Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is unhappy with the functioning of his son Akhilesh Yadav's Cabinet and has said that some ministers need to be changed. On the Other hand Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav reiterated that the state government was doing a good job. ...
03:49 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday described the ongoing phase in the country's politics as a "transition period" and said his party can offer an "alternative" at the Centre. Yadav was addressing party workers after a meeting of district and city presidents at SP headquarters in Lucknow. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Farhan Azmi, son of Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi, has apoligised for his father's sexist comments and said that he is not a supporter of RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat and self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi said that rapes and sexual harassments are rising due to fashion. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Vishnu Wagh, a BJP MLA from Goa and Abu Azmi, a Samajwadi Party MLA, on Tuesday drew flak for their insensitive comments regarding women and sexual assault cases. ...
08:10 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Political leaders are making one controversial remark after another against women even as the country seethes with anger following the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old student by six men in Delhi. ...
06:15 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A total of six MLAs and two MPs in India are accused of serious crimes against women, including rape and sexual assault. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has called for President rule in the state following the alleged rape and murder of a woman professional in Noida. "Crime is on the rise in UP. Murder, communal riots, rapes. The latest case being a Dalit girl's rape and murder. It's unfortunate that the Samajwadi Party government instead of arresting the accused, is trying to shield them. So...
12:45 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Seven years ago a 14-year old girl was allegedly gangraped in Lucknow. The case is known as Ashiana rape case after the locality where the crime took place. ...
01:19 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Using development plank, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sought votes for his party from the people of the state for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. ...
08:23 PM, Jan 03, 2013
With just a little more than a year left for the next Lok Sabha polls, Congress may be in for a hard grind electorally in 2013 when major states go to polls with the Bharatiya Janata Party on a high after Narendra Modi's hat-trick in Gujarat. It has been another roller coaster year in 2012 for the Congress heading the United Progressive Alliance government with a major ally Trinamool Congress...
12:05 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Samajwadi Party MP Brijbhushan Singh and former Shiv Sena MLA Pawan Pandey today surrendered before a special CBI court. ...
02:03 PM, Dec 22, 2012
The controversial bill for quota in government job promotions on Thursday faced obstacle in the Lok Sabha with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party opposing its consideration for different reasons. ...
02:18 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Samajwadi Party member Yashvir Singh, who had stunned the Lok Sabha on Wednesday by snatching a copy of the quota bill from Minister V Narayanasamy, on Thursday expressed regret over the incident. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said the member had expressed regret over the unfortunate incident which had shaken the foundation of democracy. ...
01:49 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Unfazed by Samajwadi Party's strong protest which led to a scuffle in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the government said the bill for providing quota in government job promotion will be taken up in the House on Thursday. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath termed as 'deplorable' the incident in which SP member Yashvir Singh snatched the Constitution (117th Amendment) Bill from Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy. ...
06:44 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Actor-turned MP Jaya Bachchan told CNN-IBN that she is afraid of going out in Delhi. This after a 23-year-old was mercilessly gangraped and who is now battling for her life in a government hospital. ...
06:13 PM, Dec 19, 2012
There was a major drama in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday when a Samajwadi Party MP, Yashvir Singh, snatched the SC/ST Quota in Promotion Bill (Constitution (117th Amendment)) from Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasami while he was reading it in the House. Congress President Sonia Gandhi tried to snatch the Bill back from the Samajwadi Party MP but failed to do so. ...
03:45 PM, Dec 19, 2012
A very agitated and angry Jaya Bachchan broke down in the Rajya Sabha and threatened to continue standing as a protest till stricter laws are put in place for the safety of women while on the merciless gangrape of a 23-year-old para-medical student who is now battling for her life in a government hospital. ...
01:44 PM, Dec 18, 2012
The district administration has strongly opposed any action to release the accused in the 2006 Varanasi blasts, a move that is a setback to the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party that had defended the "innocent Muslims being implicated in the blasts." The district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police of Varanasi have said, in a letter of the special secretary (law) dated December 14, after a careful study of the...
01:05 PM, Dec 18, 2012
After much debate and opposition from the Samajwadi Party, the quota bill on promotions in government services was passed in the Rajya Sabha. The bill was passed almost unanimous with 206 voting for and only 10 against it, despite the Samajwadi Party disrupting both houses to protest the bill. ...
06:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
