JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Saturday lost his temper after reporters persistently asked him for his reaction to the possibility of Narendra Modi becoming Prime Ministerial candidate, saying it seemed the media had made the issue "a monkey disease." ...
03:59 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Amid talks within BJP over prime ministerial candidate, party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on February 1 called Narendra Modi a "towering symbol of nationalism" having country-wide appeal, but said there were a number of "capable leaders" and decision will be taken at appropriate time. ...
05:10 PM, Feb 02, 2013
The clamour is growing within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to be the Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014. BJP Vice President Kalraj Mishra has admitted that Modi is among the top contenders even as allies JD(U) and Shiv Sena insisted that the alliance must make its candidate public. ...
01:58 PM, Feb 02, 2013
As speculation mounts over Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi being the NDA's prime ministerial candidate in the next general election, a senior Janata Dal(United) JD(U) leader has said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the best man for the job. "There are several names doing the rounds for the post of PM. But Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is best among them," JD(U) leader Hari Kishore Singh said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 30, 2013
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has said that the party needed to be prepared for 2014 General Elections and that the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was the party's best bet. ...
11:21 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy Tuesday condemned Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader K Chandrasekhara Rao's "disgraceful" remarks against Congress leaders and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressing a news conference Tuesday evening, he said the Congress party can't tolerate such "disgraceful remarks". ...
09:05 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Chasing 334 to win, the tourists fell short by 23 runs against the Australians led by Ricky Ponting. ...
05:33 PM, Jan 29, 2013
After Yashwant Sinha, senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday endorsed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming general election. ...
01:51 PM, Jan 29, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday denied saying anything about beating up the prime minister and blamed the media for "distorting facts". ...
03:40 PM, Jan 22, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to deliver his hotly anticipated speech about his plans for Britain's membership of the European Union this week, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday. After months of speculation, Cameron had been scheduled to deliver the speech on Friday in the Netherlands, but it was postponed because of a hostage crisis involving Britons at a gas plant in Algeria. ...
08:05 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Rahul Gandhi, who was on Saturday named Vice President of Congress, thanked the party and said he is "confident we can transform and strengthen Congress". ...
11:49 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Rahul Gandhi, who was on Saturday named Vice President of Congress, thanked the party and said he is "confident we can transform and strengthen Congress". Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also congratulated 42-year-old Rahul, while party members celebrated outside venue of Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Jaipur. ...
11:23 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday was appointed the Vice President of the Congress at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Jaipur making the clamour make Rahul party's prime ministerial candidate only grow louder. Defence Minister AK Antony proposed Rahul's name for the post and the CWC unanimously backed Antony's proposal. ...
08:27 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad on Friday batted for Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to be the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections, and said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's "dream of becoming PM will never come true". ...
08:11 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Even as corruption charges threatened to topple Pakistan's second Premier in a row, the country's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar drew a parallel with India, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also faced "very big" allegations. "The problem of corruption plagues many countries within South Asia and elsewhere also," Khar said. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan government has been trying to decide its course of action after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in a power project corruption case. Pakistan's apex court took the extreme step of calling for the prime minister's arrest despite the fact he has not been convicted. ...
10:05 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke his silence saying that after the "barbaric act", there cannot be "business as usual" with the neighbouring country. ...
09:02 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Days after two Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops near the Line of Control (LoC), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke his silence on Tuesday saying that after the "barbaric act", there cannot be "business as usual" with the neighbouring country. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Pakistan is facing a political crisis as its Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf could be arrested for corruption in power projects following a Supreme Court order. Pakistan is scheduled to elect a new national assembly in a few months. ...
03:21 PM, Jan 15, 2013
