After spending the night at the secretariat, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stayed put there on Friday protesting deployment of the army at toll plazas in West Bengal allegedly without informing her government -- an issue that snowballed into a major row causing disruptions in parliament. ...
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday following ruckus created by the opposition over demonetisation as the Congress and the Trinamool Congress persisted with their demand for a discussion under the rules entailing voting. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred to Monday its hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the demonetisation, asking the cases to be categorised for a smooth hearing....
The Indian Army on Friday denied West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accusation that troops were deployed at toll plazas while keeping the state government in the dark and said the exercise has been conducted in coordination with local police authorities. ...
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested here on Friday when he tried to carry out a protest march. ...
The Manipur government has sought additional central paramilitary personnel to open about 60 posts along the two national highways, which are the lifelines of the state. ...
Amritsar -- famous for the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple, and the major city bordering Pakistan -- will host a two-day multilateral global summit beginning on Saturday, with focus on stabilising the war-torn Afghanistan. ...
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday gave another extension to the Parliamentary Committee formed to probe the alleged breach of Parliament security by AAP member Bhagwant Mann. ...
The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Friday after opposition members shouted slogans and compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Hitler, protesting the deployment of soldiers at toll plazas in West Bengal. ...
Indians have accepted the decision to demonetise higher value currency and are cooperating in transforming the country's economy and society, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday. ...
