New Delhi: Petrol prices were slashed by Rs 2 on Saturday, a day before the Anna-Ramdev fast and on a day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who asked for a rollback. The timing of the much awaited cut in petrol prices cannot be missed. Sources say that the government was not keen on a rollback soon after the Bharat Bandh, which is when oil companies...
09:58 PM, Jun 02, 2012
People feel that a Rs 2 cut in the petrol price will not be of any help and it should have been at least Rs 5 per litre. ...
07:39 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: In what comes as a relief to the common man, petrol prices will be cut by Rs 2 per litre with effect from Saturday midnight. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Minister of State for petroleum, RPN Singh, said that the oil companies were giving back their gain to the people by slashing the price. "Oil companies are giving back their gain to the people by slashing prices by Rs 2....
05:46 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a one-day trip to Kolkata, where he will be attending two events - one at the Bose Institute, and the other at Calcutta University, where he's set to share the dais with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. This will be the leaders' first meeting after the petrol price hike, which the TMC chief has been protesting against....
09:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Does the Kashmir interlocutors' report make proposals that could turn around India's troubled state? ...
09:51 PM, May 29, 2012
Toronto: Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief legal officer is retiring from the company after 12 years. RIM said that Karima Bawa had been in discussions about her retirement for some time and plans to stay on to help with the transition once a replacement has been hired. The once-iconic BlackBerry company is facing its most difficult period...
10:06 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray at the latter's residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra. The meeting comes a day after the national executive meeting of BJP concluded in Mumbai. BJP sources described the meeting as a courtesy call by Gadkari. The BJP chief had also met Thackeray last month, in an apparent effort to remove the "misunderstanding" that had crept into their relations...
03:27 PM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Mumbai on Friday, hit out at the Centre, saying the UPA government had no leader or policy. Terming the UPA government as a 'Darbar of Nirmal Baba', the BJP leader slammed it over the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Modi said that the norms of the Central counter-terror body denied the states their rights. The Gujarat...
11:33 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: As controversies dogged BJP's national executive meeting in Mumbai, Congress on Friday took a dig at the principal opposition terming it a "splintered and fractured" party. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari said the meet exposed the "spectre of one President, one super President and a couple of hyper Presidents, which make up the quorum of BJP". Trashing the resolutions passed by the BJP's national executive, he said the entire...
02:40 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: The divide within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is out in the open with veteran leader Lal Krishna Advani and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, skipping the national executive meeting in Mumbai. They have also decided to not attend a rally of the party. The absence of the senior leaders came as the BJP decided to extend Nitin Gadkari's tenure as the party president while some...
05:43 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Despite a new found bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari, differences in BJP seem to be far from over at its National Executive meeting in Mumbai on Friday with leaders LK Advani and Sushama Swaraj set to stay away from a rally scheduled for Friday evening. "Advani's schedule was fixed earlier so he won't be there and Swaraj has to attend a programme in Ghaziabad tomorrow morning," party...
04:14 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: The war within the BJP is out in the open. A day after skipping the BJP national executive meet where a resolution was passed extending Nitin Gadkari's term as president, senior leader LK Advani is unlikely to attend Friday's rally. Advani is reportedly upset with party's state of affairs and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. The senior BJP leader will return to Delhi instead. Sources have told CNN-IBN...
12:20 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: BJP leaders and rivals Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari will share the stage on Friday on day two of the BJP national executive in Mumbai. In a show of strength vis-a-vis the party President, the Gujarat Chief Minister on Thursday forced the resignation of his critic Sanjay Joshi from BJP national executive, as an apparent price for his participation in the meet. The Modi issue dominated the first day's...
07:29 AM, May 25, 2012
Bangalore: Showering encomiums on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for good governance, Karnataka BJP strongman BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday said the ongoing party national executive at Mumbai should deliberate on promoting him as Prime Ministerial candidate, among other issues. "The national executive should deliberate on the issues rocking Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan and promote Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate," he said. "According to a survey, Modi is the most popular...
03:40 AM, May 25, 2012
Bangalore: In a U-turn, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has decided to attend the BJP national executive meet at Mumbai. "Yeddyurappa will fly to Mumbai tomorrow morning to attend the BJP national executive meeting after he had a telephonic conversation with Nitin Gadkari (BJP president) and senior party leader Arun Jaitley," a source close to Yeddyurappa said. Yeddyurappa, who is sulking over the party central leadership for 'sidelining' him,...
10:05 PM, May 24, 2012
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