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Prospect of an immediate end to the parliamentary logjam appeared bleak on Saturday with both the government and the Congress sticking to their guns ahead of an all-party meeting on Monday.

He said that the demand for the resignations of the then UPA ministers had been made by the BJP on the basis of investigations and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports.

The Congress MPs carried placards and wore black bands in protest.

Senator Schumer is well respected in the democratic caucus and has already gathered enough support to become the next senate democratic leader when Harry Reid steps down. “If this is what counts as “leadership” among Democrats in the Senate, Senate Democrats...

Significantly, the Congress is in direct opposition to the BJP in both these states where there is no third party, and the two face each other directly in elections.

The standoff in Parliament between the government and the opposition took a new turn Monday when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan named and suspended 25 Congress members from Lok Sabha for five days for “persistently, wilfully obstructing” proceedings in the House.

Dickerson noted President Obama’s recent assertion that the Republicans who are striving to kill the agreement are “making common cause” with the hardliners in Iran who oppose the deal. “Schumer and his opposition to this reckless nuclear deal with...

The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, came to Congress on Wednesday to try to reassure senators but said his agency could not show them the details of the documents. Second, allowing Iran to deal in conventional arms and further enhance its ballistic missile capabilities is...

Most of them, however, are opposed to it. Some of the Congress leaders have taken the stand that they have no objection to it provided such a policy is implemented with retrospective effect when the BJP members were the ones who had prevented functioning of the two Houses.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has become the highest-ranking Democrat to date to voice his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. The New York Senator is among the most influential Jewish lawmakers in the United States.

But this could dilute the two-week-long campaign of the Congress, Left and others on the issue of the resignations of Union minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje in the “Lalitgate” and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said Parliament is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.

Schumer, the most influential Jewish member of Congress, is a top contender to assume the position of Senate Democratic leader when Sen.

But if the deal is so great, why is he the one charging to the podium to promote it, just as he did with Obamacare? Netanyahu is working to counter the agreement, which offers sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions. Since endorsing the agreement, we have received emails...

Angus King of Maine, Tim Kaine of Virginia, and New York Democratic Sen. That includes Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, who expressed his opposition Thursday night. Engel’s announcement made him the second major Jewish...