A lot of people are predicting that the BJP government is on its way out in Karnataka and the Congress is stated to make a strong comeback. Eminent social scientist and analyst Dr Sandeep Shastri joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Will BSY emerge as king maker.. Asked by: Radhe A. Doubt it Radhe. At best he and his party could be a spoiler in this...
08:01 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Karnataka goes for Assembly elections on May 5. Professor of Economics & Social Sciences at IIM Bangalore MV Rajeev Gowda joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. I feel Congress will win 132 seats and JDS will come second .Do you agrees Asked by: shafivullah A. Your Congress prediction seems accurate. Second place will likely be shared by the BJP and JDS, with the BJP ahead by...
07:32 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Hyderabad: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday met senior Congress leaders from Telangana region, triggering off speculation that some ruling party MPs might join the Telangana party ahead of next year's general polls. The TRS president went to the residence of senior Congress leader K Keshav Rao here and held talks with him for about two hours. Congress Lok Sabha member M Jagannath was also present at the meeting....
03:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: After a stern warning from the Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at its biggest ally saying it should refrain from targeting its allies and instead focus on removing the "corrupt" United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Nitish had, in a veiled threat to the BJP, made it clear that...
07:15 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal (United) has set the terms for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), giving out a stern message on the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial nominee. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not name the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but made it very clear he is not acceptable as a PM candidate. The JD(U) has set a deadline till the end of the year to...
05:39 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New York: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research. Zuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced "forward us") in an op-ed article in 'The Washington Post' late Wednesday night. In it, he said the US needs a new approach to these issues if it is to get ahead economically....
08:05 AM, Apr 12, 2013
A day after the attack on Presidency University by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters, students and the faculty marched in protest in Kolkata. ...
11:28 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Islamabad: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, who was a candidate for Pakistan's upcoming polls, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southern Sindh province on Thursday, police said. Two gunmen, who were riding a motorcycle, shot at Fakhrul Islam outside his home in Halanaka area of Hyderabad city this afternoon. Islam was hit by several bullets and died instantly, police officials said. The gunmen escaped after the attack. No group...
03:35 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under attack again by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who said Manmohan was not accepted as a leader within his own party. As Modi goes on overdrive, one of the big questions is as to whether in this era of coalition politics, he could lead a coalition government. The JD(U) for one has rejected Modi's mantra, saying the Gujarat model cannot apply to...
09:18 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Raipur: Former BJP ideologue and RSS thinker KN Govindacharya said in raipur on Tuesday that politics has become a tool to make politicians wealthier and increase their social stature. On the last leg of his three-day visit to Chhattisgarh, Govindacharya said: "To give new dimension to politics, Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan is trying to bring nearly 350 organisations, including some splinter political groups, together to forge a consensus on common issues...
03:30 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's former political advisor and Rajya Sabha MP Pyarimohan Mohapatra launched his political party, Odisha Janamorcha on Tuesday. Mohapatra had allegedly tried to topple the Patnaik government in May 2012 but had failed and was expelled from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Earlier in January, stepping up his attack on the Patnaik government, the expelled leader had threatened to expose corruption in Odisha's coal sector....
09:49 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: They probably don't know it themselves, but men and women from India's economically backward classes have become reference points for political rivals Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi for pitching both sides of India's growth model. But on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), Modi found cause to mock Gandhi's speech about the plight of Kalavati (Bandurkar), a farmer's widow from Vidarbha, as he...
02:23 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Jammu: Union Minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the advent of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the national scene will not pose a challenge to the Congress. "Yes, Congress will gain in big way," the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy told reporters when asked whether Congress will gain by Modi's foray into the national politics. "You don't know Congress, they want Modi to...
11:43 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lead the party in the 2014 general elections but he is not running for any post, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot said on Saturday. "The Congress has not once said that Rahul Gandhi is the prime minister in waiting. He is not running for any particular post. Rahul Gandhi does not need to. He does not need any projection,"...
05:35 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met representatives of minority communities, and said "inclusive development" alone would rid the nation of vote-bank politics. A group of representatives of various minority communities on Wednesday called on Modi and congratulated him for being elected as the Chief Minister for successive fourth term, an official release said here. Modi said during the meeting that he was uniting the entire population of...
10:18 AM, Apr 04, 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
The Congress' bid to oust Odisha Assembly Speaker Pradip Kumat Amat suffered a jolt on Wednesday as its notice for adoption of a resolution was rejected for failing to garner the support of at least 28 members of the House. The notice with signature of 27 Congress MLAs was taken up for consideration by the House after completion of stipulated 14 working days gap. ...
05:46 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party is back home and in time to campaign for the May 11 elections. He returned late on Monday night a week after he controversially left for Dubai. ...
03:30 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Pakistan's election season is heating up despite a bombing and threats of more violence. And there is another wild card in the race to lead chaotic Pakistan. Retired cricket idol Imran Khan told supporters on Sunday, "We will establish a new Pakistan." ...
09:31 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Two women from Pakistan's restive northwest have made history by becoming the first tribal women to file nomination papers for the May 11 parliamentary polls. Forty-year-old Badam Zari filed nomination papers for a National Assembly constituency in the restive Bajaur tribal region on Saturday while Nusrat Begum plans to contest elections from Lower Dir, a tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. ...
03:15 PM, Apr 01, 2013
