Parliament Attack

Rahul Gandhi slams opposition for 'stalling' Food Bill

Press Trust of India | Sunday May 19, 2013

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the opposition parties for stalling the Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the UPA government was determined to enact the legislation for the benefit of people.

With Parliament in deadlock, Sonia Gandhi reaches out to Sushma Swaraj

Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 7, 2013

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been under attack from the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, today reached out to the BJP leader in Parliament and walked with one hand on her shoulder, ostensibly to win support for the passage...

Sarabjit Singh dies: PM to make statement in Parliament

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Thursday May 2, 2013

Sarabjit Singh dies: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a statement in Parliament today on Sarbjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who died early this morning at a Pakistan hospital, six days after being brutally attacked by a group of inmates in jai...

Sarabjit Singh attacked: Send him home for treatment, India appeals to Pakistan

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday April 29, 2013

In a firmly worded statement, India has requested Pakistan to take a "sympathetic and humanitarian view" and release Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national who has been in prison in Pakistan for 23 years. Mr Singh, 49, has been in a coma since Friday whe...

Sarabjit Singh attacked: Release him on humanitarian ground, Government appeals to Pakistan

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday April 29, 2013

India has appealed to Pakistan to take a "sympathetic and humanitarian view" and release Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national who has been in prison in Pakistan for 23 years. Mr Singh, 49, has been in a coma since Friday when he was attacked by other i...

In Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, Asif Ali Zardari attacks Afzal Guru execution

Press Trust of India | Wednesday April 17, 2013

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today raked up the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in his address to the joint session of the legislature of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

Want Supreme Court to spare others this torture: Afzal Guru's family

Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 16, 2013

The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged in February for his role in the attack on parliament in 2001, says it will fight in the Supreme Court to ensure the manner in which his execution was handled is not repeated.

Congress will drop Beni Prasad Verma from Govt: Samajwadi Party sources

Anant Zanane | Saturday March 30, 2013

Samajwadi Party sources say the Congress has assured the party that controversial Union minister Beni Prasad Verma - who has been relentless in his public attacks on the SP and its chief Mulayam Yadav - will be dropped from the Union Cabinet. Accordi...

Anti-rape bill cleared by Lok Sabha, many ministers, MPs missing

Edited by Mala Das | Tuesday March 19, 2013

The Lok Sabha this evening cleared a draft law to punish rape and other sexual crimes against women, introduced in the wake of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a Delhi bus.

CRPF attack case has been cracked, says Jammu and Kashmir police

Press Trust of India | Tuesday March 19, 2013

Police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the suicide attack case on a CRPF camp in Srinagar with the arrest of four persons, including an LeT militant from Pakistan, and recovered huge cache of arms, but said investigations did not prove that the at...

India rejects Pakistan resolution on Afzal Guru

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday March 15, 2013

The Lok Sabha has unanimously adopted a resolution against Pakistan whose parliament last night officially condemned the hanging in Delhi last month of Afzal Guru, who belonged to Kashmir.

Pakistan's Parliament passes resolution against Afzal Guru's hanging

Edited by Shamik Ghosh (With inputs from PTI) | Thursday March 14, 2013

Pakistan's parliament today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family.

BJP to move motion in Parliament today on Italy's refusal to send back marines for trial

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Wednesday March 13, 2013

The Bharatiya Janata Party will attack the government in both houses of Parliament today on Italy's refusal to send back two marines charged with murdering two fishermen off the Kerala coast last year.

Can't give back Afzal Guru's body, his family can come pay respects, says Home Minister

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt (with inputs from agencies) | Monday March 11, 2013

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's body will remain in Delhi's Tihar Jail, where he was hanged and buried last month, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said today.

Poetry in motion? PM targets BJP with Urdu verse, Sushma Swaraj replies with two

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Wednesday March 6, 2013

If an unusually aggressive Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had one Urdu couplet as he attacked the BJP in a long Vote of Thanks to the President's address in Parliament today, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj's succinct reply was in two Urdu verses, ...