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  Team Anna Blames Ansari For Lokpal Fiasco In Rajya Sabha

  India | December 30, 2011 21:12 IST

  Ghaziabad, Dec 30: Team Anna today faulted Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for abruptly adjourning the Upper House sine die without a vote on the Lokpal Bill.  Former Law Minister and prominent Team Anna member

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  Govt Has Lost Its Moral Right To Rule, Say Jaitley, Sushma

  India | December 30, 2011 22:37 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 30: BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj today said UPA government has lost its moral right to rule after running away from the vote on Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha on

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  Lokpal Not Needed : Omar

  India | December 30, 2011 10:02 IST

  Srinagar, Dec 30: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said there was no need for special laws like Lokpal as the state already had such provisions.“What Anna Hazare is demanding today, our

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  DMK, Trinamool Oppose Constitution Amendment Bill

  India | December 28, 2011 22:25 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 28: Key UPA allies DMK and Trinamool Congress today expressed apprehensions that the Constitution Amendment Bill may erode the powers of states which are derived from the federal setup of the country. 

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  BJP Asks Cong To Put Its Own House In Order

  India | December 28, 2011 22:29 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 28: The BJP today hit back at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul for blaming opposition for the fall of Constitution Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha, saying it was not their responsibility

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  Don't Go By Numbers For Gauging Public Support, Says Kiran Bedi

  India | December 28, 2011 20:47 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 28: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today downplayed the low turnout at Anna Hazare's fast in Mumbai, saying one should not just go by the number of people who turn up at

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  Bedi Cuts Short Her Mumbai Stay; Returns To Delhi

  India | December 27, 2011 21:56 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 27: Activist Kiran Bedi tonight cut short her stay in Mumbai and returned to the national capital to take part in the Delhi leg of Team Anna's agitation for a strong Lokpal.“I

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  Hazare Refuses To End Fast Despite Deterioration In Health

  India | December 27, 2011 22:15 IST

  Mumbai, Dec 27: The deterioration of his health notwithstanding, Anna Hazare, who began his three-day fast against the government's ‘weak' Lokpal Bill today, refused to give up his agitation despite requests from close aides.  “When

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  UPA Allies Strike Discordant Note On Lokpal

  India | December 27, 2011 21:01 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 27: UPA partners, Trinamool Congress and DMK, today struck a discordant note saying the Lokpal Bill provisions to create Lokayuktas would encroach upon the rights of the states.“Don't undermine the rights of

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  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Requests Anna To End Fast

  India | December 27, 2011 20:48 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 27: Concerned over Anna Hazare's health, Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar today appealed to the social activist to end his fast and continue his agitation.“I appeal to Annaji to

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  Hazare Supporters Stage Protests

  India | December 27, 2011 18:40 IST

  Jammu/Chennai, Dec 27: As Anna Hazare embarked on his fast in Mumbai and Team Anna held fort in Delhi today, scattered protests by his supporters against a “weak” Lokpal Bill were reported elsewhere in the

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  PM Calls For Keeping CBI Outside Lokpal, Appeals To Parties To Pass Lokpal Bill

  India | December 27, 2011 21:35 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 27: Pushing for passage of the Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today rejected demands for bringing CBI under the purview of the anti-graft ombudsman, warning that no

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  PILs In Bombay, Karna HC To Declare Hazare's Fast As "Illegal"

  India | December 26, 2011 22:08 IST

  Mumbai/Bangalore, Dec 26: On the eve of Anna Hazare's fast in Mumbai, two separate PIL petitions were moved before the Bombay High Court and the Karnataka High Court today with a plea to declare the

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  Kejriwal Meets Muslim Leaders To Clear Air On RSS Link Charges

  India | December 26, 2011 19:18 IST

  Mumbai, Dec 26: Against the backdrop of the allegations that Anna Hazare has links with the RSS, Arvind Kejriwal, a key Team Anna member today met representatives of Muslim organisations here to clear the ‘misconceptions'. 

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  Govt Has Done Nothing Against Graft : Anna Hazare

  India | December 26, 2011 16:22 IST

  Ralegan Siddhi/ Mumbai/ Delhi, Dec 26: Anna Hazare has said that he will continue with his fight against corruption till the end. Putting an end to speculations on his health, Hazare said that he was

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  Kejriwal Tells India TV, Leaders Like Lalu Will Be The First To Go To Jail If CBI Comes Under Lokpal

  India | December 23, 2011 20:30 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 23: Senior Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal today lashed out at RJD chief Lalu Prasad saying he made the entire Lok Sabha introductory debate on Lokpal Bill "frivolous".  In a live chat

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  BJP To Move Amendments Against Certain Provisions In Lokpal

  India | December 22, 2011 22:21 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 22: Dubbing the Lokpal Bill introduced by the government in Lok Sabha as “weak”, BJP today said it will move amendments against provisions like reservation for minorities, which it maintained is unconstitutional,

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  Lokpal To Cost Rs 200 Crore Every Year

  India | December 22, 2011 22:02 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 22: How much will Lokpal cost the exchequer every year?According to the financial memorandum attached with ‘The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011', the anti-corruption body is expected to incur an expenditure of

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  Chidambaram Would Be In Jail If CBI Comes Under Lokpal, Says Anna

  India | December 21, 2011 21:29 IST

  Ralegan Siddhi, Dec 21: Attacking the government for keeping the CBI out of Lokpal, Anna Hazare today accused it of "cheating" the people by bringing a weak Bill to "save" corrupt politicians. A day after

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  Constitutional Lokpal Gets Cabinet Clearance

  India | December 20, 2011 22:08 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 20: The Union Cabinet tonight approved a historic bill for creation a Lokpal with Constitutional status that will have no control over CBI but brings within its purview the Prime Minister with