Hardwar: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday reiterated that the administration was facing no shortage of funds or resources in carrying out relief and rescue operations in the flood and landslide ravaged areas of the state.
Even as the death toll crossed 100, Bahuguna said that he was not in a situation to give the exact estimate of the people killed in the calamity.
Speaking on the wide scale damages in the state as a result of torrential rains, massive landslides and flash floods, Bahuguna said that pilgrimage for the Chardham Yatra will take over a year to commence again, adding that the path leading to Kedarnath shrine has been reduced to debris.
The Chief Minister claimed that the devastation could have been much worse had the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand not been there. He said the dam has helped control the flood water, which could have washed away western Uttar Pradesh....
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05:29 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, who will be in the national capital on Monday evening, is expected to meet senior BJP leader LK Advani on Tuesday. The meeting is likely to take place even as Advani continues to voice his grievance over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's elevation as poll panel chief. RSS chief had played peacemaker earlier and averted the Bharatiya Janata Party's crisis by...
10:15 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan admitted that Indian economy suffers due to slow decision making processes in the government. Rajan also incised the Indian economic system for creating barriers to improve the business environment in the country while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How adequately has the government responded to the sharp...
09:05 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan has admitted that Indian economy suffers due to slow decision making processes in the government. Rajan also incised the Indian economic system for creating barriers to improve the business environment in the country while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: The government knows it needs to act, fails to act and is well...
07:46 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Kadapa: There were over one lakh duplicate voters in the voters list in Kadapa district, state Chief Election Officer Banwar Lal said on Saturday. Kadapa is the native district of YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Addressing a meeting of political parties and officials at the Collectorate today, he said that about 50,000 duplicate voters were noticed in the list of Kadapa Municipal Corporation itself. He directed the officials...
10:09 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Hyderabad: The Kharif agricultural season is progressing well in Andhra Pradesh, thanks to good rains in the first fortnight of this month. The state as a whole received 88 mm of rainfall since June 1, which is 69 per cent more than the normal 52.1 mm. This is seen as a good tiding for the state which reeled under drought last year and had deficient rainfall in 2011, vastly affecting...
06:58 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Nawada: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Tuesday hailed Narendra Modi's anointment as the poll campaign chief of BJP and said that the decision will boost party's prospects in the Assembly polls in several states as well as in the next General Elections. "The BJP stands to gain immensely in the ensuing Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, besides the next General Elections following the Gujarat...
05:25 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said it will take steps to increase foreign investment flows into the country to strengthen rupee and the regulators will act at appropriate time to contain the fall in domestic currency that touched a record low of 58.96 to a dollar. "We will continue to implement measures to ensure that portfolio investor inflows are enabled and encouraged and some of these measures will...
04:50 PM, Jun 11, 2013
The Congress has hit out at the Central Information Commission for proposing to bring political parties under the Right to Information Act. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari said CIC's order is "a bit of a stretch." He was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is the full transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Why does the Congress party object to...
11:34 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Punching hole in the claims of state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Planning Commission working paper said that Gujarat has underperformed in health and education sectors. According a Planning Commission's paper on 'Refining State Level Comparisons in India', "Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have each underperformed in two of the three sectors analysed." The working paper 2012 series has analysed the performance of the...
10:55 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Stunned by party patriarch LK Advani's decision to quit key posts, BJP's top decision-making body Parliamentary Board on Monday night rejected his resignation, insisting that the party needs his "guidance more than ever before". The Board held an urgent meeting at the residence of party chief Rajnath Singh hours after Advani resigned from Parliamentary Board, National Executive and Election Committee to protest Narendra Modi being made Campaign Committee...
10:45 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said. Furman, who will replace economist Alan Krueger as chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University and has advised Obama since his 2008 election campaign. Furman has been instrumental in formulating administration policies on taxes, the...
04:39 PM, Jun 10, 2013
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11:55 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Narendra Modi has now taken centre stage in the national politics after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose the Gujarat Chief Minister to be its poll panel chief, thrusting him on to a bigger role for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The party took the plunge on day-two of its crucial National Executive meet in Goa, ignoring reservations from senior leaders like LK Advani, who stayed away from the conclave. ...
11:50 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh hinted that perhaps it was the end of LK Advani era as the BJP chose Narendra Modi as its poll panel chief for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "The BJP will continue to receive guidance from LK Advani. Party is going through a new phase, it is re-assessing its campaign startegy. Inducting new people into poll planning will definately help the party in elections," he said. ...
11:41 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who hosted the BJP National Executive meet, said, "Campaign chief is definitely the face of the party for elections." ...
11:08 PM, Jun 09, 2013
BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the decision to elevate Narendra Modi as party's poll panel chief was reached after taking party's consensus into account. ...
10:16 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, while commenting on Narendra Modi's elevation to BJP's poll panel chief, said, "It is unfortunate for the nation that someone who is accused of massacring people is being pitched as the next prime minister. People are getting the message that the Congress is weak, the BJP is weak, so only a third front can deliver an able government." ...
10:02 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Narendra Modi has now taken centre stage in the national politics after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose the Gujarat Chief Minister to be its poll panel chief, thrusting him on to a bigger role for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
09:44 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Is the rise of Narendra Modi an end to the Advani-Vajpayee era? Senior BJP leader says "change is always a continous process." "Any party which has an ability to throw up a new leadership, not out of family but on ability, it is always a good sign for the party," he said. ...
09:38 PM, Jun 09, 2013
