Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday lamented that the Indian economy was growing but not generating jobs for the citizens. We are growing decently as an economy, but we are not creating jobs because those who have skills aren't getting access to finance and support, Gandhi said while interacting with students at Maharani's Arts and Commerce College for Women here. Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to the poll-bound Karnataka's old Mysuru region, was taking questions from the students in the 30-minute long interaction. During several of his earlier speeches, Gandhi had attacked P ... Read More

After the Delhi High Court restored the assembly membership of 20 AAP MLAs who were disqualified for holding offices of profit, the Congress on Friday demanded that ruling party MLAs and 12 MLAs in Manipur should resign on a moral ground for violating constitutional laws. It also alleged that one Congress MLA in Manipur, T.H. Shyamkumar, defected just after the announcement of the result and was appointed a minister in the state cabinet by the BJP. He has not even resigned and is still continuing as a minister in the most blatant act of illegality and sheer political opportunism, it said. ... Read More

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was on Saturday sentenced to 14 years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court in the fourth fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury in the early 1990s, a CBI counsel said. CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh awarded two sentences of seven years each to the former Bihar chief minister under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Acts, he said. Prabhat Kumar, Lalu Prasad's counsel told journalists that he will appeal to a higher court against the judgment. Minutes are the court pronounce ... Read More

The BJP consolidated its position as the largest party in the Rajya Sabha on Friday by winning 28 of the 58 seats in the House that were up for grabs in the biennial elections, widening the gap between it and the Congress. The BJP's performance came amid high drama in Uttar Pradesh where it clinched an extra ninth seat, overcoming the newfound bonhomie between former arch rivals SP and BSP. For the 59 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33 candidates from 10 states were declared elected unopposed on March 15 with the BJP accounting for 16 of them. With these results, the BJP-led NDA no ... Read More

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) consolidated its position as the largest party in the Rajya Sabha with 69 seats, thus widening the gap with Congress, whose seat share has fallen to 50 seats from 54 in the recently concluded elections to the Upper House. Despite a surge in numbers, however, the 126-mark majority continues to elude the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The BJP, which earlier held 54 seats in the Rajya Sabha, has now increased its standing to 69 seats in the House. Among the 58 outgoing parliamentarians, for which the Rajya Sabha polls were held, 17 are from the BJP. ... Read More

Samajwadi Party MLA Nitin Agrawal missed a meeting called by Akhilesh Yadav and instead attended one convened by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to discuss strategy for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. Nitin, an MLA from Hardoi constituency, is the son of former SP leader Naresh Agrawal, who joined the BJP after being denied a ticket to the Upper House by Akhilesh Yadav. At the time of his joining, Naresh Agrawal had said that his son would vote for the BJP candidate in the RS polls. The elections will be held on Friday. The BJP is assured of eight out of 10 seats but it has f ... Read More