08 Dec 2006

The Election Commission is understood to have let Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss off the hook in the office-of-profit case pending against him.

04 Oct 2006

Even as Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee criticised the Election Commission for behaving like an investigative agency with the office-of-profit petition...

29 Sep 2006

The office of profit issue continues to linger on in the Election Commission with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss seeking...

20 Sep 2006

By the next session of Parliament, the Joint Parliamentary Committee set up under senior Congress MP Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi would be submitting a report providing generic and comprehensive definition of what entails office of profit that can be acceptable and implementable across the country in all state legislatures.

15 Sep 2006

The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre, the Election Commission (EC), the Chief Election Commissioner...

05 Sep 2006

Despite changes in the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, the office-of-profit controversy is not quite over. Because not all posts, held by those against whom disqualification petitions are pending, have been exempted.

02 Sep 2006

The Election Commission seems all set to close about 40 pending petitions seeking disqualification of MPs...

27 Aug 2006

Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy has said the Election Commission would probe the complaint against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

26 Aug 2006

There are indications that Sonia Gandhi may not go back to being the chairperson of the National Advisory Council, putting a question mark on the future of the powerful group which pushed key social sector initiatives.

24 Aug 2006

The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2006, better known as the Office-of-Profit law, will now be subjected to legal scrutiny.