Politics

In a meeting with Shinde, Dikshit also urged him to fill the vacant posts at senior level at the earliest.

The tariff was hiked by up to two per cent in May 2012 and again by 26 per cent for domestic consumers in July 2012.

The Standing Committee on Coal and Steel is chaired by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Bannerjee.

Lok Sabha, which did not transact any business during the last two working days was also adjourned for the day on Thursday.

BJP members shouted slogans demanding resignation of the PM while Left members held banners on the multi-crore chit fund fraud in West Bengal.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said that a probe will be ordered into the allegations.

The Parliament panel also says that all coal mine allocations where production is yet to be begin, should be cancelled.

Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra were heckled outside the Planning Commission office in Delhi on April 9.

Rubabuddin has also asked the CBI to investigate the manner in which Sohrabuddin's wife Kausar Bi was killed.

The Chief Minister's blood pressure and pulse rate were normal, but the pain in the waist and heel had not fully subsided.

Jaitley said Raja's correspondence with the PM made it clear that Singh and Chidambaram were fully in the loop of what he was doing.

The Congress is banking on Karnataka to reverse its fortune in larger states, as it has lost in bigger states like Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat recently.

It is a strange situation that all the NDA allies are singing different tunes, says Manish Tewari.

Rahul Gandhi rued that in many states it is a selected few who decide on distribution of tickets.

The Congress has been out of power for the past 7 years. Even though it lost the 2004 polls, it retained power in alliance with the JDS until January 2006.

Arif Khan was arrested after his anticipatory bail was rejected by the Sessions Court.