Congress on Friday night regretted BJP's plans to boycott all public programmes of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to protest against his Hindu terror remarks, saying the opposition party should not politicise the issue. ...
02:40 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The Cabinet, which met at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence on Friday to discuss recommendations given by the Justice Verma Committee, approved an ordinance on tackling sexual harassment against women. Death penalty or life imprisonment for convicts in extreme cases is included in the ordinance, according to sources. ...
11:52 PM, Feb 01, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said that it will boycott all meetings called by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde from now. It added that it will show black flags to Shinde. ...
09:11 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday refused to give any fresh deadline for making any announcement on Telangana, saying discussion on the issue was still on. ...
01:16 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The Telangana protests are set to get louder in the national capital on Wednesday as seven Congress MPs will be arriving in Delhi this morning and are expected to hand over their letters of resignation to Sonia Gandhi. ...
06:39 AM, Jan 30, 2013
An advocate filed a complaint against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday over his terror remark demanding that an FIR be registered against him. Advocate Vivek Garg was earlier the head of the RTI cell of the Delhi BJP. ...
04:41 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Telangana crisis continues as seven Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh have said that they will send their resignation letters to party President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. The MPs, after being summoned by the party high command, will land in Delhi on Wednesday. ...
02:24 PM, Jan 29, 2013
A midnight statement three years ago on the formation of Telangana, by the then Home Minister P Chidambaram, that was aimed at ending TRS chief K Chandrashekhara Rao's fast unto death opened a pandora's box. But just a few days later the Centre went back on its word by appointing a committee headed by Justice BN Srikrishna to decide on a separate state of Telangana. ...
01:54 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Telangana crisis intensified on Monday with Congress MPs from the region announcing that they would resign as parliamentarians and party members if Telangana state was not formed. While seven MPs wrote a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi saying that either Telangana state be formed at once or their resignations be accepted, nine ministers have said that they would "observe restraint" for the time being. ...
09:07 AM, Jan 29, 2013
India and Bangladesh on Monday signed a liberalised visa agreement and a landmark extradition treaty that would pave the way for the deportation of jailed ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia and other wanted "criminals". ...
05:55 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The Telangana stir has intensified on Monday with activists and police clashing at Indira Park in Hyderabad. The Ranga Reddy district court has now admitted a petition against former home minister P Chidambaram and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde accusing them of cheating the people of Telangana with their statements. The court has directed the police to register a case. ...
02:23 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The Telangana stir intensified on Monday as angry Protestors clashed with the police at the Indira Park in Hyderabad, which has become the nerve centre of the pro-Telangana protests, with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leading a 36-hour relay strike. Agitating protestors also broke barricades. ...
11:33 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has left for Dhaka on a two-day visit. India will sign a liberalised visa agreement and an extradition treaty with Bangladesh during Shinde's visit. ...
08:57 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Pro-Telangana activists are upset with yet another delay on the statehood issue and have threatened to intensify the protests in Hyderabad. This came after the Centre deferred the Telangana decision once again on Sunday. After a meeting of top Congress leaders, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde issued a statement saying the consultation process is still on and a final decision cannot be reached now. ...
07:41 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress incharge of Andhra Pradesh's political affairs, said that the UPA Government needs more time to decide on the issue of separate statehood. ...
09:57 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Justice JS Verma, the head of the panel that was constituted in the aftermath of the horrific Delhi gangrape to suggest reforms in anti-sexual harassment laws, has made a startling claim. In an interview to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the former Chief Justice of India said that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, the most important stakeholder in the issue, did not interact with the panel even once during the...
08:42 PM, Jan 27, 2013
A decision on the contentious Telangana statehood demand will be delayed further with the Government and the Congress on Sunday stating that a "little more time" is needed to arrive at a final decision on the issue. ...
06:17 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Hyderabad was tense on Sunday following incidents of violence over the Telangana separate statehood issue. While stone-pelting was reported outside Osmania University, police fired teargas shells to ward off a students' march to Raj Bhawan. ...
03:16 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Government sources on Sunday said that all options were "still open" on the issue of the Telangana separate statehood. The sources said that senior Congress leaders were likely to hold a meeting in the evening on Sunday. The meeting will be attended by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Vayalar Ravi, the said. ...
02:13 PM, Jan 27, 2013
India is all set to sign a liberalised visa agreement and an extradition treaty with Bangladesh during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's two-day visit to Dhaka beginning on Sunday. The new visa pact, named revised travel arrangement, will remove restrictions on visit of each other's businesspersons, students, patients, senior citizens above 65 years and children below 12 years on the lines of the liberalised visa regime between India and Pakistan....
10:07 AM, Jan 27, 2013
