Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has called the agitating jewellers for a meeting to discuss their problem and find an amicable solution. Office-bearers of jewelers associations will meet Mukherjee on Friday in New Delhi.
Nearly 60,000 Punjab police personnel and 15 companies of para-military forces have been put on alert after a Chandigarh court ordered that Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s killing, be hanged as scheduled on March 31.
Anna Hazare has yet again dodged the democratic system and crying hoarse at Jantar Mantar with his “My way or Highway” rhetoric, an act that led to Indian democratic system put on a virtual ransom in the past before a thinning support base made him backtrack in Mumbai. This time he has lied to Delhi Police to get permission for protest at Jantar Mantar.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa on Monday intensified his power struggle by claiming support of over half of the party MLAs and apparently demanded that the central leadership convene a legislature party meet within 48 hours.
A benchmark index for Indian markets closed 189 points lower Tuesday as the Congress party which leads the United Progressive Alliance government at the centre fared poorly in assembly elections.
The son of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator from Uttar Pradesh has been accused of assaulting and threatening his Russian female friend in her south Delhi house and escaping with her passport, cellphone and debit card.
Team Anna key member Arvind Kejriwal’s double-speak and hypocrisy was exposed yet again on Tuesday, Feb 28, when the man asking others for compulsory voting failed to honour what he preaches.
Protesting against the lack of development, voters at the Patna polling station in Tindwari assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district boycotted the assemblypolls Sunday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday demanded the sacking of union Law Minister Salman Khurshid for “denigrating” the Election Commission over his promise for quota for minorities in Uttar Pradesh.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday accused the West Bengal government of attempting to gag the opposition and slammed assembly Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay’s ban on press meets in the house premises when it is not in session.
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