Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been refused US visa since 2005, will address Indian diaspora in 18 cities in that country through a video conference on June 13 as a part of Gujarat Day celebrations. "The event has been organised by NRIs and particularly the people of Gujarat-origin living in USA as part of Gujarat Day celebrations," an official statement said. "The Chief Minister will be addressing...
10:22 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a green signal to POSCO to continue with iron ore mining in Odisha. The court quashed Odisha High Court's order, which had set aside the state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to POSCO in the Kandahar hills. The state government had granted a licence to POSCO in 2009, which had been set aside by the High Court in 2010. The...
11:17 AM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Director Sonam Nair, along with the cast of 'Gippi', took part in a promotional event. Riya Vij, Divya Dutta, Taaha Shah and Jayati Modi were seen enjoying every moment of the event. Delhi girl Riya Vij is playing the role of 'Gippi' while Divya Dutta will be seen as her mother Pappi. ...
12:12 PM, May 09, 2013
Ranchi: BJP should learn that the "magic" of Narendra Modi was a failure outside Gujarat after its resounding defeat in Karnataka Assembly polls, Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahay said on Wednesday. "The BJP had pitted Narendra Modi against Rahul Gandhi in Karnataka. Now it should learn that Modi is confined to just Gujarat and his magic will not work in any other part of the country," the local Lok Sabha...
12:17 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Buoyed by Karnataka Assembly poll verdict, Congress on Wednesday said it is an indication of the shape of things to come in Lok Sabha elections and debunked comparisons between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi as "illogical". "This is the victory of Congress' policies. This is the respect for the heritage of Congress. This is a support to the present Congress and an indication of India's political future," party...
11:55 PM, May 08, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Six people were killed and three others injured, some of them critically, when a passenger train rammed into their vehicle in Odisha's Dhenkanal district on Wednesday, police said. The accident took place at an unmanned level crossing near Dhalapur village, about 130 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, when the vehicle, packed with passengers, was crossing the railway track. Five people, including three women, died on the spot. The injured...
09:28 PM, May 08, 2013
Should the BJP now be wary of a similar result in the general elections as and when they happen? Or can the BJP bounce back? Will it welcome Yeddyurappa back into its fold again? Modi has proved to be a non-factor in the Assembly elections. Will he fare any better when it comes to attracting votes in the Lok Sabha elections? Saritha Rai joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on...
05:58 PM, May 08, 2013
Kendrapara: A manager of a chit fund was arrested from here even as reports of fraud by bogus non-banking financial companies trickled in from various pockets of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. After DP finance, another chit fund Artha Tatwa (AT) has disappeared cheating investors in Kujang (Jagatsinghpur) and Pattamundai (Kendrapara) to a tune of Rs 20 crore, police said. "Madan Mohan Swain, branch manager of Golden Lion (a...
05:55 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad refused to accept that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi failed to help the party in Karnataka elections as trends showed that the Congress was well ahead of its rivals and on the way to forming the next government in the state. Prasad said that Modi addressed just three-four elections rallies in Karnataka and "so he cannot be the deciding factor"....
10:31 AM, May 08, 2013
S Siddaramaiah, who is also speculated to be Congress's chief ministerial candidate for Karnataka elections, says he is confident that his party will win more than 120 seats in the state and will form the government without the help of an ally. He also out that there was any Narendra Modi factor in "secular" Karnataka. ...
09:07 AM, May 08, 2013
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions. Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind...
02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Bulawayo: Zimbabwe and Bangladesh go into Wednesday's third and final one-day international in Bulawayo locked at one match apiece, yet it is the hosts who know they will need to improve their game if they are to claim a rare series victory. After being humiliated by 121 runs in the first match last week, Zimbabwe drew level with a six-wicket victory on Sunday, preventing Bangladesh from extending their unbeaten run...
09:46 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: More than 4,00,000 babies across South Asia die right after their birth, reveals a new study. The report also indicates that chronic malnourishment which leads to mental or physical impairment is particularly severe in the region. The report's birth day risk index shows that of the one million babies who die each year on the day they are born, almost 40 per cent of these are in India,...
11:36 AM, May 07, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that his party JD(U) will take a final decision on the NDA's prime ministerial candidate at the appropriate time. "There is no question of exercising veto ... JD(U) has made its views very clear," Kumar told reporters after a 'Janata ke darbar mein Mukhya Mantri' programme in an apparent reference to state deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi's recent comment that none could...
10:27 AM, May 07, 2013
Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Monday registered second criminal case against Saradha Group chief Sudipto Sen on the charges of duping about 6,000 investors in Puri district, official sources said. The EOW personnel on Monday recorded statements of a number of investors from Puri town, Nimapara and Sakhigopal area before registering the case. Though a number of agents of Saradha Group...
10:58 PM, May 06, 2013
Dubai: Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was on Monday fined 75 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his side's loss in the second one-day international against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo. Shakib was fined after he pleaded guilty to a Level 2 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during the match. Shakib was found to have breached Article 2.2.1 of the ICC Code...
05:46 PM, May 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress on Sunday alleged that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been spreading "blatant lies" and unnecessarily blaming the Centre for not constructing gates at the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam. "Gujarat Chief Minister is using the Narmada project for a canard campaign against the central government and spreading blatant lies to conceal his own failures and criminal negligence in implementing the Narmada project," former Opposition leader Shaktisinh Gohil told...
12:26 AM, May 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: Attacking the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for corruption, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said after the Railway Board controversy, nobody could doubt that Congress is the problem. "After 17 years, the Congress gets the railway ministry and what results is a scam. Does anyone still have any doubts that the Congress is the problem," Modi tweeted. Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew was arrested...
10:20 PM, May 05, 2013
Bulawayo: Sean Williams hit a career-best 78 not out as Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the second one-day international in Bulawayo on Sunday to set up a series decider. Playing in only his second one-day match since the 2011 World Cup, Williams was aided by Malcolm Waller's unbeaten 39 as he calmly saw Zimbabwe to their target of 253 with 13 balls to spare. Abdur Razzak's maiden half-century...
09:06 PM, May 05, 2013
