The Pain In The Gain

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday sat on a day-long fast in Satara district to express regret for the remarks he made against drought and load shedding. Ajit, accompanied by a handful of local leaders, sat in front of the ...

A legislator can invoke privileges only if prevented from performing his obligations as an elected representative. Breaking speed limits on a sea link or brandishing a weapon against a business rival is not one among such obligations, says Mahesh Vijapurkar. Ganpatrao Deshmukh, is a veteran opposition leader in the Maharashtra assembly, there since 1962 but for a gap between 1995 and 1999. He is most respected among his peers in politics. He was appalled when some members performed a maha arati ...

Parliament today passed the anti-rape bill providing natural life term or even death for repeat offenders of rape, with Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde stating the "law will impact the society for years to come". Terming it as a "unique law", he ...

DMK today demanded use of regional languages at the Centre for official purpose to maintain unity in diversity and warned against "imposing" any language on any state. Moving a private member's bill in the Rajya Sabha to amend the Official Languages Act, ...

Outraged over the alleged rape and murder of three Dalit minor girls, all below 11 years, in Maharashtra's Bhandara district, members in Rajya Sabha today sought Centre's intervention to bring the perpetrators of heinous crime to book and a CBI probe into the ...