Politics has inevitably taken centre-stage in Delhi, moments after Sarabjit Singh died in Pakistan early this morning. BJP leaders have attacked the government and the Congress for keeping the next of kin of Sarabjit away from Opposition leaders to contain the...
N Peethambara Kurup MP backs Finance minister P Chidambaram's proposition to increase customs duty on cashew nuts to 70 per cent from 30 per cent to regulate imports and cushion home growers. He says it will help the industry and is a big relief for the farmer...
Madhya Pradesh Energy Minister Rajendra Shukla makes a very insensitive comment about the power supply in the state, angering many. 'In Madhya Pradesh, there used to be no electricity for 18 hours, but people never complained. But now people start complaining ...
In the backdrop of the Saradha Group chit fund scandal, Congress leaders have been protesting in the streets of Kolkata, asking the Mamata Banerjee government to take immediate action against the company. The protesters include youth Congress workers, who are ...
As a fallout of the chit fund scam in West Bengal, an all-party meeting has been called in Kolkata to discuss the future of the chit fund companies in the state. The meeting is underway even as an FIR has been lodged against four Trinamool Congress MPs for the...
Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in an interview rubbishes all allegations about the TMC government in West Bengal is favouring chit fund schemes. This after an FIR was registered against Ghosh in the Rs 2700 crore chit fund scam, propagated by Saradha group....
In August 2011, Congress MP AHK Chowdhury had written a complaint to the PMO on Saradha Group. He later withdrew the same in March 2012. The Opposition has questioned his action. Chowdhury has now accused the TMC of using the party to cover up 'fault' in the c...
In the light of the demise of a sitting MP of the Parliament and TMC leader, Ambika Banerjee, the JPC meet to adopt the 2G report has been postponed. The meeting has been postponed indefinitely and might not happen for the next few days. This gives Congress th...
TMC leader and Member of Parliament, Ambika Banerjee, passed away at the age of 84 today. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar condoled his death as soon as the House began proceedings.
Trinamool Congress MP Srinjoy Bose, who was accused of blackmailing Saradha group CMD Sudipta Sen, has denied all charges. Earlier, Sen had submitted a letter to the CBI disclosing names of politicians who were involved in the scam and one of them was Bose. Bo...
TMC MP Kunal Ghosh who was allegedly associated with Saradha Group, speaks to Arnab Goswami about his links with Saradha Group. Ghosh, who was the CEO of the media wing of Saradha Group, denies having any knowledge of the schemes of the company.
Three people accused in the West Bengal chit fund scam have been arrested in Sonmarg in Jammu and kashmir. Saradha Group promoter Sudipta Sen is suspected to be one of the arrested.
A 15-year-old girl was raped by a minor boy from her village in Madhya Pradesh. The victim's brother who saw the incident, went to call his parents. By the time he returned with help, his sister had set herself on fire. A case has been registered agianst the a...
The four-year-old who was raped and brutalised in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh is showing no improvement and remains critical. The girl had suffered brain. She was allegedly raped by 35-year-old Firoz Khan.
Congress workers in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh defy the ban issued by Supreme Court on celebratory firing. The Congress workers were caught on camera firing several shots into the air to welcome MP Congress chief Kantilal Bhuria and leader of Opposition Rahul Ajay ...
The people, protesting over the case of a five-year-old girl who was abducted and brutally raped in Delhi, heckled Delhi CM's son and Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit, and Delhi's health minister AK Walia when they paid a visit to Dayanand hospital, where the vict...
Sujata Verma was shot dead at point blank range at Sakshi Maharaj's ashram in Uttar Pradesh last night. An eye witness of the murder, has accused Sakshi Maharaj, a former BJP MP, of being behind the murder. According to reports, Sujata and Sakshi Maharaj were ...
Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada filed a complaint with Rampur police alleging that Additional Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) Kaushalendra Pratap Yadav had misbehaved while forcibly removing the red beacon on her car. According to the complaint, the officer fo...
Sidhu's wife has indicated that Navjot Singh Sidhu may not contest for elections from Amritsar. She said that Sidhu felt suffocated in the system. Sidhu's exclusion from the new core team may also be a reason for him being upset.
Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife's comment on Facebook indicates that Sidhu might leave politics. She says that Sidhu feels suffocated and ignored in BJP. She adds that she supports his decision of returning to entertainment as he receives respect in the field.
Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife's comment on Facebook indicates that Sidhu might leave politics. She said that Sidhu feels suffocated and that he is not running away from people. She also added that the system of politics makes it difficult for an honest person to s...
Navjot Kaur, the wife of Amritsar MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, explains her post on her Facebook wall, in which she says her husband has decided to switch to television because he is being sidelined for being honest.
Amritsar MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife has commented on her Facebook wall that her husband has decided to switch over to television because he felt suffocated in the system. Sidhu, who has signed contract for various TV programmes, is comme...
Achil Vandhavai | The AIADMK government has announced the opening of several new colleges in Tamil Nadu. While this is a welcome move, is there enough infrastructure in these colleges to impart quality education? Also discussed, Sri Lankan government's treatme...
Traffic warden Anita Lobo has been re-instated now but she still gets teary-eyed when she recalls how she was harassed by the authorities for executing her duties. The traffic police had earlier terminated the services of this 55-year-old Bandra-Khar traffic w...
The Mumbai traffic police has terminated the services of traffic warden Anita Lobo for stopping the convoy of a Congress Minister that was blocking traffic.
Opposition party in Madhya Pradesh, Congress, mounts pressure on Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to resign over the mysterious death of mining officer Sanjay Bhargava. The Congress alleges that the CM is shielding mafia, which is rumoured t...
A snapshot of Holi across Andhra Pradesh: at Rajbhavan, the CM's camp office, at Malaysian Township in Hyderabad, at Classic Gardens in Secunderabad, at RK Beach in Visakhapatnam, and on the streets of Warangal. The story also has snapshots of Holi being celeb...
Munnar MP PT Thomas claims that encroachment is rampant is the area. He says that he had brought up the issue to the notice of Revenue Minister and Chief Minister. He expresses hopes that the Chief Minister would take immediate action to prevent encroachment.
Madhya Pradesh police arrest five people, accused of raping a Swiss national in the state. Search is on for other two accused who are on the run. The police is yet to recover a laptop which would be crucial to the case.
At the inauguration of the Revenue Sadassu at Mahabubnagar, a combative Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy attacked the TRS and YSRC party. He said that he has visited the district more than its MP, a reference to K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Mahabubnagar MP.
The Maha Rudrabhishekam organised by Congress leader T Subbirami Reddy in Visakhapatnam assumed political overtones after actor Manchu Mohan Babu and former PCC chief D Srinivas appealed to the people present to vote for TSR in the next elections. The Vizag Pa...
Newshour | Gun toting former Congress MP Vitthal Bhai Radadiya and his son have been welcomed by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi into BJP. Can any political party claim the moral high ground? BJP leader Shakti Singh Goel, AAP leader Mayank Gandhi and BJP leader Jayna...
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi welcomes Congress MP Vitthal Radadiya and his son at a public function in Rajkot. Radadiya officially defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party this morning and was in news recently for brandishing a gun at toll booth operator...
Nandyala MP SPY Reddy stages a dharna demanding drinking water through the Avaku reservoir in Kurnool district and this has attracted a lot of supporters to the area. Though the locals are in support, the concerned officials were nowhere to be seen.
Vitthal Radadiya, former Gujarat MP, also known as the man who brandished a gun at a toll booth attendant last year, has now resigned from the Congress. Radadiya and his son quit the party, as they were not given more important positions as promised by the par...
One of Congress's most notorious and most powerful MPs from Gujarat Vitthal Radadiya will formally join BJP today. The MP, who was recently in news for his gun-toting episode at a toll booth in Vadodara, met with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi yesterday,...
DMK MP TR Baalu brings up the issue of Lankan war crimes against ethnic Tamils in Parliament today. According to Baalu, the government should pass a resolution to ensure action against those responsible for the atrocities against Tamils. He says those who are ...
JD(U) MP from Muzaffarpur, Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad is reportedly going to perform a yagna at his residence in Delhi, for helping Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to realize his dream of becoming the Prime Minister of India. However, Nishad has denied the reports and...
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi speaks on the issue of communal violence and release of those arrested by the police in terror cases but released due to lack of evidence. He says Afzal Guru's wife was not informed about his hanging but Haryana leaders were allow...
Left leader D Raja questions the government's inaction over the repeated attacks on Tamil fisherman by the Sri Lankan forces. According to Raja, the government should protect its own in this case and should cancel the Katchatheevu agreement with Sri Lanka.
Rumours are rife that MP Jayaprada might soon join Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress party. She was first a part of the Samajwadi Party and after she came out in support of Amar Singh, she was expelled. During the 2014 elections, she is expected to join hands w...
In the Rajya Sabha, the Opposition -- Samajwadi Party's Naresh Agrawal and TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy question the government on the action taken on the chopper scam.
P Karunakaran MP says that Kerala is not expecting any new projects from the Rail Budget, and that it would be sufficient if the Centre fulfilled the promises made in the previous budgets.
During his diplomatic marathon, US Secretary of State John Kerry praises the United States' warm relations with Britain. However, Jeremy Corbyn, a Labour Party MP, says there were two major wars resulting from the friendship between Tony Blair and George W Bus...
MP Vitthal Radadiya resigns from the Gujarat Congress. He was caught on camera pointing a gun at a toll attendant on October 11, 2012. He had a meeting with Narendra Modi yesterday and it is highly likely that Radadiya will join the BJP. Sources say that he is...
Telangana Congress MPs held placards and protested outside the Parliament on the first day of the Budget session of the Parliament. They demanded the tabling of a bill on Telangana and also said there should be no comparison with the other movements for a sepa...
Terming the rape and murder of three minor sisters in Maharashtra's Bhandara district as disheartening, NCP MP Praful Patel says that the perpetrators of this heinous crime will soon be brought to book. Meanwhile the police have failed to make any headway into...
Congress MP K Sudhakaran comes out with a highly irresponsible statement in the Suryanelli rape case. At a public gathering, Sudhakaran called the victim a prostitute. He said that if she was really innocent then she would have escaped when she had the opportu...
Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao is busy these days sending a barrage of letters to the Prime Minister and other Central ministers expounding the various projects that need to be put in motion in coastal Andhra Pradesh. The MP, who has sent in his resignation fro...
Addressing the media, Congress MP Renuka Chaudhary, speaks about Telangana issue, protection for VIPs, PJ Kurien's issue, vandalism in Behrampore, among others. She also says that she can prove that Narendra Modi is a married man.
Congress MP from West Delhi, Mahabal Mishra, along with his family have been summoned by a fast-track court in Delhi for their involvement in the the kidnap and rape of a minor child in 2006. A lower court is Delhi had given the MP and his family a clean chit,...
A fast-track court in Delhi summons Congress Member of Parliament Mahabal Mishra for his alleged role in 2006 kidnapping and rape of a minor. The lower court declared Mishra innocent, but the fast-track differs and have asked him, and his family, to present th...
The Supreme Court restores right to Zakia Jafri to file a fresh protest petition in a trial court against the SIT's closure report giving clean chit to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in a 2002 Gulbarg massacre in Ahmedabad in which her husband, ex-Congre...
Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta raids the premises of chief conservator of forest Basant Kumar in Bhopal and Ujjain. According to the raiding officers, the chief conservator has disproportionate assets worth Rs 40 crore, including properties in Uttar Pradesh, as well...
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Development Minister Vijay Shah's remark that parents are responsible for the safety of girls and not the government has drawn sharp reactions from various quarters. The MP government now stands accused of failing to provide safety for wo...
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, Anakapalle MP, Sabbam Hari, talks about the dilemma of a person elected on a Congress ticket working actively for a rival party, Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress party. Hari also answers questions of other YSR C...
Addressing a highly excited crowd at Bhopal, BJP chief Rajnath Singh lists the accomplishments of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and lauds him for his efforts. He also targets the centre, accusing the government of turning a blind eye to t...
Vundavalli Kiran Kumar, Congress MP from Rajahmundry is holding a huge public meeting today to celebrate the Jai Andhra agitation's 40th anniversary. But the meeting has baffled people as it comes at a time when the state is grappling with the agitation by pro...
Another incident of sycophancy has been reported in Uttar Pradesh. Senior superintendent of police Ajay Mohan Sharma was caught on camera, touching general secretary of Samajwadi Party Ram Gopal Yadav's feet today, during an eye camp at district panchayat prem...
As part of the Azhutha block panchayat's 2012-2013 annual project plan, the panchayat body has convened a meeting to distribute extra monetary support to the needy under Indira Awas Yojana scheme. The panchayat has also handed over the keys of the houses whose...
Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao's house was gheraoed by activists of Samaikyaandhra. They wanted him to make clear his stand and that of the Congress party on the necessity of a united Andhra Pradesh. The students raised slogans and sat on dharna outside his ...
The US is concerned about the possibility of UK leaving the European Union. UK Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver a speech on the future of the European policy. There is growing pressure on him to decide whether or not UK should remain part of the EU.
A non-bailable warrant has been issued against Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao after the forest department filed a case against him and fifteen others for laying a road in the forest and thereby violating forest laws. But Kavuri says no new road was built and on...
All the big names in Indian politics attend the wedding reception of MP PC Chacko's son, Siddarth. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi turned up for the reception. Other dignitaries who thronged the venue were AK Antony, Salman Khurs...
Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Himachal Pradesh Anurag Thakur, who has been accused of calling Sonia Gandhi a 'dayan' and criticised the celebrity fan following of Sunny Leone, Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Panday, vehemently denies the allegations. According to T...
BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh Anurag Thakur denies making any derogatory remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and says a fake ID was created in his name to pass the said comments. Thakur says that the newspaper was irresponsible in not checking if th...
BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh Anurag Thakur vehemently denies making any derogatory remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi. According to Thakur, there has been no posts on the networking site that can even be construed as any remarks against the Congre...
Congress MP Krishna Tirath responds to the Delhi gangrape incident and the call from different netas for women to dress more decently. Krishna Tirath believes that women have a right to wear whatever they choose to with discretion and categorically states that...
The Bharatiya Janata Party is now in damage control mode after one of its leaders and a Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister made known his sexist views on national television. BJP spokesperson Balbir Singh Punj says that there is a need of 'Laxmanrekha' (Moral lim...
Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has courted controversy by his biased comment on women. According to Vijayvargiya, women who cross their moral limits are asking for punishment in the form of rape. The minister draws the analogy that like Lord Ram'...
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh hits out at Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and wants the BJP minister to resign following his insensitive remarks about women and moral remarks. Vijayvargiya had earlier blamed women for their rap...
An outrageous comment by Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has enraged the opposition leaders of the state. According to Vijayvargiya, women who cross their moral limits are asking for punishment. The minister draws the analogy that like Lord Ram's ...
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. Displaying anger at its best, the people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of trying to rape a woman in Chirang. Meanwhile, two men who raped a class XII student i...
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. With the law dragging its feet and the cops making empty promises, the people's anger has reached a boiling point. The people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of ...
Congress MP Jagadambika Pal has questioned the Centre's decision to grant visa to Javed Miandad. According to Pal, when India has proclaimed Dawood Ibrahim as 'most wanted' and demanded Pakistan to give up the man behind 1992 Mumbai blasts, Miandad's link to ...
West Bengal Human Rights Commission initiates a suo motu case against Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, TMC MP, for her comments on the Park Street rape case and also seeks a report from the police within three weeks on why the main accused has not been arrested till ...
Years ago, when the TDP had not yet given a clear pro-Telangana stand, many TDP leaders from Telangana had quit the party and joined the TRS. Now, a week after TDP's green signal to Telangana at last week's all-party meeting, there are a few leaders ready to j...
The mindset of Indian politicians is under the scanner. After the 'dented and painted' remark by President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress MP Abhijeet Mukherjee, now comes the attack made by CPI(M) Anisur Rehman on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerje...
Does President Pranab Mukherjee's son deserve to be a politician after making sexist comments? Earlier today the Congress MP sparked a row by calling students as 'women who go to discotheques' and do 'nautanki' in the name of protests. He further added that th...
Friday's all-party meeting on the issue of Telangana has heated up the political atmosphere in the state. Even as the pro-Telangana Congress MPs are seeking a finality to the contentious issue, on the other side the leaders of coastal Andhra Pradesh are making...
DMK MP Kanimozhi visits the family of the deceased rape victim in Tuticorin and offers financial compensation of two lakhs on behalf of the party. She condemned the incident and accused the AIADMK government of not doing enough to keep the law and order situat...
With just three days remaining to discuss about the crucial all-party meeting called by the Centre on the issue of Telangana. While Congress MPs from Telangana are sure of a consensus from all parties, and are demanding that all parties in the state present a ...
Congress MP Renuka Chaudhury says that there is no need to point fingers and that the responsibility is collective, when asked about the gangrape victim in Delhi. She says that it is very easy to say that death sentence be awarded, but there are several legal ...
The court has withdrawn the vigilance case against K Sudhakaran MP over a controversial statement that he made against the Supreme Court Judge. Court has accepted the plea that the vigilance probe against Sudhakaran be dismissed as the CBI is already probing a...
Tamil Nadu Congress MP Gnanadesikan says that Narendra Modi won because the people in the State are scared of voting against him. He says that the party is very pleased with their victory in Himachal Pradesh and that it sets a precedent for the 2014 elections.
Amid heated exchange of words between the Opposition and treasury benches on the Promotions Quota Bill, Samajwadi Party MP Yashveer Singh snatched the bill from the hands of MoS V Narayanasamy and tore it. Other SP MPs stormed into the well of the House and st...
Appreciating the Delhi High Court for taking suo motu cognizance of the Delhi gangrape case, BJP MP Smriti Irani says that this is first big step to ensuring justice for the victim. She also proposes measures to prevent further crimes against women in the capi...
BJP MP in the Rajya Sabha, Ravishankar Prasad slams the deterioration of law and order in the national capital. He assures that the BJP women's wing will bring up the issue at length in Parliament. The rape victim, a medical student in the city, was first rape...
TDP MP Gundu Sudha Rani condemns the Delhi gangrape incident and says that she feels sorry that such an incident has taken place in the national capital. She also said that India is a country where women are worshipped and such a horrific incident does throw l...
Congress MP Vijaylakshmi Sadho, speaking on the Delhi gangrape case, in the Rajya Sabha, requests the members of the House to rise above dirty politics and find a solution to such a serious issue. She says that it is shocking to see the way women are being tre...
Smriti Irani of the BJP demands capital punishment for those who are found guilty of rape. She points out despite proposals of installing CCTV cameras inside Delhi buses, they have not been implements. She also says that the crime rate, especially sexual haras...
CPI-M MP TN Seema demands an assurance from the Ministry of Home Affairs that some steps would be taken to ensure the safety of women in the country. She says that no woman in the capital city is safe from harassment and urges the government to ensure a speedy...
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut condemns the Delhi gangrape of a 23-year-old woman and demands that the culprits be brought to books immediately. He also said that there should be fast-track Courts for special cases like this and the culprits should be given life imp...
Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien addresses the Rajya Sabha as the father of a 17-year-old girl, who claims to be scared of his daughter's safety in the country. Calling Delhi the rape capital of India, Derek O'Brien refers to the issue of rape as 'more ...