Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...
10:14 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi get ready to present their report card for the UPA-II's third year, it seems there would not be much to celebrate. It has been a year of controversies for the UPA-II... attacks, couter-attacks... angry and sulking allies... and finally defeat. The fact that the PMO had to send repeated reminders to ministers to send their list of achievements...
07:29 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Battling serious perceptions of policy paralysis, the UPA government completes three years in office in its second term tomorrow amidst uncertainty over passage of key economic legislations and decisions like FDI in retail and faces tough challenges in the run up to the general elections two years hence. Hopping from crisis to crisis, particularly in the last more than a year, the government presents a picture completely different...
02:41 PM, May 20, 2012
Guwahati: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday claimed National Democratic Alliance would come back to power at the Centre post 2014 Lok Sabha polls. "It is certain that the next government in New Delhi (Centre) will be that of BJP-led NDA. I have full confidence in that," Gadkari said while inaugurating the party's new head office at Hangrabari in Guwahati. Gadkari accused the UPA government of failing to implement programmes...
05:51 PM, May 12, 2012
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, a key ally of the ruling UPA, on Saturday said she would be happy to see UPA-II last its full term. Her statement came a day after claimed she had information that a political party in Delhi had held a meeting to advance the Lok Sabha poll to 2013 and asked her party men to be ready for it. "Let me clear. The half...
04:59 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early elections, the Left called it a case of blackmail. CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said, "These small parties blackmail the government. We have reached here passing all the challenges till now and we would fight this challenge also. It has become impossible for parties like ours to fight in the elections." Yechury's comments...
02:00 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and triggered a debate on the possibility of early general elections. She claimed she has information that a political party in Delhi had held a meeting to advance the Lok Sabha poll to 2013 and asked her partymen to be ready for it. The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed Mamata's comments on early general elections. Reacting to Mamata's...
10:03 AM, May 12, 2012
Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that the general elections will happen as scheduled. ...
09:20 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed UPA ally and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early general elections. The Trinamool Congress Chief sparked speculation of early elections when she was addressing her party workers in Kolkata on Friday. Reacting to Mamata's comments, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said, "Mamata Banerjee should get rid of this government. She has hinted at early polls in 2013. The BJP wants the...
08:41 AM, May 12, 2012
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed she has information that a political party in Delhi had held a meeting to advance the Lok Sabha poll to 2013 and asked her partymen to be ready for it. "Anyday, we can face election. We have to remain ready," she said. "One party has held a meeting to hold the election in advance, though my information may not be correct,"...
09:11 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna has come up with a new concept to spread awareness among people about its programme over the year: a Rs 25 coupon's code to be entered in the mobile phone, which will give updates about Hazare's programme. "We have introduced a Rs 25 coupon whose number code has to be put in the mobile phone and then, one can get details of Anna's programme around the...
02:40 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: After a brief bout of illness, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare was back in action on Sunday. This time ostensibly fighting for protection for whistleblowers as he shared stage with families of those who lost their lives fighting corruption. Hazare also demanded that FIRs be registered against 14 "corrupt" Cabinet ministers of the UPA by August failing which a 'jail bharo' agitation will be launched. The anti-corruption crusader said...
10:49 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare set 2014 deadline for the government to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill. Anna, who was on a protest fast on Sunday at the Jantar Mantar said that if people supported him, very soon he would force the government to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill. "Government's intention is not clear on removing corruption and that is why they are not bringing Jan Lokpal Bill," claimed...
06:09 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Dewas (MP): Claiming that the government at the Centre is actually in a minority, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said mid-term general elections are a possibility for which her party is fully geared up. "The politics of the country is changing every day and in view of the present situation, there is a possibility of mid-term Lok Sabha polls," said Swaraj, who was in Dewas to take part in...
11:33 PM, Mar 24, 2012
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