Managing coalitions is not easy: PM Singh

After quitting the United Progressive Alliance coalition on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam on Monday demanded that India should boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting scheduled to be held in Colombo in November. "While the Commonwealth secretariat should not convene the meeting at Colombo, but if it happens, India should boycott the meeting in order to reflect the sentiments of the Tamils the world over and to keep up the democratic spirits," the DMK ...

Key United Progressive Alliance ally Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said the Centre's ruling coalition had become "vulnerable" after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s pullout and that elections were round the corner. The Union agriculture minister also said that since Congress was the majority party in the UPA, his party would respect its view on the alliance's prime ministerial candidate. "UPA's position has become vulnerable after DMK's pullout. We have to ...

New Delhi, Mar 25 : With the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) now dependent on his support more after the DMK pulled out over Sri Lanka issue, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav holds the key to the survival of UPA now, but the Uttar Pradesh strongman ...

United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday dismissed reports of differences with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asserting, "We all stand by him". "There are no differences between the prime minister and me. There is collective leadership," Gandhi told reporters at a function held to celebrate four years of the UPA-II government.  Gandhi said Dr Singh has been facing “unrelenting attack and abuse" from the opposition and expressed her firm support to him. "The ...

Zee Media Bureau New Delhi: As the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government celebrated fourth anniversary of its second avatar, the BJP on Wednesday hit out at the coalition dubbing it a failure. Speaking at a press briefing in the national ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday sought to paint a dismal picture of United Progressive Alliance-II holding it responsible for the economic gloom and failure to give the country leadership while accusing it of diminishing the role of the prime minister. On the fourth anniversary of the UPA-II, BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley said they would limit their critique to the second innings of the Congress-led coalition which has witnessed "mindboggling" scams that hit the common man ...

Instead of kudos, a survey revealed that urban India is ready with brickbats for the United Progressive Alliance as it found the government to be timid and short of political maturity.Troubled in power. PTI Troubled in power. PTI According to a ...

NEW DELHI On the eve of the fourth anniversary of United Progressive Alliance-II, (UPA) opinion polls have not brought any cheer to the government, predicting slide in the ruling alliances tally amid rising dissatisfaction among large sections of ...

What didn't shine for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2004 may still help construct a third United Progressive Alliance (UPA) victory in 2014. That's what the ruling Congress-led coalition believes anyway.Nine years after the saffron ...