New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) It was a warm, sunny Sunday in the national capital. The maximum temperature is likely to be around 28 degrees Celsius, the Met Office said. “The sky will remain clear through the day and the afternoon will be warm,” an official of the India Meteorological Department said. Sunday’s minimum temperature was […]
Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government’s ambitious ‘Samajwadi Pension’ scheme has run into rough weather. The scheme, aimed at benefitting 40 lakh poor families with a monthly dole of Rs.500-750, has been stalled, with the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls in place. Officials told IANS that the selection process to […]
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Accusing both Congress and BJP of pursuing “pro-rich policies”, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday asserted only the Left parties had the right alternative policies. “There is no difference between policies of Congress and BJP, their sole aim is making richer the rich and robbing the poor. “They can dole […]
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and vice president Rahul Gandhi (Amethi) figure in the first list of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections released here Saturday. Apart from the two Gandhis, the list has 192 more names including Unique Identification Authority of India chairman and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, […]
Hyderabad, March 8 (IANS) Congress leader and former minister Galla Aruna Kumari and her industrialist son Galla Jayadev Saturday joined Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Aruna Kumari along with her supporters formally joined TDP in the presence of party chief and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at the party office here. The minister for mines […]
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and vice president Rahul Gandhi (Amethi) figure in the first list of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections released Saturday. Apart from the two Gandhis, the list has 192 more names including union ministers Mallikarjun Kharge and Girija Vyas.
Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam Saturday urged the legal fraternity to make the poor aware of the legal services they could avail for a better life. Speaking at the 12th all-India meet of State Legal Services Authorities here, he observed that the legal officials were duty-bound to ensure the poorest of […]
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Devyani Khobragade incident caused a certain “misunderstanding” in relations but India has “insulated” that issue from the rest of its relationship with America, India’s Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said here Saturday. “You are right that the incident relating to Indian diplomat in New York caused certain degree of misunderstanding for […]
Gurgaon, March 8 (IANS) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy Saturday described AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s tour of Gujarat as a “sponsored drama” of the Congress. Swamy, who merged his Janata Party with the BJP some seven months ago, was the chief guest at a meeting here of traders organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party. “AAP failed to […]
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Rajmohan Gandhi, who exited from the political scene after losing to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1989, has decided on a second plunge into politics as an AAP candidate for the Lok Sabha poll because he sees “hope” in the party that has emerged as a “new […]