India

New Delhi, September 20: Samajwadi Party on Wednesday indicated its support to the UPA government, saying that doing so was necessary to ward off the prospect of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi taking over as prime minister. Spelling out his party's stance, senior SP leader Ramgopal Yadav criticized Congress on a number of counts, but said the SP will have to come to UPA's assistance because

Ahmedabad, September 20: Decrying Narendra Modi for using Swami Vivekananda as his political mascot and challenging his knowledge on Hindu philosophy, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has written yet another letter to the chief minister. Bhatt, a known Modi baiter had accused him of instructing state machinery to allow Hindus to vent out their anger against the minority community and earlier

New Delhi, September 20: Facing fire, not just from allies and Opposition, but also the aam admi over its big ticket reforms, UPA-II is desperately looking for a makeover. The government has now sanctioned Rs 100 crore to advertisements on television, radio and in print. Even as the government's fate hangs in the balance, it is trying all possible ways to reach out to the aad aadmi with

Chennai, September 20: After Mamata Banerjee's dramatic exit, the Congress is left without its biggest ally in the coalition it leads at the centre, but another big partner, the DMK, has made a welcome reassurance. (After Mamata pullout, Congress gauges room for compromise: Top 10 facts) Sources in the Southern party, which has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, say that the DMK has decided "not to embarrass the

New Delhi, September 20: A bandh called by NDA, Left parties and SP to protest against diesel price hike, FDI in multi-brand retail and cap on subsidised LPG today evoked mixed response as protestors disrupted road and rail traffic in parts of UP, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha but it had little impact in Mumbai. In Delhi, most of the markets remained closed and vehicular movement was normal though

New Delhi, September 19: Team Anna on Wednesday suffered a vertical split with Anna Hazare and some top activists choosing to part ways with the Arvind Kejriwal-led group, opposing their plans to form a political party. After a roller-coaster ride of 18 months in which they came together to run a high-steam anti-graft movement, the group led by Mr. Hazare had acrimonious discussions with Mr

Kolkata, September 19: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today gave no indication of resiling from her decision to withdraw support to the UPA government when she ruled out any compromise on her demands for roll back of the major reforms decisions taken by the Central government. "I will stick to my position, come what may...the (TMC) ministers will tender their resignations," she told

New Delhi, September 19: The UPA government will explain the background behind its decisions to the Trinamool Congress which has decided to withdraw support to the coalition on the issue of diesel price hike and FDI in retail. Sources said after a meeting of the top Congress leadership at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the government would explain to Trinamool Congress

New Delhi, September 19: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh on Wednesday said his party would decide on its strategy on Thursday in the wake of Trinamool Congress withdrawing its support to the UPA government. “On Thursday, there is a meeting of the Samajwadi Party’s Parliamentary Board. We will take a decision there,” Mr. Mulayam said while speaking to reporters outside his residence in New

New Delhi, September 19: A day after Trinamool Congress decided to withdraw support to UPA, the Congress top brass was on Wednesday huddled in a meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deliberating over the strategy ahead. The meeting of the Congress core group chaired by Ms. Gandhi at the Prime Minister’s residence deliberated at length on the political