On a day when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was inducted into BJP's Parliamentary Board, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat raked up the issue of Ram Mandir in Ahmedabad, expressing the desire for a "glorious" temple at Ayodhya. "We will have to build good, honest and true Hindus in Bharat, because, now the whole world will be following Hindus. "In near future, we are taking up mass recitation of 'Vijay Mantra'...
02:58 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday charged BJP with buckling under pressure of Narendra Modi by including him in its top decision making parliamentary board, and said the Gujarat Chief Minister will pose a challenge to his own party. ...
09:36 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha are among the prominent leaders who have failed to find a place in the new party President Rajnath Singh's core team. Both Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha have been senior Ministers in the NDA colaition government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Sticking to its stand on NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate, Janata Dal (United) leader Neeraj Kumar said the country's Prime Minister should have 'secular credentials'. ...
01:58 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Congress on Sunday said the newly constituted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) team will have to pass the Karnataka elections exam first. The BJP announced its new Parliamentary Board and as speculated, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was reinducted into the panel after a gap of six years. Among the other new members, who were appointed in the board, were Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat...
01:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Former telecom minister A Raja has defended the Telecom Ministry's decision to bypass the Law Ministry in seeking legal opinion of the then Solicitor General GE Vahanvati directly on 2G issue saying it was "perfectly permissible" to approach the law officer in certain cases. Raja told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G issue that it is "perfectly permissible" for a government department to seek the opinion of a law...
12:01 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its new Parliamentary Board and as speculated, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was reinducted into the panel after a gap of six years. The other new members, who were appointed in the board, were Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah. ...
10:51 AM, Mar 31, 2013
In a major boost to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to reinduct him in party's Parliamentary Board, which is expected to be finalised on Sunday. Modi, if selected for the Parliamentary Board, will be returning to the panel after a gap of six years. He was earlier appointed as a member of the board by Rajnath Singh in his previous...
08:09 AM, Mar 31, 2013
India is not a full-fledged democracy as 90 per cent of its people vote like sheep and cattle, Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju said in New Delhi on Saturday. ...
06:23 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The family of eight security personnel, who died in the 2001 Parliament attack, on Saturday took back the gallantry medals, which they had returned in 2006, to protest against delay in the execution of Afzal Guru. The families of those who lost their lives in the attack received the medals from President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The contentious anti-corruption Lokpal Bill will come up for discussion in April in Parliament after the ongoing one-month recess of the Budget Session, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said on Sunday. ...
04:31 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday hoped the landmark Food Security Bill, to ensure the right to highly subsidised foodgrains to poor, would be passed in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A demand was made in the Rajya Sabha to set up a monument in Parliament House at the spot where Bhagat Singh had thrown bombs inside the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929. Making the demand during Zero Hour, KC Tyagi (JD-U) said there should be a monument in place to commemorate the bomb throwing incident by Bhagat Singh, which is an important event in India's freedom struggle. ...
10:08 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The first half of the Budget session of the 2012-13 ends on Friday. The House will meet next on April 22. Important reform bills such as the Food Security Bill and the land bill still remain pending. ...
08:15 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
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's controversial remarks about Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has seen the party go on an offensive. Even though Beni Prasad Verma and even Congress President Sonia Gandhi apologised to Mulayam Singh Yadav, but the Samajwadi Party is yet to accept it. ...
12:02 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
