New Delhi: Punching holes in the claims of state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Planning Commission working paper said that Gujarat has underperformed in health and education sectors. According to a Planning Commission's paper on 'Refining State Level Comparisons in India', "Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have each underperformed in two of the three sectors analysed." The working paper 2012 series has analysed the performance of...
02:32 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: In an effort to regulate plying of autorickshaws, Delhi Government on Monday decided to introduce colour coding for vehicles based on the zones in which they operate and install an "emergency button" so that passengers can report any incident of overcharging and refusal to ply. The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting presided by Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami. He said the meeting decided to put different colored...
02:15 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday accused the Centre of playing politics in fund allocations to states and neglecting Odisha's long pending demand for special category status. "Getting special category status is the genuine rights of the state. It is not a mercy, but the right (of the state). The state deserves the special category status as it fulfils all the criteria...," BJD vice-president and state...
12:57 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Raipur: Naxalites on Monday night opened fire at CRPF camps in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district but the attack was repulsed by security personnel. Sources said three different camps of the paramilitary in south Bastar were targeted in Naxal gunfire which was suitably retaliated to by the troops. The firing went on for about an hour, they said. There has been no loss of life or property. "This is Maoists' regular strategy...
12:25 AM, Jun 11, 2013
In a big boost to Narendra Modi's political career, BJP President Rajnath Singh appointed the Gujarat Chief Minister party's election campaign committee chief for 2014 polls. ...
11:59 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Sidelined and left out in the cold by a party that he had nurtured since its infancy, Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani on Monday came out with all guns blazing by announcing his resignation from all party posts in a strongly-worded letter to party President Rajnath Singh in which he criticised leaders for trying to project themselves at the cost of the organisation. But the manner...
11:39 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Punching hole in the claims of state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Planning Commission working paper said that Gujarat has underperformed in health and education sectors. According a Planning Commission's paper on 'Refining State Level Comparisons in India', "Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have each underperformed in two of the three sectors analysed." The working paper 2012 series has analysed the performance of the...
10:55 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan said that LK Advani is a leader who inducted fascism into Indian politics. On the other hand, a person who is known to the world for massacring Muslims is being made the party hero. It goes to show where the BJP wants to lead the nation. Advani on Monday resigned from all party posts just a day after party President Rajnath ...
09:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday asked private lender Yes Bank to advance its board meeting and hold it before June 27 while asking plaintiff Madhu Kapur, wife of the bank's deceased co-founder Ashok Kapur, to name her nominee for a board position. Justice SJ Kathawala on Monday directed Madhu Kapur to make a formal representation to the bank, nominating her daughter Shagun Gogia as nominee-director, so that the...
08:30 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Lucknow: Samajwadi Pary MP Naresh Agarwal said that LK Advani's writing on Bhishma was a warning that BJP is splitting into two. It is certain that in a few days, the BJP will split into BJP Advani and BJP Modi. Advani on Monday resigned from all party posts just a day after party Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was anointed the chief of Central Election Committee for the 2014 Lok ...
06:55 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Monday resigned from all party posts just a day after party President Rajnath Singh made Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi the chief of Central Election Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
05:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Indian Police Services (IPS)lost the race for having one of its officers as the head of National Technical Research Organisation, the country's top intelligence and surveillance agency, with the government appointing a retired IAS officer to the post. Rentala Chandrasekhar, an IAS officer of 1975 batch ofAndhra Pradesh cadre, who retired as Telecom Secretary on March 31 this year, was named as the Chairman of NTRO. According to...
05:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is "ideologically hawkish, but economically opportunistic", a noted American scholar writes in a new book. In his latest book 'Shooting a Century' which hits book stores this week, Stephen P Cohen says that Modi epitomises a certain ambivalence towards Pakistan, which is the also the case with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul. "Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister and a rising star...
05:37 PM, Jun 10, 2013
A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place and in another time, a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isn't meant to. An immigrant housewife in...
05:23 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj Monday expressed "surprise" at BJP patriarch LK Advani's decision to resign from all party posts but said she was confident she would be able to convince him to take back his resignation. "I am going to his house and will talk to him and I am sure we will be able to convince him. I have spoken to him over phone and told...
05:21 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Does Modi's elevation as the party's 2014 LS elections committee chief automatically mean that he is the BJP's PM candidate? BJP's National Executive member Sheshadri Chari joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Why Mr Advani does not want Mr Modi to progress..he himself want to be PM? He has resigned from all the post he held in BJP? Asked by: Gurusaheb A. Yes, that is what...
05:17 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: Edward Snowden's decision to flee to Hong Kong as he prepared to expose the US government's secret surveillance programs may not save him from prosecution due to an extradition treaty in force since 1998. A 29-year-old former CIA employee, Snowden has identified himself as the person who gave the Guardian and the Washington Post classified documents about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) obtained data from US telecom...
05:04 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Shortly after LK Advani announced he is quitting from all his posts in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), party president Rajnath Singh tweeted he has not accepted the BJP stalwart's resignation. "I have not accepted Shri Advaniji's resignation," tweeted Rajnath. Advani's resignation came just a day after party made Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi the chief of its Central Election Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Advani...
04:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said. Furman, who will replace economist Alan Krueger as chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University and has advised Obama since his 2008 election campaign. Furman has been instrumental in formulating administration policies on taxes, the...
04:39 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New York: The appointment of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as chairman of campaign committee of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will ensure the victory of NDA in the 2014 General Elections ushering in a new era, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has said. He said the choice was a happy development for the nation and was welcomed by all sections of the community in India and abroad. "Modi is an...
04:22 PM, Jun 10, 2013
