CEC VS Sampath on Wednesday announced the election dates for Karnataka Assembly and said the election for the 224-member House will take place in a single phase on May 5. The counting of votes will take place on May 8. ...
03:32 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday denounced Sri Lanka for the "unspeakable atrocities" on Tamils, taking an unusual hard line against Colombo for the first time. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The UPA is reaching out to DMK, which has threatened to pull out of the alliance, over India's vote at the UN Human Rights Council on the resolution on Sri Lankan war crimes. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said that three senior ministers will meet DMK chief Karunanidhi on Monday to sort out issues. Karunanidhi has written another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi,...
10:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
UPA ally DMK is keeping up the pressure on the government, threatening to pull out of the alliance, over India's vote at the UN Human Rights Council on the resolution on Sri Lankan war crimes. DMK chief Karunanidhi has written another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, asking the government to push for an international probe into war crimes in Sri Lanka. ...
10:19 AM, Mar 18, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday said any decision by the government on voting on the UN resolution on Sri Lanka will be taken after consulting all UPA partners even as key ally DMK threatened to walk out of the coalition on the issue. ...
02:40 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that India needed to fight communal forces effectively for its economic and social development. ...
02:51 PM, Mar 16, 2013
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said a law will be passed soon to prevent crime against women in the country. Sonia, who was speaking after the foundation stone laying ceremony of Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology in Narayanpur in West Bengal in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said the UPA government had taken various steps for the cause of women and establishing their rights....
02:30 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Sonia Gandhi on Thursday completed 15 years as the Congress president, the longest that office has been held by any single person. What impact has she had on her party and Indian politics in all these years? This is the question Karan Thapar raised with a panel of experts in his show 'The Last Word'. ...
09:54 PM, Mar 15, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has slammed those linking UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to the Italian marines issue saying it was "extremely unfair". "It is extremely unfair to link Sonia Gandhi to the marines issue," he said, adding the issue wasn't over yet and the government was waiting to see what happened on Monday in the Supreme Court, when the hearing in the case resumes. ...
07:52 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Sonia Gandhi has just completed 15 years as the Congress party president on March 14, 2013. How has she performed as the leader of the grand old party? Veteran Journalist Neerja Chowdhury, who has covered Congress for long joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Commencing her 16th year as the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said being at the helm was "not an easy task" and gave credit to the party's rank and file in helping her accomplish the job. "It was not not an easy task. But it was made possible due to your support and the love and affection of the ordinary workers which made the task easier and the credit...
08:05 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Thousands of activists on a Yamuna Bachao Yatra marched into New Delhi on Monday. They protested at Jantar Mantar demanding that the central government takes action in cleaning up the Yamuna. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday urged the women of Haryana to fight against social evils like female infanticide and other crimes against them. ...
01:57 AM, Mar 09, 2013
While political leaders have been endorsing tough laws to deal with crimes against women, there is hardly action on the ground to show that women are any safer. While members of the government assured that tough anti-rape laws will be brought into effect soon, Parliamentarians called for unity to fight crimes against women during a debate on the occasion of Women's Day on Friday. ...
03:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Amid rising cases of crime against women, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said "our heads hang in shame" due to recurring incidents of rapes and other violence against women. Flagging concerns about female foeticide and crime against women, Gandhi exhorted women not to bow down to difficulties in future and face them with courage as the country needs them at all responsible positions. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj was voted as the most admired female politician followed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in a survey conducted by shaadi.com. ...
01:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Is the BJP national executive meet's overwhelming praise of Narendra Modi a clear sign of things to come in 2014? BJP's National Executive member Sheshadri Chari joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
03:21 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The NCP on Tuesday expressed grave disappointment over the Railway Budget with its chief Sharad Pawar telling a meeting of the UPA coordination committee that Mumbai has been neglected, which is "not acceptable". ...
01:45 AM, Feb 27, 2013
The proposed increase in coal freight rate by 5.7 per cent in the Railway Budget 2013-14 will have no effect on the coal sector but may lead to a marginal increase in the electricity tariffs. Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal sought to increase the freight rate on coal from Rs 685.10 per tonne, to Rs 724.80 - a hike of 5.79 per cent. ...
04:25 PM, Feb 26, 2013
All eyes will be on Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on February 26 on whether he yields to pressure of hiking passenger fares yet again or looks at other measures to mobilise resources to offset the burden of the recent diesel price hike. Bansal had on January 22 hiked passenger fares across-the-board after the Railways faced a loss of about Rs 25,000 crore in the passenger segment. ...
04:56 PM, Feb 25, 2013
