Upa Ally Trouble

Will it be Pranab Mukherjee after all? Sources say the Congress is still undecided on whether it should send its chief trouble shooter, Finance Minister and Leader in the Lok Sabha to the Rashtraptai Bhawan next month. It is a dilemma that seemed unsolved when a meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and important UPA ally Mamata Banerjee ...

The Congress' highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC) is meeting today to discuss the economic and political crises that the UPA government finds itself mired in. Here are the highlights of what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the meeting:

In her address to the Congress party's highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC), Mrs Gandhi took on Team Anna, which has recently and aggressively targeted the Prime Minister for allegedly allowing a massive swindle in the allocation of coal fields to private companies. She said the attack on the Prime Minister and the government i...

Silence can be eloquent. But the Supreme Court, it appears, would have none of it from the Centre over the contentious Sethusamudram Shipping Project. The Additional Solicitor General has been given three weeks to spell out the Centre's stand on declaring the Ram Sethu a national monument. Having inaugurated this pet project of its ally in Tamil Na...

The Rs 3 hike in petrol that kicked in at midnight provoked political and public outrage today. An immediate consequence was that the government deferred indefinitely a meeting of ministers that was to consider making cooking gas more expensive for the average household.

Will it be Pranab Mukherjee after all? Sources say the Congress is still undecided on whether it should send its chief trouble shooter, Finance Minister and Leader in the Lok Sabha to the Rashtraptai Bhawan next month. It is a dilemma that seemed unsolved when a meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and important UPA ally Mamata Banerjee ...

The Congress' highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC) is meeting today to discuss the economic and political crises that the UPA government finds itself mired in. Here are the highlights of what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the meeting:

In her address to the Congress party's highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC), Mrs Gandhi took on Team Anna, which has recently and aggressively targeted the Prime Minister for allegedly allowing a massive swindle in the allocation of coal fields to private companies. She said the attack on the Prime Minister and the government i...

Silence can be eloquent. But the Supreme Court, it appears, would have none of it from the Centre over the contentious Sethusamudram Shipping Project. The Additional Solicitor General has been given three weeks to spell out the Centre's stand on declaring the Ram Sethu a national monument. Having inaugurated this pet project of its ally in Tamil Na...

The Rs 3 hike in petrol that kicked in at midnight provoked political and public outrage today. An immediate consequence was that the government deferred indefinitely a meeting of ministers that was to consider making cooking gas more expensive for the average household.