There appears to be some cracks in the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, over the issue of the next prime ministerial candidate, if the coalition comes to power in the next general elections. The next general elections are likely to be held sometime after April this ...

Ex-Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin is likely to contest Lok Sabha polls on Congress ticket. While interacting with the media, Congress leader Oscar Fernandes informed that he came to know from Veerappa Moily that party is discussing things with the former-cricketer to induct him. ...

The governor of Jharkhand Syed Sibte Razi suggested the declaration of President's rule in the state following the ongoing political crisis. The state has been facing the crisis after chief minister Shibu Soren lost assembly by-election to a relative newcomer. After Soren's defeat, BJP has been ...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister S Bangarappa appears all set to rejoin the Congress for the fourth time as he asserted that the foreign origin of AICC chief Sonia Gandhi was no longer an issue and that he wished to contest on the party ticket in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
 
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The National Conference, which will head a coalition Government with Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, is all set to join the UPA, Congress sources said on Friday (2nd January).
 
NC President Omar Abdullah, who will take oath as the new J & K chief minister on 5th January, has written to ...

The chief minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa is likely to file a defamation case against former prime minister H D Deve Gowda for the acquisition he levelled on Yeddyurappa in the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE) case.  The CM stated that he has discussed the matter with his ...

Union minister A R Antulay, who is at the centre of a storm triggered by his remarks on the circumstances surrounding Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing, has sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, highly placed sources said on Friday (19th December). When contacted, ...

Congress leader Ahmed Patel and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh on Monday (15th December) got a clean chit from a parliamentary panel that probed allegations that they had bought votes ahead of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s trust vote on July 22.
 
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The government of Harayana has dropped deputy CM Chander Mohan from the state cabinet ministry due his absence from the office for nearly two-months. Chander Mohan used to hold the food and supplies portfolio in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. The 43-year-old leader was out of public view for ...

The Congress leadership on Friday (December 5) named industries minister Ashok Chavan as the new chief minister of Maharashtra. Earlier Chhagan Bhujbal took the responsibilities of the deputy CM of the state. The offices of CM and deputy CM remained vacant for few days after the resignation of ...

Congress leadership is likely to decide the fate of Maharashtra chief minister, today (December 4). According to media reports, both Pranab Mukherjee and A K Antony will reach Mumbai to decide the name of new chief minister of the state. The Congress party is reported to have already accepted the ...

US Senator John McCain, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed a military strike against Islamabad since there was no hard evidence against Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attack. He was hopeful that the government of Pakistan would cooperate in probing the heinous attack on India’s financial ...

When the centre is looking forward to setup an all-important “federal police agency” to contain terrorism in the country, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, a key ally of the BJP led National Democratic Alliance, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed the move saying that the central ...

The post-attack moments have not been going respectable for the Congress-NCP led coalition government in Maharashtra. In a latest reprimand, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has said that the Government of Maharashtra has been callous on ensuring proper maritime ...

Fresh reports on Mumbai attack send a clear indication that intelligence agencies had precise information at least 10 months ago that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning an attack on one of the prominent five-star hotels of Mumbai.
The reports state that on September 18, Research and Analysis Wing ...

A latest book on India’s foreign policy has revealed that former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had issued a “nuclear ultimatum” to New Delhi to deter India from using excessive force to suppress violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Professor Harish Kapur has revealed this in ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh offered to quit his office owing to the mounting pressure on government after the terror attacks on Mumbai. He is reported to have sent his resignation letter to the party high command. Earlier, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil also resigned ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party, incensed over the latest acts of the terrorists, said that it will not allow any official of the Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency to land in Mumbai to probe the recent terror attack. BJP general secretary Gopinath Munde on Sunday ...

A day after the Congress Working Committee showed “the exit” to anti-incumbent Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Monday morning (December 01) resigned from his chair. Patil termed the abdication as a decision taken as per his conscience ...

The Janata Dal-United JD(U) party of Bihar seems to have taken the issue of MNS quite seriously as five of its MPs have submitted their resignation letters. Such step was taken by the MPs to protest against the injustice done to north Indians in the state of Maharashtra. The five MPs who ...

The general secretary of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Vaiko has been taken into custody for openly supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Vaiko has made provocative statement in a public meeting in Chennai and supported the extremist group of Sri Lanka. He said ...

The National Conference of Jammu and Kashmir has declared Farooq Abdullah as the chief ministerial candidate for this year's assembly election. The Election Commission of India recently declared that seven-phased Kashmir elections will held from November 17 to December 24. The decision to ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supremo Raj Thackeray got bail within minutes after a court in the Maharashtra town of Kalyan sent him to jail till Nov 5. Thackeray was released on a surety of Rs 15,000. Earlier he was sent to judicial custody for instigating the party activists to vandalize ...

Union ministers T.R. Baalu and A. Raja including twelve other DMK Lok Sabha MPs have submitted their resignation letters to party head and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on October 17, 2008 on Lankan Tamil issue. With this, chunks of fourteen DMK MPs have resigned from the House. Earlier ...

Former BSP MP Isam Singh has been disqualified from Rajya Sabha by the Chairman of the House, Hamid Ansari. Isam Singh has disqualified from the House under the anti-defection law. According to Hamid Ansari, Singh lost the membership of the Upper House of Parliament in July this year under the ...

In order to put pressure on the Centre to call for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Rajya Sabha member from DMK, Kanimozhi has submitted her resignation on October 15, 2008. The M Karunanidhi-led DMK party has been pressuring the government to restrict Sir Lankan government from killing Lankan Tamils in ...

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi has threatened to pull out from UPA if the government does not take any step to stop the killings of Lankan Tamil by the Sri Lankan army. The Lankan army in their mission to combat LTTE has killed a large number of Tamils in Sri Lanka. In last couple ...

Actor-politician Raj Babbar has joined the Congress Party on October 5, 2008. The Agra MP, Raj Babbar had quit the Samajwadi Party (SP) in 2006 after his altercation with party general secretary Amar Singh. After his split with SP, Raj Babbar has formed a new party called Jan Morcha with former PM ...

The fateful event of Godhra carnage does not seem to be letting India breathe easy. Nanavati Commission, set up by Modi government to probe the burning of train and the riots that followed, has tabled part one of its report - that deals with the train burning incident. Igniting a fresh political ...

In order to dissuade people from indulging in attacks on places of Christian worship, the Karnataka government on Monday, September 22, 2008, said it will invoke provisions of the Anti-Goonda Act 1985.  Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa said after a state cabinet meeting in Bangalore that the ...