• 

  Sheila Dikshit declines to comment on reports of Centre's move

  National | June 20, 2014 15:22 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor Sheila Dikshit today declined to comment on media reports that the Centre had sounded the Governors appointed by the previous UPA government to step down.“I can't react to rumours”, Dikshit said on

• 

  UPA is a pre-poll alliance, has numbers for post of LoP: Anand Sharma

  National | June 15, 2014 21:09 IST

  New Delhi: UPA is a pre-poll alliance and has more than the adequate numbers to get the post of Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma today said amid statements

• 

  Modi still in 'campaign mode, can't believe he is PM': Congress

  National | June 14, 2014 21:54 IST

  New Delhi: Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks that the previous UPA dispensation led by it had “left everything empty”, Congress today said he is still in “campaign mode” and

• 

  Congress MP criticises President for ignoring UPA feats

  National | June 13, 2014 16:15 IST

  Panaji: A Congress Rajya Sabha member from Goa Friday criticized President Pranab Mukherjee for ignoring the achievements of the Congress-led UPA governments in his address to parliament earlier this week.Goa's lone representative in the upper

• 

  Lokpal important to curb corruption: President Pranab Mukherjee

  National | June 09, 2014 15:59 IST

  New Delhi: Lokpal Act is important to curb corruption and rules will be formulated under it, Government asserted today while promising to provide a “clean and efficient” administration.“My government is committed to providing a clean

• 

  Need time to put the system on track: Rajnath

  National | June 07, 2014 18:49 IST

  Lucknow: NDA government was committed to resolving the security issues faced by the country, but it cannot be done in “one or two years” and more time was needed to set right the system “paralysed”

• 

  NDA will revive all dev projects to fulfil its promises: Naidu

  National | June 07, 2014 18:43 IST

  Vijayawada: Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said the NDA is committed to revive all the development projects, which were left unfinished by the previous UPA government.  “The government will revive all the

• 

  Telangana: India's 29th state

  National | June 02, 2014 11:14 IST

  Hyderabad: Following are the major events in the history of Telangana, which Monday came into being as 29th state in India.1948: Indian Army annexes princely state of Hyderabad, which comprised different regions including Telangana.Nov 1,

• 

  Jayalalithaa says diesel price hike a vestige of "wrong UPA policy"

  National | June 01, 2014 18:44 IST

  Chennai: Flaying the diesel price increase, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said it was a continuation of the previous Congress-led UPA regime's “wrong” policies and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rollback the hike besides

• 

  Jaitley underlines need to contain inflation, boost growth

  National | June 01, 2014 18:44 IST

  New Delhi: Attributing the present economic woes to a “decade of jobless growth”, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today underlined the need to contain price rise and hasten economic reforms to boost low-cost manufacturing.  “Reviving the

• 

  PM to meet his Council of Ministers tomorrow

  National | June 01, 2014 18:30 IST

  New Delhi: After asking his ministerial colleagues to set a 100-day agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with his entire Council of Ministers tomorrow to focus on efficient governance and delivery and

Advertisement
• 

  Modi does away with UPA created GoMs, EGoMs

  National | May 31, 2014 18:05 IST

  New Delhi: Dismantling a legacy of UPA rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today abolished all the 30 GoMs (Groups of Ministers) and EGoMs (Empowered Groups of Ministers) and told ministries and departments to take decisions

• 

  Modi victory: Congress 'communalism' derailed UPA

  National | May 31, 2014 13:31 IST

  "What appears is not and what does not, is." This ancient saying aptly describes the Indian political scenario.The Congress-led UPA claims to be secular; peel a few layers and you will find it is steeped

• 

  Javadekar promises fast clearances to infrastructure projects

  National | May 29, 2014 19:26 IST

  New Delhi: New Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today promised to ensure “fast clearances” to infrastructure projects in a transparent manner and launched a process for transparent environmental clearance.After assuming charge as Minister of State (Independent)

• 

  PM Modi may implement performance-based incentives for babus

  India | May 29, 2014 17:03 IST

  New Delhi: Following its mantra of maximum governance and minimum government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may implement performance-based incentives schemes for central government employees.The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is slated to give a

• 

  Transfer orders of 109 customs and excise officers put on hold

  India | May 24, 2014 19:08 IST

  New Delhi: Transfer orders of over 100 senior customs and excise officers issued by UPACBECBJPNDACentral Board of Direct Taxes government on vote counting day and a few days later have been put on hold.According to

• 

  NCP blames UPA rout on Manmohan, Sonia's 'failure' to connect with masses

  National | May 22, 2014 19:22 IST

  Mumbai: The NCP today attributed the drubbing the Congress-led UPA has received in polls mainly to the “communication deficit” on part of outgoing prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and also to

• 

  President gives touching farewell to 'gentleman' Singh

  National | May 18, 2014 15:15 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee gave a touching farewell to “gentleman” Manmohan Singh, recalling their four-decade-long association from Singh's bureaucracy days till he became the Prime Minister.  At an emotionally charged banquet last night, Mukherjee

• 

  Jharkhand: Modi magic decimates UPA,Cong fails to open account

  India | May 16, 2014 23:45 IST

  Ranchi: The Narendra Modi magic weaved itself into Jharkhand with BJP winning 12 out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats with UPA ally JMM managing to bag only two seats.JMM supremo Shibu Soren won the

• 

  UPA govt. seeks review of SC order on black money

  India | May 16, 2014 15:53 IST

  New Delhi: In a last ditch effort to stall setting up of an SIT to monitor all black money cases as directed by the Supreme Court, UPA government today sought review of its judgements constituting