
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday denied reports of differences with Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal and said they were together in the fight against corruption and black money. "There is no difference with Team Anna," Ramdev said. A day after his fast with Anna Hazare, Ramdev also met BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Ramdev has sought support for his movement of demanding the government to bring back the...

01:20 PM, Jun 04, 2012

Lucknow: Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, will file her nomination for the Kannauj Lok Sabha by-poll on Tuesday, a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader said. The by-poll was necessiated by Akhilesh Yadav's election to the state legislative Council and Dimple was fielded following consultations and deliberations, the leader said. This is the second innings of Dimple Yadav, the first being when she was fielded by the...

11:44 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday allowed the police to take voice samples of senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh for further investigation into the controversial CD case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav accepted the Delhi Police plea for securing their voice samples through CFSL experts to ascertain the motive behind creating the CD with their purported conversation on managing a Supreme Court...

07:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012

London: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry have been awarded the prestigious International Jurists Award 2012. Yadav, former defence minister and ex-chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, was selected for the award for his unflinching "contribution to the advancement of the bar and the bench." "His support to the development of the legal fraternity is unparalleled in the world," said the citation read out at...

11:24 AM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has struck a deal with the Congress and agreed to back UPA-II's Presidential candidate, sources say. Even though the bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party is growing there is no talk of the latter joining the government, at least till the Presidential polls are over, sources add. With the Samajwadi Party's support in the Presidential polls, the UPA's strength will...

11:09 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was the star of UPA-II's third anniversary dinner on Tuesday. While the key ally Trinamool Congress seems to be drifting away from the UPA, Mulayam was seen sharing the stage and then the high table with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the dinner, an honour reserved only for close allies. The big question that arises now is...

09:06 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: Is the Congress readying itself to dump Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and get Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to replace her as an ally? The Samajwadi Party chief was the star of UPA-II's third anniversary dinner. He was seen sharing the stage and then the high table with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, which is an honour reserved only for close allies....

07:25 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday indicated its support to UPA candidate for President's post provided he is not a bureaucrat. "One condition, he should not be a bureaucrat," SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters here when asked whether SP would support a Congress candidate. Yadav replied in the negative to another query whether his party will join the UPA government. At the 3rd anniversary of UPA II...

03:26 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: The increased bonhomie between Congress and Samajwadi Party was visible during the function to mark completion of three years of UPA II as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi released the annual report card on the government's performance. Incidentally, as leaders of parties supporting UPA from outside --- SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad were present in the function, UPA's second...

10:44 PM, May 22, 2012

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party on Tuesday indicated its support to UPA candidate for President's post provided he is not a bureaucrat. "One condition, he should not be a bureaucrat," SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters when asked whether SP would support a Congress candidate. Yadav replied in the negative to another query whether his party would join the UPA government. At the 3rd anniversary of UPA II function, outside...

09:40 PM, May 22, 2012

New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Sunday asked the Congress to formally announce its Presidential nominee first and said it will decide its stand on the top post only after that. The party's politburo at its meeting here discussed the feedback received during its discussions with leaders like SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. The four Left parties had also met on Friday with their leaders favouring...

04:40 AM, May 07, 2012

Lucknow: Buoyed by the Uttar Pradesh government's moves seeking dropping of charges against terrorists involved in bomb blasts in Faizabad and Lucknow courts, a young Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist is "trying to work out a way to surrender" in a Delhi court. And pitching for him is Samajwadi Party legislator Wasim Ahmad, also the minister of state for basic education, who is reported to have put up his case with...

01:53 AM, May 06, 2012

New Delhi: Left parties on Friday held preliminary discussions on Presidential elections and decided to consult with "secular opposition" parties before taking a final stand on the candidate and met. The parties favoured a wide agreement on a candidate for the President's election. CPI(M) leaders Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury met Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yechury later met NCP chief Sharad Pawar separately discussing the Presidential poll issue....

07:35 PM, May 04, 2012

New Delhi: Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee appear to be holding the key to the election of the next President amid indications that Congress will initiate formal talks with parties on the issue in a fortnight. UPA as well as NDA leaders say that anybody who has the support of two of the three non-Congress leaders Mulayam, Mamata and Mayawati can have the next President of his choice to...

03:39 AM, Apr 26, 2012

Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that his party will decide on the presidential candidate when the time is ripe. ...

02:38 PM, Apr 24, 2012