The Bahujan Samaj Party has withdrawn its support to the UPA Government . This announcement has come at a time when the Congress was busy pacifying the Samajwadi Party (SP) due to the nuclear deal. Apparently, the UPA Government does not require the BSP to stay in power, but it sure needs to get SP ...

With the general elections fast approaching, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) is leaving no stone unturned in its electoral campaign. The BJP is undertaking a campaign – kisan adalats or farmer courts from this month onwards to determine the actual implementation of the loan waiver and other ...

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) late on Wednesday evening, in an ugly turn of events resorted to violence, attacking city tourists and injuring eight of them. The GJM activists and supporters blocked the way of two groups of tourists from Kolkata near the Gorumara sanctuary and attacked them with ...

Gujjar leaders have agreed for dialogue over the reservation issue with state representatives to be sent by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Earlier, Raje had rejected for any dialogue with protesting leaders. Later on Raje moderated her stand and agreed to send state representatives for talk with ...

In a serious attempt to shield itself from the negative political repercussions of inflation and price hike at a time when the elections are around, the Congress party is going to distribute among people booklets explaining the compulsions of the UPA government. On Saturday, June 7, the Publicity ...

With the Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla recently accepting the offer of Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje to come forward for talks, there seemed a flicker of hope that their disagreement will get sorted out. But now it seems that there is still a long way to go before normalcy returns to the desert ...

Shiv Sena leader and editor of ‘Saamna’ Mr Bal Thackeray has condemned the attack on Mr Kumar Ketkar, editor of Loksatta. Earlier on Friday Ketkar was attacked at his house in Thane for his editorial. Thackeray said that Loksatta editorial was not against Shivaji and Ketkar just wanted ...

In an article in the CPI (M) party journal, People’s Democracy, Prakash Karat has hit out at the Chief election commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami. The CPI (M) general secretary has accused the CEC of class prejudice. Karat noted in the article that regrettably the truth is, that the CEC is ...

The recent hike in the price of petrol, diesel and LPG by the government in India began showing its political repercussions from Thursday 5 June onwards as the ruling Left Front and opposition Trinamool Congress in West Bengal called for a 12-hour 'Bangla Bandh'. This 12-hour strike acutely ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior Congress leader and education minister of Assam, Ripun Bora for allegedly offering bribe to an officer of the agency for getting his name cleared from a murder investigation in which he is one of the suspects. This incident is sure to ...

The spiritual leader of the Tibetans Dalai Lama has for the very first time stated recently that Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, which is claimed by China to be its own, is a part of India. Dalai Lama acknowledged the legitimacy of the MacMohan Line as per the 1914 Simla Agreement in an interview to a ...

In wake of actor Sanjay Dutt’s remarks that he is keen to join politics and contest elections, citizen groups from Bandra and Khar got together to mark their protest on any such move on Sunday, June 1, 2008. The representatives of the citizen groups termed Dutt’s plan to contest the ...

Vasundhara Raje, the Rajasthan chief minister, has markedly softened her approach in dealing with the Gujjar community’s agitation for Scheduled Tribe status. To pacify the protesting Gujjars, the Rajasthan chief minister is now adhering to novel means such as distribution of pamphlets, SMSes ...

BS Yeddyurappa is set to head the first ever BJP government in the state of Karnataka on Friday, May 30, 2008. The swearing in ceremony is scheduled to be held at 1.50 pm in the Vidhan Soudha. The city police have made elaborate arrangements outside the Vidhan Soudha as thousands of BJP activists ...

Bainsla, talking to the reporters,  has said that if Rajasthan government comes with proper proposal, he would like to enter into dialogue. He said that he would not settle for anything less than ST status and he and all other protesters would not move anywhere till he is not given the letter ...

Guess what gift the External Affairs Minister of India, Pranab Mukherjee must have presented the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during his recent visit to the country? The correct answer is a box full of film DVDs of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It sure turned out to be a ...

Tarun Gogoi, the chief minister of Assam at a function at Judges Field to celebrate the completion of his government’s two years in office announced Rs 1500 crore development package for the state. The development package is expected to be implemented in the next three years, the benefits of ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief, Raj Thackeray has now made the north Indian students in Pune a target of his parochial politics. The controversial politician made the comments with regard to the students of north India at a party rally held in Pune, late at Sunday night. He remarked that ...

Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan have begun at Islamabad on Monday, May 20. Talks are taking place for the very first time since a new civilian government took over the reins into its own hand from the military rule in Pakistan. First, the foreign secretaries of ...

MNS chief Raj Thackeray, while addressing a rally of MNS activists in Thane, on Saturday, May 10, 2008, asked the Marathi people to check infiltration of outsiders, particularly the north Indians. Raj had been cautioned by the Mumbai police two days ago to stop his provocative speeches which can ...

Anxious because of sustained hate campaign being waged against north Indians and that too the Biharis especially by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday 5 May spoke to the Maharashtra CM Vilas Rao Deshmukh over phone on the issue. The ...

 Without paying any heed to police warnings, MNS chief Raj Thackeray again targeted the north Indians saying that only Maharashtra Day should be celebrated in the state. Resisting the warnings of the government to arrest him, he again spoke against the north Indians saying that he will not ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reacted sharply on UP\'s Chief Minister Mayawati\'s comments that the former uses a special soap to bath every time he visits a Dalit house. Talking to a press conference on Saturday, Rahul Gandhi said that he doesn\'t use any special soap to bath after visiting ...

The Mumbai fans will not see the smiling and flamboyant cheerleaders performing in the IPL matches to be played in Navi Mumbai. It is to be noted that Mumbai will play five IPL matches at the D.Y. Patil stadium in Nerul and all those matches will feature no cheerleaders. The first ...

India may be waiting with abated breath to roll out the red carpet during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit next week, but US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said that she will not hesitate to wipe out Iran incase it messes around with ally Israel when she is in power. ...

After 27 % OBC reservations in higher educational institutions, the Parliamentary OBC forum of MPs on Wednesday asked the government for the introduction of quotas in the judiciary.  Congress MP and the convenor of the OBC Forum, Hanumanth Rao, said that for the OBCs to get into the mainstream ...

Tension enveloped Nandigram (West Bengal) once again on Sunday 20 April, a day after a woman there was allegedly gangraped by CPM workers. It is alleged that the convoys of Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee and Contai MLA, Shubhendu Adhikary were allegedly assaulted by CPM supporters as the ...

Until recently, the elections held in Jammu and Kashmir were generally seen as supporting the separatists or the pro-India political parties. But strangely in the run up to the assembly elections this time, even the pro-India parties are using separatist slogans during campaign. During a recent ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has once again intensified her attack on the Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and the central government. She once again threatened to withdraw support from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) alliance on Saturday, April 19, 2008. She asked the young MP from Amethi ...

Left and the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) leaders on Saturday, April 19, 2008 courted arrest while walking towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office. CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat remarked that an explosive situation would emerge , if (food) prices are not ...