New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday accused the UPA government of being "weak and cowardly" over the reported incursion of Chinese troops in Ladakh.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the former defence minister warned that China "is the biggest enemy" of India and that "Pakistan is no threat to India".

He alleged that the Chinese incursion was aimed at annexing Indian territory.

"I have been raising this issue for the past eight years. I had warned that that there will be a repeat of 1962. I even went and met the prime minister, yet there was no response. Now...

New Delhi: Fearing that the truce it struck with the opposition to pass the financial bills Tuesday would collapse, the Congress on Monday was concerned over the fate of the key food security bill and the land takeover bill.

The opposition BJP has been stalling parliament over the contentious coal block allocations and the 2G spectrum scam issues, demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's...

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that they will allow the Finance Bill 2013-14 to be passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, as they did not want a "constitutional crisis" to arise.

"We are a responsible opposition and we do not want a constitutional crisis to arise. So we will let the Finance Bill pass in Lok Sabha tomorrow (Tuesday), though our protest continues," BJP...

Kolkata: On Sunday, West Bengal's opposition CPI-M alleged that a close relative of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has amassed fortunes worth Rs. 300 Crore in only three years and wondered whether he was running a chit fund.

Naming a company purportedly run by the man - who is also a young Trinamool Congress leader, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretariat member...

Bangalore: BJP's star campaigner and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a virulent attack on the Congress, especially on its vice president Rahul Gandhi, who he termed "a child born with a golden spoon", asking people never to vote for the party.

"Even by mistake don't vote for the Congress as it will ruin Karnataka and the country. Say goodbye to the Congress by voting for...

New Delhi: Alleging that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is using Law Minister Ashwani Kumar as a "shield", the BJP on Sunday announced it will hold nationwide demobnstrations from May 4-5 against the UPA government over irregularities in coal blocks and 2G spectrum allocations.

"BJP has decided to take the fight against corruption from parliament to the people of the country. The party will...

Gulbarga: Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and BSP supremo Mayawati was frisked by the officials of Election Commission on Saturday when she arrived by a chartered helicopter to address the rally at Gulbarga.

Mayawati was campaigning here for the May 5 Assembly elections. As soon as she landed by helicopter at a helipad on the outskirts of the taluk headquarters town of Jewargi in...

New York: Azam Khan, a senior leader of the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and also the Urban Development minister of the state on Sunday accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a conspiracy against him.

Khan, who was briefly detained at a US airport on Wednesday, alleged that Khurshid cleverly planned this to defame him outside India.

"It was a conspiracy...

Lucknow: Amid criticism that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav should not have cancelled his lecture at the Harvard Business School to protest "extended frisking" of Urban Development Minister Azam Khan at a Boston airport, his Samajwadi Party (SP)on Saturday said that the stand was "correct, justified and in line with socialist ethos".

In a statement released here, Prisons Minister...

Visakhapatnam: Winding up his nearly seven-month long 'padyatra' (walkathon), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu promised Saturday to bring back Andhra Pradesh on the path of development and restore its glory.

Addressing a mammoth public meeting on Saturday night, Naidu made a slew of promises for all sections of people and assured that if voted to power in the next elections,...