New Delhi: The demand for mobile phone handsets in the country is likely to reach 250 million in 2014 with an estimated value of Rs.54,000 crore, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora told parliament on Friday. The demand will reach to 250 million in volume while in value terms, the same will stand at Rs.54,000 crore, the minister told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply, citing...
09:39 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: The parliamentary board for finalising Congress candidates of 169 wards for Mumbai civic polls is meeting on Saturday to prepare its list of candidates. The parliamentary board will be chaired by city unit party chief Kripashankar Singh and will comprise former presidents Murli Deora, Gurudas Kamat, senior leader and industries Minister Narayan Rane, ministers Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan, Suresh Shetty, Varsha Gaikwad and Leader of Opposition in the civic...
08:27 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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If politics were to mirror celluloid, then clearly our netas seem out of step. A fortnight ago, two Hindi films were released: 'Budha Hoga Tera ...
12:09 AM, Jul 15, 2011
Mumbai: Home Minister P Chidambaram visited the three blast sites in Mumbai late on Wednesday night to take stock of the situation. At all the three sites, he spoke to investigators and forensic experts who are trying to get additional leads into details regarding the blasts. At Opera House, Chidambaram was accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and newly-sworn Union Minister and local MP Milind Deora. He, however, did...
01:51 AM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: A new generation politician, Milind Deora, who has inherited his father's legacy, makes a debut in the Union Council of Ministers and is one of its youngest members. Modern, dynamic and suave, Milind(34) is a two-term Member of Lok Sabha from South Mumbai, a constituency nurtured by his father and former Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora who resigned just days ahead of today's Cabinet reshuffle. An accomplished blues...
09:54 PM, Jul 12, 2011
President Pratibha Patil administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at 5.00 pm on Tuesday. ...
07:37 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: Gossipping with family members to playing veena or flying aeroplanes - the eight fresh faces in the Manmohan Singh cabinet have their own way of spending leisure time in style. From the elderly V Kishore Chandra Deo to the baby among the new faces Milind Deora, all of them are at least graduates with Minister of State Charan Das Mahant being the most educated with his profile reading...
05:41 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: A new generation politician, Milind Deora, who has inherited his father's legacy, makes a debut in the Union Council of Ministers and is one of its youngest members. Modern, dynamic and suave, Milind(34) is a two-term Member of Lok Sabha from South Mumbai, a constituency nurtured by his father and former Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora who resigned just days ahead of Tuesday's Cabinet reshuffle. An accomplished blues...
04:41 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday accepted the resignation of seven Ministers, including DMK's Dayanidhi Maran and Murli Deora of Congress, from the Union Council of Ministers, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister on Tuesday recommended to accept the resignations of Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora, Development of North Eastern Region Minister B K Handique, Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister...
01:41 PM, Jul 12, 2011
Decks are being cleared for the much-expected Cabinet reshuffle. The Cabinet reshuffle could see major changes this time as Sonia Gandhi is keen that the reshuffle involves some ministers returning to party work. Will performance be the criteria in choosing who is in and who goes out? Rate the incumbent ministers. ...
06:46 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the Congress deals with the Telangana crisis, the imminent Cabinet reshuffle is making some of its old-timers preempt their next move. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora has written a letter to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi expressing his desire to quit his ministerial rank. Sources say he was likely to have been dropped in the Cabinet reshuffle after the allegations that he...
08:33 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Shashi Tharoor, Shiela Dixit, Veerappa Moily, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Murli Deora and Narendra Modi share a few words after India won the ICC World Cup on Saturday night, leaving the entire nation feeling proud. ...
10:40 PM, Apr 03, 2011
Lucknow: Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday rubbished WikiLeaks expose that he was replaced by Murli Deora as Petroleum Minister in 2006 under US pressure. He, however noted that the US was happy that he was removed. It is rubbish that petroleum portfolio was taken from me as the US was unhappy," Aiyar told reporters here in a reply to a question on WikiLeaks reports. He said that...
12:58 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Last Word. The Hindu's WikiLeaks exposes have created a furore. The opposition claims this is proof of American arm-twisting and Congress corruption in politics. The government dismisses the cables as unverified and subjective. So today we ask where does the truth lie? That's with the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N Ram; America's Ambassador to India at the time...
08:28 PM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: New Wikileaks cables accessed by the Hindu newspaper reveal that the US saw a pro-America tilt in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet - that was reshuffled in May 2006. Not surprisingly, the government was attacked today in Parliament - both by the Left and the Right. Government should give an explanation. The American ambassador should also be asked whether whatever has been said is the truth. If it...
03:24 PM, Mar 15, 2011
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