Political parties failed on Thursday to agree on how to compensate farmers for land acquired for infrastructure and industrial projects, dashing market hopes of a breakthrough. ...
02:10 AM, Mar 08, 2013
New Delhi: Time seems to be running out for the Lokpal Bill. With less than a week to go before the winter session of Parliament wraps up, the deadlock over the Lokpal Bill continues. On Wednesday, the all-party meeting failed to reach a consensus as major political parties stuck to their stands. After three hours of discussion on Wednesday there was no clarity whether the Lokpal Bill will match the...
06:16 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: The all-party meet on Lokpal Bill held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus. All the parties, reportedly, stuck to their stated stands. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan said that all the parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the government to not take any decision on Lokpal in haste. He further said...
10:08 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The government seems to be bending backwards to get all political parties on board on the Lokpal Bill ahead of the all-party meeting on Wednesday. Sources say the government's draft on Lokpal will bring the prosecution wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the ambit of the Lokpal. Team Anna wants the investigation wing of CBI under the Lokpal Bill. The Standing Committee's Lokpal draft already...
02:19 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: After extreme pressure from the Opposition and Team Anna, a broad consensus has been achieved within the UPA to bring the Prime Minister under the Lokpal Bill, according to sources. Sources say the government may agree to include Group C bureaucrats and the Prime Minister under Lokpal, but with riders. The UPA has been under extreme pressure to include the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal...
10:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has called for an all-party meeting over the Lokpal Bill issue on Wednesday, where the UPA will try its best to achieve a breakthrough and it remains to be seen whether consensus will emerge on contentious issues. Trying to build a consensus within the UPA, the Prime Minister met all allies on Tuesday night, including the new member Ajit Singh, who will be the new...
07:20 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The UPA is under extreme pressure to include the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill as after Team Anna, the Opposition parties, too, have said that they will take up the issue in the all-party meet on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, also deliberated on the strategy on the Lokpal issue ahead of the...
01:14 PM, Dec 13, 2011
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Five hostages, all terrorists were killed in the Nariman house encounter. ...
03:09 PM, Dec 03, 2008
All political parties decide to set up a Federal Investigating Agency. ...
08:02 AM, Dec 01, 2008
UPA chief Sonia and PM Manmohan Singh set to act on Patil's failure. ...
09:31 AM, Nov 30, 2008
Sonia and PM too gunning for Patil's office that did not do enough. ...
08:57 AM, Nov 30, 2008
It also urged the Central government to end the killings of Indian fishermen. ...
12:41 AM, Oct 15, 2008
