New Delhi: An all party meet convened to reach a consensus on the Land Acquisition Bill remained inconclusive on Tuesday with no headway being made at all. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AIADMK and CPM gave their suggestions, other parties are expected to follow suit by April 15. After all the suggestions are made, there will be another round of meeting on April 18, by when there is likely...
03:39 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: A private jet to Karnataka carrying Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing at New Delhi airport nine minutes after taking off on Monday morning. The leaders were on their way to campaign for the May 5 Assembly elections in the state. Pilot of the aircraft informed Air traffic control (ATC) of technical issue and returned back to the...
11:25 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Chennai: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday night slammed BJP for not supporting the UPA government's efforts to pass a resolution in Parliament on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue and rejected accusations hurled at Congress that it did not "support" the cause. Addressing a public meeting in Chennai, Chidambaram explained the initiatives the Congress took for passing a resolution in Parliament. The government convened an all-party meet to discuss...
12:27 AM, Apr 08, 2013
A visiting US Parliamentarians' delegation on Tuesday met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and discussed a host of issues, including elections and FDI in infrastructure development in India. The US delegation led by Aaron Schock from the state of Illinois, which met the BJP leader at her parliament office, also discussed history of Punjab and Haryana and environment- related issues, the party members said. ...
03:15 AM, Apr 03, 2013
BJP has opposed the government's reported move to appoint NIA chief SC Sinha as a member of NHRC, saying the party disfavours any retired bureaucrat or senior police official in any post of the national human rights body. ...
09:59 PM, Mar 30, 2013
BJP president Rajnath Singh and LK Advani are among the key party leaders who will be campaigning for the May 5 Karnataka Assembly elections. "Our national leaders LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj will be descending in the city for poll campaign by attending Sankalpa Convention on April 8," state party spokesman CT Ravi said. ...
08:19 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's controversial remarks about Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has seen the party go on an offensive. Even though Beni Prasad Verma and even Congress President Sonia Gandhi apologised to Mulayam Singh Yadav, but the Samajwadi Party is yet to accept it. ...
12:02 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Egypt's President Mohammad Mursi will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, seeking to deepen relations with India and to make it a partner in his country's development. Mursi, who came to power after Egypt's first democratic elections in 2012, is likely to focus on betterment of trade ties besides boosting bilateral relations. ...
06:56 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday expressed disappointment at the performance of the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government, saying she was hopeful that it would be different from previous regimes led by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. ...
02:28 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Parliament has passed a unanimous resolution condemning the Pakistan National Assembly's resolution on Afzal Guru. ...
04:35 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Thursday cornered the government on the recent terror attack at a CRPF camp in Bemina, Srinagar and said that instead of challenging each other in Parliament, the parties should challenge Pakistan ...
02:00 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The BJP on Thursday raised the terrorist attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Srinagar in Parliament and Sushma Swaraj asked Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde if we had any information then why did the government not do anything to save the lives of the CRPF personnel. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Thousands of activists on a Yamuna Bachao Yatra marched into New Delhi on Monday. They protested at Jantar Mantar demanding that the central government takes action in cleaning up the Yamuna. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 11, 2013
While political leaders have been endorsing tough laws to deal with crimes against women, there is hardly action on the ground to show that women are any safer. While members of the government assured that tough anti-rape laws will be brought into effect soon, Parliamentarians called for unity to fight crimes against women during a debate on the occasion of Women's Day on Friday. ...
03:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The Lok Sabha took up the issue of safety of women in India on the occasion of International Women's Day on Friday. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said, "The empowerment of women has to be social, economic and political." ...
12:30 PM, Mar 08, 2013
It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to as the 'Hindu Divided Family'. Impressed by the speech given ...
12:05 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj was voted as the most admired female politician followed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in a survey conducted by shaadi.com. ...
01:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
It was a clash of couplets between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha as the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's Address peaked on Wednesday. The Prime Minister, while replying to the debate, attacked BJP with an Urdu couplet saying "Humko hai unse wafa ke umeed, jo jante nai hai wafa kya hai (We are expecting loyalty from those who...
09:08 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The PM in his almost hour long speech did not spare anybody. He took jibes at Narendra Modi and LK Advani and had some strong words for its coalition alliance NDA too. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, while addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) National Executive meet said, "Our party has to stand united if we want to win elections. There is a new word in the political lexicon, 'Niptana' or politically eliminating your opponent within the party. We feel that we are eliminating just one person but we end up doing great harm to the party". ...
04:14 PM, Mar 03, 2013
