New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress is all set to pull out of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government after its 72-hour deadline to rollback diesel price hike, remove the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and disallow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail ends on Tuesday evening. Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata […]

New Delhi : UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today lost her cool  in Lok Sabha, when senior BJP leader L K Advani described the UPA rule as an ‘illegitimate’ government. While moving an adjournement motion on the communal violence in Assam, Advani mentioned the 2008 cash-for-vote scam in which BJP MPs placed wads of curreny notes […]

New Delhi : UPA candidate Hamid Ansari was today re-elected as the Vice-President, becoming the second person to get the second consecutive term as he defeated NDA nominee Jaswant Singh by a large margin of 252 votes. 75-year-old Ansari, a former IFS officer, got 490 votes against 238 bagged by Mr Singh out of 736 […]

Kolkata: Pranab Mukherjee, who has been selected as the UPA’s Presidential nominee, will resign tomorrow as the Union Finance Minister. “I will resign on June 24”, Mr Mukherjee told reporters in Kolkata before leaving for his ancestral house in Birbhum district. Earlier sources had said that Mr Mukherjee is expected to file his nomination papers […]

New Delhi : Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is fast emerging as the choice of NDA for the post of President, but the moot question is: whether Kalam himself is agreeable to contest for the coveted post. In 2007, Dr Kalam had emphatically said that he would be agreeable to become president again, only […]

Bangalore: Former Karnataka High Court judge Chandrashekaraiah was on Saturday appointed as the second Upa Lokayukta, official sources said. The post had remained vacant after Justice R Gururajan resigned on October 12 last year citing family and health problems.  Chandrashekaraiah is likely to be sworn-in tomorrow at Raj Bhavan, sources said. Justice S B Majige […]

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani’s 38-day long Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption will end in New Delhi on Sunday. Many BJP members were present at the Ramlila Maidan, showing their solidarity to the veteran politician. Addressing his supporters at Ramlila Maidan, Advani called for an effective Lokpal Bill. He also slammed the Congress […]

Sitabdiara : Senior BJP leader L K Advani today began his 38-day Jan Chetna Yatra from here to take on the UPA government on the corruption issue and press for return of black money stashed away abroad. “I am formally launching my Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption and for bringing back black money stashed away […]

New Delhi: Raising their pitch on the Lokpal Bill issue, the Anna Hazare team today alleged that the government version of the ombudsman was not aimed at fighting corruption but for targeting those who complain against the menace. The Hazare team felt that the exclusion of a large chunk of the bureaucracy from the ambit […]

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 […]