New Delhi: BJP on Sunday cautioned partymen against speaking out of turn on its prime ministerial nominee with its President Rajnath Singh saying some leaders have been 'announcing' names virtually on a 'daily basis' creating unnecessary controversy. The party emphasised on the need for discipline and improving its image at a meeting of its office-bearers here to discuss the strategy and issues ahead of polls in six states and the...
10:14 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Unique Identification (UID) Aadhaar number will soon be a "valid" proof of identity and address to obtain a PAN card. A proposal for inclusion of Aadhaar in the existing list of valid proof of identification and proof of address for allotment of PAN was sent to the Finance Ministry by the Unique Identification Authority of India. The Ministry has decided to notify rules in this regard. It...
09:53 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: The leadership battle heated up in the Capital with cine star and MP from Patna Saheb, Shatrughan Sinha, batting for senior leader LK Advani on Sunday. Backing BJP leader Vijay Goel's remark on Saturday about BJP winning the Lok Sabha elections under Advani's leadership, Shatrughan Sinha complimented Advani on his illustrious career and vast experience. Shatrughan Sinha said, "LK Advani is the seniormost leader of the BJP. He...
07:40 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: CBI is likely to start questioning suspects this week in connection with its ongoing probe into alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal. CBI sources said the agency is likely to call former Air Chief SP Tyagi and his cousins for questioning. They said that they are planning to question all the accused who are present in India, but did not elaborate on which suspects...
07:07 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Sunday said that the Delhi gangrape incident in December 2012 was not an isolated occurrence and episodes like that happened every day. He added that there can't be knee-jerk reactions to such cases and they need to be tackled in a proper way. Kabir was presiding over the conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of high courts in the capital....
06:45 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Continuing with its investigation in the murder case of slain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police on Sunday restricted his family from leaving Delhi without its permission. The police had earlier questioned Bhardwaj's wife Ramesh Kumari, their sons and his staff in connection with the case. Police suspect a land dispute could be the reason behind the murder of the BSP leader, who was...
04:37 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: KR Nayar, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has been suspended on charges of sexually harassing a student. JNU Public Relations Officer Poonam Kudaisya said on Sunday that KR Nayar was a senior faculty member at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH) and been suspended following allegations of sexual harassment made against him. The order of suspension was issued on Friday and will remain...
04:27 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday released photographs of a spiritual guru, who is suspected to have given money to shooters, to kill local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. The photographs of Machendranath alias Pratibhanand were released late in the evening. Police said he hails from Beed in Maharashtra and is 48 years old. Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann, the alleged shooters, had told police that the spiritual guru had given...
03:10 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: One of the accused in the December 16 gangrape on Saturday again pleaded the special court hearing the case not to send him back to Tihar, alleging that he was assaulted by prison security personnel who have threatened to kill him, a charge denied by the jail authorities. Accused Vinay Sharma, who suffered a hand fracture on Friday, requested Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna not to send him...
08:01 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: Without any assurance from the government, activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday ended his 14 day-long fast, announcing that the Delhi assembly election will be fought on the issue of water and electricity. Kejriwal had been protesting against the Sheila Dikshit government over what he claims to be 'inflated' power and water bills. Kejriwal said that his fast was for the nation and not for power. "Had I been...
05:47 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has alleged that she was assaulted by a gang of drunk men in Delhi late on Thursday. Police, however, said the politician had "arrived at a compromise with the other party" and that none of the men were drunk. "No action has been taken as she (the BJP leader) did not register a complaint and arrived at a compromise with the other...
05:58 AM, Apr 06, 2013
PCC chief G Parameshwara and CLP leader Siddaramaiah figure in Congress' first list of 177 candidates released on Friday for the 224-member Assembly elections in Karnataka on May 5. Former Chief Minister late S Bangarappa's son Kumar Bangarappa S has been fielded from Sorab assembly seat. The list also includes former PCC chief RV Deshpande, sitting MLA Krishna Byregowda, a former Karnataka Youth Congress President who is perceived close to...
12:57 AM, Apr 06, 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
New Delhi: PCC chief G Parameshwara and CLP leader Siddaramaiah figure in Congress' first list of 177 candidates released on Friday for the 224-member Assembly elections in Karnataka on May 5. Former Chief Minister late S Bangarappa's son Kumar Bangarappa S has been fielded from Sorab assembly seat. The list also includes former PCC chief RV Deshpande, sitting MLA Krishna Byregowda, a former Karnataka Youth Congress President who is perceived...
09:47 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday kept away from BJP's Central Election Committee that met to finalise tickets for Karnataka polls, amid rumours that he did not want to get himself involved in the campaign where the party may not fare well due to corruption charges. While BJP Central leaders maintained that Modi, appointed to the panel on Sunday, had prior engagements and hence could not make...
09:35 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: The government for the first time has officially admitted that its flagship programme, Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT), has run into difficulties. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that the exercise of the scheme, that had been rolled out in January this year, has revealed poor nature of tracking and monitoring systems in departments. "We need to change the way we transact business, the way we release funds,...
09:05 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Two out of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape on Friday approached the Delhi High Court against the special court order dismissing their plea for trial to be held on alternate days instead of day-to-day basis. On March 28, the special court had dismissed their plea saying "such pleas are made to delay the proceedings." "Even the prayer that the trial be conducted on alternate days...
07:38 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's order giving its nod to the Centre's decision holding the 3G roaming pact of the telecom major as illegal. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on March 15 had issued a notification restraining Bharti from providing 3G intra-circle roaming facilities in seven circles where it did not have the spectrum and also levied a penalty of...
06:39 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: S Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and Executive Co-Chairman of Infosys, has been elected as the President of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2013-14. He succeeds Adi Godrej, Chairman of the Godrej Group, CII said in a statement. A Padma Bhushan recipient, Gopalakrishnan was recently voted as the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives, and selected as...
06:30 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: A woman leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged that she was assaulted by a gang of drunk men in a posh locality of south Delhi late on Thursday night. BJP's national General Secretary Vani Tripathi said she was assaulted by five men, who were driving a Scorpio car, near Savitri cinema in Greater Kailash (GK), a posh locality in south Delhi. "I was coming back...
06:13 PM, Apr 05, 2013
