Rescue teams were finally able to evacuate some of the people stranded in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Wednesday even though damaged roads and washed away bridges continued to hinder evacuation throughout the day. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rescue teams were finally able to evacuate some of the people stranded in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Wednesday even though damaged roads and washed away bridges continued to hinder evacuation throughout the day. The government, on its part, has pumped in immediate relief funds and rescue choppers to the battered north Indian state, which has been devastated due to torrential rains that have caused massive landslides and...
09:59 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday recorded statements of two officials of the Prime Minister's Office as part of its probe into the coal scam. The CBI sought clarification from Vini Mahajan and Ashish Gupta regarding the allocation of the coal blocks, sources said. The probe agency also summoned former coal secretary HC Gupta as an accused in the scam. Gupta will be questioned on June...
04:57 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday indicated readiness to make way for Rahul Gandhi if the UPA wins the Lok Sabha elections next year. "I have always said, as far as I am concerned, I would be very happy to see Rahul step into my shoes. I always believe we will have a third go at the elections as the UPA and people will again repose their faith in us,"...
08:03 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Patna: Bihar BJP ministers are likely to skip the Cabinet meeting called by Nitish Kumar on Sunday at 11:30 am. Meanwhile, Janata Dal United leaders also threatened to wipe out the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Bihar once they formally take on the Bharatiya Janata Party. BJP state president Mangal Pandey said that there was no meaning in attending the Cabinet meeting when JD(U) leaders were trying to lure other...
10:36 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Rajkot: Amidst mounting speculation over the fate of JD(U)-BJP alliance, a Bihar Minister and BJP leader on Friday said Narendra Modi was the most popular politician in the eastern state and fit to be Prime Minister. "Narendra Modi is more popular than any other local leader in Bihar and he is fit to become Prime Minister of the country," Giriraj Singh, who holds the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries portfolio in...
02:36 AM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat played peacemaker on Tuesday and averted the Bharatiya Janata Part's crisis by convincing LK Advani to come back into the party fold. Advani withdrew his resignation and has now returned to all party posts. The announcement was made by BJP President Rajnath Singh at a press meet on Tuesday evening. Flanked by several senior leaders including Uma Bharti and Sushma Swaraj,...
07:47 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: As the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party battle it out over the coal scam and internal crisis, Third Front leaders are stepping up. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told CNN-IBN that both Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi don't make the prime ministerial cut and that the Third Front's time has come. "Let me make it quite...
03:48 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Indian Police Services (IPS)lost the race for having one of its officers as the head of National Technical Research Organisation, the country's top intelligence and surveillance agency, with the government appointing a retired IAS officer to the post. Rentala Chandrasekhar, an IAS officer of 1975 batch ofAndhra Pradesh cadre, who retired as Telecom Secretary on March 31 this year, was named as the Chairman of NTRO. According to...
05:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New York: The appointment of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as chairman of campaign committee of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will ensure the victory of NDA in the 2014 General Elections ushering in a new era, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has said. He said the choice was a happy development for the nation and was welcomed by all sections of the community in India and abroad. "Modi is an...
04:22 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spent Rs 620 crores on air travel during foreign trips spanning the years between 2004 and 2013, the website of Prime Minister's Office has revealed. He spent the most on his trip to Mexico and Brazil in June 2012, racking a bill of Rs 26.9 crore in just eight days. PM Manmohan made 67 trips from 2004 to 2013, out of which five still...
10:00 PM, Jun 08, 2013
While many senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have decided to give a miss to the National Executive in Goa, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has taken the centrestage at the meet. Speculations are rife that Modi could be named as the party's campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
08:55 PM, Jun 07, 2013
BJP MP from Gorakhopur Yogi Adityanath on Friday spoke out in support of senior party leader LK Adavni, urging the party to make him the PM candidate. ...
06:55 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Islamabad: In one of his first decisions after assuming charge, Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has changed the name of his office. "Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided to rename the Prime Minister's Secretariat as Prime Minister's Office with immediate effect," said a brief statement issued by the premier's media office. Nasir Mahmood Khosa, a senior bureaucrat from Punjab province, has been appointed the Secretary to the Prime Minister....
12:25 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Guwahati: A government school student in Guwahati has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a clarification on a sentence in a NCERT book which says that tourism in the North East has not been encouraged due to 'strategic reasons'. The NCERT geography textbook for tenth standard in Chapter seven titled 'Lifelines of National Economy' in page 92 says "There is vast potential of tourism development in the north-eastern states...
03:51 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif will be formally elected by the the members of Pakistan's National assembly on Wednesday evening and will be sworn in by Pakistani President Zardari. With the swearing in, Nawaz Sharif who won May 2013 polls by a huge majority, will formally take charge of the government. Also to be present at the swearing in will be India's high commissioner to pakistan who will be representing the Indian...
07:45 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Amid speculation over BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate rife, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday asserted there are many leaders in the party who stand competent to hold the top post. "There are many people, many senior leaders, in the party (for the PM post)," Raman said when asked about BJP's PM candidate in 2014 general elections. "I am not in a Parliamentary Board that I will be...
10:05 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif will be sworn in for a record third term as Pakistan's Prime Minister on Wednesday after he is formally elected to the post and a very small cabinet comprising close aides is expected to take oath along with him. India's High Commissioner to Pakistan will represent the government at Sharif's swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday in Islamabad. The decision to depute Sharat Sabharwal was taken by the PMO....
05:19 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif was on Saturday formally nominated as candidate for the position of Pakistan's prime minister by the newly-elected members of parliament, said sources in his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. The party won majority seats in the May 11 general elections and is in a strong position to form the government, reported Xinhua. Lawmakers of the PML-N, who met in Islamabad, formally nominated Sharif to lead Pakistan for...
04:15 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress Core Group met in the national capital to discuss the Telangana issue and sources tell CNN-IBN that a decision is likely to be announced after the Assembly session of Andhra Pradesh gets over. The Group also held talks on the Food Security Bill. Sources say an all-party meet could be called on June 7 or June 8. The main Opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party has hit...
05:15 PM, Jun 01, 2013
