The opposition parties raised concern over the Land Acquisition Ordinance at an all-party meet here Sunday ahead of the budget session of parliament, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said. ...

The NDA government Sunday reached out to the opposition ahead of the budget session with Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi over its agenda that includes the contentious ordinance on land acquisition....

New Delhi, Feb 21 External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Saturday told relatives of 39 Indian nationals, who were taken held hostage by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq in June last year, that there was no proof of "their being alive or dead"....
Home Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday met some representatives of farmers over the land ordinance, in an indication that there was rethink in the government on the issue following a proposed protest by social activist Anna Hazare and some opposition parties....

Rationalist Govind Pansare, a senior CPI leader and leading light of the anti-toll tax movement, who was shot at in Kolhapur Feb 16, died in Mumbai. He was 82. ...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin Saturday called in India's Ambassador to China, Ashok K. Kantha, to lodge a “stern representation†over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, state-run Xinhua news agency reported....

Over 3,000 guests attended the lavish wedding here of a Pakistani groom and an Indian bride, both of whom are from royal families....
Five corporate officials, arrested in the sensational petroleum ministry document leakage case, were Saturday sent to three days police custody by a court here even as police raided two places in the city as part of its investigations and Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that no one guilty will be spared. ...
The Kerala High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Thiruvananthapuram Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor, his office said....
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving car....