New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari has denied reports that he assured Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be the Prime Ministerial candidate. Gadkari said he met Nitish along with senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, but did not say that Modi won't be the PM candidate. In his statement, Gadkari has said that he and Jaitleyhad in 2012 told Nitish...
11:37 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Patna: Refusing to buy Nitish Kumar's argument absolving himself of the Godhra tragedy, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday accused him of closing the Railways' probe in the train burning incident to suit the interest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "Nitish as Railway Minister had closed inquiry into the Sabarmati train burning incident to suit interest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. This had triggered riots,"...
10:14 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Hyderabad: In an indirect reference to JD(U) raising objections on announcing Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, senior saffron party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said it is not appropriate for the ally to comment on the Gujarat Chief Minister now. "BJP has not discussed about Prime Ministerial candidate. The alliance partners have got every right to have their own view. They can also suggest (on the Prime...
05:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: Comparing NDA constituents to horses of Arjun's chariot, Shiv Sena on Wednesday cautioned that BJP should take allies into confidence on the issue of its prime ministerial candidate or else there could be a "Mahabharat". With the chasm between BJP and JD(U) widening over Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial nominee, the Sena also insisted on convening a meeting of the Opposition alliance to end the prevailing "confusion". "BJP...
04:28 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: In the midst of Nitish Kumar raising the pitch against Narendra Modi, Congress on Wednesday accused the Gujarat Chief Minister of "communalising" politics and debunked his development model. "Gujarat's economic development under the present Chief Minister is a glass full of gas and no water. It's a myth, a hype. There are many other states like Odisha and Bihar, which are doing much better," Gujarat CLP leader Shankersinh...
03:56 PM, Apr 17, 2013
While most of the political parties are against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister, only the AIADMK and the Shiromani Akali Dal support him. ...
03:30 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked the BJP leadership to clear its stand on the issue of its prime ministerial candidate and demanded that a meeting of the NDA be convened soon. The BJP ally, however, gave a clean chit to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi over the Gujarat riots, but said that by declaring someone's candidature, allies, who have been with BJP faithfully for so many years will go away,...
02:55 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal United has now openly challenged its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party following the wrangling over the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. JDU General Secretary Shivanand Tiwari in a strongly worded comment said that his party was not bending before the BJP for support. Tiwari said that that the BJP has always known the party's views on the PM candidate and it...
12:24 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: There seems to be more trouble for the National Democratic Alliance as the Shiv Sena has now said that the Bharatiya Janata Party should make it clear as to who will be its Prime Ministerial candidate. An editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, says an NDA meeting should be called and a decision should be taken. In reference to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the editorial further says...
09:20 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Ahmedabad: There is trouble for former Gujarat Women and Child Development Minister Maya Kodnani as the Special Investigation Team probing the 2002 riots will move the Gujarat High Court seeking death for her in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. The approval for this was given by the legal department of the Gujarat government. The SIT also wants death for Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and eight others convicted. 97 persons...
08:21 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal United has escalated as Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "JD(U)'s statement in Delhi's national executive against our leaders was completely unwanted," Modi said. "We will discuss our future course of action on April 18 in our national executive meet," Modi added. Nitish Kumar on Sunday did...
03:26 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying Supreme Court documents on the 2002 communal carnage provide "clinching" evidence of his government's "deliberate refusal" to prevent the mass violence. "In the light of these documents which have now come into the public domain thanks to the efforts of Zakia Jafri, there can be no doubt left of the direct culpability of Narendra...
02:56 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: There is a new low in the ties between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (United) as the two parties have taken on each other over the Sabarmati tragedy in Godhra in 2002. BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi on Monday pointed out that it was Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who was the rail minister during the Sabarmati tragedy of 2002. "There is no one in the...
01:52 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New York: The S&P 500 posted its worst day in more than four months on Monday, as big drops in the price of gold and other commodities triggered a broad selloff in equities. The three major US stock indexes extended declines in afternoon trading after reports of explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 265.86 points or 1.79 per cent, to end...
04:27 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday laid down the JD(U)'s criteria for the NDA's PM nominee which clearly reflected the party's opposition to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi. ...
11:22 PM, Apr 15, 2013
In his speech on Sunday, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar listed the criteria for a prime minister and said only someone who can take all sections of society together can become take the top post. ...
10:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The video of the incident, captured on CCTV camera, shows the public apathy towards accident victims. ...
09:43 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues moved into a newly-built four storey office building in Gandhinagar on Monday. After inaugurating the new building 'Swarnim Sankul-1' on Monday afternoon, the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues officially moved into the office. "The lamp lighting ceremony (as part of the building inauguration) was performed by Savji Damor, a class-IV employee of the Sachivalaya (state secretariat)," an official release...
09:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The tussle over talk of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's PM candidature is threatening to split the NDA wide open. A day after JD(U) leader and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar virtually vetoed Modi, a section of the Bihar BJP is now pushing for a break with the JD(U) - but in a bid to buy some time, BJP president Rajnath Singh has asked partymen to wait till December....
09:12 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Madhubani: Describing Nitish Kumar as "parrot of RSS", RJD President Lalu Prasad on Monday said Bihar Chief Minister was opposing Narendra Modi while praising LK Advani, though both are "communalists of the highest order". He told reporters that Kumar was befooling the minority Muslim community on the Modi issue. "Godhra riots took place in 2002 when Nitish was railway minister and he applied all the tricks in his bag to...
09:05 PM, Apr 15, 2013
