Politics

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said the concept that women were inferior to men was repugnant to Indian philosophy.

The leader said that a man can land in trouble by looking at or pointing fingers at a woman.

Tharoor had been invited for the programme but when he reached the stadium , members of BJP's women's wing forced him to leave the place.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta blamed the telecast of women as objects and cited the example of IPL cheerleaders.

The government wants parliament to pass a bill aimed at speeding up dozens of major projects throttled by India's notoriously slow land acquisition.

Switzerland-based Swiss Timing Ltd has been put on trial for allegedly conspiring and cheating the exchequer in a CWG scam case.

The single bench of Justice RR Prasad acquitted Koda due to lack of evidence submitted by the Vigilance Bureau.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had promised stringent action against defaulters.

But the last few months have shown that the crime rate is spiraling upwards and Akhilesh is just offering empty promises on the law and order front.

State-owned oil companies had on March 1 announced a Rs 1.40 per litre increase in petrol price.

Narendra Modi said the country would've been less destroyed had Pranab Mukherjee been the PM instead of Manmohan Singh.

The House also mourned the loss of lives in a major fire that broke out in a market in Kolkata on Wednesday.

However, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh alleged that the verdict was "manipulated and manufactured" by the Akalis.

The Congress increased its tally from the 2008 Assembly election when it had bagged 25 seats.

Chidambaram did a tight rope walk balancing growth needs with fiscal prudence, stepped up expenditure in social sectors and cut subsidies.

Prohibitory orders have been imposed within 100 meter of each counting hall and the entire counting process will be done under CCTV surveillance.