A man has been questioned by the Mumbai police on Wednesday for allegedly posting derogatory remark against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Facebook. Sources say the police are yet to lodge an FIR in the case after the youth identified as Sunil Vishwakarma allegedly posted derogatory remark against the MNS chief. ...
07:25 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Amidst the raging controversy over the appointment of the new CBI director Ranjit Sinha, the outgoing chief of the investigative agency AP Singh has gone on record to state that it was actually the CBI itself that had first mooted the idea of a collegium to appoint the CBI Director. Echoing the Opposition BJP's demand for a body, comprising of PM, the CJI and the Leader of Opposition in the...
02:34 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has refused to comment on the scathing criticism of him by suspended party leader Ram Jethmalani in a letter addressed toe the party's parliamentary board earlier on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Jaitley said that Jethmalani's remark hinting at his involvement in the CBI director appointment row did not deserve any reply. ...
11:53 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Jethmalani has taken his criticism of his party leaders one step further. On Tuesday morning, in a letter addressed to the BJP Parliamentary Board, the senior Supreme Court lawyer poured vitriol over not just party chief Nitin Gadkari, whom he has been pressing to resign for the past few weeks, but also Arun Jaitley, who, he alleged had a role to play in the...
10:21 AM, Nov 27, 2012
After supporting Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha's demand of resignation by Nitin Gadkari as BJP chief, party leader Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday sided with Jethmalani again on appointment of Ranjit Sinha as new CBI director, saying there was no ground to initiate disciplinary action against the lawyer-turned politician. ...
08:19 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha member and Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday questioned his party's objection over the appointment of the new CBI director. Jethmalani wrote a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari saying, "BJP is wrong in questioning the appointment of CBI director." ...
02:14 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: An avid animal lover, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee resorted to peaceful means to get rid of a langur that gate crashed an event in Hooghly's Chandernagore. She started chanting mantras hoping that the simian would leave the place on its own, according to a video posted by ABP News on their YouTube channel. The mantras - Chandi Path - apparently worked because the ABP News reporter...
02:35 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh has sought Rs 1,550 crore from the central government for relief in areas affected by cyclone Nilam. Addressing the meeting of chief ministers and finance ministers of the five southern states in Bangalore on Tuesday, Andhra Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy called for early release of funds for cyclone relief work. "Due to Nilam cyclone, around 20 lakh acres of standing crop has been damaged. The...
01:49 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh compared her with anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal, Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant on Monday hit back at the politician writing a complaint letter against him to the commissioner of Mumbai police. In her letter to the police chief, Sawant accused the Congress leader of making indecent and lewd remarks, and asked for an FIR to be filed against him for outraging the...
06:02 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Facing shortage of critical weapon systems and ammunition, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh will brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the "hollowness" faced by the 1.3 million-strong force in its defence preparedness. Gen Bikram Singh will make a presentation before the Prime Minister about the "hollowness" faced by the force and the steps needed to do away with them in the next few weeks, Government sources said. The...
01:55 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief warned on Monday, in a veiled challenge to the Supreme Court, that any efforts to undermine the military and "draw a wedge" between it and its citizens would not be tolerated. Chief Supreme Court Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry ruled last month that the military must stop interfering in politics, a rare challenge to Pakistan's powerful generals. The ruling has stoked tensions between the court and the military,...
10:54 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her government has not interfered in the issue of the screening of the film 'Teen Kanya', which is said to be based on the Park Street rape case, and called it campaign by a certain section of the media to malign the administration with misinformation. "I will give you an example of how such concocted stories in which the...
07:29 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Srinagar: Following the footsteps of his son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah has also surrendered his two LPG connections. This after IBNLive had reported how amid a massive crisis of LPG cylinders in the Kashmir Valley, the Chief Minister was enjoying the luxury of three connections. Farooq and Omar Abdullah surrendered their two extra LPG connections each on Saturday. Like his son Omar,...
08:01 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Srinagar: Amid a massive crisis of LPG cylinders in the Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who should lead by an example, enjoys multiple gas connections. It is ironic that when people have to wait for hours and sometime pay a hefty amount as bribe to get their LPG connections verified, the Chief Minister has three active gas connections under his name, all of them in Srinagar....
08:18 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Former Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Friday took his protest against the central government a step further when he indicated he may join a canegrowers' planned gherao of Parliament on December four. Appearing on a new platform to back Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan's (RKMS) demand for rejection of Rangarajan Committee report on freeing the sugar sector, he said the committee's recommendation on doing away with State Advisory...
05:20 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Sunanda Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister. ...
11:58 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor, has hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling her Rs 50 crore girlfriend of the Congress leader. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister....
10:20 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after he went after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for attacking Sunanda Pushkar, Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD), Shashi Tharoor, said he has never shied away from acknowledging his wife in public or private. Tharoor was responding to a Twitter user's accusation that he had admitted in Parliament that he had "nothing to do with the person" (Pushkar) with 'sweat equity' worth Rs 70...
12:39 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lanka's ruling coalition is all set to impeach the country's first woman Chief Justice on the charges of "improper conduct" after weeks of a simmering spat between the executive and the judiciary, a media report said. A motion to remove Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake from the post will be handed over to the parliamentary speaker on Thursday, the Sinhala language daily 'Lankadeepa' said on Wednesday. The government parliamentary...
12:35 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Newly appointed MOS HRD Shashi Tharoor made a comeback on twitter- taking on the man the Congress loves to hate. ...
11:39 PM, Oct 30, 2012
