Playing the alliance game

About 150 protesters from CPM and SFI ambushed Mamata Banerjee and other Bengal ministers when they arrived at Yojana Bhavan in Delhi.

CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury tells Rakhi Chakrabarty what went wrong outside Yojana Bhavan when West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee was heckled and her state finance minister was manhandled by cadres of Left parties.

New Delhi, April 10: An upset West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today described Tuesday’s assault on her Finance Minister Asim Mitra outside the Yojana Bhavan gates as “premeditated” and blamed security personnel posted at the gate.

New Delhi, Apr 9: There were fireworks outside the normally cool environs of Delhi's Yojana Bhavan this afternoon, when some activists of CPI-M's student wing Students Federation of India pushed and jostled West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra ...

Culture Minister Laxmikant Sharma felicitated Urdu litterateurs at Mulla Ramoozi Sanskriti Bhavan here on Wednesday. It is for the first time in Madhya Pradesh that so many Urdu litterateurs of Bhopal and State were honoured at a single ceremony. ...

If the man on the other side of the table was not named Narendra Modi, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia might have been one of his chief advocates. Both men believe in cutting red tape, industry-friendly reforms and a ...

On his first visit to the national capital after being appointed chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) poll panel, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tried to please party elders, including patriarch L K Advani. He also held a meeting with ...

Mallikarjun Kharge has become the seventh leader from Karnataka to head the Railway Ministry, an important portfolio, since independence. The 71-year-old Congress leader who missed out in the chief ministerial race in Karnataka last month has been compensated ...

HAS the Planning Commission of India adopted political favouritism as its new yardstick for deciding on the plan size for different states? This question is sure to arise if one takes a look at the annual plan size of Tripura vis-à-vis the ...