Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, was expelled from the Punjab Assembly, which thereafter requested the Election Commission (EC) to announce his Patiala seat vacant. This happened after Amarinder Singh was accused by a special House committee of being involved in a land ...

Jaya Bachchan has apologized for her anti-Marathi remarks; she did not intend to hurt anybody from Maharashtra. However, she said that she was misunderstood and that her comments were actually hinted at those Bollywood actors who despite working in Hindi films prefer to talk in English during ...

Despite the fact that the both the parties deny that there is nothing much to speculate from recent meeting of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh and Chiranjeevi; the meeting has led to speculations about the future collaboration in Andhra Pradesh politics. Political analysts opine that the ...

Jyoti Basu, former West Bengal chief minister and a veteran Marxist leader, fell in the bathroom of his Salt Lake residence on Friday, September 5, 2008, due to which he suffered 'internal haemorrhage in the head'. This information was provided by the spokesperson of the nursing home where he was ...

Nupur Sharma of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has become president of DUSU for the session 2008-09 (Delhi University Students Union). She defeated Sonia Sapra of NSUI (National Students Union of India) with a margin of 1,639 votes. Nupur Sharma got 10,345 votes. Nupur Sharma, a Law ...

Come Lok Sabha elections and UP will see an alliance of un-conventional political partners in the form of Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP). The agreement is true to proverb that 'there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.' Both the parties shedding their bitter past are now ...

Former PM and Janata Dal (S) leader backed UP CM Mayawati as leader of the proposed Third Front. The Third Front is expected to facilitate an alternative to BJP and Congress parties. Gowda said that he supports Mayawati, and if she becomes the leader of the Third Front, he would not have any ...

CPI (M) is mulling a plan to forge an alliance with Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi in the state of Andhra Pradesh. According to reports, CPI (M) is looking for right partners to fight next Lok Sabha elections; and it is mulling a plan to forge an alliance with Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu too. ...

The Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has finally agreed to talk to the government on the Singur issue at the behest of the West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi. The future of the Tata Motors project at Singur in West Bengal now rests on how talks between Ms Banerjee and the state government ...

Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi has just started his political journey and is already facing a hurdle in naming his newly formed party 'Praja Rajyam.' It has emerged that there is another man who already has sought registration of his party of the same name. Chiranjeevi wants to name his political ...

N Rangasamy, the chief minister of Puducherry has resigned from the post. By doing so, he has concluded a month-long political indecisiveness after Rangasamy's cabinet colleagues revolted against him. It was apparently after a directive from the Congress chief that N Rangasamy handed over his ...

Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi launched his political party ‘Praja Rajyam.’ The new party will aim to uplift downtrodden, and will work for the empowerment of poor and deprived. The famous superstar chose temple town of Tirupathi for the huge gathering and launch of political party. ...

Madhu Koda has resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Submitting his resignation to State Governor Syed Sibtey Razi he pleaded that he was not confident of winning vote of confidence in the state assembly. With his resignation the path is carved for Shibu Soren to become CM of ...

Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday, August 19, appointed Alok Kumar Verma as her Bahujan Samaj Party’s second national vice president (VP). This move followed a strong buzz in the media circuit that the BSP supremo has secretly selected her party’s VP Raja Ram, a ...

The leader of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party in Orissa, Kishore Kumar Mohanty on Tuesday, August 19, was appointed as the speaker of the state assembly. ‘I will try my best to ensure the smooth functioning of the house, taking the confidence of the members of both the ruling and opposition ...

The Shibu Soren led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) withdrew its support to the 23 month-old Madhu Koda led government in Jharkhand on Sunday, August 17, reducing it to a minority. The JMM did so in order to get its demand of Shibu Soren being appointed as the Jharkhand chief minister fulfilled. ...

Separatist forces in Kashmir once again have started talking offensive. One of the strongest separatist party Hurriyat with other fractions of it have decided to march to the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) office in Jammu. They will present a memorandum and will ask the ...

The months of suspense finally ended on Sunday, August 17, as the widely popular Telugu actor K. Chiranjeevi formally announced his entry into Andhra Pradesh politics. He promised to work for the betterment of the poor, who remained ‘deprived of the fruits of development.’ ...

Bal Thackeray is likely to be summoned by Lok Sabha Privilege Committee for his disparaging comments on MPs who had raised in Parliament the issue of his tirades against Hindi-speaking people living in Maharashtra. And, as per the procedure of the committee now Thackeray will have to deposit ...

Chiranjeevi, a mega star in the Telugu film industry, is all set to foray into the political fray of Andhra Pradesh by launching his own party in the temple town of Tirupati this August. Sources spill that he will probably convene a public meeting on his birthday on August 22 to announce his ...

In a move that pushed the Indo-US nuclear deal one step forward towards finalization, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Friday, August 1, 2008 adopted the India safeguards agreement.
 
Each of the 35 nations comprising the apex body of the IAEA either took ...

Veteran Marxist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on Friday, August 1 following prolonged illness. In 1996, he was instrumental in keeping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power and eight years hence helped the Congress form a coalition government at the Centre. He was 92 years old. ...

After the trust vote episode recently, there was a unity among opposition parties, particularly among left and other regional parties, including BSP. The BSP leader Mayawati came as a good organizer, and rumors started in power corridor that she might be a PM candidate for third front. But, ...

Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukharjee has said that India is committed for nuclear non-proliferation. Talking about the issue of resistant voices coming from Pakistan opposing Indo-US nuke deal, he said that every country is sovereign and is entitled to have its own view, and so has ...

Members of the Left parties, BSP and UNPA met on Wednesday, July 23, the day after failing to topple the UPA government, for tracing out their next course of action. The meeting was convened at the residence of the BSP chief Mayawati in New Delhi and was attended by H D Deve Gowda (JDS), G Devrajan ...

The government of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh won the vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday, July 23, guaranteeing the survival of the ruling coalition as well as the nuke deal with the United States for the time being. Earlier the Prime Minister was asked to give in his resignation by ...

The Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Monday, July 21 gave thumbs up sign and confidently emphasized that his government will win the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha, which will see the initiation of a 16-hour long deliberation on this issue at 11 a.m. An unusually upbeat Prime ...

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) earlier a partner in UPA government has decided to part with ruling alliance and has joined hands with BSP. It is just one week now for vote of confidence for ruling UPA and arithmetic calculations are going against Congress party. Situational analysis reveals ...

China has invited Sonia Gandhi to represent India in the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics and not PM Manmohan Singh. Though there has not been any official communication on the issue. According to some sources, it is a part of Chinese diplomacy. However, there is no likelihood of Sonia ...

The Left parties in a critical but expected move, withdrew support from Manmohan Singh led UPA Government on Tuesday, July 08, 2008. The Communist parties move was in line with their threat to pull out, if the UPA Government continued to support the Civil Indo-US Nuke deal. They have announced that ...