Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he was hopeful that Manmohan Singh would raise the matter of Tibet during the Prime Minister’s visit to the US.
The Dalai Lama portrayed Manmohan Singh as a ‘clean politician’.
"The Indian prime minister is a very honest person ...

Work in both houses of parliament stalled for the second consecutive day on Friday with opposition members stirring up a massive row over sugarcane prices and demanding a better deal for farmers.
 
As soon as the Lok Sabha assembled, members of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), Samajwadi Party ...

The Press Council of India (PCI) has set up a panel to study the ‘paid news syndrome’, or entering into financial deals with politicians to pass off their views as news items, in the recent elections, its chairman Justice (retd) G.N. Ray said on Monday.
 
"A committee has ...

Six former Maoists have decided to give up violence and fight the approaching Jharkhand assembly elections.
 
Four rebels have been issued tickets by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and one each by Rashtriya Janata Dal (Rashtriya Janata Dal) and All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU).

The ...

The resurgent Trinamool Congress-Congress combine on Tuesday swept the West Bengal assembly by-elections winning eight of the 10 seats, dealing a blow to the beleaguered ruling Left Front that could bag only one seat. An independent took the 10th seat.
 
Although the Nov 3 by-elections were ...

All the three assembly constituencies, which had held the by-polls on Saturday, in Kerala, have been won by the Congress.
 
Communist Party of India-Marxist’ M V Jayarajan was taken over by former CPI-M Lok Sabha member A.P. Abdulla Kutty in Kannur by more than 12,000 votes whereas ...

Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa, facing revolt from a few ministers and legislators, on Saturday shed tears publicly at his plight.  He blamed the dissidents for shifting focus from relief work to the politics.
 
The 66-year-old Yeddyurappa, known for his short temper and being a strict ...

The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) finally broke their deadlock over power sharing in Maharashtra on Thursday, paving the way for swearing-in of the new government by the weekend - more than a fortnight after the assembly poll results were declared.
 
As per the formula ...

The swearing in of the Congress government in Haryana led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda has been put off. The swearing-in ceremony was slated to take place on Friday at 11 a.m. at the Haryana Raj Bhawan.
 
"The swearing-in ceremony has been postponed," a state government spokesman ...

Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir's efforts to resolve the deadlock in government formation failed on Tuesday, with both Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) retaining their stands on power-sharing.
 
NCP leader and deputy-chief minister designate Chhagan Bhujbal reiterated his ...

Seeking to counter West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's charge that her party was hand-in-glove with the Maoist rebels, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has demanded action against the state's ruling communists for "carrying out armed operation" against political ...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has mentioned that he wished to retire from his political career in 2014, when the current tenures of UPA will end.
 
"When this tenure will be over, I will be 79. Perhaps that is the time for having a little bit of rest", replied The FM when asked ...

The Election Commission has rescheduled the dates for Jharkhand polls. The polls which were slated to take place on Nov 27, will now take place on Nov 25. The staggered elections to the Jharkhand assembly will be held in five phases now from Nov 25 to Dec 18, it said.
 
This decision has ...

Harmohinder Singh Chatha has been elected as the Speaker of the Haryana Assembly today. He will be holding the post for the third time.
 
Congress MLA from Kaithal Randeep Singh Surjewala had proposed the 74-year-old Chatha for the post, with other members from his part as well as other ...

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)'s Chhagan Bhujbal has been appointed the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra for the third time, a top party leader announced.
 
Senior NCP leader Praful Patel announced Bhujbal's selection as the NCP Legislature Party leader and the deputy chief ...

Various Muslim organisations and political parties have threatened to boycott the first phase of Jharkhand's assembly elections on November 27, the Friday before Bakr-Eid.
 
A letter, requesting a change of dates, has been sent to the Election Commission on Monday.
 
The first phase ...

Bhupinder Singh Hooda will take oath as chief minister of Haryana for a second time on Sunday.
 
Hooda's name was announced early Sunday by the Congress high command in New Delhi following two days of suspense over the Haryana leadership issue.
 
The oath-taking ceremony will take ...

Congress chose Bhupinder Singh Hooda to lead Haryana for the second time. The announcement was made by the Congress early on Sunday morning.
 
Sources in Congress say that Congress President Sonia Gandhi had been holding discussions before rewarding the Congress Legislature Party leader ...

The Congress leadership rewarded Ashok Chavan with a second term as Maharashtra Chief Minister for his good performance and record of winning two elections for the party within a gap of five months during his short tenure as CM early Sunday morning.
 
The announcement was made a little ...

Elections to the Jharkhand assembly would be held in five phases from Nov 27 to Dec 18, the Election Commission announced on Friday.
 
Votes would be counted on Dec 23, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters.
 
With the Election Commission announcing the poll ...

With reports regarding the race of Maharashtra SM becoming rife, Union Minister Vilasrao who met with Congress President Sonia Gandhi mentioned that he was not in the race for the post.
 
"No question of it. I am a minister at the Centre," Deshmukh said when asked if he had any ...

Election Commissioner S Y Qureshi has disclosed that Election Commission will be announcing the dates of elections in Jharkhand today at 5 pm.
 
The stage for holding Jharkhand elections has been cleared. The state had been under the rule of the President for the past nine month after the ...

Rajasthan Assembly’s opposition leader, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, has resigned from the post and her resignation letter has been handed over to senior BJP leader L K Advani.
 
Even though she had been slated to hold discussions with BJP’s pointsperson Sushma Swaraj, she did ...

The Congress has retained its power in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh but in Haryana, it has fallen short if majority.
 
The Congress – NCP coalition has swept 146 off 288 seats in Maharashtra, whereas in Arunachal Pradesh, it was an unopposed victory, with Congress grabbing 40 off ...

The seat sharing formula of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance for the forthcoming Maharashtra elections has been finalized. The polls, which are slated to go on October 13, will see Shiv Sena contesting for 169 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party will be fighting for 119 seats, which is just two more when ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni congratulated Doordarshan for covering the remote parts of the country which is neglected by the private channels for their commercial interests. The minister was addressing Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), a Delhi-based NGO, on the ...

The DMK-Congress combine, which currently is the ruling party of Tamil Nadu, has taken the reins of the by-elections that were held in the five constituencies of the state on Aug 18.
 
The opening results show DMK candidates taking charge at Bargur, Cumbum and Illayangudi, where as ...

The Jharkhand government is not giving permission to State Vigilance Department to lodge a complaint against a senior IAS official in a corruption case from past three years.
 
According to a Senior Vigilance Department official, the department is looking for permission from the State ...

The ruling Akali Dal party in Punjab is confident of winning the by-elections for three assembly seats where polling will be held Monday.
The bypolls, in which Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal is also contesting, will be held in Khanuwan, Jalalabad and Banur constituencies.
Badal is contesting ...

Manoj Pradhan, a prime accused in communal violence in Kandhamal last year and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, Monday took oath as a member of the new assembly after he was granted bail by a court.

He was the only one among the 147 legislators who was yet to take oath.

Pradhan, who ...