Upa Numbers

Leading players in the opposition are working the phones and establishing a connect with a group of political leaders who can swing numbers in case the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) falls short of a majority despite exit polls predictions for the national election results on Thursday.

The questioning of businessman Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in a money laundering case will resume this morning at the Delhi offices of the Enforcement Directorate. The agency alleges that he owns a number of properties in the UK, bought illegally through kickbacks received in India when the UPA government was in pow...

GDP numbers are misleading, RBI's autonomy is in extreme danger and demonetisation is the biggest banking scam, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha claims in his new book.

Congress leader Ashok Chavan Friday refuted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the UPA government built only 25 lakh houses in its last four years, against 1.25 crore houses built by the present NDA government.

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on loans given during the UPA rule, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday asked the NDA government to reveal the number of loans given by it which turned into non-performing assets or NPAs.

The government said on Sunday that the GDP numbers published this week showing that the Indian economy performed better during previous UPA rule are "not official estimates" and that the official data would be released later.

The government will face a no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha on Friday - a first in the last 15 years. While the government has the numbers to sail through, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, when asked about the matter, told NDTV, "Who says we don't have the numbers". The no-confidence notice, moved by the Congress, Telugu Desam Party and Sharad Pawar'...

The 2010 Commonwealth games were a "complete management failure", a parliamentary panel has said as it cited a top officer's contention that it could have created a "national shame". The Public Accounts Committee has faulted the then Congress-led UPA government for taking the games management out of the government machinery leading to a "number of ...

Under fire for issuing 9 ordinances in quick succession, the eight-month-old Narendra Modi government is expected to share some numbers soon to show that previous governments too have chosen to use emergency executive orders liberally.

Taking a swipe at the Congress-led UPA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the earlier governments would keep harping on the number of laws they had come out with, but he has made it his mission to get rid of the "maze" of "useless" ones.

After the Supreme Court knocked the bottom off of the Aadhaar scheme, directing the Centre to withdraw instructions making the card carrying the 12-digit identification number mandatory for availing of the benefits of government-sponsored welfare schemes, questions have been raised about its fate.

The UPA government has decided to invoke the emergency powers of the Constitution for promulgating a number of ordinances ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, due by May.

The 12 days of the winter session of parliament promise some heat, with main opposition party, the BJP making it clear at an all-party meeting on Monday that it will attack the government on a number of issues.

Asking party MPs from Uttar Pradesh to gear up for the next Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi today expressed confidence that Congress would be able to double the number of seats it had won in 2009 general elections in the state.

The Rajya Sabha is all set to vote on the government's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.

Leading players in the opposition are working the phones and establishing a connect with a group of political leaders who can swing numbers in case the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) falls short of a majority despite exit polls predictions for the national election results on Thursday.

The questioning of businessman Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in a money laundering case will resume this morning at the Delhi offices of the Enforcement Directorate. The agency alleges that he owns a number of properties in the UK, bought illegally through kickbacks received in India when the UPA government was in pow...

GDP numbers are misleading, RBI's autonomy is in extreme danger and demonetisation is the biggest banking scam, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha claims in his new book.

Congress leader Ashok Chavan Friday refuted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that the UPA government built only 25 lakh houses in its last four years, against 1.25 crore houses built by the present NDA government.

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on loans given during the UPA rule, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday asked the NDA government to reveal the number of loans given by it which turned into non-performing assets or NPAs.

The government said on Sunday that the GDP numbers published this week showing that the Indian economy performed better during previous UPA rule are "not official estimates" and that the official data would be released later.

The government will face a no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha on Friday - a first in the last 15 years. While the government has the numbers to sail through, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, when asked about the matter, told NDTV, "Who says we don't have the numbers". The no-confidence notice, moved by the Congress, Telugu Desam Party and Sharad Pawar'...

The 2010 Commonwealth games were a "complete management failure", a parliamentary panel has said as it cited a top officer's contention that it could have created a "national shame". The Public Accounts Committee has faulted the then Congress-led UPA government for taking the games management out of the government machinery leading to a "number of ...

Under fire for issuing 9 ordinances in quick succession, the eight-month-old Narendra Modi government is expected to share some numbers soon to show that previous governments too have chosen to use emergency executive orders liberally.

Taking a swipe at the Congress-led UPA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the earlier governments would keep harping on the number of laws they had come out with, but he has made it his mission to get rid of the "maze" of "useless" ones.

After the Supreme Court knocked the bottom off of the Aadhaar scheme, directing the Centre to withdraw instructions making the card carrying the 12-digit identification number mandatory for availing of the benefits of government-sponsored welfare schemes, questions have been raised about its fate.

The UPA government has decided to invoke the emergency powers of the Constitution for promulgating a number of ordinances ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, due by May.

The 12 days of the winter session of parliament promise some heat, with main opposition party, the BJP making it clear at an all-party meeting on Monday that it will attack the government on a number of issues.

Asking party MPs from Uttar Pradesh to gear up for the next Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi today expressed confidence that Congress would be able to double the number of seats it had won in 2009 general elections in the state.

The Rajya Sabha is all set to vote on the government's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.