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New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): The nation is celebrating the 100th International Women’’s Day today.
President Pratibha Patil will confer the Stree Shakti Awards at a function here. The ”Stree Shakti Puraskars” are given to women for their outstanding and exceptional work in field of women empowerment.
The Rajasthan Government has decided to allow women to [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 16 (ANI): The UPA Government’s austerity drive is expected to be extended to all Members of Parliament (MPs) following an all party meeting, according to sources.

Vice President Hamid Ansari will call an all-party meeting to decide on the issue once Lok Sabha [...]

New Delhi, July 7 (ANI): Centre has approved a package of 478.27 crore rupees from the National Calamity Contingency Fund for rehabilitation of Aila cyclone victims in West Bengal.

Referring to the West Bengal’s demand of 520 crore rupees for the development of housing and road sectors, Union Home [...]

Abohar, July 6 (ANI): Radio Pakistan in its Punjabi Durbar programme has taken up the cause of Dalit community in India.

The Radio Pakistan has said that the Dalits in India do not have even basic rights.

The allegation has been rubbished by Babu Ram [...]

Bhopal, July 5 (ANI): An orientation programme for state legislators turned out to be a ’sleepy affair’ in Bhopal.

The two-day orientation programme was aimed to make the legislators aware of the nuances of lawmaking.

Even as Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar was explaining the various aspects of lawmaking and responsibilities associated with the executive, many of [...]

Bhopal, July 4 (ANI): A two day orientation programme of the legislatures of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar in Bhopal today.

Besides Meira Kumar, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Ishwar Das Rohani, the state’s Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya and the Leader of Opposition, [...]

New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): The next session of Parliament will begin on Thursday.

The Economic Survey will be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 2. The Railway Budget will be presented on July 3 and the General Budget on July 6.

Ahead of the session, [...]

New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday ahead of the Budget session of Parliament.

The meeting is being held to ensure smooth conduct of the session, which will conclude [...]

New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): The Congress party on Monday said the money used for installing statues of Dalit icons by Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Mayawati could have been used for upliftment of the poor and backwards in the [...]

New Delhi, May 30 (ANI): Congress leader Meira Kumar, popular known as the daughter of the former Deputy Prime Minister and prominent Dalit leader, Babu Jagjivan Ram and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi, hails from Bihar.

Born in Patna in 1945, Meira Kumar has been [...]

New Delhi, May 30 (ANI): Congress Party is likely to finalise the name of Union Water Resource Minister Meira Kumar for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker, NDTV quoted sources as saying.

However, another TV Channel stated the names of Congress leader Girija Kumar Vyas [...]

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Portfolios of the council of ministers, who sworn-in as ministers of UPA Government, were declared on Thursday evening with Kapil Sibal getting the Human Resource ministry and Veerappa Moily getting the Law and Justice ministry.

The arrangement of portfolios in [...]

New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the nation in paying floral tributes to India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 45th death anniversary on Wednesday.

Vice President Hamid Ansari and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi also paid floral tributes at Shanti Van, the memorial dedicated to Nehru, as [...]

New Delhi, May 23 (ANI): The first meeting of the Union Cabinet has decided to hold the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha between June 1 to 9.

Union Minister P.Chidambaram here told reporters on Saturday that the decision in this regard was taken at the first meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by [...]

New Delhi, May 23 (ANI): A day after taking oath as Prime Minister for the second term, Manmohan Singh called a meeting of the Union Cabinet today.

According to sources, it is likely to take a decision on convening a Parliament session to enable new members to take oath. President Pratibha Patil will be addressing [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh after taking oath of office and secrecy on Friday said that his government’s focus will be on restoring the economy and ensure inclusive growth.

“Our first priority is to restore the economy, especially keeping [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil administered oath of office and secrecy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with 19 Cabinet ministers.

The 76-year-old, soft-spoken economist is the first Prime Minister since post-independence after Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned to [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): With barely four hours to go before Dr. Manmohan Singh is sworn in as Prime Minister for a second consecutive term, sources have revealed that along with him, 19 ministers, a majority of them from the Congress, will [...]

Patna, Apr.15 (ANI): Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued across Bihar in the run-up to Thursday’s first phase election in 13 out of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies.

The state’s borders with Nepal and neighbouring states have also been sealed.

Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Rajiv Pratap Rudy [...]

Rohtas (Patna), Feb 10 (ANI): Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate construction work on the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) at Rohtas in Bihar today.

Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Meira Kumar, Ministers of State for Railways Naranbhai J. Rathwa and Dr. R. Velu and Minister of State for Tourism [...]