A day after the two leaders of opposition questioned the appointment of Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Ranjit Sinha as the new Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), support for the government came from unexpected quarters. Senior Supreme Court lawyer and BJP leader Ram Jethmalani congratulated the PM for "averting a national disaster" by appointing Sinha instead of the "other person who wanted to become the CBI chief"....
08:18 AM, Nov 25, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party's internal troubles resurfaced on Saturday with the party taking a serious note of Ram Jethmalani questioning the stance over appointment of new CBI chief and Shatrughan Sinha joining those who have asked party president Nitin Gadkari to step down as party chief. ...
07:57 AM, Nov 25, 2012
BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday said he was 'ideologically' with Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha who have sought the resignation of party president Nitin Gadkari over allegation of corruption. ...
07:17 PM, Nov 24, 2012
BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday said he was 'ideologically' with Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha who have sought the resignation of party president Nitin Gadkari over allegation of corruption. ...
07:17 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Kunigal: Stating that he would resign as BJP legislator from the Assembly by the month end, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday said he would focus on building his new party. "By month end I will tender my resignation as BJP legislator in the state assembly and focus on building my new party," he told reporters after worshipping at Yedyur Siddalingeshwarswamy Temple in Kunigal. Yeddyurappa said BJP ministers...
01:05 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha faced the ire of some party activists, who launched a poster war against him for demanding the resignation of BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who is facing allegations of corruption. Some BJP workers allegedly put up a huge poster in New Delhi in which Sinha has been shown as a corrupt leader. The poster seen on Thursday morning in the national...
04:34 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: A 16-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making has called on the BJP to stop its party president Nitin Gadkari from leading an anti-corruption march in New Delhi. The march is scheduled for Tuesday, November 21, 2012. The funding behind Gadkari's business - the Purti Sugar and Power Group - is currently under investigation and...
12:39 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Hours after Yashwant Sinha fired a salvo at party president demanding his resignation, sources in the party said that the BJP is not willing to sacrifice Nitin Gadkari at this stage. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said that those in public life should be beyond reproach. ...
11:19 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha fired a salvo at party president demanding his resignation, sources in the party said that the BJP is not willing to sacrifice Nitin Gadkari at this stage. The party, however, remained cautioned in its response to initiating disciplinary action against Sinha. Speaking to CNN-IBN, BJP disciplinary committee chairman OP Kohli said that since Yashwant Sinha was an MP,...
06:21 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Just two day before Parliament meets for winter session, Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yashwant Sinha has fired a salvo at his party President Nitin Gadkari and demanded his resignation. Sinha on Tuesday took on Gadkari and said that those in public life should be beyond reproach while referring to the alleged irregularities in investments in Gadkari's Purti Group. "Whether our party president is guilty or not is...
04:47 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be more trouble for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari. Three weeks after the Corporate Affairs Ministry ordered a discreet inquiry into the books of Purti group, the company floated by the BJP President, CNBC-TV18 has learnt that the Registrar of Companies has sent a notice to Purti for the alleged violation of the Companies Act. In its inquiry the Registrar of Companies found...
08:35 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Some advice came in for Indian politicians from billionaire and ousted Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, especially in the context of Nitin Gadkari. While speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, he said successful businessmen make good politicians, but the two professions cannot be mixed. ...
02:11 PM, Nov 16, 2012
This year's Diwali was less noisy but more polluted, there was nearly 50 per cent jump in toxic gases as the national capital celebrated the festival of lights with crackers. ...
11:57 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Both Congress president son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari have been facing corruption allegations but the parties have given them a clean chit refuting all the charges. But are these clean chits credible. ...
11:42 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The clean chit by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to party president Nitin Gadkari is now spiraling into a fresh controversy. RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy is now being accused by the Congress of conducting an in-house inquiry that has only further embarrassed the BJP leadership. However, the BJP is sticking to its stand, saying Gadkari is a social entrepreneur who has committed...
10:21 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again reasserted its support to its beleaguered president Nitin Gadkari. This comes after confusion over a series of tweets on Tuesday by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy in his tweets appeared to have been distancing himself over his defence of Gadkari, but later tried to clear the air by once again coming out in support of Gadkari. He even deleted some...
01:26 PM, Nov 14, 2012
A couple was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly duping around two lakh investors from seven states of nearly Rs 500 crore by promising them high returns on their investment through their firm dealing in stock market. ...
11:28 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, on whose analysis of the Putri Group account the BJP had backed its president Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday made a flip flop when he declined to have given him a clean chit and later retracted his remarks. "I have not given clean chit to NG (Nitin Gadkari). I cannot give clean chit to any one who I don't know fully I don't know NG...
09:36 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Days after he probed the Purti group and concluded that BJP President Nitin Gadkari had committed no legal or moral offense, RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has now clarified through his tweets that though he stands by his probe report on Gadkari, he has not given a clean chit to the BJP President since he does not know him fully and that he cares very little whether Gadkari remains...
02:15 PM, Nov 13, 2012
