
Srinagar: The BJP on Saturday said that the party is in no hurry to name its prime ministerial candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "We still have two years to go for the next general elections. What is the hurry (of naming the prime ministerial candidate)?" BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who is heading a party delegation on study tour of Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters in Srinagar. The former BJP...

02:39 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...

11:00 PM, May 29, 2012

Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...

10:14 PM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...

09:44 PM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi get ready to present their report card for the UPA-II's third year, it seems there would not be much to celebrate. It has been a year of controversies for the UPA-II... attacks, couter-attacks... angry and sulking allies... and finally defeat. The fact that the PMO had to send repeated reminders to ministers to send their list of achievements...

07:29 AM, May 21, 2012

New Delhi: Battling serious perceptions of policy paralysis, the UPA government completes three years in office in its second term tomorrow amidst uncertainty over passage of key economic legislations and decisions like FDI in retail and faces tough challenges in the run up to the general elections two years hence. Hopping from crisis to crisis, particularly in the last more than a year, the government presents a picture completely different...

02:41 PM, May 20, 2012

New Delhi: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early elections, the Left called it a case of blackmail. CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said, "These small parties blackmail the government. We have reached here passing all the challenges till now and we would fight this challenge also. It has become impossible for parties like ours to fight in the elections." Yechury's comments...

02:00 PM, May 12, 2012

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and triggered a debate on the possibility of early general elections. She claimed she has information that a political party in Delhi had held a meeting to advance the Lok Sabha poll to 2013 and asked her partymen to be ready for it. The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed Mamata's comments on early general elections. Reacting to Mamata's...

10:03 AM, May 12, 2012

Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that the general elections will happen as scheduled. ...

09:20 AM, May 12, 2012

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed UPA ally and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early general elections. The Trinamool Congress Chief sparked speculation of early elections when she was addressing her party workers in Kolkata on Friday. Reacting to Mamata's comments, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said, "Mamata Banerjee should get rid of this government. She has hinted at early polls in 2013. The BJP wants the...

08:41 AM, May 12, 2012

Moscow: Russian security services have foiled a plot to stage an attack during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi or in the run-up to the Games in the southern Russian city, state-run RIA news agency said on Thursday. It said the special services had confiscated weapons during raids on May 4 and 5 in the breakaway Abkhazia region of Georgia, the former Soviet republic with which Russia fought a brief...

05:51 PM, May 10, 2012

Narendra Modi always hogs the headlines and always generates sharp responses of two kinds. One from the people who believe Modi is the future of ...

05:52 PM, Apr 25, 2012

After reports of policy paralysis hitting reforms, which was attributed to his speech in the US, Kaushik Basu, the Chief Economic Advisor to the PM now claims he was misquoted. ...

12:26 PM, Apr 24, 2012

The PM's Economic Advisor, Kaushik Basu, said on Friday that economic reforms were unlikely in India before the 2014 polls. ...

12:07 PM, Apr 20, 2012

Washington: Reforms are unlikely before the 2014 elections, Prime Minister's Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has suggested. Speaking at the US-based think tank Carnegie Endowment meet on Wednesday, Basu said relatively less important bill might go through Parliament. He was addressing concerns expressed by US corporates on some recent decisions of the Indian government. Basu blamed the slowdown in decision making on the spate of recent corruption related scams saying the...

08:49 AM, Apr 20, 2012