Thursday, March 11th, 2010
By Naveen Kapoor
New Delhi, Mar.11 (ANI): Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray''s daughter-in-law Smita Thackeray visited Parliament today and met with Congress leaders, whom she refused to name.
She, however, showered praise on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, describing her as her inspiration and lauded Rahul Gandhi''s style of politics.
Thackeray categorically expressed her ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Siliguri, Mar 8 (ANI): Madan Tamang, the leader of the ethnic Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, seeking creation of separate state of Gorkhaland slammed West Bengal Government for "discriminating against the Nepali-speaking people".
"Gorkhaland is nothing but aspirations of people, demand is genuine. There is disparity. There is discrimination that is why ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
New Delhi, Mar 4 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi will talk to allies of the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government on Thursday, and explain to them the party''s position on fuel price hike.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who has cautioned against instant populism, has told party MPs and UPA ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
The arrest of Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal at the Shamsabad airport in Hyderabad sparked off instantaneous protests in the city and elsewhere in Krishna district, with a few of his supporters making an unsuccessful bid to end their lives in Andhra Ratna Bhavan, the headquarters of the ...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
GHMC Elections Results 2009 Greater Hyderabad Elections Results News
[caption id="attachment_26112" align="alignleft" width="272" caption="ghmc"][/caption]HYDERABAD: What shape the first GHMC council will take will be known after the results to the civic body elections are declared by Thursday afternoon.
Counting of the results will be taken up in 24 centres at 8 am. ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Kathmandu, May 11 (ANI): Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday wrote a letter to the country's parliament to start the procedure for the formation of a majority government.
Any party or coalition will now have to show a majority in the House to form the government. Any party or coalition ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
New Delhi/Patna, May 11 (ANI): Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Yadav and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Ravi Shankar Prasad traded verbal volleys on Monday over the loyalty factor of Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar.
While Lalu lashed out at Congress General ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Campaigning in eighty-six constituencies in six states and two Union Territories that will go to polls in the fifth phase of general elections on May 13 will come to an end this evening.
In this phase, polling will take place in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Himachal ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Dehradun, May 9 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that only a Congress-led government could give a strong government to the people of the country and treat all sections of society equally.
"The country needs a strong government at the centre, a truthful government at the centre who would ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Chennai, May 9 (ANI): Clearing the air over the Lankan-Tamil issue and its effects on the Congress-DMK alliance, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the two parties are political partners in the state and would continue to remain so.
"Congress' alliance with DMK has stood the test of ...
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