• May
    09

    Having failed to reach a working understanding with the BJP-led opposition, the UPA government on Wednesday watched Parliament’s budget session come to an abrupt close, two days ahead of time.

  • Nov
    22
    By KA Badarinath / KR Sudhaman

    The UPA government on Thursday easily staved off the threat of a no-trust vote, as the Trinamool Congress could not muster the support of one-10th of the Lok Sabha members necessary to move such a motion.

  • Oct
    08
    By Paul Krugman

    This really isn’t looking like the election anyone expected. Obviously it’s not the election Mitt Romney and the Republicans anticipated and wanted; but it’s also looking very different from

  • Jun
    07

    The government was on Thursday once again stopped in its tracks with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress red-flagging pension reforms.

  • Mar
    19
    By Reuters

    Dinesh Trivedi's resignation as railway minister has been accepted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told lawmakers in parliament on Monday.

    Trivedi quit on Sunday after his announcement of an increase

  • Mar
    17
    By PTI

    Firm on the removal of Railway Minister, Mr Dinesh Trivedi, the Trinamool Congress chief, Ms Mamata Banerjee, today asserted that it was time for the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh,

  • Mar
    15
    By PTI

    Akhilesh Yadav, son of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, was today sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the youngest-ever to hold the office, along with 19 cabinet

  • Mar
    14
    By PTI

    SP leader Akhilesh Yadav is set to take oath as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh tomorrow for the first time, after his party gained absolute majority by winning 224 seats

  • Mar
    10
    By Reuters

    US President Barack Obama has said he did not run for "this office" to get back to where America was and asserted that the country will "thrive again", leaving behind

  • By PTI

    Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, will be the new and youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, representing a generational shift in a state whose politics