Most markets in Delhi will remain closed on Thursday. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) have called for a 'Delhi trade bandh' to protest against FDI in retail. A rally will be held at Ramlila Grounds too later in the day. ...
09:15 AM, Mar 07, 2013
New Delhi: Faced with all-round attack, the Congress is expected to launch its counter-offensive at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi would be the star speakers. Sunday's rally is also expected to set the agenda for the party's one-day brainstorming session at Surajkund on November 9 in which it plans to discuss current political and economic...
04:51 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna's protest against a "weak" Lokpal Bill in New Delhi remained a damp squib for the second day on Wednesday and was called off abruptly after Anna Hazare ended his fast in Mumbai. The day began with just 200 people assembling at the huge Ramlila Grounds. Though the crowd grew in smaller proportion as the day progressed but their number did not exceed 1,000. At one point...
07:13 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Across the country, effigies of Raavan, his brother Kumbhakaran and son Meghnath are burnt, symbolising the victory of good over evil. ...
07:30 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: Giant effigies of King Ravana, his son Meghnad and brother Kumbhakaran went up in flames amid deafening sound marking the triumph of good over evil as gusto marked Dussehra festivities across the country on Thursday. Amid beating of drums, devotees, dancing frenziedly, also bid adieu to Goddess Durga as she returned to her celestial abode. At sundown, the fire crackers-stuffed effigies, dotting grounds and open spaces in villages...
07:07 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Thursday found itself in a controversy after it stopped forthwith (rpt) fortwith the circulation of the latest issue of its mouthpiece whose editorial questioned the UPA Government's decision to send four ministers to the airport to receive yoga guru Ramdev. "Was it necessary for four ministers to go to airport? It is the government's duty to adopt positive attitude towards the demands of civil societies but...
10:15 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Social activist Arvind Kejriwal criticised the government's decision of imposing Section 144 in New Delhi when there was no security threat. ...
10:35 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Jammu: A bandh has been called by yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Yog Samiti in Jammu region on Wednesday in protest against his forceful eviction from Ramlila ground in New Delhi and to lend support to his agitation. "There will be a bandh and chaka jam tomorrow in protest against the New Delhi action and in support of Baba Ramdev's Satyagrah against corruption and blac kmoney," Dinesh Sharma, in-charge of...
02:09 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: An advocate on Sunday approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government to issue a white paper on the entire episode leading to the eviction of yoga guru Ramdev and the alleged barbaric police action early on Sunday against his followers at the Ramlila Grounds. The petition filed by Ajay Agarwal said in the white paper the government should explain the entire sequence of events, details...
08:45 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Ram Jethmalani criticised the central government's crackdown on Ramlila grounds saying that this step would agitate the people of the country and would lead to the end of the government. ...
06:15 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya said the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev's fast site was a sign that the government was scared of it's own sins. ...
06:11 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Anil Shastri on Sunday said the police crackdown of Baba Ramdev's agitation at Ramlila Grounds was "unfortunate and avoidable". In a posting on microblogging site Twitter, Shastri, who is also the editor of party mouthpiece 'Congress Sandesh', said, "What happened last night at Ramlila Grounds in Delhi was unfortunate and avoidable." He, however, maintained that it was the government and not the Congress party which...
05:02 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: After the midnight crackdown by the Delhi Police at the Ramlila Grounds, Baba Ramdev on Sunday was flown out of Delhi to Dehradun, from where he went to Haridwar in a special aircraft from the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The yoga guru's brother Rambharat confirmed that Ramdev reached his headquarters Patanjali Yog Peeth in Haridwar. Ramdev, who was initially taken to an undisclosed destination from the protest site,...
10:10 AM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Twenty-four hours ago, the Ramlila Grounds was brimming with activity, sea of humanity descended there to join Baba Ramdev's protest, but a late night police action gave a deserted look. The Ramlila Grounds, which has witnessed a series of historic protests, was filled with tear gas soon around 1.30 am after police swarmed the protest site and Ramdev was whisked away by the police. The premises, where the...
09:18 AM, Jun 05, 2011
The permission for yoga camp was cancelled and section 144 was imposed at the Ramlila Grounds as protestors were thrown out.
08:49 AM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev, whose indefinite fast was ended abruptly by Delhi Police in a mid-night swoop, on Sunday challenged the government to arrest him with a proper warrant and condemned the "excesses" on his followers. Speaking to a TV channel from an undisclosed location, he termed the police operation at Ramlila Maidan, venue of his agitation, as unfortunate. Ramdev said that "they (he and his followers) have not committed...
07:50 AM, Jun 05, 2011
