Mumbai: An India-Pakistan media conclave in Mumbai has urged the two countries to cut their military expenditure and focus more on socio-economic development. "Increasing tensions between India and Pakistan, piling up of arms worth billions of dollars, helps only arms merchants of the US and other countries... and is not in the interests of India and Pakistan," Karachi Press Club president Tahir Hasan Khan said Saturday. Khan, who is leading...
02:20 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial 'The Satanic Verses' as also bestsellers like 'Midnight's Children' and 'Shame', on Saturday denounced "disgraceful vote bank politics" being practised in the country and said "95 per cent of Muslims in India are not interested in violence being done in their name". Returning to India two months after he was stopped from attending the Jaipur Literary Festival, Rushdie spoke at...
02:29 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after controversial author Salman Rushdie hit out at Congress and Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday that the Congress was adopting a "selective approach" in this regard. "That was unfortunate... Congress and pseudo-secular parties were selective in their approach," he told reporters in Hyderabad. Venkaiah was reacting to Rushdie's comment that his presence at the Jaipur Literary Festival held in January was...
06:29 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: Controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday targetted the Congress party, particularly Rahul Gandhi at the India Today Conclave, saying his presence was blocked in the Jaipur Literature Festival due to "useless electoral calculations". He suggested that this "led to the debacle" of Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Rushdie said "Deobandi bigotry" and "kneeling to mullahs" had not worked for the Congress, alluding to their recent loss in the state...
07:36 AM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: Acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial "The Satanic Verses" as also bestsellers like "Midnight's Children" and "Shame", on Saturday denounced "disgraceful vote bank politics" being practised in the country and said "95 per cent of Muslims in India are not interested in violence being done in their name". Returning to India two months after he was stopped from attending the Jaipur Literary Festival, Rushdie spoke at...
02:30 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday night defended his decision to skip the India Today Conclave saying ensuring there were no communal clashes in Rajouri town was more important than attending the meet in Delhi. "My job was to ensure we avoided the possibility of serious communal clashes in Rajouri. The rest is unimportant", Omar wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter. The Chief Minister was responding...
12:38 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tonight defended his decision to skip the India Today Conclave saying ensuring there were no communal clashes in Rajouri town was more important than attending the meet in Delhi. "My job was to ensure we avoided the possibility of serious communal clashes in Rajouri. The rest is unimportant", Omar wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter. The Chief Minister was responding to a...
11:59 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Two months after he was forced to skip a literary fest in Jaipur, controversial writer Salman Rushdie on Saturday night attended a function in New Delhi amid tight security. The controversial author of 'The Satanic Verses', which was banned in India owing to protest from a section of Muslims, attended the 'India Today Conclave' at Taj Palace attended by a select group invitees. He spoke at a session...
09:07 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Author Salman Rushdie's literary session at the India Today Conclave has been postponed by a day to Saturday following a sudden change in schedule, the organisers said. The organisers refused to cite any specific reason for the change and said the session would be open for select invitees only. Tight security arrangements are in place here to prevent any trouble during the visit of Salman Rushdie, the controversial...
03:19 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has reportedly cancelled a visit to India after it emerged that author Salman Rushdie would be speaking at the same conference. The Express Tribune reported that Imran Khan refused to attend the India Today conclave in New Delhi if Salman Rushdie was also going to be present. A leader from Imran's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), Shireen Mazari, issued a statement that Khan cancelled his...
06:49 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Indore: Infosys founder NR Narayan Murthy on Friday said that the biggest malady of the country at present was the apathy to social problems. "We feel that problems surrounding us belong to somebody else. We do not take action or rather postpone the decision," he said, addressing Indore Management Association's International Management Conclave here. "Management is all about maximising the outcome while optimising utilisation of sources. Hence it is extremely...
10:27 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: India is not expecting any 'concrete' or 'final pronouncement' at the climate conclave in Durban later this year on four key issues, including one pertaining to emission cuts. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, however, said it does not mean that "we should not negotiate, we should not discuss or exchange views" on the crucial climate change issues. "One should understand it very clearly that we are not going to...
01:45 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Gadkari hints that he wants change in the approach of his party colleagues. ...
10:58 AM, Feb 18, 2010
BJP's three-day national conclave beings in Indore from Wednesday. ...
09:36 AM, Feb 17, 2010
The speeches by Bhartiya Janta Party leaders are becoming a cause for concern for many political outfits. ...
11:43 PM, Dec 26, 2006
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