Archive: Politics Subscribe to Politics
Mukul Roy Elected as New Railways Minister of India
Asia Bizz: The Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee finally got what she wanted, when party leader Mukul Roy was sworn as the Railways Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Indian on March 20, 2012. Roy has been brought in place of Dinesh...
Pranab Mukherjee Wins Despite Pitfalls in Budget 2012
Asia Bizz: Things are now slowly settling down after the presentation of the Union Budget 2012 in the Indian Parliament on March 16, 2012. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is the clear winner in everything despite many disappointments in terms...
Rail Budget 2012 – Dinesh Trivedi Not asked to Resign
Asia Bizz: After the uproar created following the presentation of the 2012 Rail Budget, it has now been clarified that Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi will not be resigning. Pranab Mukherjee, the senior Congress leader has clarified in Lok Sabha...
Rail Budget 2012- 2013 – Dinesh Trivedi Announces Annual Plan of Rs. 60,100 crore
Asia Bizz: Indian Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi presented his first budget in the Parliament on March 14, 2012 and it the proposal was the highest ever which included an annual plan outlay for the railways at Rs 60,100 crore. Trivedi said...
Budget Session India 2012 – Opposition Prepares to Target Ruling Party
Asia Bizz: The ruling government in India has now become the target of the opposition party before the upcoming 2012 Budget session of Parliament which begins on March 12, 2012. The opposition is now preparing its strategy to target the government,...
Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav To Be Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister?
Asia Bizz: The recent crucial assembly 2012 elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India saw the Samajwadi Party winning the majority. After the win, the party announced that it has called a meeting on March 9, 2012 where the new Chief Minister...
Indian government to set up agency to scan emails, tweets and updates?
Asia Bizz: After a huge objectionable content argument, the Indian government has decided to set up an agency that will have the responsibility to monitor all web traffic passing through the internet service providers in the country. The new...
Former Olympus President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa Arrested
Asia Bizz: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the former president of Olympus has been arrested in Tokyo on February 16, 2012. This is the latest development in one of the biggest ever financial scandals in Japan.
Kikukawa has been named as the key accused...
Kapil Sibal says no to censorship of social media sites
Asia Bizz: On February 14, 2012, the Indian Communications minister Kapil Sibal said that the country does not intend to censor social networking sites. Sibal added that the Indian govt. will just ensure that the sites adhere to local...
Corruption to be avoided in India through e-governance?
Asia Bizz: Seems like Anna Hazare will have a helping hand now. On Thursday, September 28, the Indian government said that it is now essential to institutionalize the e-governance system which would help in reducing the human interface and would...