New Delhi: Ahead of the Monsoon session of Parliament starting Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday called on President Pratibha Patil and apprised her about the forthcoming session and other national and international issues. A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said that the meeting between the two leaders lasted for 30 minutes. "The two leaders discussed about the forthcoming Monsoon Session of the Parliament and various other issues of national and...
02:41 PM, Jul 31, 2011
On Board Special Aircraft: President Pratibha Patil on Saturday said the government was coordinating with all political parties to pave way for Women Reservation Bill, pending for consensus in Lok Sabha for over a year. The matter related to the bill came up for discussion at a meeting with a group of women parliamentarians in Mongolia, Patil told reporters on her way back to New Delhi after completing a week-long...
07:09 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Seoul: India on Monday signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal with South Korea, allowing a framework for Korean companies to participate in atomic power plant projects in the country. The agreement was signed after a meeting between President Pratibha Patil with her South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-Bak. South Korea has become the ninth country which had signed nuclear agreement with India after it got the waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers'...
03:45 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil made her assets public on Monday and has become the first Indian President to declare her assets. Her assets include a house in Amravati worth Rs 39 lakh, a farm house worth Rs 10 lakh and close to eight hectares of land in Jalgaon worth Rs 34 lakh. Her immovable assets, including shares and jewellery, amount to around Rs 2.5 crore. She has also declared...
02:51 PM, Jul 25, 2011
On 'The Week That Wasn't', Cyrus Broacha gets you the funny side of UPA's cabinet reshuffle. ...
08:32 PM, Jul 17, 2011
New Delhi: Former Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) PJ Thomas has appealed to President Pratibha Patil to wait for the outcome of his petition in the Delhi High Court before appointing the new CVC. Thomas has sent his petition to the President to pass an order asking the government not to appoint anybody as the CVC just a day ahead of swearing-in of Pradeep Kumar as the new CVC. Thomas' lawyer ...
12:15 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: Former Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) PJ Thomas has appealed to President Pratibha Patil to wait for the outcome of his petition in the Delhi High Court before appointing the new CVC. Thomas has sent his petition to the President to pass an order asking the government not to appoint anybody as the CVC just a day ahead of swearing-in of Pradeep Kumar as the new CVC. Thomas' lawyer...
12:15 PM, Jul 13, 2011
President Pratibha Patil administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at 5.00 pm on Tuesday. ...
07:37 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday accepted the resignation of seven Ministers, including DMK's Dayanidhi Maran and Murli Deora of Congress, from the Union Council of Ministers, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister on Tuesday recommended to accept the resignations of Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora, Development of North Eastern Region Minister B K Handique, Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister...
01:41 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: Mercy petitions of 17 people on death row are pending before President Pratibha Patil, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. Most of the pleas are from those convicted of murder or rape. In reply to information sought under the RTI Act by Subhash Chandra Agarwal, the President's Secretariat said the oldest petition was from 2005, while six mercy petitions were submitted to her office...
10:15 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Prathibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday ahead of a proposed Cabinet reshuffle. The meeting lasted 45 minutes and sources have told CNN-IBN the Prime Minister and the President discussed the current political situation in the country and the proposed Cabinet reshuffle. The Cabinet reshuffle is likely to take place soon. The Monsoon Session of Parliament was also...
03:18 PM, Jul 01, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: The German Ambassador to India Thomas Matussek has said that Germany will appeal to India not to execute Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Bhullar. He said the German court which extradited him to India, did so erroneously, and without the full facts of the case before it. "Our government will appeal to the Indian government not to execute him. The high representative of the EU Catherine Ashton has also...
06:16 PM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has suggested that it is for the President of India to take a call on placing her and her family's property details in public domain. Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi underlined the fact that he had no powers under the RTI act to pass any direction in this regard. "The Commission cannot pass any direction in this regard, as it does not come within...
05:14 PM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday said it will hold peaceful protests across the country against the crackdown on Baba Ramdev's agitation and meet President Pratibha Patil to demand convening of a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue. The party, whose top leaders inlcuding BJP President Nitin Gadkari are holding a Satyagraha at Rajghat, accused the governent of "shielding and protecting" the corrupt. "We would seek the intervention...
09:21 AM, Jun 06, 2011
Chandigarh: All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman MS Bitta on Monday said political parties were indulging in votebank politics over rejection of mercy plea of death row convict and Khalistan militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar even as SGPC decided to file a review petition against capital punishment for Bhullar. "It is unfortunate that parties are indulging in votebank politics over such a sensitive issue. It is time that people of this...
06:41 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Friday turned down the mercy petitions of two convicts Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar and MN Dass. This is the first execution to be cleared by the President since 2004. Ten years after the Parliament was attacked, Afzal Guru's mercy plea against his death penalty is pending with the Home Ministry. This is a stark contrast to the case of Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, whose...
09:44 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has acted on the mercy plea of two death row convicts - a move that could now advance the decision on the mercy plea of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru. President Patil on Thursday gave her assent to the execution of Devinder Singh Bhullar of Punjab and MN Dass of Assam. This is the first time since 2004 - when Dhananjay Chatterjee was executed -...
05:15 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: The waiting list of death row mercy pleas has become shorter as President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of two murder convicts MN Das and Devender Bhullar. Khalistani terrorist Bhullar was convicted for attacking Congress leader MS Bitta in 1993, leading to several deaths in Delhi. It comes after the Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise over the 8-year delay in the disposal of Bhullar's plea....
07:05 AM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: After seven years, the go-ahead has been given for execution of two murder convicts that could start the process of clearing the long list of death row convicts, including Afzal Guru and Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts, awaiting punishment. President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar of Punjab and Mahendra Nath Das of Assam following the recommendations from the Union Home Ministry, sources...
08:34 PM, May 26, 2011
