New Delhi, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday. Abe arrived here on Friday on a three-day official visit. “Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan called on President Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (Saturday),” the official Twitter account of Rashtrapati Bhavan said. “Furthering a close and reliable partnership: PM Abe […]
New Delhi, The face-off between the Congress and the central government continued for yet another day on Friday in both houses of parliament. The Rajya Sabha witnessed repeated adjournments over the National Herald case while Congress members staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha, demanding suspension of or an apology from Bharatiya Janata Party’s Virendra […]
Kolkata, The Election Commission on Thursday said central police forces would guard all polling booths during next year’s West Bengal assembly elections and asserted that the forces’ deployment would be done under the supervision of the poll panel and its appointed observers. The full bench of the poll panel, which held day-long parleys with political […]
New Delhi, The Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the central government of “not doing anything for farmers” and instead showing “fake concern” on their issues. Intervening in a debate on the drought conditions in several parts of the country, the Congress leader angrily said that “it was not right […]
Islamabad, India and Pakistan, during talks between Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistani prime minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz here on Wednesday, agreed to commence comprehensive bilateral dialogue. “India & Pakistan announce the commencement of a Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue. Foreign Secretaries to meet later,” external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted.
New Delhi, The confrontation between the Congress and Centre over National Herald issue escalated on Wednesday, as Rahul Gandhi alleged “political vendetta” against his party coming out of PMO and BJP challenging him to prove it. The Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha witnessed protests by Congress members against the government with the upper house witnessing […]
New Delhi, Giving a brief relief to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald newspaper case, a court approved their inability to appear in court on Tuesday but asked them to be present on December 19. The Congress, however, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of running a […]
New Delhi, India and Pakistan are set to hold the third bilateral engagement at the top level in less than 10 days with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reaching Islamabad on Tuesday for a conference on Afghanistan. Following an impromptu meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif in Paris on the margins of […]
New Delhi, The Rajya Sabha’s proceedings were disrupted on Tuesday as Congress members created a ruckus by accusing the government of “vendetta politics” in the National Herald newspaper case. The protest by Congress parliamentarians came in the wake of Delhi High Court’s dismissal of the plea of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul […]
New Delhi, Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A.B Bardhan, who suffered a paralytic stroke, was still in “critical condition”, a doctor said on Tuesday morning. Bardhan, 93, who lives in the Ajoy Bhavan CPI headquarters here, was admitted to the G.B. Pant Hospital on Monday after he felt uneasy and lost consciousness, Medical […]