Jammu: Amid speculation that Atal Bihari Vajpayee may be bestowed with Bharat Ratna, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the UPA government should have conferred the country's highest civilian honour on the

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani has backed awarding the Bharat Ratna to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and said he regarded it as "significant" that the Narendra Modi government has decided to

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L K Advani today did not rule out return of an era of coalition politics in India, saying this was possibile in a country as "diverse and variegated" as it.Advani

Chennai: Slamming the Centre for its proposal to hold various events on December 25 as a part of 'Good Governance Day', DMK today called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to ensure that NDA should

New Delhi: Congress has moved a notice for privilege motion against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu, alleging that he misled Lok Sabha over HRD ministry's circulars on celebrating Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday on Christmas as

New Delhi: Lok Sabha today witnessed uproar over the reported move to keep schools open on Christmas with several opposition parties accusing government of “misleading” the House and implementing Sangh Parivar agenda, evoking a sharp

New Delhi: As controversies involving partymen galore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked BJP MPs not to divert from the government's agenda of development and good governance and desist from providing the opposition an opportunity

New Delhi: Amid a row over HRD ministry's alleged move to keep schools "open" on Christmas day, government Tuesday asserted that it had no such intention whatsoever.K C Venugopal (Cong) flaunted "circulars" in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: A determined Opposition led by Congress and SP today forced two adjournments in Rajya Sabha in the pre-noon session over its demand for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reply on the issue of forced

New Delhi: Speculation is rife that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may be named for the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna on his 90th birthday on December 25.Sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi

New Delhi: On February 19, 1981, when the late M G Ramachandran was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, the nation woke up to a news item which said nearly 800 Dalit Hindus in the

New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Vivek Srivastava was Wednesday appointed as Inspector General in the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) which guards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other VVIPs, including the Gandhi family.Srivastava, a 1989-batch

New Delhi: With the NDA government in power at the Centre, public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has found a unique way to celebrate the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.The broadcaster has

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is contemplating to confer the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.According to sources, a formal announcement in this regard is expected to

Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Office was not taken into confidence over the drafting of the 2004 joint Indo-Pak statement in which then former military ruler Pervez Musharraf assured Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the country's

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah today held a meeting with chief ministers of all BJP-ruled states and pitched for coordination between the organisation and the governments in those states so that fruits of schemes

Srinagar: Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was following the path of “humanity” shown by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Jammu and Kashmir, citing example of Budgam

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday on December 25 would be observed as national ‘Good Governance Day', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.Modi was addressing party MPs at the meeting of the

Patna/Chapra/Hajipur: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today took potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “failing” to respect good work done by senior party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee by not inaugurating the NTPC unit at

Bettiah: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today took a dig at BJP's appointment of eight ministers at the Centre.“Majority of them have been made Ministers of State and everybody knows a MOS gets work only