New Delhi: Team Anna continued its attack against the government on Monday, targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and accusing him of turning a blind eye to corruption, even as the Prime Minister Office rejected one of their allegations relating to allocation of coal blocks, saying they were equitable and fair. Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan on Monday likened the Prime Minister to Shikhandi, saying the Congress was using him like...
08:45 PM, May 28, 2012
There are reports that both the Congress and the NCP won't back PA Sangma's candidature for the President's post. ...
11:17 PM, May 22, 2012
A CNN-IBN survey says that the UPA government is losing its credibility and it has failed on several fronts. ...
11:56 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: There's a new name in the growing list of Presidential hopefuls. For the first time on Thursday, two political parties came out with a joint name for President. Former Speaker PA Sangma, who had been lobbying for a Scheduled Tribe as the next President, has got support from AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. However, Sangma so far has failed to get his own party,...
09:30 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's ad campaign worth Rs 25 crore to celebrate one year in power and highlight its achievements has been slammed by critics. Is this an attempt by Amma to position herself for 2014? The Rs 25 crore Amma splash in the national capital was tough to miss as national dailies carried four page adblitz of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's one year in office....
10:12 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Today is a historic day for Independent India. It's been 60 years since the first day of the first session of our first Parliament. CNN-IBN met three MPs from the first Lok Sabha, one of them is still a Parliamentarian to find out how things have changed. MP Rishang Keishing said, "Inside was like a temple and church, speeches were heard with respect and interactions were constructive. No...
06:15 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: More UPA partners on Friday favoured Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as a candidate for the next President while key constituent Trinamool Congress kept the Congress guessing while linking the issue to a financial package for West Bengal. The Left Front is also not averse to the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee, but the Congress is yet to name a candidate. In a new twist, former speaker and the NCP...
10:23 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari are clearly leading the race for the President's post. But at the moment, it's Ansari who has nose ahead in this neck and neck battle. The main point working in his favour is that a large section of the Congress is unwilling to let Pranab, a key trouble shooter for the government, go. Congress Spokeperson Renuka Chaudhary said, "Pranab...
08:57 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Congress is hoping to build a consensus, cracks are emerging within the BJP-led NDA over the candidature of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari for the President's post. JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, who is also the NDA convenor, has said that his party doesn't endorse BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's dismissal of both the candidates. The Left seems to be open to their...
08:53 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Railways has ignored safety concerns in another project. The 125 km-long Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail link, inaugurated in November, 2011, has been red flagged by a railways chief engineer, Alok Verma, who has said that it was a disaster in waiting. He said that an all important geological study has not been done in an area that is in seismic zone 4 and is landslide prone. In a...
06:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Telangana row hijacked the first day of the resumed Budget session of Parliament on Tuesday. In an unprecedented action, an angry Congress leadership suspended eight MPs from the region for four days for disrupting proceedings. The motion was carried by a voice vote after the members failed to go to their seats and continued to protest in the well of the house. But the decision was a...
10:39 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: In another embarrassment for the Congress party, its spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi found himself in the midst of a CD controversy on Wednesday. While his name has been removed from the Press Conference roster, Singhvi insists it is because he is unwell. The man who used to vociferously defend his party is now almost being silenced. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, the suave lawyer turned politician, is feeling the heat...
12:07 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding efforts by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram in trying to reach out to the states that they were together in tackling terrorism, chief ministers including Narendra Modi, J Jayalalithaa and Naveen Patnaik attacked the Centre. Modi and Patnaik even met Jayalalithaa separately later and are understood to have discussed a common strategy on issues like NCTC. All a part of the strategy to...
09:07 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when Left-wing extremism is reasserting itself, the Chief Ministers will meet the top two of the UPA government. After a series of letters on a host of issues it is now time for some straight talk across the table with states accusing the Centre of overlooking federal dharma. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had said, "This is another example of Centre's overreach." Setting the tone...
09:52 PM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee on defence on Monday asked the three service chiefs to appear before it on April 20 on the issue of defence preparedness. The development follows Army Chief General V K Singh's leaked letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a series of CNN-IBN reports. According to sources, the panel also questioned the Defence Secretary and the Vice Chief on the issue of preparedness. After...
09:40 PM, Apr 09, 2012
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