New Delhi: An election officer who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra from taking out a bike rally in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, has been transferred. The officer has been transferred to Goa. The Election Commission, however, said that the transfer is routine and based on promotion. It said that the transfer is withheld till the elections are over in UP. The officer had reportedly stopped Vadra's motorbike rally in...
11:26 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Mumbai: In a blow to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's apparent attempt to score brownie points over its arch rival Shiv Sena, the Bombay High Court on Friday refused to grant permission to the Raj Thackeray-led party to hold a public meeting at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai. MNS had approached the High Court through its President of Dadar division, Sandip Deshpande, seeking permission to use loud speakers at the rally to...
03:38 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a complaint under FEMA against sacked CWG Organising Committee (OC) Chief Suresh Kalmadi and 4 others in the Queens Baton Rally case. The complaint is in connection with financial irregularities in the payments made to a London based firm AM Films. The complaint points to foreign exchange violations, unauthorised payments and over invoicing to to the tune of Rs 4.6 crore....
08:59 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Bhiwani: Demanding reservation in government jobs, members of Brahmin community in Haryana on Sunday threatened to launch an agitation if their demand was not met. "The Brahmins of the state have been demanding reservation for the past several years but the government has not paid heed to it," the state convenor of Brahmin Aarkshan Sangharsh Samiti, Umesh Sharma, said addressing 'Brahmin Ekta Rally' in Bhiwani. Twenty-two per cent Brahmins in...
09:38 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Muktsar: Continuing her tour rally in Punjab, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday addressed a rally in Muktsar. Addressing the crowds gathered at the venue, Mayawati said the Congress, the BJP and the Samajwadi Party should not be voted back to power as they had failed to keep their promises. The BSP is contesting the Punjab polls again on its own, despite facing...
04:02 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will also hit the campaign trail for the Congress for the coming Assembly Polls. He is scheduled to address a rally in Rudrapur in Uttarakhand on Friday. He is expected to address a rally at the headquarters of the Udhamsingh Nagar district in the afternoon. The Prime Minister's rally comes three days after Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi addressed two rallies in Garhwal region. Top...
07:54 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Lalitpur (Jhansi): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a rallying spree across Uttar Pradesh, the state where he has much at stake in the forthcoming elections. However, on the first day of his five-day tour of the Bundelkhand region, the Congress leader was in for a disappointment because of the dismal turn-out at his rally at Lalitpur. Empty chairs greeted the few who had braved the cold to listen...
02:39 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Dehra Dun: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will on Tuesday address election rallies at Roorkee and Tehri in Uttarakhand, which goes to polls on January 30. Gandhi arrived at Jollygrant airport on Monday evening and went straight to the Raj Bhavan for the overnight stay. The Congress President will first address a rally in Roorkee in Haridwar district and then leave for Tehri for another rally in the BJP-ruled state. This...
01:57 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi missed out on addressing a rally in Uttarakhand for the second time as her chopper could not take off due to bad weather on Wednesday. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson was supposed to address a rally in Haldwani district of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttarakhand, which is due to hold assembly elections Jan 30. However, her chopper could not take off from Delhi...
04:38 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Karachi: Pakistan's former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan brought at least 100,000 people into the streets of Karachi on Sunday in a massive rally that increases pressure on the civilian government and cements his standing as a political force. Khan, 59, is riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who co-chairs the ruling Pakistan People's Party, and is facing challenges from the military, the Supreme Court...
08:53 AM, Dec 26, 2011
Karachi: Thousands of people, including women and children, converged in Karachi on Sunday for Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party's massive rally seeking a "change" in the country, with the organisers dubbing it as a "tsunami". All roads leading to the Quaid-e-Azam Park, the venue of the rally adjacent to the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, were jammed with buses, trucks, cars, motorcycles and pedestrians who were eager to...
06:44 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Moscow: Tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting protesters called on Saturday for a disputed parliamentary election to be rerun, increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as he seeks a new term as Russian president. The protesters chanted "Russia without Putin" and "New elections, New elections" as speakers called for an end to Putin's 12-year domination of the country at the second big opposition rally in two weeks in central Moscow....
05:52 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Cairo: Soldiers stormed an anti-military protest camp outside Egypt's Cabinet building on Friday, beating women with sticks and hurling chunks of concrete and glass onto protesters from the roof of the parliament in a resurgence of turmoil only a day after millions voted in parliamentary elections. At least seven protesters were shot to death in the clashes, including a prominent Muslim cleric, activists said. The heavy-handed assault was apparently an...
11:32 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Opposition parties on Sunday shared dais with Anna Hazare during the anti-corruption rally at Jantar Mantar. ...
10:21 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Mumbai/Ralegan: Hundreds of citizens on Sunday participated in a vehicle rally taken out to express solidarity with Anna Hazare for an effective Lokpal. The rally, organised by the Mumbai unit of India Against Corruption (IAC), began from Shivaji Park at Dadar in Central Mumbai. Before the start of rally, over 100 youngsters participated in a street dance, led by Khushvi Gandhi of IAC, to spread awareness about the cause among...
04:30 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Moscow: Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a city square to protest against alleged electoral fraud and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party on Saturday, and demonstrators gathered in other rallies across the vast country, the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia. The protests come three months before Putin, who was president in 2000-2008 and effectively remained the country's leader while prime minister, is...
07:28 PM, Dec 10, 2011
HYDERABAD: The year was 1984. Umendra, a young jawan undergoing training at the Artillery Centre here, was looking forward to the day he would serve his country on the battlefield. Fate, though, had other plans for him. He met with a road accident and was left paralysed chest under. Today Umendra is 48 years old and is dependent on a wheelchair. But like many of his kind, hes seen the...
08:57 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Hundreds showed up on Sunday in a show of strength by Team Anna ahead of the December 11 dharna that Anna Hazare has called, over demands for the Lokpal Bill. Team Anna member Kiran Bedi said, "They have gone back on whatever the Prime Minister and Parliament had promised. Keeping the CBI under their control they have shown they are not serious about tackling corruption. It's a useless...
07:30 PM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Sunday said that the car and bike rally is being held across the country to continue the pressure on the government on Lokpal. "They have gone back on whatever the Prime Minister and Parliament had promised, Keeping the CBI under their control they have shown that they are not serious about tackling corruption. It's a useless Lokpal. It seems whatever Anna fasted...
11:26 AM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Calling corruption a "plague", Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the government was committed to eradicating it and hoped that the opposition would help in passage of anti-graft measures including Lokpal. She said together with the Lokpal bill, the government was working on a variety of legislations "which will systematically fight corruption." "I hope that the opposition will support us in passing these important measures," Gandhi said...
05:49 PM, Nov 29, 2011
