Kerala Assembly ruckus: Governor to submit report to President
Expressing the necessity of taking appropriate action against legislators responsible for unruly behaviour in the Kerala Assembly on Friday, Governor P Sathasivam on Saturday said the ���happenings��� would be reported to President Pranab Mukherjee.
Youth arrested for morphing Muslim leader photo in Aamir Khans PK poster
He he was charged under section 66 A of the IT Act. In the film poster, Khan is seen standing on the railway track holding a radio. In the morphed picture, Kerala minister was seen holding an ice cream cup. Yahiya had uploaded the morphed image in the .
CPI(M) veteran Achuthanandan undecided on contesting elections in 2016
But the party was forced to change its stand considering the mass support he enjoyed. During the electioneering in. Gandhi then stated, If LDF is re-elected, Kerala would have a 93-year-old as the chief minister in next five years time.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.03.11
The crux of his argument was essentially this: In Libya, the people had bravely risen against their long-time autocratic ruler but the latter resorted to horrifically violent means to subdue the popular uprising.. The final passage of the Bill in the Upper House which was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha evoked unanimous and overwhelming support, cutting across party lines... Five factors suggest that Japan faces a uniquely difficult and uncertain set of challenges.
Gujarati couple trampled to death by wild elephant in Kerala
A couple from Gujarat were trampled to death by an wild elephant when they were trekking a forest path in Central Keralas Pathanamthitta district. Police said the incident was reported at a remote forest region Gavi. The victims were identified as.
Kerala Budget aftermath: Congress leader in soup for sexist remarks
It seems the controversies surrounding the Kerala Budget will never end. On Friday, senior Congress leader and Kozhikode DCC president K C Abu stirred a hornets nest by suggesting that MLA E S Bijimoll enjoyed the moments when she was stopped in the .
Beedi tycoon held for ramming guard with his Hummer car
���We are planning to slap on him various provisions under Kerala Anti-Social Activities Prevention Act (KAAPA), police said. Normally, the KAAPA is slapped on anti-social elements and members of supari gangs. Nisham had ran into several controversies.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.06.11
The other two reasons why the Government would like to delay the Monsoon session are: It wants some sort of a draft Lok Pal Bill in place to be tabled in Parliament and, second, it wishes to push through a flawed Food Security Bill. While the ploy may fetch the Congress support from parties that are becoming increasingly irrelevant in todays India, it will not help it gloss over its many sins of omission and commission: The people will still demand for the guilty to be��.
Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time: PRANAB.
Service sector tax retained at 10 percent to aid the introduction of GST; more services to be taxed... RBI will given additional licences for setting up banks in the country, he said presenting the budget for 2010-11 in the Lok Sabha. He said.. Therefore, this Budget has a continuity and it had a vision because I believe that time has come when India not only think big but act big and if we can improve our delivery mechanism, if we can bring a better performance in our��.
Commercial mining of coal to be allowed
However, a lot will depend on the fate of the ordinance in the Rajya Sabha, which has referred it to a select committee.. The coal ordinance has inserted section 3A in the Coal Mines Nationalisation Act to enable joint ventures by central and state.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.05.10
THE TIMES OF INDIA. THERES NO SURVIVING PICASSO; TERMS OF NUCLEAR ENGAGEMENT - ANIL KAKODKA; 3-D IS THE WAY FORWARD; JUST A PASSING FAD - AMRITH LAL; REASONS FOR THE LEFTS ATROPHY - DILEEP PADGAONKA.. There are instances of the Congress sacrificing its demands to preserve the Mahajot not only in the Assembly by-elections but also during the Lok Sabha elections when we were virtually restricted to north Bengal.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 17.03.11
ITS BACK TO DIRTY TRICKS. CONGRESS OUT TO HARASS NARENDRA MODI. The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Mr Hamid Ansari, may feel compelled to rise to the defence of the Government, but there is no such compulsion for the Opposition... While one can understand Indian taxpayers footing the bill for abandoned workers stranded in the Gulf, it is ridiculous to expect them to pay for the repatriation of tourists or professionals who seek employment abroad.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 15.12.10
After its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, a fierce blame game was on, dissidence had touched an all-time high and a clear roadmap for the future seemed like a distant dream. At that stage, a state unit. In Andhra Pradesh, the fate of the Congress is uncertain. Also, the emergence of.. But unless India gets its act together, the scales will tilt heavier on the Chinese side: we import $3 dollars worth of goods for every dollars worth we send across the wall. The Chinese��.
Former Kerala Chief Secretary says CM should have been more stringent on.
He said the Union government had given sanction to prosecute Thachankary who has faced vigilance probes in corruption cases. As the chairman of the promotion committee, Bhooshan said he was against promoting Thachankary. But the Chief Minister did .
GST Bill introduced in Lok Sabha, but its fate remains uncertain
The bill on GST, which will be the biggest tax reform after 1947, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December last year. A single rate of GST will replace central excise, state VAT, entertainment tax, octroi, entry tax, luxury tax and purchase tax on.
Bedlam in Kerala Assembly as Finance Minister KM Mani presents Budget
Amidst unprecedented protest within and outside Kerala Assembly, Finance Minister K M Mani tabled the budget for the next fiscal. The CPI (M)-led Opposition had threatened that Mani, who is facing bribery charges in the bar licence scandal, would not.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 13.04.11
It remains to be seen whether its a victory or not, but it is certainly something more than winning the World Cup (although the fireworks and Sonia-dance were missing this time). You may call it, as Malcom Gladwell wrote.. With such poor showings, it is hardly astonishing that the Parliament has yet to pass the Womens Reservation Bill, which proposes to reserve 33% of all seats in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas for women. Tamil Nadu also has the distinction of��.
Full text: Finance Minister Arun Jaitleys maiden Budget.
However, the performance of the US economy with attendant implication for the unconventional monetary policy stance and global financial conditions is pivotal to the fate of global recovery in the coming years.. GST. 9. The debate whether to introduce a Goods and Services Tax (GST) must now come to an end. We have discussed the issue for the past many years. Some States have been apprehensive about surrendering their taxation jurisdiction; others want to��.
Rajya Sabha logjam derails Narendra Modis economic agenda
New Delhi: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modis popularity has helped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) push forward its political agenda, the fate of its economic agenda remains uncertain with the opposition stalling some key legislation in the just.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.05.10
Those who justify crimes such as honour killings in order to enforce their writ under the guise of safeguarding our social fabric have no place in 21st century India. There is absolutely nothing pious about their.. The apparent urgency in having these bills introduced in the Lok Sabha on February 24, 2009 and passed the next day petered out into nothingness: the bills were not even introduced in the Rajya Sabha. Understandably, members of the lobby that wants��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.04.11
For quite some time now, India has been working with Nepal to provide financial assistance and make other investments that would, for example, help build infrastructure in the conflict-ridden state but the Maoists have twisted our. The farce vis-��-vis the Lok Pal Bill began after Mrs Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister when her Government introduced it in the Lok Sabha in 1968, knowing fully well that the Bill would lapse if the Lower House was dissolved prior to its��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.08.10
That violence should have erupted in those areas where the National Conference performed the best in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections tells its own story of political disengagement. Toning... Though passed by both Houses of the State legislature, the fate of the Bill is now dependent on Ms Pratibha Patils response, which is presumably shaped by her erstwhile partys stance on the issue. And that.. The future is uncertain if things are not handled politically.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 02.08.10
At another level, the Government would do well to consider whether its such a good idea to meet Chinas increasing demand for iron ore through Indian supplies. Strategically.. He admitted that his party was low in strength ��� just four MPs in the Lok Sabha ��� but he said his voice was strong enough to make these four MPs count for a lot more... Now that the uncertainty about likely monetary steps is over, it is perhaps time to ponder over some more basic issues.
Pillai threatens to expose corruption in government, dares Congress to show.
Reacting to the demand that Pillai should be removed from the UDF, its convener P P Thankachan said the co-ordination committee of the UDF would meet on January 28 to discuss the issue. ���Only Kerala Congress (M) has raised such a demand,��� he said.
Caste census,OBC Headcount Put on Hold as RSS Wins the.
Monocolumn: Caste ��� Gone But Not Forgotten ? PSFK - 23 hours ago. As census counting gets under way, the divisive issue of caste has again been thrust into Indias political cauldron. For the first time in 80 years,. Indias Nirupama.. May 26 07:20 PM. On Board Air India One, May 26 (ANI): Despite the deadlock in the Lok Sabha over the passage of the Womens Reservation Bill, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has said that she is hopeful about its passage.
Phillip Hughes death brings old cricketing foes India and Australia closer
A large slice of the Indian media hold Australias cricketers responsible for the start of bad blood during that series but there was hardly a murmur on how the cancelled practice match will hurt the preparations of the notoriously poor travellers this.
VS Achuthanandan walks out of CPM state meet
As Achuthanandans sympathisers thronged his house to pledge their support, the leadership indicated that the central committee and the politburo would look into issues raised by him. The days development showed how Achuthanandan was banking on the .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.0710
Mr Alis reference to 9/11 and its impact on India is well taken, but his cunning silence on Mumbais searing 26/11 experience with the Pakistan-incubated terror attack and the national trauma, coupled with similar lack of.. In recommending the withdrawal of The National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha on May 4, the parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture has given well-reasoned arguments.
Corporate Friendly? Damn Right It Is
This removes any ambiguity or uncertainty regarding when GST will become effective and will remove uncertainties on tax rates. The clarity that the Direct Tax Code will not be brought in and the Income Tax Act will remain the parent legislation should.
FM hopeful of getting financial sector bills passed soon!
Indian inflation is expected to remain high until end-December and is impacting private investment, while lingering concerns over the euro zone sovereign debt woes are clouding the outlook for its exports, the finance minister said on Wednesday... The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2007: This was passed by the Lok Sabha in February 2009 but the bill lapsed with the dissolution of the 14th Lok Sabha in the run-up to the formation of the new government.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.12.09
In other words, the person representing a constituency at any level of governance ��� from a village panchayat to the Lok Sabha ��� is actually endorsed by 12 to 14 per cent of the voters... Provisions Bill would have encouraged smaller enterprises to hire more workers and file their compliance reports electronically. This wasnt introduced either. The Bill to strengthen the forward markets regulator and the two Bills related to insurance shared the same fate. The new��.
Fate of GST Bill uncertain
Among the bills likely to be introduced include the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Bill, the Bio-Medical and Research (Regulation) Bill, the School of Planning and Architecture Bill.. This change can be seen in light of the performance of the.