A joint sitting of the two houses of Pakistan's parliament has been convened on February 6 to endorse the imposition of Governor's Rule in the restive Balochistan province and to discuss the upcoming general election. ...
02:37 PM, Feb 02, 2013
CNBC-TV18's Banking Editor Latha Venkatesh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on RBI's recent credit policy changes. ...
05:17 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Jagadish Shettar will meet Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Monday even as the Karnataka Chief Minister struggles to keep his government afloat with 14 MLAs threatening to resign. The Karnataka government is in danger of falling if the Assembly Speaker accepts their resignation. ...
09:01 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Jagadish Shettar will meet Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Saturday night even as the Karnataka Chief Minister struggles to keep his government afloat with 14 MLAs threatening to resign. The Karnataka government is in danger of falling if the Assembly Speaker accepts their resignation. ...
05:55 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Friday accepted the resignation of Minister for Public Works CM Udasi and Minister for Energy Shobha Karandlaje forwarded by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Friday. ...
08:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Justifying his recommendation for dissolution of the Jharkhand Assembly and fresh elections in the state, caretaker Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday questioned why some political parties were demanding time from the Governor to form an alternative government if they had the numbers. ...
04:34 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao on Wednesday asked banks to meet the target of providing banking facilities to small towns soon. "It is unfortunate that 90 per cent villages of the country do not have banking facilities. The target of RBI is to ensure that every family has a bank account," Subbarao said while addressing a programme here. ...
04:14 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Describing the move as "undemocratic", the Balochistan assembly has unanimously rejected the imposition of governor's rule in the Pakistani province. Governor's rule was imposed in Balochistan on January 14 following January 10's twin bomb attacks in Quetta in which 86 people were killed and over 120 wounded. ...
01:00 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan government has imposed governor's rule in the troubled province of Baluchistan after dissolving the ruling provincial government. Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf made the announcement late Sunday night after prolonged talks with Hazara Shia leaders who were staging a sit-in to demand the dismissal of provincial government and the army control of Quetta. ...
07:40 AM, Jan 14, 2013
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is set to hear a petition challenging erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Governor TV Rajeswar's refusal to grant sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute former-UP chief minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui in the alleged Taj corridor scandal. ...
09:08 AM, Jan 11, 2013
A day after the resignation of Chief Minister Arjun Munda, Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmed on Wednesday recommended President's rule in the state. The developments have taken place in the state after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) withdrew its support to coalition government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ...
04:28 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda has quit and has recommended dissolution of the Assembly as JMM withdrew its support to the BJP-JMM coalition government. JMM has claimed that the party is in talks with the Congress. CNN-IBN's National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on whether the uncertainty has become a norm in Jharkhand politics. ...
07:30 PM, Jan 08, 2013
In February last year, activity in the entire Kannada film industry had come to a grinding halt over the issue. ...
07:08 PM, Jan 07, 2013
After the Supreme Court upheld the appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat, Justice (retd) RA Mehta on Wednesday said the Modi government's attitude will not come in the way of his work. "I don't think Modi government's attitude will be a challenge for Lokayukta," Mehta said in reply to a query by mediapersons. ...
01:41 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and his supporters have been detained by the Bangalore Police, as they marched to the governor's residence on Wednesday demanding the current BJP government in the state be sacked. Yeddyurappa has floated a new party, the Karnataka Janata Party, ahead of state elections that are due in the first quarter of 2013. ...
08:45 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, who cut short his visit to the US to return to the national capital in the wake of the protests over the recent gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus, conceded on Monday that the traffic police and PCR vans who were present when the incident took place did not perform their duties. ...
05:25 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor H R Bhardwaj has suspended state Information Commissioner K Natarajan for allegedly intervening in the land-gift case involving CPM stalwart V S Achuthanandan. Action against Natarajan, a former DIG of police, was taken on the basis of the recommendation made by the state Government following a police probe which came across evidence to corroborate the charge that the Information Commissioner had urged a police official investigating the...
01:31 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Ship Bottom (US): Governors from North Carolina to Connecticut declared states of emergency and Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north from the Caribbean where it left nearly 60 dead to threaten the eastern US with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow. Officials warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way of the massive storm. Sandy was expected to affect...
09:55 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Jammu: The Opposition PDP on Sunday alleged the Omar Abdullah government had degraded the highest office of the Governor by not fulfilling the promise of holding urban local bodies polls made in the Governor's address to the state Assembly in 2012. "We lambast the state government for delaying urban local bodies polls. We regret the present regime has degraded the highest institution of the Governor by not fulfilling this promise...
08:56 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Chandigarh: Former Kerela Governor Sukhdev Singh Kang died here on Friday after a prolonged illness. He was 81. Kang was admitted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here. The Governor of Kerela from 1997 to 2002, Kang was earlier the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He was also a member of the National Human Rights Commission. Kang was cremated here on Friday afternoon....
05:20 PM, Oct 12, 2012
