Srinagar: The BJP on Saturday said that the party is in no hurry to name its prime ministerial candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "We still have two years to go for the next general elections. What is the hurry (of naming the prime ministerial candidate)?" BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who is heading a party delegation on study tour of Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters in Srinagar. The former BJP...
02:39 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Ratnagiri: Expressing disappointment over the Centre not doing enough to eradicate corruption, anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare has said he has lost his faith in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "I had a strong belief in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but now I do not have faith in him," Hazare said. "We have to select persons having good character and send them to Parliament, then only the expected change will take place,"...
01:46 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...
11:00 PM, May 29, 2012
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
In forty-four months, the standing committees of Parliament which examined the land acquisition bills have done an about turn on the issue of the state ...
06:17 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: A total of 344 people have lost their lives in communal violence across the country in last three years, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh said there were 2,300 incidents of communal violence in different parts of the country between 2009 and March this year in which 6,924 people were also injured. He said 68 people lost their lives and 385...
05:10 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned till noon on Tuesday after Opposition uproar over delay in tabling a CAG report on allocation of coal blocks and a statement on a train accident in Andhra Pradesh. The Rajya Sabha witnessed two adjournments before noon as Opposition BJP stood firm on its demand for suspension of Question Hour to discuss the reported Rs 1,80,000 crore loss to exchequer in allocation...
12:05 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament will come to an end on Tuesday. Several issues including the BR Ambedkar cartoon row and the 'Kali-Ma' beer rocked the session, that on its second last day, also managed to table the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to make a statement on the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal on Tuesday. On Monday, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance...
09:21 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday said unemployment was on the decline in both urban and rural areas as per the figures of recent surveys. "Reliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office. Last such survey was conducted during 2009-10," Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge told Lok Sabha in reply to a query. "As per the two most recent...
04:31 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: As the UPA II completes three tumultuous years - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table a white paper on black money in Parliament on Monday - crucially the report is unlikely to favour any amnesty for tax evaders. The paper is likely to give a comprehensive strategy on bringing back black money stashed abroad. It will also focus on bullion, gold jewellery and the real estate...
07:01 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table the White Paper on black money in Parliament on Monday. The tabling of White Paper by the Finance Minister figures in the list of business of the Lok Sabha for Monday. Reports say it will provide information about the steps that the government has taken to tackle the issue but may not divulge estimates of the black money stashed abroad,...
09:41 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: With the Budget session set to conclude on Tuesday, the much debated Lokpal Bill, instead of being brought in the Rajya Sabha, could be referred to a Joint Select Committee amid lack of consensus on its key provisions. "A decision will be taken tomorrow", a Union minister involved in the process said when asked whether the bill would go to a Joint Select Committee or Select Committee. When...
08:42 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table the 'White Paper' on black money in Parliament on Monday. The tabling of White Paper by the Finance Minister figures in the list of business of the Lok Sabha for Monday. "I will try to give all the relevant and possible information", Mukherjee had earlier said during the debate on Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha, while promising to bring...
12:00 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of alleged molestation of a woman by an Australian player in IPL, a demand was made in the Lok Sabha for a high level probe into the affairs of the tournament, with a BJP member threatening to go on a hunger strike from Sunday if no action was taken. Former cricketer Kirti Azad (BJP) raised the issue during Zero Hour, alleging that the IPL had...
03:33 PM, May 18, 2012
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