New Delhi: The BJP on Friday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his remarks that the Opposition was responsible for the UPA's failure to pass the Food Security Bill, saying the UPA government should emulate the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act.
The Bharatiya Janata Party said the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act covers a higher proportion of the population and provides foodgrain at a cheaper cost.
"If the Congress has real concern for the poor, it should emulate the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act, which ensures more coverage, more foodgrains and less cost to the poor," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
Javadekar termed Gandhi's allegations as "baseless" and said a "callous and casual approach" of the Congress towards the poor has resulted in a "half-hearted bill"....
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04:12 AM, May 18, 2013
Chennai: After successful Tamil films such as 'Pollathavan' and National Award winning 'Aadukalam', actor Dhanush and filmmaker Vetrimaaran will team up to work in an untitled Tamil venture to be produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri. "The script is locked for Dhanush Vetrimaaran project. The technical team is finalised and pre-production work will start in full swing," said producer Dhayanidhi in one of his tweets. They will make a detailed announcement soon,...
05:49 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The main Opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch an agitation against the government in all state capitals on May 4 and 5, attacking the UPA regime on various issues such as the 2G scam and the coal scam. "BJP has decided to take the fight against the massive cover up of Congress regime from Parliament to the people of country. On May 4 and 5, we...
12:07 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Chandini Tamilarasan, who is making her Telugu debut with upcoming action-drama 'Kalicharan', is proud to be associated with the project. She says she is happy to have bagged such an important role early on in her career. Set in the 1980s, 'Kalicharan' is based on true incidents revolving around the life of late MLA Erra Satyam. "It's a realistic film and I play a role sans glamour....
07:57 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: BJP members of a Parliamentary Committee have demanded that officials of the Defence Ministry and the Army be called before it. They are seeking explanation on the issue of Chinese incursion, to get a clear picture of the situation and on how the government is handling it. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prakash Javadekar, members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, have written to Chairman Raj Babbar, seeking...
04:00 PM, Apr 25, 2013
San Francisco: Oracle Corp released a major security update on Tuesday for the version of Java programming language that runs inside Web browsers to make it a less popular target for hackers. The patch fixes 42 vulnerabilities within Java, including "the vast majority" of those that have been rated as the most critical, said Oracle Executive Vice President Hasan Rizvi. A series of big security flaws in the Java plug-in...
10:09 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said it was ready for an early Lok Sabha election. The party's statement came a few days after BJP's senior party leader LK Advani predicted early polls in the country. "We are ready for elections for Lok Sabha and the six scheduled (assembly) elections...it was Advaniji who guided the deliberations and he gave that good governance, prudent politics and ideal image...
05:30 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments of neither ruling himself in or out for a third term in office as "day-dreaming", saying the general sentiment of the country was against Congress and ruled the possibility of it coming back to power. Everybody has a right to day-dream. But people have already ruled out possibility of any return of Congress or UPA government again as people...
10:25 PM, Apr 05, 2013
The opposition slammed Rahul Gandhi's attempt to woo India Inc, saying that it was "confusion confounded". ...
08:44 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday slammed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's address at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) calling him a 'confused leader'. The BJP went on to say the fear of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is clear in Rahul Gandhi. "Rahul should have answered what he did in the past nine years. Instead he himself is asking questions," BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said. "One...
12:45 PM, Apr 04, 2013
BJP on Monday said it is open to all steps by the Election Commission for electoral reforms, including making public all donations to political parties, and maintained it will abide by any change in rules the poll panel seeks on the issue. Asked about reports that the Election Commission and the government have differences over making it mandatory for political parties to declare all donations before it, BJP says it...
03:10 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Union Public Service Commission's decision to scrap regional language test in its exams has led to a controversy and the BJP and the Shiv Sena are calling the decision anti-people. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 07, 2013
BJP on Tuesday expressed its disagreement with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over repealing of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, saying the state should not speak against this law as it has already passed a similar legislation in its Assembly. ...
07:28 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The main Opposition BJP called for an inquiry into the farm debt waiver scheme after CAG report highlighting government's lapses and irregularities in implementing the scheme. "There are things rotting somewhere and that is why we want an in-depth inquiry because without that you won't be able to prove the nexus," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party has finally reacted to the cancellation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton India Economic Forum. Calling it a 'small incident', BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said, "It's not foreigners who will be voting for Modi, it's the Indian people." ...
11:40 AM, Mar 04, 2013
BJP questioned again on Wednesday which family benefitted from the tainted AgustaWestland helicopter deal kickbacks and said it wants a Supreme Court monitored probe into the deal. It rejected the UPA's offer for a Joint Parliamentary Committee on the chopper scandal. ...
05:51 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Microsoft said the security intrusion was "similar" to recent ones reported by Apple and Facebook. ...
07:53 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Apple was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees. ...
08:11 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Facebook didn't identify a suspected origin of its hacking incident, but provided a few details about how it apparently happened. ...
11:35 AM, Feb 16, 2013
