India Politics

Thiruvananthapuram: Senior CPI-M leader P. Jayarajan was on Tuesday questioned by the CBI for over four hours in connection with an RSS activist's murder...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Congress represents hope for the future, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told party workers Sunday and urged them to apprise voters about the achievements of the government in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. "With elections around the corner, you are once again called upon to carry the party's message and the government's accomplishments to each and every voter throughout the country," the prime minister, recuperating from a heart surgery, said in his message that was read out at a convention of the Congress leaders here.

New Delhi : A total of 15 AAP legislators have objected to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) over electricity tariff revision petitions for...

Kozhikode (Kerala): Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Saturday said that the meeting with Thamarassery Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil over the state government's new liquor policy...

By IANS, New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice Wednesday, over the issue of Telangana and shooting prices of essential commodities. As soon as the house assembled at 11 a.m., Telugu Desham Party (TDP) members raised the issue of united Andhra, with party member M.V. Mysoora Reddy walking towards the well of the house. Simultaneously, the Left parties began speaking about price rise, forcing Chairman Hamid Ansari to adjourn the house for half hour.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday strongly criticised the landmine attack on the convoy of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan in West Midnapore district and accused the Maoists of targeting the party's cadre. The two leaders were returning after the foundation stone laying ceremony of a private steel plant in Salboni area of West Midnapore when their convoy came under attack Sunday afternoon. They escaped but six police personnel in a pilot jeep were injured seriously.

By IANS, Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is opposed to the invocation of the stringent National Safety Act (NSA) against young Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi. Abdullah, whose National Conference is ruling the state in alliance with the Congress, Thursday said slapping the NSA against Varun Gandhi was wrong. "The NSA has different connotations," the chief minister told reporters here.

By IANS, Chennai : The resignation of union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is imminent following a decision by his father and PMK party founder S. Ramadoss to align with the AIADMK, highly placed PMK sources said Tuesday. "While the timing of the resignation is being worked out, the decision to align with the AIADMK has been finalised," a senior aide of the PMK founder said here.

By Liz Mathew New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) It was keen on early general elections. But now the Congress party has concluded it will wait for the verdict in Karnataka to decide whether or not it should order a snap parliamentary poll. After Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram announced the populist loan waiver scheme for farmers and tax cuts for the salaried class, it appeared that the Congress was all set to call for early Lok Sabha elections, otherwise due in 2009. The Congress leadership now thinks differently, party sources told IANS.

Patna : A day after the assembly membership of four rebel JD-U legislators was terminated, they were Sunday expelled from the party. "After Bihar Assembly...

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : The state executive of the Congress party in Kerala Wednesday once again decided that K. Muraleedharan, son of former chief minister K. Karunakaran, need not be re-admitted to the party. State Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala told reporters that a daylong meeting had been called to discuss Muraleedharan's re-entry after 91-year-old Karunakaran had requested for it.

By IANS, New Delhi : As many as 33 millionaires and 20 people with criminal records will fight for Delhi's seven Lok Sabha seats that go to polls May 7. "A total of 33 'crorepatis' are contesting elections in Delhi. Of 33, seven are from the Congress and five each from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Delhi Election Watch (DEW) statement Monday said. Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for BSP is Rs1.13 billion (Rs.113 crores), Congress Rs.70 million (Rs.7 crores) and BJP Rs.20 million (Rs.2 crores), the statement added.

Abu Dhabi: "Science is Life", wrote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and digitally signed in the visitor's book at Masdar City...

By IANS Kolkata/Nandigram : A villager was killed while several people were injured in a gun battle between activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and an anti-land acquisition group in West Bengal's trouble-torn Nandigram Saturday. "One person was killed in fresh violence. The number of the injured is not immediately known but several were injured," East Midnapore Superintendent of Police G.A. Srivinas told IANS. "The gun battle between the two groups is still raging. The situation is tense," he said Saturday afternoon.

By IANS, Chennai : DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, one of India's most senior politicians, turned 87 Thursday. A key prop of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Karunanidhi began the day by cutting a birthday cake at his residence in Gopalapuram area here as close aides and family members cheered him. A day earlier, he had formally handed over his house to a trust with a request that the property should be converted into a hospital after he and his wife Dayalu Ammal die.

By IANS New Delhi : The bitter tussle between Health Minister A. Ramadoss and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P. Venugopal escalated further Thursday after the latter suspended head of Cardio Thoracic department Sampath Kumar for alleged medical negligence. Venugopal reportedly "dug out" a March 2007 medical case record, charged Kumar with negligence in the death of a boy, and placed him under suspension. The director and a group of senior doctors alleged that the 12-year-old boy had died after Kumar performed heart surgery on him.

Bhopal : The people affected by the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy could not meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had come to the capital...

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday said little has been done to punish security personnel who have violated human rights in Jammu and Kashmir. The CPI-M termed the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Srinagar earlier this month as "remarkable for the lack of any worthwhile political initiative to tackle the basic problems".

By IANS, Lucknow : Terming Amar Singh as a part of history, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday made it evident that the exit of his one-time blue-eyed party general secretary would not affect the party. Reacting to a barrage of queries related to Amar Singh's resignation, Yadav said: "Why do you talk about the past? I never believe in looking back. Think about what lies ahead and not history."

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net Kolkata: General strike called by seven Left trade unions affected the normal lives in all districts of West...

New Delhi : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who is contesting from Varanasi, Monday requested the youth to go out and vote. "My special...

By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Kishore Kumar Mohanty, a leader of Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), was Tuesday elected as speaker of the state assembly. "I will try my best to ensure the smooth functioning of the house, taking the confidence of the members of both the ruling and opposition parties," Mohanty said. He was elected by voice vote after the Congress party boycotted the voting saying it had not been consulted by the BJD. The ruling coalition Monday proposed his name for the post. The Congress did not field any candidate.

New Delhi: Two of the five men wounded in an attack that left a former Delhi legislator dead remained in critical condition on Monday,...

By IANS, New Delhi : In an attempt to perk up prime minister hopeful L.K. Advani's image ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is frantically launching regional translations of his autobiography, "My Country, My Life". The book was originally launched in March by Rupa Publishers in English and the Hindi translation followed soon. By October-end, the autobiography had been translated and released in three south Indian languages - Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.

By Sadiq Zafar for TwoCircles.net, When elections are around, politics in Uttar Pradesh starts revolving around communal issues and Ram Mandir Babri Mosque debate erupts...

By Faraz Ahmad, IANS New Delhi : Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing up to contest the next general elections, apparently under the leadership of L.K. Advani, several prominent BJP men have stayed away from the three-day national executive underway in Bhopal. Some like former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have a genuine alibi. "His doctors have advised him against attending the meet," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday, two days before the meet began.

New Delhi : Responding to allegations that their chief ministerial candidate Kiren Bedi was a "BJP mole" in Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption (IAC)...

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Responding to a journalist hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram in Delhi over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said Tuesday there were other ways to vent anger. "There is a general anger in the exoneration of a Congress candidate contesting from Delhi over the anti-Sikh riots. But then there are other ways of venting feelings by journalist," Karat, who is here to take part in the election campaign for his party, told journalists.

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By IANS, Ahmedabad : A priest, who is the lone voter in Banej village deep inside the Gir forest - the home to Asiatic lions - in Gujarat, Monday said he would vote in the Lok Sabha poll. Living in a temple in the forest, Guru Shree Bharatdasji Bapu is the only voter in the village, which comes under the Una assembly segment of the Junagadh Lok Sabha constituency. He had also voted in the 2007 Gujarat assembly poll with a booth set up at an ashram, inhabited by 30 devotees, inside the forest.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Election Commission Thursday said it has received the CD showing senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh distributing money allegedly at a poll meeting in a Rajasthan village. "Along with the report, the Election Commission has received the CD. The full commission will consider the issue on Monday," Deputy Election Commission J.P. Prakash told reporters here. Jaswant Singh was shown by TV channels distributing Rs.100 currency notes to a woman in Barmer of Rajasthan, from where his son Manvendra Singh is contesting election to the Lok Sabha.

New Delhi : Kiran Bedi, BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the Krishna Nagar constituency for the Feb...

Patna : A day after leading a protest march through the state capital, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday called for a Bihar...

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New Delhi : The impasse in the Rajya Sabha over union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti's abusive comment continued Monday and there was ruckus as...

By IANS, Hyderabad : Three Telangana leaders, including Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, were Tuesday booked for making provocative statements.

New Delhi : AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal Friday said the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi were disappointing for the party which...

New Delhi: It is highly unlikely that India will be governed by any single party in the foreseeable future, says a new book. "It is...