Tag: Congress

Of pushing partisan agendas How different are the dynamics of people’s politics from the dynamics of electoral politics was clear by the turn the bill...

Getting some perspective this New Year We distribute goodwill generously on New Year’s largely because there isn’t much chance of seeing it again for 364...

Defeats the purpose At a time when civil society is arguing feverishly over the details of government’s move to set up the Lok Pal (Ombudsman)...

US Congress has passed the bill imposing more conditions on aid to Pakistan under foreign assistance, a private TV channel reported. The House of Representatives...

The 48th meeting of the Pakistan Hockey Federation Congress, 21st meeting of PHF Executive Board and 14th meeting of the PHF Women’s Council will...

It’s not just the politicians… India is the only country in South Asia where democracy has survived in its classical form. It got disfigured in...

Indian social activist Anna Hazare, whose campaign for a tough anti-corruption law has drawn huge public support, vowed on Friday to start a new...

US President Barack Obama unveiled a stopgap plan Monday to ease the bite of the real estate crisis for cash-strapped homeowners while attacking Congress...

The US Congress on Wednesday approved long-delayed trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that are expected to lift exports by about $13...

With the US economy facing a heightened risk of sliding back into recession, the country’s elected representatives may be pushing it closer to the...

Congressional leaders said on Wednesday they have agreed on a path to approve three long-delayed free trade agreements and a program to help U.S....

Katrina Kaif is once again in the eye of a storm, this time for comparing her half-Indian lineage to that of Congress scion Rahul...

The US House of Representatives vote late Monday to prohibit the use of funds for American military operations in Libya. Lawmakers adopted the amendment to...

England’s Football Association was the subject of stinging criticism here Wednesday after suffering a crushing defeat in its bid to halt the re-election of...

The US Congress might decide to cut the almost $1.3 billion in annual aid to Pakistan if it turns out the Pakistan government knew...

NEW DELHI - The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu went to the polls on Wednesday in an election that is seen as testing the extent of public anger against the federal ruling Congress party battling a string of corruption scandals and high food prices.
Tamil Nadu, a swing state that helps give Congress a parliamentary majority, is ruled by the regional DMK party, a ruling coalition ally linked to a multi-billion dollar telecoms graft scandal that has roiled Asia's third-largest

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday, narrowly averting a government shutdown that would have idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
With little time to spare before a midnight deadline for a government closure, Obama's Democrats and opposition Republicans agreed to a bitterly fought compromise plan that would cut $37.8 billion in spending for the rest of the fiscal year.
Congress moved quickly