Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu, hospitalised with a pneumonia attack, was in critical condition Wednesday, a medical bulletin said. Read the rest of this entry »

Amar Singh resigns as general secretary of Samajwadi Party citing “health reasons” amid speculation over deepening differences with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Read the rest of this entry »

Shibu Soren sworn in as Chief Minister of Jharkhand.He tasted power twice, but the euphoria was short-lived — nine days and later four months. JMM supremo Shibu Soren, who was sworn in for
the third time as chief minister of Jharkhand on Wednesday by Governor K Sankanarayanan, hopes his tenure will be longer this time. Read the rest of this entry »

Andhra Pradesh governor N D Tiwari on Saturday resigned from his post in the wake of the controversy over the sex tape purportedly showing him in a compromising position with three women. Read the rest of this entry »

N D Tiwari’s continuance as Andhra Pradesh Governor appears to have become untenable on Saturday with indications that the 86-year-old leader may be asked to go in the wake of a sting operation that purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women. Read the rest of this entry »

With the rise in prices making even food items go out of hand of common people whom the parties keep on referring as the Am Admi, these MPs enjoy the cheapest food in the Parliament canteen itself.The prices are such which we cannot even dream of in these time of inflation.Here in the canteen a katori of dal costs Rs.1.50 which in our widest of dream non of us can think of. Read the rest of this entry »

BJP’s Maharashtra unit chief Nitin Gadkari was on Saturday appointed the BJP president at a meeting of the Parliamentary Board of the party, marking a generational change in its hierarchy. . Gadkari was elected the party chief at a meeting attended by senior BJP leaders L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and others. Read the rest of this entry »

Sushma Swaraj is all set to become Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha while Nitin Gadkari will take over as the new BJP president. L K Advani will play the role of friend-philosopher-guide to the party and the RSS is learnt to have asked him to mentor the new party leadership. Read the rest of this entry »

Barely days after she became the first woman president to do a sortie in a Sukhoi fighter jet, President Pratibha Patil had a narrow escape on Wednesday evening when the IAF chopper she was in hit a building at the Biju Patnaik airport. She was shaken for a moment but not hurt. Read the rest of this entry »