Politics

After a sustained campaign fronted by Lalu and Mulayam Yadav, the government has decided to give Members of Parliament another raise.   Last week, the government increased MPs' salaries from Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 50,000 a month. Their constituency and ...

With the upcoming assembly elections in Bengal approaching, it appears that the CPI-M is spending anxious moments trying to devise a strategy to put an end to Mamta's winning streak.  For the brainstorming session, battleground Vijayawada has been chosen.  The ...

After its revival in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is hoping that Rahul Gandhi's "right medicine" will help resuscitate the party in poll-bound Bihar, where it has been out of power for the last two decades.       "We were ill there ...

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh says he stands by the statements he made on NDTV. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary was responding to comments made by the Home Minister earlier in the day.  Speaking to the Economic Times, ...

Nishant Patel, a key member of Rahul Gandhi's youth brigade, went missing under mysterious circumstances from his hotel room in Hardoi. He was last seen in the hotel lobby at around 5 am on 2nd of July. Nishant's belongings were ...

Jaganmohan Reddy has done what few Congressmen do - he has defied party president Sonia Gandhi. Jagan, who represents Kadapa in Parliament, insists that he will resume his controversial "Odarpu Yatra" - suspended last month after criticism from his party ...

Acting president Bronislaw Komorowski has been elected as the new president of Poland. He defeated Jaroslaw Kaczynski by a narrow margin in the second round of elections, which took place on Sunday. According to an exit poll, Komorowski got around ...

Twice in 12 hours, the Hyderabad police showed up at Vijayashanti's house to arrest her - but couldn't find her.  Odd, since the actor and MLA emerged from her home in MLA Colony minutes after the police left empty-handed after ...