Tag Archives: President Pratibha Patil

Differences in NDA over Presidential nominee

The date of Presidential polls is set on 19 July and current President Pratibha Patil’s term ends July 24, but still there is much hush and brush in the parties with their different opinions over the Presidential nominee. Amidst debate in regard Prez-polls, there are different opinions of the political parties among them the NDA [...]

Sachin Tendulkar takes oath as Rajya Sabha member

The God of cricket whose hands were covered with only bats and gloves and spent his journey around the ground, is now ready to act as Politician. Yes, we are talking about Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar who set to play the new innings in Parliament as a member of Rajya Sabha. On Monday in the [...]

Assam Boat Accident: 200 feared killed and missing

Situation was worse while an overloaded Indian ferry split in two and sank in northeast India Brahmaputra River amidst torrential rain, killed more than 100 and around 100 missing and authorities feared that the toll may rise. The ill-fated double-decker boat that had capacity to carry 250 passengers was seemed to be overloaded with 500 [...]

Pune Land Row: President gives up retirement house

In the break down of political culture, President Pratibha Patil is also never left space from this. The accommodation of land allotted to her for use to build “post-retirement” bungalow is being the fact of controversy as it reported that the land for the house was given is of improper allocation and in violation of [...]

Balwant Singh Rajoana Case: SAD calls emergency meeting tomorrow

In yet another interesting move in the Balwant Singh Rajoana case, the SAD Chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has called an emergency meeting of the party’s core committee on Sunday morning. It is said in reports that the meeting is called after huge Sikh protest in the state and asking the state Chief Minister Parkash Singh [...]

NCTC: UPA Govt wins battle in Rajya Sabha

Finally defeated UPA Govt. won its toughest battle in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday by margin of 105 members’ votes over the violent issue of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). The contest over NCTC resulted the defeat of BJP and Left Party’s amendments that followed by them on motion of thanks to President Pratibha Patil’s [...]

NRHM will now National Health Mission

Under 12the Plan, Indian Government is seeking forward to grant the approval of conversion of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) into a National Health Mission. Its plan supports the purpose to ensure the free delivery of health meditation in public health institutions to the urban poor without time limit. Therefore, the government will now [...]

BJP urges President to reconvene parliament for Lokpal Bill

On Thursday, the matter of adjourning the Rajya Sabha on December 29 midnight without any defended result is turn into another mode when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked President Pratibha Patil to reconvene the winter session of Parliament for a vote on the Lokpal bill. After party leaders, including president Nitin Gadkari and star [...]