A Delhi court has directed police to register an FIR on a complaint filed by a doctor against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi and others for forcibly taking away his eight pet dogs from his house. ...
02:52 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, Varun Gandhi faces trial in the 2009 hate speech case after charges were framed against him in a Pilibhit court. Varun Gandhi, great-grandson of the country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, had reportedly made inflammatory comments against Muslims in Pilibhit in the run-up to the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. ...
04:55 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Badaun (UP): BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Saturday took out a leaf from Ramayana to support Team Anna's entry into electoral politics, saying a confident Ravana had dismissed Lord Rama's army as "monkeys and bears" but ended up vanquished. "When Rama was approaching Lanka, Ravana has asked his men to let him in, saying monkeys and bears could not do anything to him but what happened later was known to...
05:24 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Batting for Pranab Mukherjee as President, BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Monday met him and later described him as an "excellent candidate" for the post and made a strong pitch for a consensus on him. "Pranab Mukherjee is an excellent candidate," Gandhi, a former Union Minister, told reporters after a meeting with the Finance Minister and UPA's nominee for the July 19 Presidential elections. She said the election...
07:00 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has directed the police to register an FIR against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi-run animal care and veterinary hospital where 36 animals died due to their alleged failure in performing the duties. The court also pulled up the investigating officer (IO) for taking up the matter "casually" and directed him to probe the case "expeditiously" against Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre (SGACC). "The SGACC is a...
06:30 PM, May 24, 2012
Badaun: Alleging that Congress has made a mockery of the Election Commission, BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Friday demanded resignations of union ministers Salman Khurshid and Beni Prasad Verma. "The Congress has made mockery of the Election Commission. Both Salman and Beni neither knows law nor religion. Why they are talking of giving only 18 per cent reservation to Muslims. Why they don't provide 100 per cent reservation to them",...
06:02 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Badaun: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram may have got relief from a court in the 2G-spectrum case, but there are enough evidence against him and one day he would go to jail, BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Sunday said. "Chidambaram may have got relief from the court in 2G spectrum case, but there are enough evidence against him and one day he would go to jail," Maneka said while talking...
04:58 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Badaun: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said jailed MP Amar Singh should reveal names of more persons involved in the cash-for-vote scam. "Now he (Amar Singh) is in jail...He can expose more people (involved in the scam)," she told reporters. Those who had benefited from the entire episode were still at large but innocent BJP leaders had been put in jail, Gandhi said. On Anna Hazare's demand of right...
07:51 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement over Anna Hazare's arrest and said she does not believe that the standing committee on Lokpal would incorporate the Gandhian's views on it. A day after her son and BJP MP Varun Gandhi said he plans to introduce Anna's version of Lokpal Bill as a private member's bill in Parliament, Maneka alleged the Government was trying...
02:03 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Bareilly: BJP MP Maneka Gandhi has alleged that half of India's black money stashed in Swiss banks belonged to ministers, leaders and supporters of the Congress party. The BJP leader, while talking to reporters on Sunday night, also alleged that the Congress had kept CBI in its locker and used the agency as and when it required. She also slammed the Congress party's attitude towards Baba Ramdev and social activist...
11:37 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Haridwar: His was a life less noticed, till he died. Thirty four-year-old Swami Nigamanand fasted for 115 days in Haridwar to protest against illegal mining that was polluting the Ganga. When he died on Monday he was finally noticed and ironically because he died in the same hospital where Baba Ramdev fasting against under the spotlights was recuperating. The Matri Sadan Ashram that he was a part of is fighting ...
08:41 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Haridwar: His was a life less noticed, till he died. Thirty four-year-old Swami Nigamanand fasted for 115 days in Haridwar to protest against illegal mining that was polluting the Ganga. When he died on Monday he was finally noticed and ironically because he died in the same hospital where Baba Ramdev fasting against under the spotlights was recuperating. The Matri Sadan Ashram that he was a part of is fighting...
08:41 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Varanasi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi tied the knot with graphic designer Yamini Roy in Varanasi on Sunday. The wedding took place at the Shri Kashi Kaamkotishwar Temple according to Hindu rites. Varun had invited his cousins Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and aunt Sonia Gandhi for the ceremony. This is first big wedding in the family, after Priyanka married Robert Vadra in 1997. Blessing the newly wed...
10:24 AM, Mar 06, 2011
New Delhi: Putting aside differences, BJP MP Varun Gandhi today met his aunt and Congress President Sonia Gandhi to invite her to his wedding next month. The 30-year-old Pilibhit MP met Gandhi at her residence 10, Janpath for lunch.Sources said it was a personal affair and the two were together for an hour at noon.Varun will tie the nuptial knot with Yamini Roy, a graphic designer, in Varanasi on March...
09:52 PM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Under pressure from the Opposition, the Government has agreed to a discussion on Medical Council of India (MCI) Amendment bill in Parliament under rule 193. Leaders of opposition parties like Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav had raised objections to its passage in Lok Sabha on Saturday without any discussion. The MCI bill entails reconstitution of the council within one year from the date of its replacement....
11:35 AM, Aug 21, 2010
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Medical Council of India (Amendment) Bill without discussion as members were busy staging protests demanding more hike in their salaries. The MCI (Medical Council of India) bill entails reconstitution of the council within one year from the date of its replacement. Until then a board of governors will exercise the powers and perform the council's functions. The bill states that the...
06:22 PM, Aug 20, 2010
Bareilly has been under curfew for days after being hit by communal violence. ...
04:54 PM, Mar 15, 2010
Bareilly has been under curfew for days after being hit by communal violence. ...
04:54 PM, Mar 15, 2010
The leader said such decisions weakens the party. ...
04:29 PM, Aug 29, 2009
