As the Samajwadi Party chief urges regional parties to come together, speculations have started making rounds that he might be either preparing a Third Front or getting ready for early elections. As Mulayam prepares his strategy, he has to contend with many imponderables. There is a gaping trust deficit between the SP and the Left parties since Mulayam bailed the UPA out in 2008. ...
11:33 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is ready to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), party sources said on Monday, adding that he might hold a public rally soon to make his decision official. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Will Mulayam Singh Yadav go for an early Lok Sabha elections by toppling the government? IBN7's managing editor Ashutosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
02:48 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Nearly a week after leaving the UPA government over the Lankan crisis, the DMK top brass will meet on Monday in Chennai to decide their next course of action. The DMK executive body is expected to plan their strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections on whether to provide outside support or not. ...
08:22 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Noting that no party can come to power at the Centre on its own, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said coalition politics has come to stay in the country and asked like-minded parties to come together. ...
11:07 PM, Mar 24, 2013
After the 'padayatras' of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and YSRC chief Jaganmohan Reddy's sister Sharmila across Andhra Pradesh, now the BJP is undertaking a programme in all Lok Sabha constituencies of the state to motivate party cadres for next general elections. As part of the programme 'Praja Chaitanya Sadassulu' (conventions to raise public awareness), party's national leader M Venkaiah Naidu would tour various parliamentary constituencies to hold meetings with...
03:22 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN18 Network joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on important news developments of the week. ...
05:52 PM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in his statement in Parliament said the Italian marines will not get death sentence as the Indian fishermen killings case was not a rarest of rare case. He also said they won't be arrested if they return before the apex court's deadline. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 22, 2013
India's two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, ...
12:04 AM, Mar 22, 2013
MPs raised questions over efficacy of the system in dealing with cases of sexual crimes committed by influential people like politicians as the newly passed anti-rape bill had no such provision. Responding to these questions in the Rajya Sabha, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 has a provision which prescribes punishment to persons having "dominance" and this can be used to deal with influential...
06:05 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Parliament on Thursday passed the much awaited anti-rape Bill after the Rajya Sabha gave its nod on Thursday. The Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, will now become a law once President Pranab Mukherjee ratifies it and issues a notification. ...
04:36 PM, Mar 21, 2013
After being passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the anti-rape bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Bill was passed in the Lower House after much drama with major amendments being negated. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
08:51 AM, Mar 21, 2013
arliament was disrupted again on Wednesday as the Samajwadi Pary sought the resignation of Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma, while DMK and AIADMK membres raised the Sri Lankan issue. Both houses were first adjourned till noon amid ruckus, with members from Samajwadi Party (SP), DMK and AIADMK targeting the government. ...
05:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Even as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath claimed that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government was not lame duck after the DMK pulled out from the ruling coalition, it is becoming increasingly clear that while the government may survive, it may not be able to transact important legislative business in Parliament as parties extending outside support to it are not going to be easy to bring on board on every...
02:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Read the full text of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill as introduced in Lok Sabha on March 19, 2013. ...
12:51 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Uproar over issues relating to Sri Lankan Tamils and Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's remarks against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav led to the adjournment of Parliament for an hour on Wednesday. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 20, 2013
After being passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the anti-rape bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Bill was passed in the Lower House after much drama with major amendments being negated. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
08:12 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The proposed anti-rape bill which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack will be tabled in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 19, 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
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. ...
08:38 PM, Mar 18, 2013
