Myanmar President Thein Sein has declared martial law in four townships following violent ethnic clashes between the Buddhists and Muslims. Dozens of people have been killed and many have been displaced due to the unrest. ...
09:25 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Saturday said he was opposed to granting any remission to actor Sanjay Dutt, whose conviction in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts was recently upheld by the Supreme Court. "Granting any remission to Sanjay Dutt would set a bad precedent. Sanjay Dutt should not be pardoned simply because he is a celebrity", Munde said addressing a function in Jalna. Dutt would have to...
01:23 AM, Mar 24, 2013
BJP legislators on Saturday staged a protest outside the legislature complex demanding the dismissal of the Omar Abdullah government and imposition of President's rule in the state. ...
03:05 PM, Mar 23, 2013
President Barack Obama was greeted with calls of "We love you" when he visited Cairo in his first term, seeking to turn the page on the Bush era with talk of a new beginning for ties between the United States and the Muslim world. Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volatile relationship with...
11:44 AM, Mar 23, 2013
RK Radhakrishnan, Head of programmes at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Lankan Tamils' issues and their resonance in India. ...
06:14 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The popular US TV miniseries 'The Bible' has plunged into controversy over what some viewers see as a physical resemblance between an actor playing Satan and President Barack Obama. ...
11:03 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Sonia Gandhi has just completed 15 years as the Congress party president on March 14, 2013. How has she performed as the leader of the grand old party? Veteran Journalist Neerja Chowdhury, who has covered Congress for long joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Commencing her 16th year as the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said being at the helm was "not an easy task" and gave credit to the party's rank and file in helping her accomplish the job. "It was not not an easy task. But it was made possible due to your support and the love and affection of the ordinary workers which made the task easier and the credit...
08:05 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Signs of cracks were visible in the main Opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yet again when its senior leader Yashwant Sinha threatened to resign from his Lok Sabha membership on Monday after Ravindra Rai was appointed the new Jharkhand party president. Sinha had made his opposition clear during the morning meeting of the top BJP leaders before the Parliament session. ...
05:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Raila Odinga, beaten by Uhuru Kenyatta in Kenya's presidential election, said on Saturday that his party would contest the results in court, alleging "massive tampering" of the March 4 vote. ...
04:49 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he is "almost certain" that "the empire" had poisoned the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Chavez, who led Venezuela for 14 years, died at age 58 after a two-year-long fight against cancer. ...
02:42 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has taken a serious note of attacks on the houses of Christians in Lahore and sought a report from the authorities over the incident, Xinhua reported. ...
06:38 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Venezuelans will vote April 14, 2013, to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced on Saturday as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarized country. ...
06:15 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Venezuela's Supreme Court says Vice President Nicolas Maduro became acting president the moment Hugo Chavez died, and can run for president. The decision comes just hours before Maduro is to be sworn in as acting president before the National Assembly and it was issued during the state funeral for Chavez. National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello had earlier announced the planned swearing-in, which the opposition says it is boycotting. ...
06:55 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Kenya's presidential race tightened on Friday as Uhuru Kenyatta's lead slipped to a level that could mean there is no outright winner and open the way for a tense, second round run-off against his main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga. ...
03:52 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in his address in the Rajya Sabha defended the UPA's record on reforms introduced in the country. Replying to President Pranb Mukherjee's address to the Parliament during the Budget Session, Manmohan said that he agreed with the President that India needs high growth rate to solve the problems of poverty and unemployment. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. Huge crowds are still waiting to pay their respects to Chavez after his death this week, and Maduro said the move - reminiscent of the treatment of Communist leaders Lenin, Stalin and Mao after their...
12:40 PM, Mar 08, 2013
US President Barack Obama has signed into law the new Violence Against Women Act, which he termed "very important" and representing the positive progress of the country. "One of the great legacies of this law is that it didn't just change the rules; it changed our culture. It empowered people to start speaking out. It made it okay for us, as a society, to talk about domestic abuse," Obama said...
10:04 AM, Mar 08, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee released a message in a statement on eve of International Women's Day, which is observed every year on March 8. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Michel Platini's idea that Qatar share the 2022 World Cup hosting rights with its Middle East neighbours was "crazy", UAE soccer chief Yousuf Al Serkal said. ...
05:58 PM, Mar 07, 2013
