Anand: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh dismissed talks of the next general elections becoming a contest between personalities, possibly involving Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and said elections in India are fought between parties. "Our political system is not like the American system. Polls are not fought between two individuals but between parties. We should not trivialise the polls. The polls are not about...
10:52 AM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi met in Delhi this evening in the wake of the resurfacing of the coal scam. The meeting of the Congress Core Group came as NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a constituent of UPA, spoke of the possibility of early Lok Sabha elections in the wake of parting of ways by the DMK. This is the first...
03:20 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Also on the show, Cyrus Broacha takes on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar for his 'urine' remark. ...
10:39 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Thane: Noted prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who worked as a special public prosecutor in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on Saturday turned philosophical to take a dig at Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt whose conviction was recently upheld by the Supreme Court. "Neta ho ya Abhineta....Bogus Gandhigiri se parmatma ke ghar me koi apna pap nahi dho sakta (No one, whether an actor or politician, can get any solace from God by...
07:52 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Lucknow: Pushed on the backfoot after "strong political reactions" from New Delhi, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday restored 24x7 power supply to Rae Bareli and Amethi - parliamentary constituencies of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. While the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) had confirmed on Thursday that power cuts had been effected in the two VIP districts owing to acute power shortage, it now says that power rostering...
09:20 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Allahabad: The BJP on Friday attacked Rahul Gandhi for his comments about Prime Ministership saying it smacked of "shirking responsibility and enjoying power without accountability". "Rahul Gandhi's comments about Prime Ministership confirm that he, like his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, does not want to take any type of accountability and keep enjoying power without accountability," BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in Allahabad. "What does the Congress Vice...
01:17 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Flying out of Delhi? You may soon be asked to take off your shoes and belts, and jewellery, if you are wearing any, at the security check counters of the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is in the process of putting in place tighter security check norms like this, in line with those in the US and Europe, following higher threat perception,...
04:46 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Reacting to the Supreme Court's verdict on Bhullar's mercy plea, lawyer of Rajiv Gandhi's killer M Radhakrishnan says the decision of the apex court has come as a big disappointment for him. "A Constitution bench of the SC had held that mere delay of 5 years or more for those who are facing death sentence to seek commutation to life sentence. I think the SC has been very harsh towards ...
12:32 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: In a move suggesting growing differences between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has withdrawn the 'VIP' status of Raebareli and Amethi with regard to 24/7 power supply. The two districts are parliamentary constituencies of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. The nine-month-old decision to provide round-the-clock electricity to these two districts was revoked late on Thursday,...
10:19 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday will pronounce the much-awaited verdict on the petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside the Delhi Youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached...
06:06 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Even as a Delhi court ordered reopening of case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, he claimed he was not present at the scene of the riots and that the witness was pressured into giving a statement against him. Speaking exclusively to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Tytler said, "I happened to be with Indira Gandhi's body, how come I would...
02:48 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Bangalore: Opposition Congress is facing difficulty in finalising 47 candidates for the Karnataka Assembly elections in the backdrop of intense lobbying by senior party leaders in the high-stake polls. The principal opposition in Karnataka, which sees prospects of dislodging the BJP government by putting up a united front, announced a list of 177 candidates last Friday. The party, however, is finding it extremely hard to zero in on nominees in...
01:46 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The US Embassy cables accessed by WikiLeaks have claimed that there were three assassination attempts on late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's second son Sanjay Gandhi. A 1976 dispatch says Sanjay was the target of an unknown assailant in a "well planned assassination attempt" during the Emergency. It quotes Indian intelligence sources as saying that he was shot at three times on August 30 or 31, but escaped...
08:51 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Shirdi: Yoga guru Ramdev on Wednesday praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi but took potshots at Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in the context of Prime Ministerial candidates. "There is a long queue of people who want to become Prime Minister. Rahul Gandhi's name is also coming up for the post of PM, but he is not mature enough and has no vision. In the present situation, Narendra Modi appears as...
03:28 AM, Apr 11, 2013
WikiLeaks returned to haunt the Congress party on Monday which trashed reports claiming that Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman for a Swedish aircraft company before entering politics but the Opposition demanded that the "truth" be made public. ...
11:09 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Narendra Modi is widely held as a dictatorial person who likes no second power centre and has been able to cut the RSS and VHP machinery in Gujarat to its size. But leading a national coalition is a different ball game. Is Modi up to it? Senior associate editor of The Hindu Mukund Padmanabhan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. If Modi becomes PM, does it...
06:15 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and MY Eqbal turned down the plea of the convicts that they could not be held guilty of murder as the body was not recovered by the Delhi Police and there was delay in lodging FIR in the case. "It...
04:39 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks say that late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written to the then Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1974 offering to share nuclear technology but only if proper conditions for trust were created. The offer was rejected by Bhutto. The cables also say Indira Gandhi was evasive about nuclear weaponisation. The cables quote her as saying, "If our scientists have...
10:43 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Bangalore: The filing of nomination papers for the Karnataka Assembly elections begins on Wednesday. With barely a month to go for the polls, political parties are all set to add 'star power' to their election campaign. The Bharatiya Janata Party has roped in Kannada actress Tara a for now, but the party is pulling out the big guns closer to the elections by bringing in Hema Malini and Smriti Irani...
08:35 AM, Apr 10, 2013
The Modi-Rahul face off is good democracy The forthcoming electoral contest of 2014 is fast passing into pop culture. The Battle of the "Bachelors" ...
07:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013
