New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by party president Nitin Gadkari met President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday and demanded the removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal for her alleged involvement in a graft case. The delegation had spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, MPs Balbir Punj, Bhupendra Yadav and Arjun Meghwal and party secretary Kirit Somaiya, along with some other party leaders from Gujarat. However, senior party leaders like...
05:17 PM, May 30, 2012
Lucknow: Slamming the last five-year-"jungle raj" as unparallelled in the history of the country when the people got nothing but stones, statues and memorials, UP governor BL Joshi on Monday said the new government has formulated an agenda of development for the state. "Owing to political degradation, several incidents took place which brought shame to the state...my government has formulated the agenda of development to take the state ahead on...
03:49 PM, May 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: Reiterating its demand for removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal from her post over an alleged land scam, the BJP on Tuesday threatened to launch an agitation, if she did not tender her resignation in next three days. BJP general secretary Kirit Somaiya, who is also the coordinator of party's Anti Corruption Cell, had on Monday alleged that Beniwal had tried to acquire a huge piece of land in...
09:52 PM, May 22, 2012
BJP MPs created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding a probe against Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal. ...
03:45 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned twice during the pre-noon sitting as Opposition BJP stalled the proceedings over the alleged involvement of Gujarat Governor Kamla Devi Beniwal in a land grab case. BJP members led by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi demanded suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the issue, which was not accepted by Chairman Hamid Ansari. Slogan shouting BJP members first forced adjournment of the House for...
12:20 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday finalised four names for the post of governors of different states. They are BV Wanchoo, who currently heads the Special Protection Group; former Railway Minister CK Jaffer Sharief; former Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Srinivas Tiwari and Congress General Secretary RK Dhawan who used to be Indira Gandhi's personal secretary. All four are party old-timers and this will be their first stint as Governors. On...
11:10 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said the "goodwill" delegation that the government sends every year during Haj to Saudi Arabia has become some kind of VIP quota and was not in conformity with religious duty and it should be stopped. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai said the government has proposed to reduce the strength of the "goodwill" delegation to one plus...
09:59 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Acting Kerala Governor H R Bhardwaj on Thursday said the state government was committed to building a new dam at Mullaperiyar. He also accused the previous Left administration of slowing down development. Speaking on the first day of the current session of the assembly, he said the Kerala government was keen to ensure good relations with Tamil Nadu, but it remains committed to building a new dam based on...
03:28 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will start hearing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's plea challenging the Gujarat High Court's order upholding the appoint mruled on Friday it will start the hearing in Gujarat Lokayukta appointment case from February 20 onwards. The Modi government had filed an appeal challenging the Gujarat High Court's order upholding the appointment of Justice RA Mehta as the Gujarat Lokayukta. Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal had appointed...
01:13 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: Hollywood superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger failed to turn up at an event to present Abhishek Bachchan an award for helping create a greener environment, but has congratulated him for the honour. "Congrats on the Green Globe, @juniorbachchan. More celebrities should be pumping up green progress. I'll be back, and we should get together," Schwarzenegger wrote on his Twitter page Friday morning. The 64-year-old, former governor of California, was here...
01:12 PM, Feb 03, 2012
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Chennai: Governor K Rosaiah on Monday blamed the previous DMK regime and the lackadaisical attitude of the Central government for the present power situation in Tamil Nadu. "Despite the best efforts of the State government, the power scenario in TN continued to be a matter of concern. The non-addition of generating capacity by the previous government and the lackadaisical response from the Centre to our request for additional allotment of...
10:31 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Kerala Governor MOH Farook passed away at Apollo Hospital in Chennai at around 9:10 pm on Thursday. He was undergoing treatment for cancer in Chennai. Farook was also the former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He was 75 years old. All government offices and schools will remain shut in Kerala on Friday. Farook, a senior Congress leader and former Puducherry chief minister and MP, is survived by son...
10:32 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Governor MK Naryanan has refuted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that no farmers have committed suicides. He said the matter needs to be addressed urgently. "There is no denying the fact that farmers have committed suicide and that they are in debt. We need to do something about it," Narayanan said. He was outspoken on the issue of crib deaths too, calling them a matter of...
01:15 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Monday assumed additional charge of Kerala as his counterpart in Kerala MOH Farook is undergoing treatment in Chennai. Kerala High Court Acting Chief Justice Manjula Chellur administered the oath of office to Bhardwaj at a function held at Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Speaker G Karthikeyan and some of his cabinet colleagues and senior state government officials attended the function. Earlier...
08:41 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Two petitions filed against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi are likely to come up for hearing in the High Court on Tuesday. The petitions were filed against Modi for criminal contempt of court as he allegedly disclosed contents of his correspondence with the Gujarat governor on the appointment of the state Lokayukta to the Prime Minister, even when the matter was already pending before the High Court. Modi...
07:19 AM, Jan 17, 2012
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