Dismissing the prospect of Taliban gaining control of Afghanistan in the near future as unlikely, journalist-author Jason Burke on Thursday said India should not expect too much warmth in bilateral relations with Kabul. ...
09:40 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 is possibly the most high profile gathering of litterateurs in Asia. ...
03:37 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The three-member Justice JS Verma Committee after submitting its report on the changes recommended in laws dealing with crimes against women pointed out that poor governance was one of the main reasons for the rising crime graph. ...
02:31 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Author Salman Rushdie, who's book Midnight's Children is now a film has said that there is a cultural emergency in India. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, both Rushdie and the film's director, Deepa Mehta said they are deeply worried about repeated attacks on creative freedom in India. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The Jaipur Literature festival began on Thursday under heavy security with Pakistani authors attending the programme as scheduled. Controversy surrounded the festival again this year with the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth-wing protesting against the participation of Pakistani authors following tension at the Line of Control. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Amidst tight security arrangements in Jaipur, the Literature Festival is all set to kickstart on Thursday. After the controversies of 2012, Pakistani authors are likely to participate in the Lit Fest this year after the organisers assured that there was no threat to them. ...
10:02 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Delhi Daredevils will play two of their home matches in IPL 6, to be held in April-May at Raipur. ...
06:48 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Jaipur literature festival, which is set of kick off this week, has been marred by controversy with a group of Islamic clerics protesting the presence of authors who read from Salman Rushdie's banned book 'The Satanic Verses' in the 2012 edition of the festival. The clerics have said they don't want any of the four authors to take part in the annual festival this time. ...
07:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Can Rahul Gandhi turn the tide for the Congress before the 2014 polls? Political analyst and senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:10 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Amidst reports of threat to the Jaipur Literature Festival by Islamist groups and reportedly by members of the BJP and the RSS, the organiser of the event, Sanjoy Roy has said that the event will be held as per the schedule. ...
03:58 PM, Jan 21, 2013
After a few Islamist groups threatened the organisers of Jaipur Literature Festival against allowing the four authors who had read out passages from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses at the event in 2012, sources in the Rajasthan police said that members of the BJP and the RSS in the state were opposing the participation in the event by seven Pakistani authors. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 21, 2013
A statement warning the organisers of the Jaipur Literature Festival against allowing authors who had read out passages from Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' at the event last year was issued by Islamist groups on Sunday. ...
01:10 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The three-day Chintan Shivir deliberations have filled the Congress with "new energy and resolve" and if the party abides by its new declaration, nothing can stand in the way of its progress, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday. Thanking party delegates at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meet here, Gandhi expressed happiness over the manner in which party business was transacted over the three days and hailed it...
08:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday reacted to Rahul Gandhi's appointment as the Congress Vice President by raising questions over his potential, saying it has to be seen whether the nation accepts him as a leader on the basis of "family inheritance". "The world's largest democracy cannot be put to risk by risking ourselves in the hands of those whose actual potential we do not know, whose opinion on...
06:05 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The newly-appointed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday made an emotional pitch to the Congress in Jaipur and proclaimed his love for the people of the country and his party. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Congress president Sonia Gandhi in her speech on the last day of party Chintan Shivir in Jaipur focussed on empowerment of women and fight against corruption. Raking the Delhi gangrape incident, in which a 23-year-old girl was brutally raped and beaten up in a moving bus, Sonia said: "The barbaric gangrape in the national capital shook the entire country. The Delhi gangrape victim in many ways is a symbol of...
11:37 AM, Jan 20, 2013
At the final day of the Congress' Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, the party came out with a 56-page draft declaration in which it stated that the Congress will boldly and fearlessly take on political parties which are elitist, parochial, sectarian or exclusionary. The declaration said that the party will go into elections on the basis of nationalism, social justice, economic growth for all - especially the aam aadmi and the...
11:27 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Rahul Gandhi, who was on Saturday named Vice President of Congress, thanked the party and said he is "confident we can transform and strengthen Congress". Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also congratulated 42-year-old Rahul, while party members celebrated outside venue of Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Jaipur. ...
11:23 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Celebrations broke out on Saturday night outside the venue of Congress 'Chintan Shivir' in Jaipur after Rahul Gandhi was made the party Vice President with numerous young workers setting off crackers, beating drums and shouting slogans welcoming the decision. As soon as the announcement was made at the venue by Congress chief spokesman Janardan Dwivedi, thousands of NSUI, Youth Congress workers and partymen, who had assembled at different places near...
10:59 PM, Jan 19, 2013
