The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is welcome to join the Third Front, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Thursday. “NCP is welcome to join us if they want to quit the UPA,” CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said. He was asked if the NCP would become a part of an alternate front of non-Congress, non-BJP […]
A parliamentary panel Thursday recommended that a bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act be passed in the current parliament session itself — taking the total number of anti-corruption legislations listed for passage to seven. The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) bill has amongst its provisions bringing the corporate sector under the Act, but with […]
The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking to bar a person who is in jail or in police custody from contesting elections, saying it would leave the door open for practice of “vendetta politics”. Giving relief to jailed legislators and parliamentarians, a division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Manmohan said […]
India’s economic growth is likely to accelerate 5.6 percent in 2014-15 from the projected growth of less than five percent in the current fiscal ending March, according to economic think-tank NCAER. For the current financial year the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to remain in the range of 4.7 to 4.9 percent, […]
The formation of Telangana rocked both houses of parliament Thursday, forcing several adjournments – and finally for the day. The Lok Sabha initially lost the question hour due to disruptions, being adjourned till 12 noon.When it reassembled, members from Andhra Pradesh again raised slogans, following which the Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house for the […]
A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur Wednesday committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his hostel room, police said. Manjunath, a B.Tech IIIrd year student, was pursuing computer science at the premier institute and hailed from Karnataka. Police officials said that the student was found hanging by the […]
Legislators from Andhra Pradesh opposed to a separate Telangana staged a protest here Wednesday against the government’s decision to carve out the state. The legislators and their supporters protested outside Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in central Delhi and then marched towards Rajghat – Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial on the banks of the Yamuna river. A scuffle broke […]
The BJP Wednesday made common cause with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying her demand for a three-year moratorium on interest on central loans was justified. “The Left Front has left the state in financial ruin with a huge loan burden. Mamata demanded a three-year moratorium on interest payment. But the UPA (United Progressive […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Wednesday accused the Congress and the Gandhi family of denying the coveted post of prime minister to Pranab Mukherjee twice – in 1984 and 2004 – despite his qualifications. Modi said that in 1984, after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, Mukherjee should have been made prime […]
The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the central and city governments to treat as representation a plea seeking the court’s direction to appoint doctors in government hospitals. The plea said that due to the vacancies, patients were not getting treatment and some were dying after being denied medical assistance. A division bench of Justice Pradeep […]