New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament is set to begin on November 22, 2012 and will carry on till December 20. It will include a total of 18 sittings. The last session was washed out over the coal allocation scam. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, at a meeting chaired by Defence Minister AK Antony, on Thursday decided to recommend to President Pranab Mukherjee to convene the Winter Session...
07:00 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: Accusing ruling Congress of "not being serious" in curtailing corruption, JD(U) on Tuesday said the Opposition will corner the government on coal block issue in Winter Session of Parliament beginning from November 21. "The main issue is coal block allocations in which a number of irregularities have been reported. Those saying that the opposition have become silent on it are wrong. Let the Winter Session begin, the opposition...
04:06 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Jabalpur: Ruling out the possibility of formation of Third Front, Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav on Monday said new alliances by "some parties" may, however, emerge post Lok Sabha polls. "There is no possibility of a Third Front in the country. As Congress is the basis of UPA, BJP is the basis of NDA," Yadav told reporters here. "NDA was, is and will continue to exist but some parties...
07:10 PM, Oct 08, 2012
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday admitted a plea against Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya. The plea urges the rights panel to initiate a case against him in the death of a Kingfisher employee's wife. Kingfisher store manager Manas Chakravarti's wife in her suicide note mentioned that she couldn't take the financial stress caused by non-payment of salaries. ...
10:39 AM, Oct 08, 2012
JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav said if former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda could be arrested for abetment to suicide in his former employee's death case, why can't Vijay Mallya be booked when so many of his employees are going through a financial crisis due to company's ill health. The wife of a Kingfisher store manager, Manas Chakraborti, committed suicide in Delhi on Thursday. Her suicide note said that the family ...
04:42 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: NDA ally JD-U on Tuesday said it could support a no-confidence motion against government brought by other parties, a significant departure from its earlier stand that it was not interested in ousting the UPA. "We are not focused on ousting the government but if it is falling anyway, we will definitely give it a push," party chief Sharad Yadav told reporters. His statement came a day after Trinamool...
02:53 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Using the twin issues of foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail and diesel price hike to target the Congress-led UPA Government, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday exhorted chief ministers of all the states to join her in her battle. Targeting the Centre over FDI and fuel price hike, the West Bengal Chief Minister warned of a new front to take on the Congress while blaming it...
05:39 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Left leader D Raja has said that a Third Front comprising of non-BJP and non-Congress parties is a possibility if the UPA government falls. ...
03:26 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Lucknow: Former thinktank of the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) idealogue KN Govindacharya on Tuesday said NDA convenor Sharad Yadav was better than Narendra Modi for the post of prime minister. Though there are many aspirants, both in the UPA and National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Janata Dal-United president Yadav would be a good option for the top post, Govindacharya said. He said Yadav was better as he has held...
02:34 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Under pressure from its key NDA allies Shiv Sena and JD(U) on coalition issues, the BJP was on Monday at pains to insist that the alliance is "fully united" to replace UPA in next elections and will together take a call on matters like their Prime Ministerial candidate. While Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had caused a flutter in the BJP on Sunday when he said Sushma Swaraj...
08:27 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Sharad Yadav has made it clear that JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar will campaign against Narendra Modi in Gujarat. ...
06:05 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The battle lines between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar are set to sharpen further with Janata Dal (United) President Sharad Yadav saying that Kumar will campaign against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat as there is no National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the state. "Nitish Kumar will campaign in Gujarat. We can have alliance in several other states but Gujarat. We...
12:55 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: JD(U) President Sharad Yadav on Sunday alleged that MNS chief Raj Thackeray was a "stooge" of the Congress which was using him against the Shiv Sena-BJP combine for electoral gains in the state. "Raj Thackeray is a stooge of the Congress and the ruling party in the state is using him against the Shiv Sena-BJP combine," Yadav told reporters when asked about the MNS' chief's remarks on the...
10:34 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy over the coal blocks allocation continued to derail Parliament for the seventh straight day on Thursday, but there was a new twist. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav tried to rally a Third Front, demanding a judicial probe and a discussion in Parliament on the alleged scam. Mulayam, who is strongly positioned after his victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, has now got the Left...
11:01 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday was left isolated on seeking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the coal block allocations. BJP ally JD(U) said that it wanted a discussion in Parliament on the CAG report even as Trinamool Congress (TMC) Mamata Banerjee turned down the request to join hands against the Prime Minister. While Mamata said that there was no question of supporting the Opposition for...
03:00 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Terming as "shocking" the Home Ministry statement that elements in Pakistan are behind creating panic among the Northeast Indians, Janata Dal (United) on Sunday alleged that it was an "excuse" by the government to "cover up" its "inept" handling of situation. "It was a shocking statement made by Home Secretary RK Singh that panic stricken Indians from North East fled Bangalore after reports of attacks on some of...
06:34 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Ramdev's mission to take his fight against black money from the Ramlila Maidan to Parliament did not materialise as he along with his supporters taken into preventive custody. ...
04:53 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev's mission to take his fight against black money from the Ramlila Maidan to Parliament did not materialise as he along with his supporters were stopped and taken into preventive custody at the Ranjit Singh flyover. Ramdev's rally, which saw the yoga guru leading the protest rally sitting on the top of a vehicle with a black band tied on his forehead, started from the Ramlila Maidan...
03:51 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Yoga guru Ramdev decided to take his protest on black money and corruption to Parliament and vowed to oust Congress in the next Lok Sabha polls. ...
11:43 AM, Aug 13, 2012
