New Delhi: The UPA is under extreme pressure to include the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill as after Team Anna, the Opposition parties, too, have said that they will take up the issue in the all-party meet on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, also deliberated on the strategy on the Lokpal issue ahead of the...
01:14 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: With the threat of Anna Hazare's agitation looming large, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an all-party meeting next week to evolve a broad consensus on the Lokpal Bill and ensure its passage during the current session of Parliament that ends on December 22. Before the all party meeting, the UPA allies will hold confabulations among themselves on December 13 to devise a common strategy and speak in...
08:07 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Bonn: India on Monday joined the rest of the world in pledging a long-term engagement with Afghanistan for its transformation into a peaceful and prosperous country so that international terrorism does not again find a sanctuary there. A communique issued at the end of an international conference on Afghanistan, chaired by Germany and attended by more than 100 countries including India to chart the future course for the restive-nation, said...
05:12 AM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: The government is making all efforts to break the deadlock over Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. After the Opposition's demands, the government has called an all-party meeting on the issue on Wednesday. Parliament will also reconvene after a short recess on Wednesday. On Monday, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to the Left and the BJP in an effort to break the deadlock. While Government is offering...
08:38 PM, Dec 05, 2011
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11:54 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Melbourne: Ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, a Sri Lankan man, who migrated to Australia, has filed war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a city court. Rajapaksa will arrive in Australia on Tuesday to participate in the CHOGM to be held at Perth. Jegan Waran, a retired engineer who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, said before the Magistrate that he witnessed and...
08:42 AM, Oct 25, 2011
Darjeeling: The death toll in the Darjeeling bridge collapse rose to 34 on Sunday. Government announced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia for the kin of the dead and has assured to bear the expenses of the treatment. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be travelling to North Bengal on Sunday to visit the victims. Over 60 people were injured when an old wooden footbridge over a spring gave way under...
07:09 AM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: The details of what transpired between the government representatives and Team Anna members during the Lokpal Bill Joint Drafting Committee meeting were revealed on Monday. The audio recordings of the meetings were accessed by CNN-IBN. Reacting to the contents of the recording, key Team Anna member Kiran Bedi said that the government must volunteer to transcribe the whole recording and publish it on website. She added that the...
07:04 PM, Oct 10, 2011
The details of what transpired during the Lokpal Bill Joint Drafting Committee meetings between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and Team Anna are out in the open. The audio recordings of the Lokpal Bill Joint Drafting Committee between the Central Government and Team Anna have been accessed by CNN-IBN correspondent Rupashree Nanda through the Right to Information Act. However, there is still no clarity if the tapes have the...
04:40 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: A week after returning from the US following surgery, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday attended Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting and said she was hopeful for party's good performance in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections. She also asked leaders of the party to ensure good performance in the elections, sources said. "She is doing fine. She participated in the meeting and seems doing very well," Party's General...
05:52 PM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Congress president Sonia Gandhi will attend Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting on Thursday to finalise tickets for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections. The meeting is scheduled at 4 pm at Gandhi's residence. Party General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said that Gandhi will be participating in Thursday's CEC meeting which is to finalise tickets for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled early next year. This will be the Congress...
12:40 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Chennai: In the wake of arrests of partymen including senior leaders on land grab charges, DMK chief M Karunanidhi will chair a meeting of his party's legal wing in Chennai on September 10 to work out ways to approach the court and "protect democracy" in the state. DMK Legal Wing Secretary RS Bharathy, without directly mentioning the arrests, said the ruling AIADMK was "misusing" the police force against his party,...
12:26 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: Just moments after the all-party meeting ended, another meeting was called late night on Wednesday. It was at this meeting between Team Anna and the government that it became clear that things were not going according to plans. While inclusion of lower bureaucracy and setting up Lokayuktas in states remained sticky issues, Team Anna accused the government of bringing everything to zero. Anna Hazare's close aide Kiran Bedi...
07:18 AM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: Continuing his fast on ninth day, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare said even though he has lost weight but it is because of his supporters that nothing has happened. He assured his supporters at Ramlila Maidan and said, "There is nothing to worry about." He also accused the government and said the government is not determined to fight corruption. Anna added, "We have to eradicate corruption from the grassroot...
11:18 AM, Aug 24, 2011
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Bansal on Wednesday said the government is gearing up to seek a political consensus on its strategy to reach out to Team Anna. ...
10:34 AM, Aug 24, 2011
Sodaville, Oregon: A small city in Oregon has kicked out its mayor for not showing up to work. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/q6i2V5 ) that Sodaville replaced 35-year-old Brady Harrington with the city council's president. The newspaper says Harrington missed council meetings in June and July, along with skipping three budget meetings. The new mayor, Nick Heineck, says Harrington was occupied as a firefighter and student, but would not commit...
12:42 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Reacting to Sunday's all-party meeting, Kiran Bedi said that it was expected that there will be no consensus. ...
12:04 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: Government on Sunday came under attack from several political parties for involving the civil society in preparation of the draft for Lokpal Bill. Sources said that most of the parties felt that the government erred in its decision to form a Joint Committee with five members each from the civil society and the government and should have instead tried to take political parties into confidence over the issue....
11:09 PM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: The crucial all-party meeting on the Lokpal Bill on Sunday ended with no consensus over the Lokpal Bill draft, sources said, and that another all-party meeting will be held soon. After the meeting, TDP leader Nama Nageswara Rao said that the Prime Minister should be brought under the Lokpal Bill. "The government has delayed the Lokpal Bill. The Prime Minister must be included and judicial accounts bill need...
07:49 PM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday vouched for a strong Lokpal Bill in the all-party meet on the issue and said that the government is committed to the enactment of a Lokpal Act, which provides for a strong, effective and quick institutional arrangement for tackling corruption in high places. Following is the full text of the opening speech of the Prime Minister at the all-party meeting: I welcome...
06:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
