Politicians have condemned spot-fixing in IPL 6 saying such cricketers have brought shame to the game. Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has applauded Delhi Police for cracking the case. ...
03:32 PM, May 17, 2013
Daniel hails from Gurdaspur district's Dadwain village and was apprehended by Pakistani rangers in 1993. He was jailed for over four years. He now pulls a rickshaw. He alleges that the Indian authorities who sent him across the border refused to recognise him and help him out once he was caught. According to him, he met many other Indians incarcerated in jail in Pakistan on espionage charges. Daniel, Indian who...
03:47 PM, May 03, 2013
Bangalore: The real estate lobby entered the Karnataka state politics in the late 90s. CNN-IBN takes a look at some of the richest candidates in the fray for this year's Assembly polls, many of them from the real estate business. Priyakrishna is the richest candidate in the fray and also one of the youngest. When he successfully contested an Assembly by-poll at the age of 25, his declared assets value...
09:07 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: The bereaved elder sister of a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist, whose death in police custody led to noisy protests, on Wednesday called for a ban on politics at educational institutions and urged students not to join politics. She alleged that party leaders use innocent students for their political interests. Sudipto Gupta, a post-graduate student of Rabindra Bharati University and an activist of CPI-M's student wing SFI, died...
01:55 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday took exception to politicians and businessmen running sports organisations saying sports persons who should be at the helm of such affairs. Intervening during the speech of Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Sukhda Pandey in favour of the 'Bihar Sports Association Registration, Affiliation and Regulation Bill, 2013,' in the assembly, he said this system was not good for sports persons and sports. ...
01:15 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday alleged that the Legislative members do not utilise the "right procedure" to make their view points. "It has been observed that members do not utilise the right procedure to make their view points in the Assembly or Council, but they choose speaking outside the Houses which weakens the institutions," Omar, who was here to attend the 'Best Legislators' award function at...
04:47 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Actress-turned-politician Jaya Prada on Tuesday lost her cool and threatened a reporter to slap him when she was asked a question regarding her relations with Samajwadi Party, with which she was associated earlier. "Kya sawal puch rahe hain aap. Ek lafa dungi" (What question you are asking...I will give you a slap), Jaya Prada, the independent Lok Sabha MP from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh said. ...
08:43 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Thursday stressed the need to change the image of the average Indian politician in the minds of the public who perceive him to be the root cause of all problems. ...
08:27 AM, Feb 08, 2013
A sex worker turned politician and was twice elected as the ward councillor of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district. Rani Begum has now put her past behind and is working towards a better future for people like her. "Initially, I faced difficulties working in the society. But gradually, when people saw my work they starting accepting me," Rani Begum said. ...
09:43 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for a scam. ...
11:19 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Scalded by spontaneous anti-rape and corruption protests near the seat of government in New Delhi, India's ageing leaders are scrambling to win over an angry and influential young urban population ahead of elections due to be held by early next year. ...
07:12 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Why politicians make anti-women statements. IBN7's managing editor Ashutosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has criticised the media for giving undue publicity to Congress leaders in the state who filed "bogus" complaints against his ministers. "The bogus people have filed bogus complaint (against the ministers). But the biggest tragedy is that anyone makes any allegations and they are printed by the press...," Parrikar said. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Six MLAs and two MPs in India are accused of serious crimes against women, including rape and sexual assault. ...
11:49 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a plea for disqualification of MPs and MLAs chargesheeted for crime against women but agreed to go into issues of fast track trial of rape cases and implementation of laws for safety of women. The apex court, which was hearing two PILs filed after the December 16 gangrape incident, said it can only give notice to the government on limited issues as...
01:22 PM, Jan 04, 2013
From suggesting that eating chowmein led to rape, to criticizing women protesters who had make-up on, politicians said some bizarre things in 2012 to claim the limelight. ...
11:11 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Srikant Sastri, a Delhi-based entrepreneur and angel investor, has started a campaign called 'Save The Republic - Resign Before Jan 26th' on Facebook and Twitter to ask two MPs and 42 MLAs, accused of crimes against women including rape, to voluntarily tender their resignations before Republic Day. ...
03:36 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Politicians have made shameful and shocking statements over heinous crime like rape and the victims of it. ...
10:00 PM, Dec 28, 2012
