Slamming the Delhi government as well as the Centre for failing to bring down the crime graph in the national capital, Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday raised the issue of the brutal gang-rape of a girl in the national capital in Parliament. There was chaos in the Upper House with Opposition members demanding a statement from the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the horrific incident. ...
11:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Amarnath had created a flutter by openly admitting that "certain internal reason" stopped the selection committee from replacing MS Dhoni. ...
02:37 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Congress MP Rajiv Shukla apologised in the Rajya Sabha on behalf of party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar for his animal remark. Mani Shankar Aiyar sparked controversy by comparing Opposition MPs with animals. During a discussion on Parliament deadlock over FDI on IBN7, Aiyar said, "There is a decent and respectable way to express one's point of view. This behaviour of the MPs reminds me of animals screaming in a well."...
01:05 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley on Wednesday on in an attempt to break the deadlock in Parliament over FDI in multi-brand retail. Congress MP Rajiv Shukla was also present at the meeting. ...
01:15 PM, Nov 28, 2012
IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla came out in support of Tendulkar and said one needs to look at his "colossal record" before making any comment. ...
01:28 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Former chief of the ground and pitches committee of the Indian cricket board, feels the decision to prepare seamer-friendly tracks for the Ranji Trophy is a step in the right direction. ...
06:23 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery. Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event,...
11:54 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister Rajiv Shukla on Wednesday demanded an inquiry into the allotment of tea garden land in Himachal Pradesh to activist Prashant Bhushan alleging "gross violation of all rules and regulations". Making a strong pitch for a probe, Shukla said that not even Himachal people could buy tea garden land and in any eventuality land use cannot be changed. Shukla said that when party MLA Sudhir Sharma had...
09:05 PM, Oct 10, 2012
The BCCI Vice President Rajiv Shukla said that they would wait for the ICC to complete its investigations on umpires who were allegedly willing to fix T20 matches for money. ...
08:54 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Mumbai: BJP was stalling Parliament on coal allocation issue because it was afraid that a debate would expose the roles of its chief ministers, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla claimed on Friday. "BJP is adamant on not letting the Parliament function," Shukla told reporters here after attending a prayer meeting for the late Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Friday. "BJP knows that if it allows Parliament to...
02:31 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Three special trains have been scheduled from Guwahati to bring back those who fled Bangalore. ...
10:52 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: On a day when the Opposition stalled both houses of Parliament over the coal scam, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Rajiv Shukla, was caught on tape advising the Rajya Sabha Chair to adjourn the House. The UPA Minister was caught on camera telling the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien, "There is going to be an uproar. Adjourn the session for the whole day." However, defending...
07:53 PM, Aug 21, 2012
"The Police report will be studied before taking any action," IPL chariman Rajiv Shukla has said. ...
12:54 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Congress leader Rajiv Shukla admitted that there were differences with the NCP, but the party will resolve them. ...
01:08 PM, Jul 20, 2012
BCCI has invited Pakistan to play three one-dayers and two Twenty20 matches in December-January. ...
07:43 PM, Jul 17, 2012
The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, Zaka Ashraf has appreciated BCCI's move of reviving the bilateral series. ...
07:32 PM, Jul 16, 2012
The bilateral cricketing ties had been snapped after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
05:43 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Rajiv Shukla, the BCCI vice president, said it's the PCB who took the initiative to convince the BCCI to resume the bilateral ties with Pakistan. ...
05:04 PM, Jul 16, 2012
More, who had joined rebel Indian Cricket League was banned by the BCCI with immediate effect. ...
03:29 PM, Jul 16, 2012
The council, headed by Rajiv Shukla, will meet in Mumbai to take stock of the last edition of the IPL. ...
07:05 PM, Jun 11, 2012
