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Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck shakes hands with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi ahead of a meeting in yesterday India and Bhutan yesterday signed a dozen agreements on hydropower, civil aviation, health and IT after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

BJP today refuted BSP's accusation that the impeachment demand against Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran was victimisation of a Dalit, saying judicial misconduct was a "caste-neutral issue". "Judicial misconduct is a caste-neutral issue.

New Delhi, Dec 21 : Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari has condoled the death of Suryakantbhai Acharya, Member of Parliament, who passed away on Monday.

Beleaguered Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran has claimed that allegations of land grab and abuse of judicial office were levelled against him to stall his elevation to the Supreme Court.

President Pratibha Patil turned 75 today and celebrated her birthday with differently abled children besides over 400 visitors from across the country, including 51 orphans from Naxal-hit Chhattisgarh, who had come to the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhavan to wish her.

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Thursday admitted a motion seeking the removal of P.D. Dinakaran as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court for alleged acts of "misbehaviour" including corruption, land grabbing and abuse of judicial office.

Justice P D Dinakaran, the tainted chief justice of the Karnataka high court, may finally be on his way out.

Nobody grudges VVIP protocol. And, if it happens to be for the Vice President of India, who would ? But in a city, where people have no roads, and the protocol for VVIPs are sparing and thin, the way the traffic was blocked and barricades set up by digging into newly- laid surfaces, raises the question: Was it really needed? The newly-surfaced ...

Homage: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani paying floral tributes to the martyrs of the Parliament attack of 2001, on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the incident, at the Parliament House in New Delhi on Sunday.

India Gazette Sunday 13th December, 2009 Indian political leaders Sunday paid tributes to those who were killed in the terror attack on parliament eight years ago that almost sparked off an India-Pakistan war.

Vice-President Hamid Ansari being welcomed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on his arrival at Patna airport on Saturday.

New Delhi, Dec 12 : Fifty Rajya Sabha members who have signed a memorandum for impeachment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran for his alleged involvement in land grabbing and corruption, will submit the same to Vice-President Hamid Ansari, who is also the Chairman of Rajya Sabha, on December 14.

NEW DELHI: It is now recognised that large scale violation of human rights and international humanitarian law are not mere domestic or internal concerns of states, but could be construed as threats to international peace, resulting in some form of intervention by the United Nations Security Council.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will deliver the second Professor Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture Wednesday evening in the Central Hall of Parliament House.

A grateful nation pays homage to the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad on his 125th birth anniversary on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Colleagues in the diplomatic service described Rajasthan Governor and former Foreign Secretary S.K. Singh, who died here on Tuesday, as an outstanding officer who had an enviable circle of friends and admirers.

New Delhi, Dec 3 : Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Leader of the Opposition L K Advani, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikhsit and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda paid tributes to the first president of India Rajendra Prasad at Rajendra Chintan Samiti on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary today.

'An instrumentality to secure administrative facilitation' Hamid Ansari NEW DELHI: Noting that the Right to Information Act has ushered in the beginning of participatory governance, Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the movement must be strengthened at all levels and the support of the government, civil society and citizens was vital for ...

Bhopal gas disaster victims Monday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Vice President Hamid Ansari, the Rajya Sabha chairman, saying parliament should pay homage to the hundreds of thousands affected by the tragedy 25 years ago.

New Delhi Triggered by slogan shouting, two senior leaders of BJP and SP got into a scuffle in the Rajya Sabha after tabling of the report of the Liberhan Commission on the demolition of Babri Masjid on Tuesday.