Mumbai: After the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is also feeling the heat over the Maharashtra irrigation scam now. India Against Corruption activists are pointing fingers at BJP President Nitin Gadkari alleging that he didn't help their efforts because of his proximity to Sharad Pawar. IAC member Anjali Damania claimed that she met Gadkari thrice, but he refused help as he did not want to disappoint...
11:50 AM, Sep 27, 2012
India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari had refused to speak out on the irrigation scam in Maharashtra. Two days after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar resigned as Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister over allegations of corruption, it now emerges that the Bharatiya Janata Party may have benefitted from the scam. CNN-IBN has accessed letters that show that BJP ...
09:55 AM, Sep 27, 2012
India A are struggling at 136 for four at the end of the opening day against New Zealand A. ...
12:35 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna may have split, but Arvind Kejriwal, who opted for the political alternative, seems to be making his first moves. He took up a Delhi-specific issue of a hike in electricity tariffs on Sunday, also giving rise to speculation that he's gearing up for Delhi elections 2013. Demanding not the Lokpal Bill this time, but a rollback of the power tariff hike, Arvind Kejriwal said, "Sheila Dikshit...
08:43 AM, Sep 25, 2012
New Zealand 'A' won the third and final unofficial ODI by 65 runs and square the series 1-1 here on Sunday. ...
05:24 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Chasing a revised target of 241 in 48 overs after bad light halted proceedings, India A ended their innings on 240 for 9. ...
03:06 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Kiran Bedi said while Arvind Kejriwal would go the political way, she will support Anna Hazare's movement. ...
11:51 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal has expressed shock over anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's decision to part ways with him. "We all have a lot of respect for Anna ji. He is like a father figure and guru to me. His decision was very shocking, sad and unexpected," Kejriwal said. Speaking on his future course of action, Kejriwal said, "Volunteers have arrived from across the nation. We will now meet with them...
11:31 AM, Sep 20, 2012
While Anna said he wished Kejriwal the best, he also forbade him from using his images during campaigning. ...
09:44 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare is meeting his ex-Team members Arvind Kejriwal, Santosh Hegde and Kiran Bedi to decide on whether to take the plunge into politics or not. Hazare had met a few social activists, including Medha Patkar, in Pune on Tuesday. According to sources, the meeting was held to decide on the future course of Hazare's anti-corruption movement. Reports say that Kejriwal, the leader of India Against...
11:21 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Disappearance of a 'Facebook' page maintained by erstwhile Team Anna supporters, who are opposed to the movement taking political plunge, has prompted them to cry hoarse and demand restoration of the page. The India Against Corruption (IAC) page maintained by Shivendra Singh Chouhan, who came out of Team Anna accusing Arvind Kejriwal of trying to project himself as the face of the movement, could not be accessed since...
08:38 AM, Sep 19, 2012
The first unofficial ODI between India A and New Zealand A was abandoned due to the unplayable condition of pitch. ...
04:04 PM, Sep 18, 2012
At a meeting with Medha Patkar and other prominent activists of the country in Pune, Anna Hazare said that he would never join politics. ...
03:40 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Ralegan-Siddhi: Unhappy with the manner in which the anti-corruption movement has been floundering for the past few months, its chief proponent Anna Hazare has decided to take some drastic steps to put it back on track, an official said on Monday. For starters, Hazare has cast his net wider by inviting 35 top social workers from all over India for confabulations on how to strengthen and take forward the movement,...
08:22 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Kanpur: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was arrested on sedition charges, on Sunday said he would continue to draw cartoons that raise issues like corruption, as people in large numbers thronged the railway station here to receive him. Trivedi, who belongs to Shuklaganj in adjoining Unnao district, was received by his parents and hordes of supporters who took him in a procession to his hometown. The cartoonist, arrested on September 8...
10:40 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Washington/New Delhi: The flight path taken by two American MH-47 Chinook helicopters to Abbottabad in Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May 2011 has triggered a controversy with questions being raised as to whether they flew over the Indian air space. A just-published book, containing a first-hand account of the raid on the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the Pakistan garrison town near Islamabad, contains a map showing the...
07:26 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Cartoonist and anti-corruption activist Aseem Trivedi is out on bail. But the government is yet to drop the sedition charge slapped against him. ...
10:09 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who is facing the charge of sedition among others, on Wednesday said he had not done anything wrong and vowed to intensify his campaign for scrapping of the sedition law. "I want to awaken people. Government is not listening to us. There was a countrywide protest for a strong Lokpal bill. We had to make such cartoons to awaken the government," he said. While speaking...
09:44 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Speaking to CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Aseem Trivedi said he had not done anything wrong. ...
08:09 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, booked on the charge of sedition, on Wednesday walked out of Arthur Road Jail, a day after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court. ...
05:14 PM, Sep 12, 2012
