The Union Cabinet, at its meeting here on Tuesday, will take up the National Food Security Bill, which seeks to make food entitlement a legal right for 75 per cent of the population in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban centres.

An assortment of Opposition parties, including the Left, BJP and centrist parties like the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Biju Janata Dal (BJD), shared the dais at Gandhian Anna Ha

Ahead of the tough electoral battle in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party appears to have done a volte face and has now become a supporter of team Anna in a clear departure from its earlier stand when

The much awaited Congress-RLD tieup for next year’s UP elections is likely to be announced any time.

The much awaited Congress-RLD tieup for next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections is likely to be announced any time. RLD chief Ajit Singh is tipped to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the company of senior party leaders over the weekend to mark the conclusion of seat-sharing talks.

Claiming that the Congress is not getting political mileage for the Centrally sponsored flagship schemes, state party leaders are gearing up to build brand “Rahul Bhaiyya” image on the lines of former Prime Minister Indira

After an attempt to stonewall the decision to allow FDI in retail, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee appears determined to kickstart the implementation of the Central government-sponsored fla

Under the leadership of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the Youth Congress is gearing up to make a mark on a bigger stage and is hopeful of getting the nod for its nominees to contest about 40 Assembly seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh state elections.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday claimed that more than $1,200 billion worth of speculative money in the US is fuelling the worldwide inflation. He said that such a whopping sum of amount is not invested in any business activities but in speculative investment in commodities.

After turning heat on the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has brought to the notice of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) instances of various state governments flouting norms of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and