The French parliament has adopted a major economic reform that effectively ends the country's mandatory 35-hour work week, in a Senate vote. The bill was supported by the upper house's right-wing majority of President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party but opposed

Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti (SASS) has given a call for Jammu bandh tomorrow over the alleged suicide by one of its activists on the issue of revocation of order transferring land to the shrine board. Announcing this at a press

A resolution has been introduced in the US House of Representatives asking China to end human rights abuses and its support for tainted governments in Sudan and Myanmar in line with "Olympic traditions of freedom and openness." The resolution, proposed

which won the trust vote in the Lok Sabha, for its "deep resolve" to go ahead with the historic Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice last night met Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma

Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey has said. The top of the world, shared by half

Describing the UPA victory in the trust vote as an outcome of "money power of industrialists," the Shiv Sena chief Bal on Thackeray has lambasted the Left for propping up BSP leader Mayawati for the Prime Minister post. "In its

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo met on Wednesday amid strong indications that disciplinary action is to be taken against Somnath Chatterjee for not resigning as the Lok Sabha speaker ahead of the trust vote the government won overnight.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday expelled eight of its Lok Sabha MPs for either cross-voting or abstaining during the confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday. The expelled MPs are Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Somabhai Patel, K Manjunath and

The morning after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government won the trust vote in Parliament, opposition parties, including the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Left and other political formations, Wednesday got together and vowed to launch a national campaign on key

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists on Wednesday held a noisy protest outside party MP Haribhau Rathod's residence here and attacked his house at Yavatmal for staying away from Parliament during the trust vote the government won. According to police officials

A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on Sept 11, a prosecutor has said as he sought to undercut defence arguments that the Guantanamo prisoner was a low-level employee of the terrorist

Better diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan are vital for the US to succeed in its war against Taliban militants in Afghanistan, Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama said. "One of the things driven home in the Afghan war is

His speech was rudely cut short by the opposition but Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday still managed to make his pitch for energy security through the stories of two poverty-stricken women he had met in Vidarbha. Participating in

A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP on Tuesday accused the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of issuing threats through the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to coerce him into voting for the government. Brajesh Pathak, the BSP MP from

Swiping at the Left parties whose withdrawal of support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has prompted a trust vote in Parliament, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday cited China's ambitious nuclear power plans to push the India-US nuclear deal,

Somabhai Gandalal Koli Patel, rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Gujarat, on Tuesday reiterated his decision to support the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) during the trust vote in Parliament. "I have decided to support the motion since the

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday flashed the victory sign and gave the thumbs up as he arrived at Parliament house on the morning of the trust vote day, a vote that will decided the fate of his government. Manmohan

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday termed as "shameful" the display in Parliament of bundles of money by MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who alleged the government's supporters had attempted to bribe them

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has fixed 6 pm as the time for voting on the confidence motion moved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is scheduled to sum up the government's position on the debate an hour before. Soon

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday adjourned the house till 2 p.m. after opposition members repeatedly interrupted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's speech during the debate on the trust vote sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "You can continue (your