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New Delhi, Aug 4: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the suspension of 25 MPs of the party by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was anti-democratic and described it as murder of democracy. Congress members from both houses, led by Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi wore black bands, and protested at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the parliament complex against the

New Delhi, Aug 4: Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti is in the news again, this time for making controversial remarks on women. Bharti said if the AAP government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is granted control of the Delhi Police, then they would make sure "beautiful women" are able to go out even at midnight. "I am fully confident that if Delhi government

New Delhi, Aug 4: In a bid to end insurgency in the northeastern state of Nagaland, the Government of India on Monday inked a historic peace accord with Naga militant group NSCN(IM). The landmark peace treaty was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official 7, Race Course Road residence. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and government's

New Delhi, Aug 3: Confrontation between government and opposition is set to escalate with Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today suspending 25 Congress members for five days for "persistently, wilfully obstructing" the House". The Speaker 'named' (identifying for action) the 25 Congress members who were carrying placards and shouting slogans in the Well while pressing for resignation of External

New Delhi, Aug 3: Breaking her silence, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said she had not made any request to the British government for issue of travel documents to controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi and asserted that all allegations against her were "baseless and unfounded". Swaraj managed to speak a few sentences in the Rajya Sabha amid slogan-shouting by Congress members

New Delhi, Aug 3: Supreme Court on Monday said that prima facie comdemnation of Justice Markandey Katju by parliament for describing Mahatma Gandhi as a British agent and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as a Japanese agent did not violate his right to free speech and expression or in any way dent his reputation. An apex court bench, headed by Justice T.S. Thakur, while agreeing to further hear the

New Delhi, Aug 3: Hoping to end the deadlock in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for an all-party meeting on Monday after the Congress chose to skip the meet called last week. The BJP and Congress had Sunday launched fresh attacks against each other with union minister Arun Jaitely accusing the Congress of having "obstructionist tendencies" and the main opposition blaming

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 2: A three-year-old baby girl, who was declared brain dead, today became the youngest organ donor in Kerala after her liver, kidneys and cornea were harvested by doctors at a hospital here. The toddler, who was suffering from a disease fainted while playing in front of her house and was rushed to hospital on Friday. Her condition deteriorated and she was declared brain dead

New Delhi, Aug 2: Slamming a "confused and afraid" Congress for disrupting the ongoing monsoon session of parliament, the BJP on Sunday said party president Sonia Gandhi will have to take the blame if the session was washed out. Arguing that the government was willing to hold a debate on issues agitating the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman said the opposition party

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 2: Unfazed by criticism, former union minister Shashi Tharoor today opposed death penalty even for terrorists saying it was an "obsolete practice" and they should instead be put behind bars for the rest of their lives without parole. "Terrorists should be put behind bars throughout their life without parole. In earlier days, there was a belief that if a person murders