
New Delhi: High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna Core Committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim. Despite what both sides are saying, sources say there is a growing rift over the Ramdev, Anna Hazare tie-up. "I was the lone...

09:42 PM, Apr 22, 2012

Noida: Team Anna on Sunday decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers, whom they had named as "corrupt", seeking their responses to the allegations before going ahead with agitation seeking legal action against them. This was decided at a meeting of Team Anna's Core Committee, attended by Anna Hazare and other prominent members. "We have decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers facing serious allegations and whom we...

08:03 PM, Apr 22, 2012

Kolkata: Launching a broadside against Anna Hazare who has vowed to go on a fast from Tuesday over the Lokpal issue, Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday alleged that the activist is "challenging" the Constitution and Parliament's authority and such a step is "not acceptable". "So far as the Constitution is concerned, it is the state authority to make laws and not a third authority. Nobody can be compelled that...

06:26 PM, Aug 14, 2011

Chennai: Union Minister and DMK leader MK Alagiri on Sunday lashed out at a section of media for publishing 'false' reports about his family's wealth to tarnish his image and said he would initiate legal action against it. In a statement, Alagiri, Madurai-based son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, said all the properties of his family members were legally acquired and had been accounted. "All the properties acquired by my...

08:13 AM, Aug 08, 2011

Madurai: Union Minister MK Alagiri's personal assistant (political) and DMK leader Pottu Suresh was on Monday detained under the Goondas Act following a series of land grabbing cases against him today. Suresh, alias Suresh Babu, was detained following instructions from District Collector U Sagayam, police said. A fresh land grabbing case was also filed against Suresh today on a complaint filed by one Amarnat alleging that the DMK leader had...

09:27 AM, Jul 26, 2011

Panaji: With a view to evolve a consensus on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant in Maharashtra, the Union government has promised to take the civil rights groups, NGOs and activists into confidence. "It will be our attempt to engage all the civil society groups, NGOs and people, who have raised concerns (over the plant), so that their issues are addressed," Union Minister of State for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences,...

05:18 PM, Jun 12, 2011

Chennai: DMK leader and Union Minister MK Alagiri today said his party did not expect the Congress to "come back" for a possible patch up, a day after DMK announced pulling out of the Union cabinet following failure of seat sharing talks with Congress. "We don't expect Congress to come back," Alagiri, elder son of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, told reporters at the party headquarters here responding to queries if...

07:46 PM, Mar 06, 2011

Pathankot: Concerned over changes in weather pattern, the Centre has decided to import state-of-the-art super computer for accurate forecast which will help an estimated five crore farmers and fishermen. The super computer will alert the farmers who could take steps in advance to save their crops and also alert the fishermen to take safety measures before venturing into the sea, Union Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology and...

07:35 PM, Feb 18, 2011

Barabanki: Congress will get an absolute majority in 2012 Assembly polls to be held in Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister for Steel (independent charge) Beni Prasad Verma said here. "The coming 2012 UP Assembly polls will show strength of Congress, which will be getting an absolute majority," Verma said while addressing a gathering on his 71st birthday in his home town last evening. He also lashed out at his former companion...

04:00 PM, Feb 12, 2011

Dharamsala: The dignity and sanctity of the Gyuto Monastery should be maintained while conducting investigation into recovery of foreign currency worth over Rs 7.5 crore from the transit home of the Karmapa, Union Minister Virbhadra Singh today said. He also demanded a strict probe in other benami land cases of Tibetans and a thorough investigation in the benami land deals by outsiders in the state. Reacting to the Karmapa issue,...

04:34 PM, Feb 05, 2011

The BJP forgives the former Union minister for his Jinnah worship and is all set to get him back into the party. ...

11:14 PM, Jun 15, 2010

The socialist leader is living with his "estranged" wife Leila Kabir. ...

08:03 PM, Mar 11, 2010

The minister had sought anticipatory bail to father-son duo known to him. ...

03:30 PM, Jul 14, 2009

The minister had sought anticipatory bail to father-son duo known to him. ...

03:30 PM, Jul 14, 2009

Eminent jurists say that the judge should name the Union Minister. ...

10:54 PM, Jun 30, 2009