For the year, growth dropped to a three year low - 6.5 per cent against a robust 7.8 per cent last year. ...
11:57 PM, May 31, 2012
Politicians and bureaucrats are spending lakhs on their foreign travel. Are Indians ready for austerity? ...
11:40 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: They are in themselves formidable power centres in India. And they are all women. Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee and Sheila Dikshit form the awesome female quartet who have not only defied the glass ceiling of India's politics marked by patriarchy and sycophancy, but have also proved to be larger-than-life figures within their parties. Despite their aura and popularity, all's not well in the powerful female quartet's camps....
04:19 PM, May 17, 2012
Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians removed from school textbooks as they depict politicians in a poor light. ...
11:58 PM, May 14, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Not just BR Ambedkar, there should be no political satire in school textbooks, that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. Sources told CNN-IBN that at a meeting on May 8, the Parliamentary Forum on Children strongly objected to cartoons in Political Science textbooks of Class IX, X, XI and XII. Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians...
01:06 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2001 Tehelka sting case relating to an alleged arms deal and sentenced to four years in jail. As Laxman goes to jail in the Tehelka sting case, IBNLive compiles a list of 10 most high-profile political convicts who recently went to jail in India: A Raja: Perhaps the most...
02:41 PM, Apr 28, 2012
The Abhishek Manu Singhvi CD episode raises fundamental questions about politicians and their right to privacy. ...
08:50 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Alleging there are 16 "corrupt" ministers in the Union Cabinet, key Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the fight against such politicians will be revived soon by exposing them. "There are 16 corrupt ministers in the Union cabinet. We plan to hold a few press conferences in the last week of this month to expose these ministers," Kejriwal said. He was addressing over 300 members of India...
12:57 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: To groom aspiring women politicians by helping them develop necessary skills, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore on Tuesday launched a certificate course in political leadership for them. The three-month long programme called as India-Women in Leadership programme by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) aims to equip aspiring women leaders with the requisite skills, knowledge and expertise in various aspects of governance. According to a statement,...
06:30 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said an inquiry would be conducted into the instances of politicians as well as several IAS and IPS officers from the state acquiring more than one flat from the government quota. "An inquiry in this regard will be conducted under the commission, probing the multi-crore Adarsh housing society scam after that probe gets over," Chavan told the Legislative Council. He was replying...
05:54 PM, Apr 04, 2012
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us;...
05:14 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal remained defiant over hitting out against politicians who have been accused of indulging in corruption. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Kejriwal said that the movement launched by Team Anna is against corruption and not against Parliament. He said that he had done nothing wrong on Sunday at Jantar Mantar where he had accused several MPs of corruption and was ready to face...
04:58 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Chandigarh: When the newly-elected Punjab assembly meets for the first time later this month, it will look more like a millionaires club than a legislature. The 117-member house has no less than 101 crorepatis, data analysed by NGO Punjab Election Watch (PEW) has revealed. The affidavits submitted by Punjab politicians who have made it to the assembly in the 2012 elections, revealed that the new assembly has 86 percent legislators...
02:09 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: "Music rippling, blazing - Not knowing where you are; In the fire of your own tune, resound, resound; I love songs; There is tempest in tunes; Resound, resound in the fire of music; And compose a tune....; Sway your Vina in the dreams; Let beauty rise in your tune and rhythm; Beat by beat with your Vina; So many sorrows I forget" - Mamata Banerjee (Melody of the...
07:48 PM, Mar 05, 2012
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