Others on the panel are Vikram Rathore (North), Saba Karim (East), Roger Binny (South) and Rajinder Hans (Central). ...
02:56 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's convoy on Wednesday met with an accident near Red Fort in old Delhi in which four security personnel and a senior official sustained minor injuries. The Chief Minister, however, remained unharmed. The accident occurred when one of the vehicles in Dikshit's convoy tried to save a cyclist who came in between two cars of the entourage. The car carrying Dikshit had moved well...
05:56 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Mumbai: Businesses in Maharashtra's Baramati town, a stronghold of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), were shut in the morning hours on Wednesday to protest the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The NCP leader's resignation on Tuesday evening had also led to protests in other parts of the state, including Yavatmal, Aurangabad and Pune. Nineteen of his party colleagues also offered to quit by NCP chief and Ajit Pawar's...
12:41 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan says after the controversial FDI decisions, the government must now focus on banking reforms. ...
08:10 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to accept the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, said sources. The Chief Minister, who was on his way to Pune, had returned after Ajit Pawar, the nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, announced his decision to quit as the Deputy Chief Minister over allegations of irregularities in irrigation projects. This came after other ministers...
08:53 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has confirmed that he has received a letter from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar tendering resignation as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state. Addressing mediapersons over the issue, Chavan said that he would take a final decision on the issue after consulting his ministers from both the Congress as well as the NCP. The Chief Minister further said that Pawar had...
05:18 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Pointing out that the biggest challenge the country faces is to get inclusive growth, Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia on Saturday said the government's focus should be to promote policies which generate employment. The CJI said that 10 million jobs need to be created in the country annually. "If growth goes down, unemployment will increase and at that point investment is important," he said in his address...
12:10 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Chief Minister-baiting is back again. This time, the barracking is being led by deputy chief minister Damodara Rajanarasimha. Back-up vocals are being provided by K Jana Reddy, D L Ravindra Reddy and G Prasad Kumar. In the chorus line are former ministers J C Diwakar Reddy, Gade Venkata Reddy and Adala Prabhakar Reddy. This band of dissenters went into a huddle in the deputy chief ministers chambers in the...
10:46 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that politics is one profession where no training is required. Speaking in a lighter vein after inaugurating a seminar at 'Industry-Responsive Skill Convention' at Gandhinagar, Modi said, "Skill is required for almost all the professions, but you do not need any training for being a politician, the profession in which I am." "Once a leader told his driver that he himself...
10:53 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Bangalore: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has expressed confidence that he will return as the Chief Minister after the Assembly polls next year. As long as I have peoples support, nobody can finish me. I will return as the CM with the blessings of you (people) after the Assembly elections, Yeddyurappa said at a BJP workers meet at Hirekerur in Haveri district on Sunday. He also took an indirect...
01:36 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Kolkata: President Pranab Mukherjee was on Friday felicitated by the West Bengal government with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaving no stone unturned to lay out a red carpet for him. From a guard of honour at the airport to a grand public reception at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, the state government went all out to make Mukherjee's first visit as president to Kolkata a memorable one. "We are proud that...
09:43 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Former Chief Justice of India Ranganath Mishra died at a private hospital in Bhubaneshwar on Thursday night following prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 86 and survived by wife Sumitra Mishra. A legal luminary, Mishra had been admitted to the hospital on May 22 following old-age related ailments and the end came on Thursday night. A multi-faceted personality closely associated with writing and cultural activities, Mishra was born...
02:25 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: Justice Altamas Kabir will be the new Chief Justice of India and will assume charge Sep 29, said official sources Thursday. Incumbent Chief Justice SH Kapadia will relinquish office September 28. Born on July 19, 1948 at Kolkata, Justice Kabir did his LLB and MA from the University of Calcutta. He was enrolled at the Bar on August 1, 1973 and was made a permanent judge of Calcutta...
09:30 PM, Sep 13, 2012
The Goa government has stopped work at all 90 mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Indore: A police guard posted at the residence of Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kantilal Bhuria was found dead in Indore on Tuesday morning, police said. The deceased has been identified as Gajraj Singh Parihar (46), who was deployed at the house of PCC president and former Union Minister Kantilal Bhuria located in scheme no 78 in Lasudiya area in Indore, police said. A police officer probing the incident said that...
05:19 PM, Sep 11, 2012
The situation remains tense at Tuticorin railway station in the neighbouring district from where protesters have been attempting to travel to Kudankulam. ...
11:48 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kudankulam: The protests over the Kudankulam nuclear power plant on Monday turned violent and even led to the death of one fisherman in the police firing. The violent protests also compelled Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to issue a statement calling for an end to the whole stir. The fisherman was killed as the police had to open fire in the evening following day-long clashes to control the anti-nuclear...
11:30 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bangalore: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is said to have conveyed to the high command that if not him, a candidate of his choice should be made the partys state unit president. Party sources said the Lingayat strongman had suggested three names - Major Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani, PWD Minister C M Udasi and Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje - for the post. All the three are his staunch followers...
11:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Muslims are outnumbering Hindus in Assam not because of the increase in illegal migration from Bangladesh but because Muslims are illiterate and bear more children. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the Chief Minister took full responsibility for the communal riots and said that there were multiple reasons behind it. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Speaking on Devil's Advocate with Karan...
11:07 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Lucknow: Stepping up its offensive against the BJP, Government on Saturday said the opposition party should ask its Chief Ministers to resign in the Coalgate row since the state governments decide who gets the mining lease. "The basic question is that who executes the lease," Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said, two days after the Centre made public letters written to it by BJP and other non-Congress state chief ministers...
04:50 PM, Sep 08, 2012
