Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi campaigns in Himachal Pradesh ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Modi, in his address, claims that Gujarat is a role model for development. He attacks the Congress-led UPA government over price hike and ...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi campaigns in Himachal Pradesh ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Modi, in his address, claims that Gujarat is a role model for development. He attacks the Congress-led UPA government over price hike and ...
India Against Corruption member Arvind Kejriwal meets anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare. Kejriwal is said to make an official announcement of his political party on Tuesday. He says that there is no drift between Anna and him, but it is only that both of them ha...
AITMC Chief Mamata Banerjee has asked all her party members and supporters to participate in a rally organised by her in Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Monday against the recent reforms made by the UPA, in the past one month. Issues such as FDI in retail, LPG and fe...
AITMC Chief Mamata Banerjee has organised a rally in Delhi's Jantar Mantar,on Monday, against the reforms made by the UPA. Issues such as FDI in retail, LPG and fertiliser subsidies, and price hike of petrol and diesel are being rallied against. Around 1,000 T...
Addressing the media after the first session of BJP National Executive meet, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad has unleashed criticism on the Congress-led UPA government over its scams and anti-people policies. He has stated that Congress is responsible for...
BJP top brass is set to meet in Delhi to discuss the political strategies to take on the UPA government. The chief Opposition party has quite a handful of issues to attack the government with like the FDI in retail, diesel price hike and the coal scam. The par...
Taking on the government over its latest reform policies, BJP President Nitin Gadkari has said that the Congress-led UPA government has lost its credibility owing to the 'anti-people' reforms it has brought. He has alleged that the government has brought FDI i...
Defending UPA government's reform measures like the FDI in retail and the hike in diesel price, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh says that the State government can subsidize the hikes.
The UPA government has made it clear that there will not be reform rollbacks as of now. Nonetheless, the government has said that the States can reduce tax on diesel to bring down the price. The Centre has directed the Congress-ruled States to reduce the tax a...
A massive existential crisis stares the government in its face, as its greatest ally, the Trinamool Congress bids adieu following an intense standoff. Clearly furious over the complete apathy from the government over her ultimatum, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee ...
Mamata Banerjee has silenced all her critics with her boldest move yet. The TMC Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister has announced a complete withdrawal from the UPA alliance. She has given her TMC Ministers in the Union Cabinet time until Friday to submit the...
Top Finance Ministry officials confirm that the government is neither going to roll back the hike in diesel prices nor rethink the FDI in retail policies. After a meeting with the Congress top brass, the Prime Minister has decided to continue with his reforms...
Mamata Banerjee has decided to pull the plug on the UPA, which means that the UPA has now been reduced to a minority on the floor of the Lok Sabha. The Congress-led UPA government, however, does still enjoy outside support from the BSP and the Samajwadi Party....
Mamata Banerjee confabulates with the TMC top brass to decide on the next course of action with regard to her role within the UPA. The deadline to act on her threats has expired, and the TMC supremo has now painted herself into a corner as the Congress-led UPA...
The UPA is still sticking to its guns over the diesel price hike and the FDI in retail policy, refusing to relent to Mamata Banerjee's demands despite an ultimatum. The TMC supremo has warned the Congress-led UPA that she will quit the alliance and withdraw th...
It's a war of nerves that is unfolding between the Congress and its estranged UPA ally, the Trinamool Congress. TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee is waiting for the Prime Minister to respond to her ultimatum before she announces her final decision on the pull-out from...
Two simultaneous meetings are being held to decide on Mamata Banerjee's future in national politics. The Trinamool Congress is holding a meeting to finalise its pull-out from the UPA alliance, even as the Congress top brass huddles to consider a Cabinet reshuf...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi meet to decide a possible Cabinet reshuffle that has been in the offing for the last few days. Talks of a reshuffle found credence in the context of a possible TMC withdrawal from the UPA alliance....
The overtures made by the Congress top brass has not cut any ice with the Trinamool Congress. The Mamata Banerjee led UPA is now holding a final meeting to arrive at a consensus on her 'pullout' decision. The West Bengal Chief Minister has announced that she w...
Cornered between the UPA government and a vicious opposition, the Trinamool Congress floats the possibility of a truce with the UPA, but the Centre has not responded yet. There is a lot of pressure on the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC to maintain a national relevanc...
Top Congress officials confirm that no communication has been established between the UPA and its estranged ally, the Trinamool Congress. Mamata Banerjee, who has not yet taken a final decision on whether to quit the UPA alliance or not, is holding a high-leve...
Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Kunal Ghosh emphasizes that the Trinamool Congress will not tolerate the series of anti-people policies laid down by the Central government. The TMC is expected to formally announce their decision when its crucial meet ends. The Tri...
The BJP launches another scathing attack on the government over the FDI in retail policy and the diesel price hike. The BJP has also dared the TMC to withdraw, claiming that Mamata Banerjee will face a credibility crisis if she decides to back the UPA governme...
With Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s 72-hour deadline to the UPA government to withdraw the hiked diesel price, cap on subsidized LPG and FDI in multi-brand retail ending today, her party has listed three plans of action. TMC could pull out Minist...
The Telangana Lorry Owners Association is carrying forward a protest against the rising price of diesel in the state. Lorry owners and drivers participated in the protest march and threatened to continue the strike until the UPA government considers their dema...
There has been widespread protests against Congress-led UPA government's decision to hike the price of diesel and to put a cap on the LPG cylinders. In Kerala both the BJP and the Left have hit the streets, demanding rollback.
Defending the UPA government's efforts to shake off policy paralysis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the steps taken like the FDI in retail and Aviation are necessary to bolster the ailing Indian economy. Further on he has remarked that diesel pri...
Congress-led UPA government has come under severe attack over its decision to hike the price of diesel and put a cap on LPG subsidy. BJP has said that the lives of the common people are becoming increasingly difficult owing to the price hike and the rationing ...
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has demanded an immediate rollback of the diesel price as he has said that this price hike will also affect the prices of other products and transport coast. The Left too has come out strongly against the UPA government sa...
Slamming the Congress-led UPA government over the diesel price hike, senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh remarks that if the government is genuinely concerned about the 'aam admi' it should rollback the price with immediate effect. He alleges that the government d...
Virtually the entire Opposition has blasted the UPA government for the hike in diesel prices that was implemented on Thursday night. Across the country, people have come onto the streets to protest the hike. Housewives in Amritsar protested with LPG cylinders ...
After the Opposition it is the corporate bigwigs who have begun attacking the UPA. Following Standard & Poor's warning, Azim Premji and Narayana Murthy express sadness at the economic condition of the country and the lack of UPA's action for improvement. Congr...
Reacting to DMK's threat to pullout from UPA over petrol price hike, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy says that the party should do so if they care for the people.
The government says oil companies' losses are to be blame for hike in petrol prices. But take a look at the reality of how your government is fooling you on reasons for hiking prices of petrol.
The Congress-led UPA government is understood to have given an in-principle approval to the state-owned oil companies to increase petrol prices by Rs 4-5 a litre.