Raipur: Another Congress leader has added his name to the list of ‘political sycophants’.
Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Charandas Mahant, who has been appointed as the working president of the Chhattisgarh State Congress Committee (CGPCC), has said that he is willing to sweep the floor if asked by party president Sonia [...]
Hyderabad: Jailed politician Jagan Mohan Reddy today came in a bullet-proof vehicle to attend an important court hearing which included Sabitha Indra Reddy, who was forced to resign last month as Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
The court allowed Jagan to spend time with his wife and other family members who were present during the hearing [...]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appears in danger of losing a point of prestige to rival and Opposition leader Lalu Prasad.
Mr Kumar’s party, the Janata Dal (United) is trailing in the by-election for the Lok Sabha seat of Maharajganj in the western part of the state. Lalu’s party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is under arrest since May 27 in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The 40-year-old son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy had approached the apex court after the Andhra Pradesh High Court [...]
New Delhi: In another round of big-ticket reforms, the Union Cabinet will consider on Thursday raising the FDI cap in insurance sector to 49 percent and opening the pension sector to foreign investment besides creation of a National Investment Board.
The Cabinet will also consider a number of other crucial measures like giving more powers to [...]
Rajkot: Even as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi remained defiant on his controversial Rs 1,880 crore claim, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will kick-start her party’s poll campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls in the state on Wednesday.
Sonia Gandhi has arrived in Rajkot. She will go straight to ‘Gandhi-Smruti’, the place where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during [...]
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday launched a 117-day padayatra (foot march).
The Leader of Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly is expected to cover over 2,000 kms in 117 days covering about 13 out of 23 districts of the state in the first round of ‘Vastunna…mee kosam’ (I am coming….for [...]
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he would apologise to Congress President Sonia Gandhi if his statement on Mrs Gandhi’s treatment expenditure proved wrong.
Modi on Monday, Oct 1 stated that Rs 1,880 crore was spent on Mrs Gandhi’s abroad tour and treatment and he also pointed that his source of information was [...]
Jalandhar: Subtly hinting at the stand of some political outfits not to have any truck with “communal” BJP, its senior leader LK Advani on Sunday, Sept 30 said like in social life there should be no place for “untouchability in politics”.
“On the lines of a law against untouchability in social life, political untouchability should also [...]
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has decided to sue Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for defamation. In a series of media interviews, Mr Singh had described Ajay Sancheti, an entrepreneur from Nagpur, as Mr Gadkari’s business partner. The Congress has alleged that Mr Sancheti, a Rajya Sabha MP, was given a sweetheart deal for a [...]
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday led the nation in paying rich tributes to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 68th birth anniversary.
The senior leaders paid floral tributes at Vir Bhumi, the samadhi of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv’s wife and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, daughter Priyanka Vadra and her [...]
Ahmedabad: Rebel BJP leader Keshubhai Patel, who announced the formation of a new party to take on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming assembly polls, is likely to be projected as the chief ministerial candidate of the anti-Modi outfit and is hoping that a large number of dissident BJP workers will crossover.
“Keshubhai Patel [...]
Mysore: Former chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS, K Sudershan, who was missing since 5 am this morning, has been found. The police, who had registered a missing person’s report, had launched a search for Mr Sudershan.
Mr Sudershan, who is 81, was visiting his brother in Mysore.
Mr Sudershan has not been keeping well [...]
New Delhi: Reports said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to reshuffle his Cabinet this week and appoint P Chidambaram as the finance minister.
The reshuffle will take place in the wake of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee moving to Rashtrapati Bhavan as the President. The Home Ministry is expected to be handed over [...]
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) honorary president YS Vijaya Lakshmi today left for Sircilla in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh to undertake a day-long fast to highlight the problem of weavers amid stiff resistance by the leaders and workers of TRS and other pro-Telangana outfits.
Vijaya Lakshmi would begin her ‘Chenetha dharna’ (sit-in in support of [...]