Mandya: Ahead of the crucial Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeting, to be convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and attended by chief ministers of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry in New Delhi on Wednesday, Mandya witnessed a series of protests on Tuesday. The CRA meeting would decide on Tamil Nadus demand for 40 tmcft of Cauvery water. JD(S) youth wing members, led by state vice-president Ashok Jairam and former...
12:38 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Hyderabad: The time of reckoning seems to have arrived for all the political parties, particularly those operating in Telangana and Andhra regions, since they in all probability would have to spell out their stand on the bifurcation of the state at the all-party meet likely to be convened in Delhi soon. While Telangana leaders in these parties are worked up and bringing pressure on their respective leaderships to support the...
12:26 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday indicated that the government was looking at growth-oriented reforms and defended the diesel price hike saying it wasn't wrong. "The recent increase in diesel prices is a move in the right direction," Manmohan Singh said at the Planning Commission meet unveiling the 12th Five Year Plan. The Prime Minister also said it was important to take risks for growth. "Courage and some...
11:07 AM, Sep 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Holding cabinet meetings seems to have become a bugbear for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Completing 21 months in office, the chief minister has hardly conducted 14 meetings so far, with an average of one meeting in every two months. Before Kiran Reddy took reins of the government, the then chief minister K Rosaiah held the state cabinet meet twice in a month. Similar was the case with...
12:53 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet will meeting on Tuesday and may approve a new proposal to increase reservation for women in urban local bodies to 50 per cent. It currently stands at one-third. The proposal also suggests that the chairperson's post be decided on the basis of proportional representation. The Cabinet is also expected to take up the Land Acquisition bill. The revised bill aims at ensuring that the process of...
08:41 AM, Aug 28, 2012
The cricket board has convened a Special General Meeting for this at Chennai on September 15. ...
08:08 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will be meeting on Thursday and Amendments to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to fight money laundering and terror financing will be taken up. These were approved at the UPA core committee meeting on Wednesday. ...
09:04 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday shot down the BJP's demand for support on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the involvement in the coal block allocations. The TMC said that they want a discussion on the coal report and there was no question of asking for the PM's resignation. "There is no question of calling for the PM's resignation. We want discussion on CAG reports," said...
11:49 AM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: A stormy session is likely in Parliament on the coal block allocation scam on Wednesday with the BJP reaching out to UPA allies to seek their support on its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation. Two BJP emissaries met Trinamool Congress Chief (TMC) Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday midnight, ahead of the UPA's Coordination Committee meeting on Wednesday. The BJP's Parliamentary party will be meeting on Wednesday morning...
08:33 AM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to project a united picture of the ruling alliance, the UPA Coordination Committee headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi will hold its first meeting on Wednesday. The constitution of the Coordination Committee was announced on Monday to ensure cohesive functioning of the alliance, a demand that was placed by ally NCP during its recent stand-off with Congress a fortnight back. Leaders of all the constituent parties are...
01:43 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications will move the Supreme Court to push the deadline for 2G auction to November. The Supreme Court had earlier set an August 31 deadline. The decision to move court was taken in the EGoM headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday. "Auctioneer has given us schedule...we will approach the Supreme Court to place before them the fact what government has done. Also, place...
01:28 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: NCP ministers on Thursday boycotted the meeting of Union Cabinet here to show their unhappiness over party leader Sharad Pawar not being given the number two position in the government. Sulking Agriculture Minister Pawar as well as Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel skipped the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid a row over the pecking order in the government that has relegated the NCP chief to...
07:48 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Fifteen legislators skipped the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting conducted on Wednesday to brief ruling party MLAs on how to vote in Thursdays presidential polls. These included two MLAs said to harbour cross-party loyalty to Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy -- Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy (Kakinada Urban) and Ch Adinarayana Reddy (Jammalamadugu), and two votaries of separate statehood for Telangana -- Komatireddy Venkat Reddy (Nalgonda) and R Damodar...
01:54 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Madurai: A day after DMK chief M Karunanidhi expressed the hope that the partys July 4 jail bharo protest would help unify various factions in the party, DMK south zone organising secretary and Union Minister M K Alagiri kept away from the partys urban unit consultative meet held here on Wednesday. Though the function was organised in the Dhaya marriage hall located adjacent to his residence, the Union Minister, who...
11:39 AM, Jun 28, 2012
If it is accepted, the ICC presidency will turn into a one-year ceremonial position thereby giving the chairman greater authority. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: 10:50 AM Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief Mamata Banerjee refuses to lend her support to possible NDA nominee PA Sangma. 10:03 AM: Shiv Sena may skip NDA meet, say sources. The sources add the party is undecided on giving support to the NDA's presidential candidate. The NDA will hold a crucial meet on Sunday to decide on their Presidential nominee. Sources say the coalition is divided on its choice...
07:20 AM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: The race for the President's post is witnessing new twists and turn every minute. While a series of meeting changed the game on Wednesday, another series of meetings are bringing new twists to the Presidential contest on Thursday. Here's an account of who is meeting whom over the Presidential elections: - Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Samajwadi Party chief...
11:20 AM, Jun 14, 2012
The council, headed by Rajiv Shukla, will meet in Mumbai to take stock of the last edition of the IPL. ...
07:05 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Rajkot: About 20 Congress workers including city unit president Jasvantsinh Bhatti were detained on Saturday when they allegedly tried to barge into the venue of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s state executive meeting. The Congress workers were shouting slogans against Modi government and wanted to enter the venue of the meeting. They were detained near Atmiya College where BJP's state executive meeting was being held, police said. The two-day state executive...
09:43 PM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Roughly 150 people were detained when they tried to forcibly enter the venue of the state executive meeting of the Gujarat BJP on Saturday. The two-day meeting was held in the hometown of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel, who has pulled out his swords against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, after the latter's critic Sanjay Joshi was forced to quit from the party, reportedly under pressure from him. This...
10:38 PM, Jun 09, 2012
