BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani on Thursday dubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “weak” and said that he feels “pity” for him.
Mr Advani, while addressing party’s youth wing’s “Rashtriya Ekta Yatra”, which reached national capital on Thursday, also tried to clarify that he has never personally

Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has recommended deletion of some of the RTI Act rules proposed by the government, saying they are “legally wrong.”
The NAC has sent its recommendations to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) which had invited public comments on the proposed rules.

Minister of state for parliamentary affairs V. Narayanaswamy on Thursday expressed confidence that the forthcoming Budget Session will be smooth. The minister added that the Budget Session would begin on the 21st of the next month. Railway Budget, according to him, will be presented on the February 25 and the General Budget will be presented on the February 28 in the Lower House.

The government has decided to hold the Budget Session of Parliament from February 21 at a time when the Opposition has not diluted its stand on a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam. This issue had virtually made the Winter Session the non-starter. The government, which has been refusing the Opposition’s demand for a JPC has not been able to break the impasse on the issue despite having called atleast three meetings with the Opposition leaders.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi could take little more time to reconstitute the AICC but she nominated members to the Working Committee and the Central Election Committee without any delay.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the CBI's plea for death penalty to Dara Singh, convicted for burning alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in January 1999, and upheld the life term awarded to him by the Orissa high court.

The Supreme Court on Friday described as 'unfortunate' Union communications minister Kapil Sibal questioning the methodology adopted by the comptroller and auditor in concluding that the public exchequer had suffered a staggering loss of Rs 1.7 lakh crore in the allocation of 2G spectrum.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government and the CBI on a plea for a judicial probe into the alleged rape of a Dalit girl by Banda legislator Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi.

Around a mile long oil spill has been detected from a ruptured pipeline some 80 km off the Mumbai coast, state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) said on Friday.

British High Commissioner Richard Stagg on Friday asked India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharti to clear dues of Rs.96 crore ($21 million approx) on account of the coverage of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.