Varun Gandhi skips Uttar Pradesh BJP MPs' meet with Amit Shah, war of words eruptsIn 2013, the then party president had appointed Varun Gandhi as one of the national general secretaries, making him the youngest person to ...
14 Jun, 2016, 10.03 PM IST
Murali Manohar Joshi not invited at BJP National Executive meetSome party workers have put up posters expressing their protest against what they see as an insult of a senior leader.
12 Jun, 2016, 03.57 PM IST
Pictorial warnings: Parliament panel wants size to be reduced to 50% of pack sizeA parliamentary panel termed as "too harsh" the government's proposed 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products and recommended a ...
15 Mar, 2016, 06.13 PM IST
Tobacco warnings: Bidi baron Shyama Charan Gupta renominated to parliamentary panelBidi baron Shyama Charan Gupta has been nominated to the reconstituted panel looking into the issue of increasing size of pictorial warning...
07 Sep, 2015, 10.26 PM IST
Government directs large steel cos to step up R&D investment to 1 pct of salesThe government wants to enhance corporate spends on research and development of new steel products that are import substitutes.
07 Jul, 2015, 05.31 PM IST
Increased pictorial warning on tobacco products: NGOs ask for a dateImplementation of 85 per cent size for tobacco package warnings would place India in a position of international leadership.
01 May, 2015, 05.13 PM IST
MPs having conflict of interest should declare it, says Venkaiah Naidu"Anybody who has got a conflict of interest, as per the rule of Parliament you are supposed to declare the conflict of interest, if any" he...
06 Apr, 2015, 03.18 PM IST
Smoking row: Another BJP MP says no link of smoking and cancer"Whether cigarette smoking causes cancer or not, there is no full proof till now," Ram Prasad Sarmah, BJP MP from Tezpur, Assam said in Bis...
03 Apr, 2015, 04.02 PM IST
Tobacco row: PMK asks PM Narendra Modi to interveneThe Health Ministry has put in abeyance the move to increase pictorial warning in tobacco products to 85 per cent effective April 1.
03 Apr, 2015, 03.34 PM IST
HC lawyers' strike continues, delegation to meet Law minister Sadananda GowdaThe agitating legal practitioners were told "The Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda will be meeting the delegation tomorrow morning.
16 Dec, 2014, 04.45 PM IST
Youths claiming to be Varun's supporters protest outside BJP MP's houseThe protesters, who were carrying the party flag, termed Gupta as an "outsider" alluding to his long association with Samajwadi Party.
22 Sep, 2014, 06.34 PM IST
MPs want poll expense limit hike, but 'spend much less'The expenditure limits for each LS constituency were raised this year to Rs 70 lakh for bigger states and Rs. 54 lakh for smaller states.
02 Aug, 2014, 11.21 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Congress candidate from Allahabad issued show cause noticeThe notice was issued by the district administration to Nandi yesterday, wherein he has been asked to file his reply within two days, offic...
11 Apr, 2014, 05.16 PM IST
Many corporate honchos lag behind 'netas' in assetsNilekani, former chief of Infosys, figures among the richest in fray for 16th Lok Sabha elections with declaration of Rs 7,700 crore assets.
10 Apr, 2014, 12.28 PM IST
Keen contest on cards as BJP, BSP take on SP for historic seatWith its aim set on outsmarting both SP and BSP, BJP has sprung a surprise by fielding a former SP leader and businessman as its contestant...
25 Mar, 2014, 12.30 PM IST
SP MP from Banda RK Singh Patel joins BSP, to contest LS pollsSitting Samajwadi Party MP from Banda constituency RK Singh Patel today joined BSP, which has declared him the party's candidate from the s...
15 Oct, 2013, 06.59 PM IST
Whopping 103 candidates have criminal cases against themAs many as 103 candidates contesting 4th phase of UP polls have criminal cases pending against them, according to a monitoring group.
10 Feb, 2012, 05.14 PM IST