A new set of Cabinet ministers were sworn in on Monday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. ...
10:46 PM, Jun 18, 2013
In perhaps the last reshuffle before the 2014 general elections, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on Monday inducted new faces into its Cabinet, including 85-year-old Sis Ram Ola. "There's a view that these people are very important considering the elections and we have to bear with that," said Congress leader Vilasrao Muttemwar. ...
06:59 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Under pressure from allies and the Opposition, the cabinet on Thursday decided to delay its decision on the Food Security ordinance. This amidst reports that the Samajwadi Party is threatening to pull out demanding a debate on the bill in Parliament. ...
08:24 AM, Jun 14, 2013
A divided Cabinet again failed to introduce the much-awaited ordinance on Food Security Bill on Thursday amidst strong opposition from the Samajwadi Party, on which the government depends desperately for its survival. ...
09:09 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) president IS Bindra said that BCCI working committee members present at the general meeting were gutless and N Srinivasan, who stepped aside as the board chief, will continue to rubber stamp every decision. ...
07:08 PM, Jun 02, 2013
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Bindra said the ban hadn't been lifted yet as it could not happen in one meeting. ...
05:27 PM, May 15, 2013
The tragedy in Boston has made people from Dagestan worry about perceptions of their community. ...
03:11 PM, Apr 29, 2013
The father of the two suspects in the Boston bombings has reiterated that his sons are innocent and did not carry out the attacks. He is now planning to go to America to fight for his children. ...
09:14 AM, Apr 21, 2013
The Cabinet on Monday decided to raise the age of consensual sex back to 18 years, after various political parties spoke against the move of reducing it. It has also diluted the clauses on voyeurism and stalking in the Bill, which is now expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
There is headway in the anti-rape Bill draft, which is all set to be cleared by the Cabinet after much debate within the ministries. The Cabinet will take it up on Thursday evening. ...
03:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
With the Cabinet divided over the government's proposed anti-rape Bill, Karan Thapar on his show 'The Last Word' asked if the confusion and indecisiveness has damaged the government's sincerity and resolve. ...
10:19 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Cabinet once again failed to approve the draft of the proposed anti-rape Bill on Tuesday. There are differences in the Cabinet over provisions like reducing the age of consent from 18 to 16 years. A group of ministers will not consider the draft and look into the points of differences and come back to the Cabinet by Wednesday. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said one of the reasons for not making marital rape an offence under the latest ordinance was that marriage is not deemed to be a contract in India, unlike in other countries. ...
09:00 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Shaken by the anger on the streets, government had pushed in an anti-rape ordinance to show it cares about women safety, but still the Cabinet failed to take up the anti-rape law today. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A day ahead of International Women's Day, the Union Cabinet failed to take up the anti-rape law. ...
08:47 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Starring Jason Bateman, 'Disconnect' is a thriller. It's about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world. Directed by Henry Alex Rubin the film hits American theatres in April. ...
06:35 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Even as 111 people were booked for posting Facebook messages against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien, Bindu Krishna, President of Kerala State Mahila Congress attacked them and said, "Someone posted defamatory comment on my social media for defending PJ Kurien. Those comments were against the woman community. My right ends where other person right starts. No one should be harassed in the name of right." ...
07:50 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Speaking to CNN-IBN's Sanjeeb Mukherjea football analyst Novy Kapadia said Real Madrid have more scoring options and home advantage will increase their chances of winning against Manchester United in the Champions League fixture. ...
08:19 PM, Feb 13, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday gave his assent to the ordinance on sexual harassment that had been approved by the Cabinet on Friday. ...
09:46 PM, Feb 04, 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
