BJP Monday termed the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to riot-hit Muzaffarnagar as “secular tourism” and insisted that the government take appropriate action instead of doing votebank politics on the issue.

Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday joined the voices within the party who are not in favour of naming Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate ahead of the elections, saying India does not have a presidential system of democracy.

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy admitted for the first time Thursday he made a mistake in trusting a party colleague at the centre of a major corruption scandal but denied any wrongdoing and vowed to stay in power.

Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha Tuesday dubbed Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar as “Prime Ministerial material” and said that he wanted to build bridges between the former partners BJP and the JD(U).

Notwithstanding the hype created by BJP about Narendra Modi, its ally Shiv Sena Friday did not appear to be enthused about projecting him as the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) Prime Ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha polls.

Declaration of Rahul Gandhi as Prime Ministerial candidate cannot be ruled out, Congress hinted on Monday in the backdrop of conflicting statements from party leaders including Digvijay Singh.

The Congress will not declare Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate in the Lok Sabha elections, senior party leader Digvijay Singh hinted on Friday while dismissing suggestions that BJP’s projection of Narendra Modi is a challenge to it.

Qatar’s state minister for internal affairs is tipped to succeed powerful Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani as prime minister in an expected cabinet reshuffle by the new emir, sources said Wednesday.

Law minister Ashwani Kumar today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a day after the Supreme Court pulled up the government on the probe into the coal allocation scam.

Leaders of Left parties today met the Prime Minister and the finance minister and sought a CBI probe into the Ponzi scam in West Bengal and stringent measures to tackle fraudulent money pooling activities.