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  • Women are not just Homemakers they are Nation Builders: Renuka

    Hyderabad:  Congress Party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha Member Ms. Renuka Choudhary said that women are not just homemakers they are nation builders because they raise the children, the future of India. They are the care givers for the older lot and path breakers for the younger lot, she said. Ms. Renuka was speaking at a […]

    Bribery case: Congress Core Group meet held in New Delhi

    The Congress Core Group had a meeting in New Delhi this evening in the back drop of the arrest of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew by the CBI in a bribery case. The meeting was chaired by party Chief Sonia Gandhi. Besides her, the meeting was attended by Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, Sushi Kumar […]

    Bribery case: Bansal distances himself from nephew

    Distancing himself from his nephew arrested by CBI in a case of bribery for allegedly fixing a top level position in Railway Board, Railway Minister P K Bansal said that he had no business links with him and denied any wrongdoing. In a statement, 64-year-old Bansal, who was made Railway Minister in October last year, […]

    NDA MPs meet Prez, seek intervention on Chinese incursion

    MPs of BJP-led NDA on Friday met Prez Pranab Mukherjee to express concern over Chinese incursions into Ladakh and the manner in which the case of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was handled by the govt. The delegation, led by NDA Working Chairperson L K Advani, met Mukherjee in the Rashtrapati Bhavan and submitted a memorandum […]

    Chinese incursion: Khurshid meets Mulayam, briefs him govt strategy

    Against the backdrop of sharp attack by Samajwadi Party on the govt over the Chinese incursion, Ext Aff Min Salman Khurshid on Fri briefed its party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav about the govt’s stand and strategy to deal with the issue. Khurshid, along with Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy, met […]

    Govt rules out sine die adjournment of Parl

    Govt ruled out sine die adjournment of Parliament before the last day of Budget Session and made a veiled attack on main opposition BJP for the disruption of House proceedings. At the same time, government also expressed its determination to go ahead with key bills including the Food Security Bill and Land Acquisition Bill. “Most […]

    Uproar in Parl over coal scam

    Opposition members on Friday forced adjournment of Parliament till noon by demanding resignation of PM Manmohan Singh in connection with alleged scam in allocation of coal blocks. BJP members stormed the Well in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha as soon as Question Hour was taken up. In the Lok Sabha, Akali Dal […]

    Sharad Pawar will not contest next LS polls: NCP

    The Nationalist Congress Party has said that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has no Prime Ministerial ambitions and won’t contest the next Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai on Thursday, NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said that despite NCP workers’ demand that Sharad Pawar should contest Lok Sabha polls, the NCP supremo is firm […]

    Uproar in Upper House over coalgate scam

    Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon on Thursday after opposition uproar over coalgate scam, Chinese incursions and acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. As soon as the House met for the day, BJP members trooped into the Well and started shouting slogans over alleged attempts to influence CBI probe into […]

    Jaitley, Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav to receive Outstanding Parliamentarian awards

    BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Congress MP Karan Singh and JD(U) MP Sharad Yadav will be conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award at a function in New Delhi on May 9. President Pranab Mukherjee will present the awards in the Central Hall of Parliament in the presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, who is also the Chairman […]