Politics

The Bill aims to prohibit employment of people as manual scavengers by prescribing punishment to those employing such labour.

Sources say Union Ministers P Chidambaram, Kamal Nath forced Kapil Sibal to apologise.

Harsimrat Kaur said the Centre should give compensation to farmers whose crops have been destroyed.

The Centre decided last month to amend the Act to effectively alter the recent Supreme Court ruling on convicted MPs, MLAs.

The Pension Bill allows subscribers to invest in stock market with a cap, it also provides old age income security for government employees.

Jaitley said that the BJP supports food security for all but they are opposed to the way it has been introduced and certain contents of the Bill.

Sonia was taken to the hospital after she fell ill during the debate on the Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha.

A city-based lawyer on Saturday filed a petition in a local court in Indore seeking action against controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu for allegedly making unsavoury remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul.

New Delhi: Leaders and politicians sitting in Parliament and state Assemblies, with a few exceptions, were no less than terrorists while the biggest national parties were being “run by the mafia”, Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal charged on Sunday.

The UP cabinet has decided to pool in 20 per cent resources of all social welfare schemes and use them to benefit the minorities.

New Delhi: Union Minister Anand Sharma on Friday termed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a "national embarrassment".

Advani also got the backing of the Shiv Sena which said that there are other days in the year to comment on the Prime Minister.

Pakistan's National Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution accusing Indian troops of 'unprovoked aggression' on the LoC.

BJP leader Kalraj Mishra on Monday said the government's "uncertain" response to border skirmishes had made Pakistan fearless to carry out more attacks across the LoC. "Repeated ceasefire violations are challenging India's might. The Prime Minister is ign...

"Shame, Shame Shame on You. Shame on You, who are running the government of India," he said.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath says Antony made the remarks on the basis of facts available at that time.