New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Telecommunications and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal in the next few days to discuss Supreme Court's order cancelling all 122 2G spectrum licences allotted by former telecom minister A Raja on or after January 10, 2008. Singh will discuss the fallout of the cancellation of 2G licences by the Supreme Court and...
04:00 PM, Feb 09, 2012
The Supreme Court had last week cancelled 122 2G licences that were issued by the UPA as the grounds for the policy were flawed. ...
05:36 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: It is not just Union Home Minister P Chidambaram but the entire top Congress leadership too who will be watching the trial court's verdict on Saturday with a bated breath. A nod to probe Home Minister's role in 2G issue will upset the UPA's cart. The timing of a possible adverse verdict can't be worse. The verdict comes close to battleground that is the Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections...
09:57 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Bangalore: As voices get stronger against the governments decision to bar four scientists of ISRO from holding government posts, including former chairman G Madhavan Nair, the heat is on the Prime Ministers Office. It is now a question of honour, says Nair, who wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier on Monday, asking him to revoke the ban. Sources say that the government, under pressure and facing criticism,...
08:09 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Around 1.76 crore voters will seal the fate of 1,078 candidates in fray for 117 Assembly seats in Punjab on Monday. ...
02:18 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday said that the office stands by the order of banning former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair from government jobs. There was a committee set up under former CVC Pratyush Sinha and the committee has given the report on the controversial Antrix-Devas deal. On the basis of this report the government has taken the decision of banning Madhavan...
12:51 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's name has not been recommended for the Bharat Ratna award. Sources have said that the BCCI did not send any names, not even Sachin's. They say that the Sports Ministry has recommended the names of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for India's highest civilian honour. The criteria for Bharat Ratna was recently broadened to include sports because of the huge demand. Infact,...
09:17 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: It's the Congress vs the Parkash Singh Badal government in Punjab in a race to win support of Dera Sacha Sauda which holds the keys to 55 seats. Dera will begin a two day meet on Sunday to take a call on whom to support. Just 8 days left before Punjab goes to the polls and both parties are trying hard to control dissidence as well as win...
07:54 AM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday defended Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati against the Election Commission's order to cover up her statues and the BSP symbol elephant. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said that the EC order is wrong. "If EC had problems with elephant they should have freeze the symbol how many elephants can be covered they can cover the elephant statues but what about living elephants," Digvijaya said....
06:21 PM, Jan 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress stands exposed while trying to compete with the Samajwadi Party to woo the Muslim vote in Uttar Pradesh. Different voices from within the party have made the doublespeak on sub-quota and the Batla Encounter issues evident. In Azamgarh, where most of the accused in Batla House encounter come from, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh asked for a retrial of what he calls fake encounter. This also because...
07:18 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission's directive to cover up statues installed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seems to have expensive ramifications. The state exchequer will have to shell out Rs 1 crore to cover the statues of the BSP supremo and her party symbol elephant in Lucknow. The decision was taken at a late-night meeting held in Lucknow on Monday. And keeping in sync with Mayawati's penchant for pink,...
11:14 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Team Anna's Core Committee met on Monday amidst suggestions that they should not target a single political party in the future. ...
10:37 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Keeping Mamata in good humour is crucial for the Congress especially with the budget session not too far away. ...
09:40 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress. Mamata accused the party of working in tandem with the Left against her party. "The CP(M) and the Congress are blocking the road together. Everyday Congress supporters are abusing me on the streets. But I have never said anything against the PM or Sonia Gandhi and I would never do...
08:56 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: As the Congress in West Bengal on Tuesday threatened to intensify its agitation over the proposed renaming of Indira Bhavan at Salt Lake, Trinamool Congress Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged the Congress was colluding with the CPI(M) to attack her party. "In West Bengal, the CPI(M) and the Congress are working together. Our partymen are being attacked at places like Keshpur and Garbeta," Banerjee said...
05:50 PM, Jan 03, 2012
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