Congress forms larger CEC with 16 members ahead of key assembly pollsThe CEC, theoretically, clears the final list of the Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha and assembly elections though in reality the sel...
TS Singh Deo appointed Chhattisgarh deputy CMDespite these run-ins the tussle in Chhattisgarh had never reached the same scale as the face-off in Rajasthan state unit. Even then it was...
P Chidambaram suffered rib injury after Delhi police manhandling: CongressThe Congress party organised a ‘Satyagrah’ march against the government and in support of Gandhi across the country in which many party lea...
Bhupesh Baghel meets Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, says ex-Congress chief will visit Chhattisgarh on his inviteThis is the Chhattisgarh chief minister's second meeting with Gandhi this week, as the two had met earlier on Tuesday. Gandhi had also sepa...
Kerala to Kashmir: Fire of discontent rages in CongressDespite this ‘you-nominate-I-support’ leadership arrangement, raging factional fights playing out in Congress units are live demonstrations...
YSRC MPs ask Speaker to accept their resignations without delayThis comes at a time when the Speaker has called the MPs for a meeting on May 29 to ascertain whether they acted under emotional or politic...
Kishore Deo's call for shifting East Coast Railway headquarters draws BJD furyThe one-hour symbolic dharna called by the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) continued on Friday at railway stations across Odisha.
Tribal funds diverted, most ministries guilty: shows RTI filed by ETDepartment of school education and literacy under the ministry revealed in its response that it had allocated 55% of the total TSP in unive...
Naxalism in Chhattisgarh is a fallout of Salwa Judum: KC Deo, Tribal Affairs MinisterWhat you have seen in Bastar over the last two weeks - starting with Sarkeguda and then this massacre - is nothing but chain reaction to Sa...
Salwa Judum was a 'sinful strategy': KC Deo, Tribal affairs ministerAsked whether Salwa Judum was a faulty or a failed strategy, he remarked it was a "sinful" strategy.
KC Deo gets it right and also very wrong on left-wing extremismThe challenge is to organise and empower the tribal people to secure the compensation that is theirs, make good use of the money and acquir...
Tribal Minister KC Deo says ill-treated tribals playing into Maoists' handsCalling for an investigation into the corporate-Maoist nexus, Deo urged ban on private sector mining in scheduled tribal lands.
- Tribal Affairs ministry, MoEF seek more time on diversion of forest land
The recommendations for all practical purposes allow the forest clearance process to bypass the gram sabhas, or village assemblies.
- Diversion of forest land for industrial use may delay as environment ministry seeks time for consultations
A Panel had decided to dilute the requirement of taking consent from the affected tribal population before diverting forest land.
With Pranab Mukherjee set to become President, Congress is short of a clever managerMost insiders believe that without Pranab Mukherjee as chief troubleshooter, things are going to be tough in the run-up to the crucial 2014...
- Cash for vote scam: Suhail Hindustani tried to sell MPs, says Delhi Police
A parliamentary probe headed by Congress leader KC Deo concluded in 2009 that there was no evidence of bribery.
- BJP tried to sell MPs & entrap Cong: Report
A report in a news magazine on the TV sting operation in 2008 came in handy for Congress to drive home its point that it was “orchestrated”...