Politics

The Samajwadi Party chief claimed that both the Congress and the BJP are weakening and are busy on their own fronts

The direction was given after Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal met on Wednesday.

Raj Thackeray noted that Trivedi is just expressing his anger and contempt through his cartoons and that there was no other motive.

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress gave credit to Rahul but did not acknowledge his failures.

The BJP also attacked Jaiswal, citing documents to allege that he had helped the Darda group in coal block allocations.

The Congress rapped the West Bengal government saying it must rather ensure proper law and order situation in the state.

Defence Minister AK Antony is the Cabinet Minister with the lowest assets worth Rs 55 lakh.

Congress leaders as well as the Prime Minister have said Rahul should assume a bigger role but it is upto him to take a call.

Blaming the Congress for not getting the bill cleared, Mayawati said the government did not take it up in the Rajya Sabha.

The BJP said that the Congress should first come out clean in the coal controversy before taking up any other agenda.

Meanwhile, the CBI has issued an official reaction calling Kejriwal's allegations false and baseless.

Mamata urged the doctors to follow proper testing protocol and verification before issuing death certificates.

The government is "losing the communication battle" because its skills do not match up to the proliferation of media, said Khurshid.

Jaiswal's comments come following CBI registered cases against five companies and unknown government officials as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks.

Durai Dayanidhi was the director of one of the eight mining companies named in 17 FIRs in the scam.

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle ahead of the Assembly elections, the Gujarat government on Sunday transferred 32 officers including district collectors.