Subodh Roy, the Bihar leader from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), was expelled from the party Wednesday after he tried to "patch up" with Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

President Pratibha Devisingh Patil Tuesday asked banks to provide credit to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive Wednesday in his parliamentary constituency of Amethi on a three-day tour during which he will participate in social programmes and evaluate a number of public welfare schemes, a party spokesperson said here Tuesday.

A high-powered working group on agriculture production has said the methodology of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) to calculate cost of cultivation is "highly flawed and unscientific" and that the minimum support price (MSP) should be 50 percent higher.

Finance MInister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday clarified that the revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement India signed with Switzerland will not help the country in getting back the black money stashed away by Indians in secret Swiss bank accounts.

Giving in to vehement opposition by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Samajwadi Party, the government Monday dropped a controversial bill to amend an act - that deals with properties left behind by those who migrated to Pakistan in 1947 - just before it was to be taken up by the Lok Sabha for discussion and passage.

The implementation of value added tax (VAT) regime in Tamil Nadu by the DMK government from 2007 onwards has resulted in slower growth in commercial taxes revenue, AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa said here Monday.

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon Monday after opposition members voiced protests over a Gujarat police officer's petition to the Supreme Court that she was being pressurised to implicate former state minister Amit Shah in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing.

Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Sunday dismissed rumours that he had been sidelined in the party after his stint in the top post.

AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Friday charged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi of encroaching upon land that belonged to the Chennai Corporation.