Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. ...
11:31 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Sharad Yadav is all set to score a hat-trick as JD(U) President as the party prepares for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for 2014. Yadav is the only candidate to have filed nomination for the party chief's election scheduled on April 14 and his continuation at the helm is now a foregone conclusion. Tuesday was the last day for filing the nomination. Yadav accompanied by a number of...
03:16 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: 12:15 pm: Modi says public and private partnership in the health sector will be beneficial in future. "In our country if a child falls into a tubewell, there is 24-hour running commentary. One child's misfortune has the entire country in tears but when in our neighbourhood, a mother dies while giving birth, no one seems to care," says the Gujarat Chief Minister. 12:04 pm: Modi hits out at the...
11:45 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. Soon after Modi began his speech addressing the women present at the venue as his 'beheno' (sisters), the two hash tags, diametrically divided in their praise and mockery of the leader, started trending...
01:30 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address the annual general body meeting of the ladies' wing of industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on Monday. Modi will speak on the topic "Unleash the entrepreneur within; exploring new avenues", a FICCI official said. The Gujarat Chief Minister's appointment with FICCI comes close on the heels of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's address to another...
07:42 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Barrackpore: Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Sunday said there is "peace and tranquility" along the Line of Actual Control with China. "There is no problem. There is peace and tranquility on the Sino-India border," he told reporters Barrackpore in reply to a query. Singh's statement came a day ahead of the bi-annual Army commanders' conference in Delhi starting on Monday. The conference will be attended by the six operational...
04:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Amid the controversy over the hanging of Afzal Guru, Chief Justice of India(CJI) Altamas Kabir on Sunday said the families of death row convicts should be informed in advance about their execution. However, he sought to play down the controversy on the issue saying the past incidents should not be raked up again. "Procedure as has been in the past, they should have been informed and as far...
11:14 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Sunday said that the Delhi gangrape incident in December 2012 was not an isolated occurrence and episodes like that happened every day. He added that there can't be knee-jerk reactions to such cases and they need to be tackled in a proper way. Kabir was presiding over the conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of high courts in the capital....
06:45 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that it was wrong to compare him with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi. "Comparing me with Modi is wrong," Chouhan said, talking informally with reporters after a function to mark the 33rd foundation day of BJP here last evening. He said he was serving in Madhya Pradesh, and was not interested in anything beyond. Recently, while Modi was elevated to...
03:40 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justice of High Court in Delhi on Sunday. The conference will discuss the ways and means to streamline the justice delivery system in the country. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Altamas Kabir will preside over the function. With the establishment of three new High Courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura in March 2013,...
08:27 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: As hype over Narendra Modi's role in the next Lok Sabha elections grows, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Saturday hailed the Gujarat Chief Minister as the "most popular leader of the country" and said the BJP leader has followed the path of Mahatma Gandhi while developing Gujarat. Addressing a massive crowd during the celebrations of the party's 33rd Foundation Day in Ahmedabad, Rajnath also took...
07:55 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will break his indefinite fast against 'inflated' power and water bills on Saturday on the 15th day of his protest after launching the second phase of 'Civil Disobedience Movement'. Announcing his plans on Friday, Kejriwal invoked Anna Hazare in his speech and expressed his wish to break the fast after receiving a glass of juice from the 74-year-old activist with whom he had...
08:49 AM, Apr 06, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will call on ailing legendary singer Manna Dey in Bangalore Thursday. ...
01:05 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Special Court, trying the disproportionate asset case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, was adjourned till Wednesday for further recording of defence witnesses' evidence and their cross examination. ...
03:45 PM, Apr 02, 2013
IBN18 editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai speaks on the controversial issue regarding the IPL 6 participation of Sri Lankan players in Chennai. ...
12:55 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Kolkata Knight Riders chief executive Venky Mysore hopes his team will do a repeat of their IPL 5 triumph. ...
10:21 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The person who ordered the cake for Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's 75th birthday on March 31 was clearly unsure about her age. ...
03:12 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Congress on Sunday appointed a young dalit leader Ashok Choudhary, considered close to Rahul Gandhi, as the new PCC chief of Bihar, two and a half years after Mehboob Ali Qaiser resigned from the post following the drubbing in the last assembly elections. Congress President Sonia Gandhi has appointed Ashok Choudhary as president of the Bihar unit of the party, AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said. ...
03:15 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The indefinite fast of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal against "inflated" power and water bills entered the eighth day on Saturday with the party claiming that his health was within normal range. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Conceding to the demands of non-Congress Chief Ministers, the Centre has diluted the much touted NCTC with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde exuding confidence that the anti-terror hub would see the light of the day during the Chief Ministers' conference in New Delhi next month. ...
04:38 PM, Mar 28, 2013
