With government claiming that it was committed towards bringing a robust Lokpal bill in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Joint Drafting Committee (JDC) on Monday met without the members of the civil society. The civil

A day after boycotting the meeting of Lokpal Bill drafting committee, Anna Hazare-led team on Tuesday made it clear that they had no intention to quit the joint panel and hit out at HRD minister Kapil Sibal for attacking them.

As the pitch of the BJP’s 24-hour satyagraha heightened and a patriotic song, Yeh Desh Hai Veer Jawano Ka, was played to keep the atmosphere charged late on Sunday night at Rajghat, senior leader and Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj broke into a jig. She swayed to the beats with the BJP youth wing chief Mr Anurag

Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Opposition leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj after visuals showing the top BJP leader dancing at Mahatma Gandhi’s samadhi Rajghat sparked a controversy.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director A.P. Singh will on Tuesday appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G scam. This follows the appearance of comptroller and auditor general Vinod Rai before the committee last week.

Concerned over poor response to its plea to leave clash-hit Yemen, India on Tuesday made a fresh appeal to its nationals to leave the poor Arab nation by any available commercial means.

Nearly six years after she was expelled from the party, firebrand Hindutva leader Uma Bharti was on Tuesday re-inducted into the BJP that entrusted her with the task of looking after Uttar Pradesh which is going to polls in 2012.

Anna Hazare and his supporters will sit on a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar here on Wednesday to protest against the police action on Baba Ramdev and have threatened to defy prohibitory orders if police refuse to give permission.

Revealing what went behind the scenes during the run-up to the Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the Congress on Monday said that there were feelers from the AIADMK who sought an alliance for the elections but the party rejected the offer as it didn’t want to change the ally just for romping home. It added that relations with the DMK was good.

The strike by workers at the country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant entered its fourth day on Tuesday and production continued to be completely affected.