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House of disruptions: Deadlock continues as Rajya Sabha adjourned

Telugu Desam Party and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam members withdrew their protests briefly for the government to get the Payment of Gratuity Bill passed without discussion

'Pakoda politics' still on; impasse in Houses of Parliament continues

Neither of the two Houses of Parliament could transact any business for a third day in a row.

Why TMC is reluctant to speculate on Jaya Bachchan's role in Rajya Sabha

'She is a Bengali icon. We do not want to speculate about her,' a Trinamool source said

A hearty meal from Patiala: Harsimrat Kaur throws lunch for reporters

The lunch had many senior ministers in the NDA attending

Who'll form the Opposition? Sharad Pawar chairs meeting for LS polls

On a Thursday meeting of the Opposition parties convened by Sonia Gandhi, members were intrigued at the 'dhokli' - idli-shaped dhoklas, served for refreshments

Pranab makes modest mistake, says Montek was part of liberalisation trinity

Ahluwalia was a bureaucrat in the government then, and Mukherjee headed the Planning Commission

CM Palaniswami seeks a meeting with Siddaramaiah over Cauvery issue

Palaniswami hails from the Mysuru region and any perceived move in favour of Tamil Nadu could hurt him politically

Lot rides on a name: LLP firm calls itself IBBI, govt issues clarification

IBBI also stands for the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, the regulator for overseeing insolvency proceedings in the country

A treasure(d) question: Who will be the new Congress Treasurer after Vora?

Motilal Vora who has been holding charge since 2001 is 89

The Shiv Sena-BJP break-up: So whom does the NDA belong to, anyway?

The depart from the National Democratic Alliance might not have come as a surprise to the Bharatiya Janata Party

Is Bharatiya Janata Party secretly celebrating Prakash Karat win?

The CPI(M) ended a 3-day Central Committee meeting where Sitaram Yechury's draft political resolution on the party's future electoral line was defeated in favour of Prakash Karat's by 55 to 31 votes

Indira Canteens are facing a peculiar problem of missing spoons

The chain of popular eateries, modelled on Tamil Nadu's Amma Canteens, is struggling to replenish the missing spoons

Calibrated celebrations: Sensex jumps 1000 points in 4 trading sessions

The fast-paced gains forced BSE to suspend the cake-cutting celebration it holds after the Sensex climbs a new 1,000-point milestone

Show love, get money: Mamata's formula for attracting investors to Bengal

As things stood at the end of the two-day summit in Kolkata, that "love and affection" appears to be worth Rs 2.19 trillion

The wrong picture: IRCTC draws Twitterati's wrath for image goof-ups

The Indian Railways subsidiary used the pictures of an ISKCON temple in place of the Puri Jagannath temple in its Bharat Darshan campaign

Punjab's bugbear: Minister thinks Chandigarh is cutting state's revenue

Chandigarh currently charges Rs8 per litre less on petrol than Punjab, while diesel is cheaper in that state by Rs 4

This time a nephew: Paswan appoints Prince Raj as student wing's president

Raj is he son of LJP Lok Sabha MP Ram Chandra Paswan, who is the younger brother of Ram Vilas Paswan

Delhi's smog: Australia's Victoria premier didn't expect sunshine

He would be attending the Raisina Dialogue programme later in the day, parts of which were to be held in the open air

Bonhomie bug bites: Invest India CEO want Israeli guests to visit Paharganj

The place is famous for Israeli food the likes of which, Bagla insisted, is absent even in Israel

Euphoria over 'fake'news on extention of GST return filing deadline

The euphoria didn't last long as, within an hour, the finance ministry issued a clarification that the "notification" was fake