New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar is all set to break the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state following the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Narendra Singh, Bihar Agriculture Minister and a close aide of Nitish, said that the NDA would split is just a few days in the state. While targeting Narendra Modi, Narendra said that BJP has decided to...
01:05 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: The split between the Janata Dal United and the Bharatiya Janata Party pretty much seems to be out in the open. JD(U) leaders are now openly coming out against BJP leaders. JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari took a dig at senior BJP leader LK Advani saying he should retire. "LK Advani is a very senior leader but by this process his stature has been reduced. He is 85-year-old and...
12:41 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, 'Go Goa Gone' is receiving the benefits of a positive word of mouth publicity. The film has earned Rs 8.05 crore in its first two days. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweets, "#GoGoaGone Sat 4.30 cr." He had earlier tweeted about the film's business of Friday, "#GoGoaGone Friday 3.75 cr." The film is a zom-com and revolves around the friendship of three...
04:04 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Actor-producer Saif Ali Khan is treading new territories with 'Go Goa Gone' - a zombie comedy, after making romance-based entertainers like 'Love Aaj Kal' and 'Cocktail', but he's quite sure he won't ever make a 'sleazy' comedy. There's a thin line between 'naughty' and 'sleazy', he believes. Why is comedy all about sleaze nowadays? "Everything should have a representative, I guess! So, also have a branch of comedy,...
03:38 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: We all hate Mondays, don't we? Composer duo Sachin-Jigar's new track 'Khoon choos le' captures the feelings attached to the first day of the week. 'Khoon choos le' is from the upcoming film 'Go Goa Gone', co-directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK. "The film targets youth, it's urban and we wanted to do something out of the box. The idea was to have an edgy sound with...
11:36 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal United has now openly challenged its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party following the wrangling over the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. JDU General Secretary Shivanand Tiwari in a strongly worded comment said that his party was not bending before the BJP for support. Tiwari said that that the BJP has always known the party's views on the PM candidate and it...
12:24 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: 'Go Goa Gone' co-director Raj Nidimoru believes a heady combination of fear and comedy will work amongst today's audience. Talking about the scope of a zombie comedy like 'Go Goa Gone', he told IANS: "The scope is great. When we made the film, we realised that it had a lot of scope. Fear and laughter are primal instincts. To combine them together, we think it is a tremendous pull...
04:08 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal United national executive meet is set to be held in the national capital on Saturday. JD(U) office bearers met party chief Sharad Yadav on Saturday morning ahead of the meeting. The JD(U) has already raised pitch on the Bharatiya Janata Party's Prime Ministerial candidate. It has clearly said that it wants the name to be announced at the earliest. JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari though said...
10:31 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Taking a swipe at the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Janata Dal (United) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Sunday asked how could "sadhus and Nagas" decide the Prime Ministerial candidate of the alliance they belong to, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Tiwari's outburst came amidst growing indications that the VHP will indicate its support for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at its Dharam Sansad on February 7, which...
05:57 PM, Feb 03, 2013
JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Saturday lost his temper after reporters persistently asked him for his reaction to the possibility of Narendra Modi becoming Prime Ministerial candidate, saying it seemed the media had made the issue "a monkey disease." ...
03:59 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Janata Dal-United leader Shivanand Tiwari on Monday said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi were "two sides of the same coin", attracting censure from the BJP which asked the JD(U) leadership to "restrain" Tiwari. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The Janata Dal United has taken on the Bharatiya Janata Party over comments made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over rapes and the role of women in society. JDU leader Shivanand Tiwary on Monday compared Bhagwat with Akbaruddin Owaisi of the MIM, who is in the dock over a hate speech, saying that they both are products of similar ideologies. "The RSS ideology is propagated among Hindus and MIM's amongst...
04:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
A youth's paternity suit to declare ND Tiwari as his biological father was ordered to be heard on a day-to-day basis by the Delhi High Court on Monday after the veteran Congress leader refused to settle the issue through mediation. "The local commissioner is hereby directed to conduct, preferably, the hearing on a day-to-day basis," Justice Manmohan said. ...
03:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Relief for Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and JD-U leader Sivanand Tiwari as a special CBI court has rejected a petition seeking to indict the two in a Rs 950 crore fodder scam case, on grounds that there wasn't adequate proof of their involvement. Even earlier, the court had declined the petition but the petitioner got direction from the High Court for the case to be heard in a lower court....
06:54 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader ND Tiwari was caught on camera swaying to a qawwali in Barabanki. ...
09:41 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Amid speculation that Samajwadi Party (SP) is trying to woo former Uttarakhand chief minister ND Tiwari, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh on Saturday met the veteran Congress leader here. Terming the visit by the SP leaders as a "non-political" one, 87-year-old Tiwari said they were like his family members as he has very old ties with them. ...
04:12 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Janata Dal (United) spokesperson Shivanand Tiwari has said that the no-confidence motion would work only if the Opposition was unified. ...
11:45 AM, Nov 20, 2012
