New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet top BJP leaders over dinner on Thursday in a bid to narrow down differences with principal opposition party over contentious issues including FDI in multi-brand retail during the winter session of parliament.

Manmohan Singh has invited BJP Parliamentary Party chief LK Advani, Lok Sabha opposition leader Sushma Swaraj and Rajya Sabha opposition leader Arun Jaitley to the dinner.

The Prime Minister returned to the country on Tuesday night after a two-day visit to Cambodia for the Asean Summit.

The dinner meeting, rescheduled from last...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari raised his voice on Wednesday, against those who are consistently criticising him over the allegations of his involvement in financial dealing of a company and asking him to resign from his post, saying that he is ready to face any probe into the matter.

Addressing a BJP protest rally at Jantar Mantar here ahead of the winter...

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal was expanded on Wednesday with the inclusion of eight new ministers, including two who quit the Congress recently.

Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury and Humayun Kabir, both of whom resigned as legislators on Tuesday, were drafted into the Trinamool Congress ministry, in what is being seen as Banerjee's efforts to weaken her former alliance partner...

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday demanded that Afzal Guru, convicted in the December 2001 parliament attack case, should be hanged next.

Asking the government to expedite the whole process of mercy petitions, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded action against Afzal Guru, who masterminded the attack on Parliament House over a decade ago.

"The Supreme Court...

New Delhi: The hanging of Ajmal Amir Kasab was a case of "better late than never", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Wednesday after the 26/11 Pakistani terrorist was executed in Pune's Yerawada jail.

"It took us four years to finally hang him...Better late than never," said BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Asking the government to "expedite the whole process of mercy...

New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) talked about its intentions on no-trust motion in the winter session of Parliament, regarding the policy on Foreign Direct Investment in retail, against the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and said that they will take their decision on the matter after consulting with other political parties.

At a meeting of the National Democratic...

Chandigarh: Leading industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal's private helicopter made an emergency landing at the Chandigarh airport on Monday evening following a technical snag.

The helicopter landed safely at the airport, which is a defence-cum-commercial facility, but flights to the city were affected following the incident, airport officials said.
Jindal later tweeted: "I wanted to...

New Delhi: The Congress party has turned down the demand of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) for a vote on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The party firmly said on Monday that they are not afraid of the threat of Trinamool Congress and ready to tackle with no-confidence motion.

"We are ready to debate the FDI issue in parliament but without a vote. We are ready for a no-confidence...

Mumbai: The last journey of Bal Thackeray began on Sunday in the presence of thousands of people. The Shiv Sena supremo passed away on Saturday after prolong illness.

According to sources, wrapped in the tricolor, Thackeray's body was taken out of his residence Matoshree in a hearse adorned with flowers.

Reports say that funeral procession was delayed as roads around Matoshree were jam...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will host a dinner on Saturday for the BJP top brass ahead of the parliament's winter session starting on November 22.

Besides BJP veteran LK Advani, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley are expected to attend the dinner.

The move is being seen in political circles as an attempt to...