The Tihar Jail authorities have initiated an inquiry against INLD chief and former Haryana chief minister OP Chautala's son Ajay Chautala after it was found that he addressed a public rally at Sonepat through the speaker phone when his grandson called him up last Wednesday in jail. ...
02:23 PM, Feb 25, 2013
There seem to be no rules for VIP inmates at Delhi's high profile Tihar Jail. Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's son Ajay Chautala addressed a rally from inside his cell using his mobile phone. ...
01:13 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The plan of Yoga teacher Ramdev to hold a rally in Solan district on Sunday received a setback after district administration refused to give permission for the February 27 meeting. "We had changed the venue from Sadhupul to Solan and assured that the rally would be completely peaceful, but surprisingly, the MC Solan has declined to give permission for holding the rally at Thodo ground on February 27 as scheduled,"...
03:21 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and Defence Minister AK Antony would campaign in Nagaland for the February 23 assembly elections. ...
07:27 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will visit Nagaland on February 7 to campaign for the February 23 Assembly elections in the state. She will address two public meetings at Mokokchung and Dimapur districts respectively on February 7, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) General Secretary (Admn) Medokul Sophie said. ...
01:03 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare, who launched his Janatantra Morcha in Patna on Wednesday, sought to recreate the aura of legendary socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan and conducted himself in a manner to remind one and all about the leader who had launched the first movement against corruption in the country about three decades ago. ...
11:02 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare will be holding a rally in Patna on Wednesday to launch a farmers' movement. The movement will be extended to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka over the next year. ...
09:11 AM, Jan 30, 2013
The ruling Janata Dal (United) on Monday decided to organise a massive rally in Delhi on March 17 to press for its demand for grant of special category status to Bihar by the Centre to spur growth. The rally would be attended by a large number of people from Bihar and those from the state living in Delhi, Bihar JD(U) President Vashist Narayan Singh told reporters after a meeting of...
02:28 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez remained on his sickbed in Cuba on January 10 while thousands of supporters rallied in his honor on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC nation. The postponement of the inauguration, a first in Venezuelan history, has laid bare the gravity of Chavez's condition after complications from a fourth cancer operation in his pelvic area....
09:49 AM, Jan 11, 2013
The West Bengal Congress on Thursday took out a massive rally in Kolkata to protest against political violence in the state. The rally turned violent in between as protesters tried to break through barricades at the administrative headquarters of the state - the Writers' Building. The protesters had planned to gherao the building. However, the police arrested a few of them as the protest turned violent. They were released later...
05:21 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A rally was held in Pune on Saturday to demand justice for an IT professional who was reportedly gangraped and murdered by four persons in 2009 while she was on her way home from work. The main accused in the Nayana Pujari case had fled in 2011 and is still on the run. ...
02:23 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The Fatah party of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas staged a massive rally on January 4 in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering in the territory since the Islamist Hamas group took control there in 2007 and a reflection of the warming ties between the two rival factions. Throngs camped out overnight in a downtown Gaza square to ensure themselves a spot for the anniversary commemoration of Fatah's 1959...
06:04 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Congress in Bihar on Jaunary 3 accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of "not being serious" to acquire special category status for the state as he is not calling an all-party meeting to press for the demand before the centre. ...
06:24 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Indian diaspora in Australia gathered in front of the Indian Consulate in Melbourne and held a peaceful rally on Thursday to express support for the anti-rape stir in India and offered prayers for the recovery of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim. Several Indian community leaders and other members prayed for peace, well-being and amity and also gave a memorandum to Consulate officials for the Indian Home Ministry demanding actions...
07:15 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Osmania University students on Monday carried out rallies protesting against controversial remarks made by Andhra Pradesh state unit chief Botsa Satyanarayana. The Congress leader called the incident as minor and suggested imposing curfew for women. ...
01:47 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Taliban Islamic militants bombed a political rally in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing nine people including a provincial minister, officials said, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks. The provincial minister for local government, Bashir Ahmad Bilour, died of his wounds at Lady Reading Hospital, the hospital's chief executive Arshad Javed said. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Sharmila was injured during her 'padyatra' in Ranga Reddy district three days ago while getting off a bus. ...
09:31 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Cricketer-turned-politcian Navjyot Singh Sidhu is always a crowd puller with his 'Sidhuisms' but in Gujarat he just went a bit too far by calling BJP rebel and 84-year-old veteran Keshubhai Patel anti-national and traitor. Sidhu said, "People will never pardon a person who stabs the party in the back." ...
09:49 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that with per capita income being one third of the country and low developmental indices in all core sectors, the state would need at least 30 years to catch up with the national average and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to grant special category status to the state to spur its growth. ...
04:54 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Lingayat strongman and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday dared Jagadish Shettar drop his MP son BY Raghavendra after the saffron party sacked one of his loyalist and Cooperative Minister BJ Puttaswamy from the ministry and suspended Tumkur MP GS Basavaraj. ...
09:22 AM, Dec 09, 2012
