In what comes as an embarrassment for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, an aide of veteran leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday took the nomination papers for the party presidential elections. ...
05:15 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Troubled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday reacted to the Income Tax Department surveys on Purti group investors and accused the Centre of ordering I-T surveys to damage his presidential prospects. ...
04:46 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The power struggle within the Bharatiya Janata Party for the party president's post has worsened. Mahesh Jethmalani, who had threatened to contest against Nitin Gadkari said he has been denied nomination form by the party leadership for contesting elections to party president's chair. ...
01:45 PM, Jan 22, 2013
There seems to be fresh trouble for Nitin Gadkari who is set to be re-elected as the Bharatiya Janata Party President on Wednesday. The Mumbai I-T wing is surveying seven companies found to have been routing money into Gadkari's Purti Group after allegations against the companies surfaced in the Nagpur wing's probe. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A confident President Barack Obama kicked off his second term on Monday with an impassioned call for a more inclusive America that rejects partisan rancor and embraces immigration reform, gay rights and the fight against climate change. ...
03:58 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Asserting "America's possibilities are limitless," President Barack Obama declared on Monday that a decade of war is ending and the nation's economy is recovering as he launched into a second term before a flag-waving crowd of hundreds of thousands on the National Mall. ...
11:15 PM, Jan 21, 2013
What does Rahul Gandhi's elevation as the Congress vice president mean for the Indian democracy? ...
10:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
There is trouble within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the leadership and it's presidential election. Even though the road seems clear for the second term of current party president Nitin Gadkari, BJP leader Mahesh Jethmalani has said there should be a contest for the post. ...
07:31 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Even as there have been big names that could have been considered for the post of the President in the party, Gadkari remains the frontrunner with a strong Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) backing. RSS has endorsed Gadkari despite him facing corruption charges and at a stage wher the BJP looks to compete with the Congress, the party would not want to lose RSS's support. ...
02:00 PM, Jan 21, 2013
We will bring you realtime coverage in words, photos, sounds, video, interactives and graphics of the 57th US presidential inauguration. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The first lady of US, Michelle Obama has been spotted sporting fashionable bangs which is making her look younger. ...
12:54 PM, Jan 21, 2013
In more trouble for Nitin Gadkari, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mahesh Jethmalani on Monday threatened to contest for the post of the party chief if the former were given another chance to be the party president. ...
08:26 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Despite reservations by party veteran LK Advani, Nitin Gadkari is likely to be reappointed as the president of main Opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party, with a strong Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) backing. Notification for the elections has been issued while Gadkari is likely to file his nomination on January 23. ...
11:15 PM, Jan 20, 2013
US President Barack Obama was on Sunday officially sworn in for a second four-year term by the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at a small White House ceremony. Surrounded by family, friends and staff, in the Blue Room of the White House, Obama placed his hand on the historic Robinson family bible, selected specifically for the occasion, and recited the 35-word presidential oath written in the Constitution. ...
10:59 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Joe Biden, who was on Sunday sworn in as the US Vice President for a second term, made a gaffe hours ahead of his oath ceremony by calling himself "proud president of the United States". "I'm proud to be president of the United States," Biden told his supporters at the Iowa State Society inauguration ball on Saturday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 20, 2013
US Vice President Joe Biden was on Sunday officially sworn for his second term, hours before President Barack Obama takes his second oath of office at the White House. 70-year old Biden was administered the oath of office on his family bible by the Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor at a private ceremony at his official residence here, following a private mass. ...
09:03 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The three-day Chintan Shivir deliberations have filled the Congress with "new energy and resolve" and if the party abides by its new declaration, nothing can stand in the way of its progress, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday. Thanking party delegates at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meet here, Gandhi expressed happiness over the manner in which party business was transacted over the three days and hailed it...
08:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The fight for the post of the BJP president seems to have gotten a new twist. Sources said on Saturday that party veteran LK Advani had suggested senior party member and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj's name for the post. ...
06:39 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday reacted to Rahul Gandhi's appointment as the Congress Vice President by raising questions over his potential, saying it has to be seen whether the nation accepts him as a leader on the basis of "family inheritance". "The world's largest democracy cannot be put to risk by risking ourselves in the hands of those whose actual potential we do not know, whose opinion on...
06:05 PM, Jan 20, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's 1938-speech as Congress President had inspired him to draft his own acceptance speech on becoming the head of state. ...
05:54 PM, Jan 20, 2013
