Guwahati: Strongly reacting to AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi's purported remarks that Asom Gana Parishad was in power for a term allegedly with the backing of insurgents, AGP on Friday said it would initiate legal action him. "We strongly condemn his comments and are consulting experts for initiating legal action against Gandhi. We will be sending a legal notice to him very soon," AGP president and two-time chief minister Prafulla...
03:32 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: With Telangana issue returning to haunt Congress, Sonia Gandhi on Friday held deliberations with senior leaders in the wake of two sitting MPs and a prominent state leader deciding to join TRS, which is spearheading the statehood movement. Gandhi held confabulations with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and AICC general secretary in-charge for the state Ghulam Nabi Azad and her political secretary Ahmed Patel on the...
02:12 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Panaji: Mahatma Gandhi's concept of a village-centric development model was an "unrealistic" goal in the current age of globalisation and communication, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said on Friday. "There is something which is not realistic about Gram Rajya. Mahatma Gandhi spoke about Gram Rajya, which means the village will itself produce all resources it needs," he said, delivering the keynote address at 'Pan-IIM world...
02:44 PM, May 31, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday spoke on a host of issues including governance, his relationship with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, economy, 2014 Lok Sabha elections and IPL. He also criticised the opposition for adopting obstructionist role in Parliament. ...
01:41 PM, May 31, 2013
Onboard PM's Special Aircraft: Rejecting reports of a rift between him and Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asserted that there was no truth in it as the two worked together almost on all issues. "In all truthfulness, there is no difference of opinion between me and the Congress president," he said on his way back from the five-day visit to Japan and Thailand. "We work together on...
01:10 PM, May 31, 2013
Aruna Roy - one of the most prominent and forceful voices within the NAC - has decided to opt out of Sonia's advisory council in its last crucial year. In NAC I, Roy played a critical role in framing and pushing through key legislations like the MNREGA and the RTI. These are legislations that the Congress party hardsells to both voters and political competitors even though it has done little...
11:36 PM, May 30, 2013
Social activist Aruna Roy has quit the National Advisory Council, accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of overruling Sonia Gandhi on issues like paying minimum wages under the NREGA. ...
11:31 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Social activist Aruna Roy, who has decided to dissociate herself from Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, on Thursday hit out at government saying it was focussing on economic reforms and growth at the cost of poor people. Roy, who has attacked the Prime Minister for rejecting a proposal of NAC to raise minimum wages under MGNREGA, said pro-poor issues have been pushed to the back burner by the...
05:10 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Wednesday moved Delhi High Court against the trial court's order for reopening of investigation against him in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case in which three persons were killed. Tytler has challenged the trial court order setting aside the CBI's closure report giving him clean chit in the case. The appeal is likely to be listed on Friday for hearing. "The trial court order...
04:49 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Assembly Elections are just five months away in Chhattisgarh and the Congress is facing a leadership crisis in the state after most of its senior leaders were killed recently in a brutal Naxal attack. After a heated meeting with the Chief Minister, the Centre is now also looking at revamping the policy to combat Naxals. Within five days of the gruesome killing of the Congress leaders by Naxals,...
01:14 PM, May 30, 2013
Activist Aruna Roy has opted out of the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council and she has blamed the Prime Minister for blocking minimum wages under the MNREGA. ...
12:51 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Social activist Aruna Roy has opted out of the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led NAC after her term expired on Friday. She has blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for blocking minimum wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). "I do believe that it is extremely unfortunate that the Prime Minister rejected the NAC recommendations on payment of minimum wages to MGNREGA workers and chose instead...
12:26 PM, May 30, 2013
Lucknow: The UP government on Wednesday moved court against the acquittal of BJP MP Varun Gandhi in two cases of hate speech. The appeal was filed in Pilibhit sessions court. Government counsel Abhay Saxena moved the appeal in the court of District Judge Vinod Mishra. The court fixed June 15 as the next date of hearing in which Varun would be required to appear. On March 5, chief judicial magistrate...
05:20 PM, May 29, 2013
Gurgaon: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday visited party leader VC Shukla who was injured in Saturday's Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh. VC Shukla continues to be critical. The Union Minister is critical but stable though doctors caution that he's still not out of danger given his age. His blood pressure levels and heart rates are under control. Shukla remains in the ICU at Medanta hospital in Gurgaon. Maoists had ambushed...
03:08 PM, May 29, 2013
Aurangabad: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi visited Maharashtra's drought affected villages on Tuesday. The affected farmers were expecting that Rahul Gandhi would try to solve their problems and would instruct Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to start relief operations in the drought-affected areas. But Rahul failed to do so leaving the farmers disappointed. Rahul visited Phulambri tehsil of Aurangabad which is one of the worst drought affected regions of the state on...
12:28 PM, May 29, 2013
Guwahati: Assam's regional political party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Tuesday slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the regional party a few years ago, which were released by WikiLeaks recently. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Guwahati, AGP secretary Durga Das Boro said that the party was contemplating legal action against Rahul Gandhi for making such a comment on the Assam's regional party,...
05:36 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: The notification issued by the Prime Minister's Office on May 27 to extend the terms of members of Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has one prominent name missing from the list - that of Aruna Roy. The terms of the ten other members has been extended for a period "co-terminus" with the term of the present Government. Professor Virginius Xaxa of the Delhi School of Economics is the...
09:26 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday slammed Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his absence from the country in the aftermath of the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh. Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi said, "At a time when so much of commotion is happening, the gentleman there (Shinde) is on a private trip for past four days when rest of the people from the official trip have come back." She rejected explanations that...
05:50 PM, May 28, 2013
Aurangabad: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the drought-hit Aurangabad district and assured villagers of taking prompt measures to tackle water and fodder scarcity. "The problems of water and fodder supply in drought-hit areas would be taken up on a war footing," Rahul said while interacting with farmers and labourers in the drought-hit villages of Aurangabad in Maharashtra. His visit came two days after Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan...
04:55 PM, May 28, 2013
Madurai: A PIL seeking to reinvestigate the the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been filed in the Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Tuesday. The petitioner V Santhakumaresan, an advocate, said in his PIL that "the reinvestigation, in the interest of justice, may bring out buried truths". The important grounds under which the petitioner sought reinvestigation included the reported statement of CBI investigating officer Ragothaman...
03:27 PM, May 28, 2013
