At least 35 people, including eight in Puducherry, were killed as the tropical cyclone “Thane" wreaked havoc along the coastal north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on land-fall, virtually paralysing normal life and mauling vital infrastructure. The “very severe cyclonic storm" over the south-west Bay of Bengal that threatened to hit Tamil Nadu in the last [...]
The Lokpal Bill has always appeared to be a jinxed affair, the history of last 40 years shows. With the Rajya Sabha adjourning sine die midnight amid uproar without passing the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011, even after day-long debate, it has once again shown that it was so. In fact, the strange coincidence so [...]
Flight operations came to a standstill at the IGI Airport here this morning after dense fog enveloped the area. More than 40 domestic and international flights have been delayed, while nine arriving and departing flights were cancelled. The visibility at the runway dropped to 50 metres as a result no flights could take off since [...]
Team Anna today attacked the Government for its failure to get Lokpal Bill passed by Rajya Sabha and accused it of not doing enough home work to bring other political parties on board to respect the ‘Sense of the House’ on this issue.Key member of the team and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi tore into [...]
Heavy rain accompanied by strong gale lashed south coastal Andhra and Chittoor district of Rayalaseema region under the impact of severe cyclone Thane which hit the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Friday morning. Parts of Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur and Chittoor districts have been receiving rain since the morning, officials said. Two villages [...]
Putting up a brave front after it failed to muster the numbers in the Rajya Sabha, Government today said the Lokpal Bill will ”definitely” be brought before the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session even as Congress leader Digvijay Singh defended the move saying extension of the House last night was not possible. “Definitely we [...]
The bereaved family of slain student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Manchester this week, have been told by the Consulate General of India in Birmingham, to apply for emergency visa to expedite the process of repatriation of his body. “We have sought emergency visa and have been told that we are also required [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not want to pass the Lokpal bill in the Rajya Sabha and wanted to keep it in limbo, Minister of State for Personnel V. Narayanasamy said Friday and added that the legislation would again come to the house in the budget session. “It will come to the house in [...]
Stating that the government as well as the opposition were interested in scoring political points, former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee said Friday that there was nothing extraordinary in the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha Thursday night. “It is nothing extraordinary. I am not saying that such kinds of things happen regularly but such kind [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should step down and assume moral responsibility for the government’s defeat in parliament on the Lokpal bill, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari said Friday. Calling it “unfortunate” and an “insult to parliament”, the BJP president accused the government of running away from voting on the Lokpal bill in the [...]