New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna, who is in jail in connection with a fake passport case, was equated with the freedom fighters at Ramdev's fast venue Ramlila Maidan on Thursday. A huge poster at the fast venue had Balkrishna's picture with the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh. The poster was later removed after it was reported in the media. The poster...
01:33 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Tarun Vijay of BJP said Ramdev is transparent and is doing a good job in waking up a government which is rudderless and corrupt. ...
01:15 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Law Minister Salman Khurshid said Ramlila Maidan is a place where leela is performed. It's a democracy and people have the right to sit on protest. ...
01:04 PM, Aug 09, 2012
People say they visit Ramlila Maidan after Ramdev gave the call to fight corruption, black money and to bring a change. ...
12:37 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Quit India movement started 70 years back on August 9, which is why Ramdev has chosen the day to start the fight to bring back black money. ...
12:32 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Congress leader Girija Vyas has said that the government is not threatened by Ramdev's latest agitation against graft. ...
12:28 PM, Aug 09, 2012
The Union Minister added that UPA-II had done the most to tackle black money compared to previous governments. ...
12:23 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Approximately 6,000 to 7,000 people are present at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi, the venue of Ramdev's anti-graft agitation. Tight security has been deployed. ...
10:41 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi:1:00 pm Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said that his movement was only aimed at bringing back the black money allegedly stashed abroad and had no political agenda. 12:10 pm: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev clarified that he was not on an indefinite fast, but a three-day symbolic fast at the Ramlila Maidan. "No indefinite anshan, only a symbolic fast for three days," Ramdev said. 11:40 am: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev...
08:34 AM, Aug 09, 2012
While anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has decided to stay away from yoga guru Baba Ramdev's agitation, Ramdev says that his focus is on issues and not the participants. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Bhupendra Chaubey, Ramdev said, "The issue isn't about the people, but saving our country." Ramdev will be back at the Ramlila Maidan, renewing his campaign against black money on Thursday, a year after the police crackdown on his protest...
08:10 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev will be back at the Ramlila Maidan on Thursday to renew his fight against black money, 14 months since his first protest at the venue ended in a midnight crackdown by the police. It remains to be seen whether the movement can be successful even as anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has refused to share his platform. The last time that Ramdev attempted a protest against...
07:31 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: As he prepares to launch second round of his agitation on black money and a host of other issues in Delhi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday maintained that he harboured no political ambitions and his only aim was to push for bringing back unaccounted money stashed abroad. "We have no political ambitions, we have no political mission or political agenda. Our only mission is to save the country...
07:23 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Final touches were being given Wednesday at the Ramlila ground here where yoga guru Ramdev will launch a campaign against black money and corruption Thursday - a year after a similar show a year ago ended in violence and the death of a woman. Ramdev aides said he would reach the capital from Gujarat later Wednesday, and he alone would announce whether he would go on fast or...
06:45 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: A group claiming to be a "politically neutral pressure group" has organised a march in London in support of Indian yoga expert Baba Ramdev's campaign against corruption on Saturday. The group, called 'Action Against Corruption', is described as a UK-based not-for-profit organisation. A press release about the march was issued by Hindu Council UK, which was set up in 1994 to represent the Hindu community in the UK. As...
05:54 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare is unlikely to attend yoga guru Baba Ramdev's rally, which begins on Thursday at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, according to sources. Sources indicate that Anna is upset with Ramdev's praise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. It now remains to be seen whether Ramdev will reach out to Anna and placate him to attend his agitation against black money. Earlier Ramdev had given a clean...
03:17 PM, Aug 08, 2012
The man who gunned down six sikhs and injured many at the Wisconsin gurdwara was a neo-Nazi. UPA candidate Hamid Ansari wins the vice presidential elections, gets a second term with a comfortable majority. ...
11:51 PM, Aug 07, 2012
CNN-IBN has accessed an excise intelligence report that exposes how Ramdev has failed to pay service tax. ...
10:49 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Just 48 hours before Ramdev embarks on yet another anti-corruption protest, CNN-IBN has accessed an excise intelligence report that exposes how he has failed to pay taxes. ...
06:33 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is leading an agitation against black money in the country, is in the eye of a storm yet again. Just 48 hours before Ramdev embarks on yet another anti-corruption protest, CNN-IBN has accessed an excise intelligence report that exposes how he has failed to pay taxes. Ramdev has shared dais with powerful chief ministers and created political storms in the country with his...
06:14 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: As he prepares for his indefinite protest with a three-day "self introspection" preceding it, yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday asked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to rein in party leaders accusing them of crossing limits and warned against any conspiracy to damage his agitation. He said he is going to the birthplace of Sardar Vallabhai Patel in Gujarat where he will spend the next three days for "self introspection"....
02:45 AM, Aug 06, 2012
