Netanyahu to Meet McConnell, Reid on Day of Speech to Congress

Last week, 23 House Democrats asked Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, to postpone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint meeting of Congress scheduled for March 3. But it is absolutely clear that the speaker will ...

A senior Democratic senator's complaints today, and noisy protesters, underscored the Obama administration's challenge in seeking congressional approval for enhanced powers to reach trade deals with Japan, India and many other countries.

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has said that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who is presently on a ‘leave’ from the Parliament, is angry from ‘old guards’ within the party line who are blocking his ideas aimed ...

Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti addresses the media at her residence in Srinagar. -AP Omar sets off a buzz: Will NC support PDP? As the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls have thrown up a split mandate, and with the BJP’s buildup in the Jammu ...

February 26, 2005 KATHMANDU : Leaders of five political parties — Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, NC (Democratic), Janamorcha Nepal and Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi Devi) — today formed a joint front. An announcement to this effect was made in ...

The biggest question surrounding President Obama's proposal for Congress to authorize military force against the Islamic State is whether his own party will back him in the fight. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold the ...

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat today lashed out at the BJP and the Congress and projected a joint Left-democratic force as the only alternative at the national level. "There is no qualitative difference between the economic policies pursued by the UPA-II ...

GUWAHATI: Assam's chief Opposition party, the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), has spurned CM and the senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi's overtures for an alignment with it in the next Assembly elections, due in 2016. The CM made a ...

The Congress party on Tuesday challenged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to form a stable government in Jammu and Kashmir. "I do not know whether a stable Government is going to take place, after two months of discussions, now ...