Jammu, March 13 – The Congress has decided to oppose a bill moved earlier this week in the upper house of the state legislature depriving women of their citizenship rights if they marry non-permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
‘This piece of legislation will never be supported by the party within or outside of the legislature,’ [...]
Shimla, March 13 – Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Saturday questioned the authenticity of a Gujarat-based government forensic laboratory’s report that he said helped ‘exonerate’ Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in the audio CD controversy.
Virbhadra Singh said: ‘What was the need for Dhumal to exonerate himself in the case with the help of Gujarat [...]
Chennai, March 13 – Thirty-one candidates, 24 of them independents, are in the fray for the bypoll to the Pennagaram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu slated for March 27.
According to the Election Commission, out of the 33 validly nominated candidates, two withdrew their candidature Saturday, the last day for doing so, leaving 31 to fight [...]
Chandigarh, March 13 – Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal Saturday sought day-to-day hearing of the over 25-year-old 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases.
Badal, who is also the president of Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal, sought the intervention of the Supreme Court to order day-to-day trial of the anti-Sikh carnage to expedite the justice delivery system.
Badal [...]
Chennai, March 13 – Urging legislators to sternly deal with corruption and inefficiency in governance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said that power needed to be regarded as a ’societal trust’ and used for public good.
‘Legislators appraise contemporary legislation and enact new laws. To discharge their responsibility effectively, they should not only be alert and [...]
Chennai, March 13 – Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday visited Satyamurthy Bhavan, the party’s state headquarters here.
Gandhi, who came here to participate in the inaugural function of the new assembly complex, stepped into the party headquarters enroute to the function venue.
She was received by state party president K.V. Thankabalu and other senior leaders.
According to party [...]
Kolkata, March 13 – West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said his government would work towards ensuring equal rights for the socially and economically backward sections – including Muslims – in the state.
‘We can only progress if we can provide equal rights to the economically and socially backward sections of our society. We have [...]
New Delhi, March 13 – The Left parties Saturday said they oppose the nuclear liability bill that seeks to cap and limit the liability for the operator of a nuclear plant and which is likely to be tabled in the Lok Sabha Monday.
The bill, which the Left parties said was ‘a harmful piece of legislation [...]
New Delhi, March 13 – Bharatiya Janata Party president (BJP) Nitin Gadkari Saturday announced that a three-member committee, headed by former union minister Menaka Gandhi, will inquire into the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly town.
The committee would also have Yogi Adityanath, the Gorakhpur MP, and Rajendra Agrawal, MP from Meerut, as members, a party [...]
New Delhi, March 13 – With less than a month to go before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to the US, the government is planning to introduce the contentious Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill in the Lok Sabha Monday.
The bill is likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha Monday, said government sources here. [...]
