Senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha are among the prominent leaders who have failed to find a place in the new party President Rajnath Singh's core team. Both Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha have been senior Ministers in the NDA colaition government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Sticking to its stand on NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate, Janata Dal (United) leader Neeraj Kumar said the country's Prime Minister should have 'secular credentials'. ...
01:58 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Congress on Sunday said the newly constituted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) team will have to pass the Karnataka elections exam first. The BJP announced its new Parliamentary Board and as speculated, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was reinducted into the panel after a gap of six years. Among the other new members, who were appointed in the board, were Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat...
01:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its new Parliamentary Board and as speculated, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was reinducted into the panel after a gap of six years. The other new members, who were appointed in the board, were Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah. ...
10:51 AM, Mar 31, 2013
In a major boost to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to reinduct him in party's Parliamentary Board, which is expected to be finalised on Sunday. Modi, if selected for the Parliamentary Board, will be returning to the panel after a gap of six years. He was earlier appointed as a member of the board by Rajnath Singh in his previous...
08:09 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The PCB has requested the Cricket South Africa to send their team to Pakistan for the Test and one-day series in October-November this year. ...
01:34 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Pakistan's national selection committee will meet to name the probables for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in England in June. ...
01:21 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Traffic police in Bangalore have devised a new method of keeping traffic violations in check. The police have mounted cardboard cutouts of police officers around the city to deter violations. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Social magazine app Flipboard launched on Tuesday one of its biggest overhauls to date allowing readers to create and share their own magazines in a bid to keep growing in popularity. ...
11:37 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Seeking to instill confidence in burgeoning atomic power sector, India is planning to ask the IAEA to conduct a peer review of its nuclear regulatory system after it is recast. The Atomic Energy Commission is preparing to invite the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) to examine its regulatory system, which will get statutory status after the passage of the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority (NSRA) Bill...
12:07 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The Coal India board has sought clarifications on draft agreement with the Limpopo government in South Africa on responsibilities to be shared between them while acquiring mines through a JV, a move that may delay the company's acquisition plans. The government of Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, had approached Coal India Ltd (CIL) requesting it to form a joint venture with one of its public sector firms for...
10:55 AM, Mar 24, 2013
The Government on Saturday ruled out extending the deadline beyond March 31 for schools to meet RTE requirements even as it conceded that many states were lagging behind and said a committee is being set up to expedite the implementation process. ...
11:16 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a BlackBerry! May be too surprising, but it's true. "I am a BlackBerry user. I like the keyboard of BlackBerry," said Schmidt answering some rapid-fire questions from the Editor of a British daily at Google's Big Tent - a forum to discuss Internet and its impact on economy, governance etc. ...
11:30 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Nearly 1,600 students, caught cheating in Bihar's Class 10 boards, were expelled from the exams and over 100 parents who helped them use unfair means were arrested, an official said on Monday. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The ICC on Monday lauded the Bangladesh Cricket Board for imposing a 10-year ban on umpire Nadir Shah, who was caught negotiating money for favourable decisions in an Indian TV sting operation last year. ...
06:53 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 per cent literacy rate, has achieved another distinction of having the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country at just 0.53 per cent. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Allegedly depressed because of her poor show in a board exam, a class 12 student committed suicide in New Delhi on Friday , police said. Kalpana, 19, residing in east Delhi's Usmanpur area had not performed well in her accounts exam held on Friday and feared that she might fail. ...
02:08 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Market regulator SEBI on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking detention of Sahara group promoter Subrata Roy Sahara and barring him from leaving the country after two companies of the group failed to comply with court's order to refund Rs 24,000 crore to its investors. ...
11:25 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has moved the Supreme Court, asking for the detention of Sahara Group Chairman Subrata Roy for not following the court's orders. Two companies of the Sahara Group were ordered to refund Rs 24,000 crore to subscribers. ...
02:48 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Reacting to the Censor Board's stance that item numbers in films will be examined on a case-to-case basis, actress Kareena Kapoor has said this will not stop her from doing such songs. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 12, 2013
