New Delhi, Dec 12 The Lokpal Bill is likely to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha Monday, said Satyavrat Chaturvedi, who chaired the select committee that looked into the anti-corruption bill. “The government has proposed a discussion on Lokpal bill on Monday,” Chaturvedi told reporters here. Six hours have been allotted for the discussion, […]
New Delhi, Dec 11 The Supreme Court Wednesday held consensual sex between adults of the same gender a criminal offence, leaving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community dejected. But they vowed to fight on. Setting aside a Delhi High Court verdict of 2009 that decriminalised sexual relations between people of the same sex, Justice […]
New Delhi, Dec 8 Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday said her party’s defeat in the assembly elections called for “deep introspection” and it would study “the many reasons for this defeat”. The Congress scored 0-4 in the assembly poll results announced in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Congratulating her “opponents” for winning in the […]
New Delhi, Dec 8 Delhi threw up a hung assembly Sunday after a bitterly fought three-way election that crushed the Congress and brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within handshaking distance of power, denying it a clear victory because of a spectacular showing by the debutant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). So sweeping was the Congress […]
Bhopal, Dec 8 The ruling BJP romped home in Madhya Pradesh Sunday, winning the mandate to be in power for the third consecutive five-year term by trouncing the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 145 seats and was leading on 19 seats, zooming past the half-way mark in the 230-member assembly and ensuring a […]
New Delhi, Dec 8 In a “semi-final” verdict ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the BJP Sunday retained Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, snatched Rajasthan from the Congress but was denied a clear win in Delhi by the debutant Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) spectacular showing. So humiliating was the Congress rout in three places — […]
New Delhi, Dec 6 India would be sending a “very high level” delegation for the funeral of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela who died Thursday at the age of 95, an official said Friday. After the dates of the funeral are worked out, then a “very high level delegation from India would go” for the […]
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 5 Clearing the decks for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the union cabinet Thursday approved the draft bill for carving out Telangana as the 29th state of India. Setting aside speculations about Rayala-Telangana, the cabinet decided to carve out Telangana state comprising 10 districts of the region that includes Hyderabad. Also rejecting […]
New Delhi, Dec 5 The Supreme Court was Thursday told that the allocation of coal blocks rests with the centre but the grant of mining leases fell in the domain of the state governments subject to the compliance of statutory requirements. Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh told the apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Madan […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday attacked the Congress on issues of corruption and security of women in the national capital. He said people of Delhi should remember “Nirbhaya” while going to vote for the assembly polls Dec 4 and asserted that the city was not safe […]