Politics

Party leaders speaking on condition of anonymity said that ruling out Pranab's candidature at this stage is indeed difficult.

In December last year, the Lokpal Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha with certain amendments.

Expenses on foreign and domestic tours of central ministers and VVIPs rose by more than ten times to Rs 678.52 crore in 2011-12, up from Rs 56.16 crore in the previous year.

The JMM has issued veiled threats about the stability of the state government in a bid to put pressure on the BJP.

Touted as the 'country's first left wing cafe', the cafe would be launched on May Day, thereby adding to its symbolic value.

Sharad Pawar was understood to have urged the Congress chief on the need for a consensus on the choice.

Railway Minister Mukul Roy, who was last month re-elected to the Upper House from West Bengal, took oath in Bengali.

The Janata Party president wants Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to be named a co-accused in the case.

The former Karnataka CM said that he would never 'knock the doors of my opponents. Instead I will make them come to me'.

What was the compulsion and who put pressure on the ASG, who briefed him and on whose briefing he made such a statement, Javdekar said.

A Tehelka sting in 2001 showed Jaya Jaitley and two others accepting bribe to influence a fictitious defence deal.

Jayalalithaa said the tribunal cannot function without the chairman and urged the post be filled soon.

The West Bengal CM said no amount of negative publicity would deter her from her goal of bringing development for the people.

The BJP won the Delhi civic polls, sweeping all the three municipal corporations of Delhi.

Shiela Dikshit has been in power since 1998 and the civic polls loss will be seen as her personal defeat.

Prithviraj Chavan said that Congress had emerged as the largest party with 411 seats out of the total 1,615 in the 15 municipal corporations in Maharashtra.