeting at 7, Race Course Road in […]

New Delhi: Of what use are these meetings between group of ministers(Gom) and 5 representatives of civilian society that was formed to draw up a Lokpal bill with Centre? About 5 or 6 meetings held so far since April, have now ended in failure, with Lokpal bill ridiculed by Hazare as “Jokepal bill” with a […]