Finding it difficult to break the logjam in Parliament, the government on Monday indicated to the Opposition it was prepared to hit the pause button on FDI in retail till a broad consensus is reached. It has convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday to settle the issue. The Opposition, however, is insisting on a complete rollback, not just putting a policy decision on hold.

If not Nobel Peace Prize as suggested by one of his Cabinet colleagues recently Punjab chief minister on Monday got “Faquar-e-Quam” (Jewel of the religion) award. The highest Sikh temporal body Sri Akal Takht Sahib on Monday presented the award to the chief minister at Amritsar.

A day after the state’s former minister shocked the ruling party into third place in the Bellary byelection, a triumphant B. Sreeramulu who travelled to Hyderabad to celebrate with his “mentor” Janardhan Reddy, languishing in jail overs

The slapping of a protesting teacher by an Akali sarpanch on Sunday in a sangat darshan (Public Interaction) programme of Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal has spiralled into a major controversy in poll-bound Punjab.

Claiming that Group C employees swindle `30,000 crores worth of money meant for poor each year, Team Anna on Monday strongly demanded inclusion of the lower bureaucracy in the ambit of the proposed Lokpal.

Controversial former minister and SP MLA Amarmani Tripathi is back in news again — and also for all the wrong reasons.

They claimed for years that they shared a father-daughter relationship but in the coming UP Assembly elections, they will campaign against each other.
Former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh and former MP chief minister Uma Bharti will now campaign against each other — Ms Bharti for BJP and Mr Singh against BJP.

Conciliation, and not confrontation, appears to be the new mantra of the government. This has become evident from crisis managers deciding to call an all-party meeting on the controversy over FDI in multi-brand retail here on December 7 in a bid to break the logjam in Parliament.

The city government has informed the Delhi high court that it has complied with its order by asking a private school here to rollback the “arbitrary” hike of `400 in tuition fees.

The Delhi high court has stayed construction of residential flats being carried out by two defence organisations in the city’s ecologically sensitive ridge area, taking note that environmental clearance was not acquired before starting the construction.