Bangalore: Capping an intense campaign that saw sparks fly, Karnataka goes to high-stake assembly polls on SUnday amid elaborate security arrangements. The main players - the ruling BJP, the Congress and JDS - were engaged in high pitched campaigning, as also Karnataka Janatha Party of former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, who has broken away from BJP. Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi led the Congress charge against the beleaguered...
09:42 PM, May 04, 2013
The Opposition has demanded the immediate resignation of Railway Minister. Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said that this is a clear case criminal liability. ...
09:36 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Amid demands for his resignation over his nephew's arrest on bribery charge, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Saturday presented his case before the top Congress leadership, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi. Bansal was a special invitee on Saturday to the meeting of the Congress Core Group, hours after party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi dismissed the Opposition's demand for the Railway Minister's resignation....
06:59 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday announced extension of polling time by an hour up to 6 pm in the Sunday's Karnataka Assembly Elections, in view of the weather conditions and excessive heat. While the EC had earlier fixed the polling time from 7 am to 5 pm, it has now announced that polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm in the entire state. "The Commission...
06:20 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday rejected demands for Railway Minister PK Bansal's resignation over the arrest of his nephew for allegedly fixing top level promotions in the Railway Board. The party said it has become a "disease" of the Opposition to make such demands. "For those who are demanding resignation, it has become a disease," Congress General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi said. He said Bansal has given a clarification in...
03:25 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Attacking the government over the alleged Railway Board bribery case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's resignation and said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should prosecute the Union Minister. The main Opposition party also alleged that because Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi protect their ministers, they indulge in corrupt activities. "This government is no more a common...
11:38 AM, May 04, 2013
Bangalore: As the countdown begins for Sunday's voting in the Karnataka elections, the Congress is wearing a confident look and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to offset the BS Yeddyurappa factor and hold on to power. High-profile leaders have made their pitch in the last few days of the campaign. As voters get ready to exercise their will in the 223 constituencies, most pre-poll surveys are giving the...
10:09 AM, May 04, 2013
BJP leader Ram Asrey Kushwaha said the PM and Sonia Gandhi should remove corrupt ministers from the government and Bansal must resign on moral grounds. ...
09:59 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Sources said on Saturday that the government might ask Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to explain his role in the bribery case, in which his nephew Vijay Singla was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday. Bansal, however, has claimed that he had no knowledge about the matter. "I had no knowledge or clue about the matter at all. He or any other relative of...
09:14 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Seeking to blunt BJP critcism of "inaction" by UPA government in Sarabit Singh case, the Congress on Friday released a paper documenting actions taken by the government in the matter and accused NDA of "never raising the issue" when the Opposition alliance was in power. The three-page document released by AICC said "it started in 1990. Sarabjit was in jail all through NDA rule but never did the...
10:26 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Despite strong protest by the BJP and Aam Admi Party against rising power tariff, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission on Friday hiked the rates by 1.5 per cent to adjust the power purchase cost of the distribution companies. The DERC has fixed 4.5 per cent fuel surcharge for BSES Yamuna Power Ltd and BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd while for Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd the surchgarge will be...
09:28 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Friday expressed solidarity with the Sikh community which is anguished over acquittal of Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and accused Congress of failing to ensure punishment to the guilty. "I empathies with the community which feels betrayed as justice has not only been delayed but justice has been denied to them," Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said. He said successive Congress governments...
08:58 PM, May 03, 2013
Jammu: The BJP on Friday demanded compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the family of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh who was attacked and beaten to death by inmates in a Pakistani jail and said, he should be granted the status of a martyr. "A compensation of Rs 25 lakh has been demanded for the family members of Chamel Singh who died in Kot Lakhpat Jail on January 15 this year...
08:46 PM, May 03, 2013
Will Karnataka's urban dwellers turn out in large numbers to decide the state's fate this coming Sunday? Or will they act as bystanders as the state votes for a new government? Subramaniam Vincent, co-founder and editor, Citizen Matters, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Money power can not be done away, since greed can not be done away. Will Kiran Majumdar Shaw's suggestion of Public funding...
03:47 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Proceedings in Parliament were disrupted on Friday with the Lok Sabha adjourning for the day at noon, as members of several parties raised slogans on a variety of demands, including Prime Minister's resignation over alleged scam in coal block allocation. Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2.30 PM soon after it reassembled at noon after one adjournment following uproar over BJP demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan...
01:42 PM, May 03, 2013
Mangalore: Senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday cautioned Karnataka's electorate against voting for the Congress in the state legislative assembly poll May 5, 2013, as it had failed on all fronts at the national level. "You have seen how the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government in Delhi has been faring during the last nine years, how it failed to control price rise, inflation and in...
05:33 AM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the UPA government of "degrading" constitutional institutions and endangering the federal structure of the country. "All our constitutional institutions are being degraded. If we don't give strength to our constitutional institutions, all systems will be finished," Modi said. "A democracy functions according to systems. It cannot be based on individuals. People may come and go, but the system of democracy is...
03:57 AM, May 03, 2013
Many political parties on Thursday condemned the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore hospital and demanded the government should pressurise Pakistan to hand over the body to his family. ...
11:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Bangalore: In a last-minute bid to woo Bangalore voters, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday promised to extend the city's nightlife by two hours if voted to power. The BJP claimed it will extend the 11.00 pm deadline to 1.00 am for restaurants and up to midnight for bars. The party also promised to build a new reservoir to cater to the city's water problem. ...
11:32 PM, May 02, 2013
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