The Janata Dal United has taken on the Bharatiya Janata Party over comments made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over rapes and the role of women in society. JDU leader Shivanand Tiwary on Monday compared Bhagwat with Akbaruddin Owaisi of the MIM, who is in the dock over a hate speech, saying that they both are products of similar ideologies. "The RSS ideology is propagated among Hindus and MIM's amongst...
04:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Under fire over his 'India and Bharat' comment, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat got another jolt over an alleged comment on the role of women in society. "A husband and a wife are involved in a social contract. The wife has to take care of the household work and the husband has to meet her needs and protect her. If the wife violates the contract, the husband can disown her,"...
05:51 PM, Jan 06, 2013
After RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks that rapes were prevalent in India and not in Bharat, the VHP on Saturday blamed the 'western model' of lifestyle for growing incidents of sexual assault on women including rape, saying cities were losing the values. ...
08:58 AM, Jan 06, 2013
After creating a furore with his India-Bharat remark on increasing rapes in the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again kicked up a controversy by saying that women must restrict themselves to household work. In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are bound by a social contract where the wife has to take care of the household chores and the husband's...
08:22 AM, Jan 06, 2013
RSS mouthpiece Organiser has alleged that the government made Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India a low-key affair to keep under wraps the huge amount of arms sale agreement signed between the two countries. ...
02:40 AM, Jan 06, 2013
A BJP party leader has defended RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on rape, and said that western culture and bikini-clad women in advertisements have a role to play in crimes against women. BJP member Sheshadri Chari made the remarks during CNN-IBN's India @ 9 show. He was speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai and said that both women and men need to observe the 'Lakshman-rekha'. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 04, 2013
MP Industry Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya blamed the influence of western culture for crime against women. ...
10:12 PM, Jan 04, 2013
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that rape incidents happen more in India, not Bharat. ...
08:01 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Dear Sir, You cannot be more 'right', pun vehemently intended. I am one of the many today outraged by your remarks that rapes happen ...
05:36 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday defended the remarks by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who had said that rape incidents occurred in cities and not in rural areas. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad lambasted critics and said that the comments should be seen in their entirety, adding that the raging debate on his remarks was unnecessary. "Women empowerment, respect for women forms the core ideology of the RSS," a furious...
02:22 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. "Such crimes hardly take place in Bharat, but they frequently occur in India," Bhagwat said seeming to indicate that "westernization" in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rapes. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 04, 2013
With speculations making the rounds over the new potential candidate for the post of Bharatiya Janata Party president, sources on Friday said that there are high chances that Nitin Gadkari gets a second term. According to BJP sources, Gadkari remains the first choice of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the top post. ...
09:34 AM, Jan 04, 2013
There can be no basis to distinguish between rural and urban India when it comes to crimes against women, Union Home Secretary RK Singh said Friday following Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark that "westernisation" in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rape. ...
01:05 AM, Jan 04, 2013
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's brother Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is an MLA in the AP Assembly, is in legal trouble as the police have filed an FIR against him for allegedly making a hate speech. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Is the BJP right in giving a second term to Nitin Gadkari as party president? CNN-IBN's National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:45 PM, Jan 03, 2013
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi's brother Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is an MLA in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is in legal trouble as the police have filed an FIR against him for allegedly making a hate speech. The Nirmal police station in Adilabad district, where Owaisi had given the alleged hate speech, has registered a case under Indian Penal Code Section 153(a) (promoting enmity between different groups on...
02:48 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday accused RSS of supporting BJP president Nitin Gadkari even as corruption charges against him were being probed. "RSS supports Gadkari. Sangh has no policy but goes by person," Singh told reporters in Bhubaneswar alleging that Gadkari's driver is also one of the directors in his company. While BJP's senior leader LK Advani was asked by the RSS to resign for praising MA Jinnah,...
10:39 PM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: The trouble for BJP President Nitin Gadkari is more within than outside. One after the other, senior party MP's have sought his resignation in the wake of allegations against Gadkari's Purti Group. And the latest ones alluding that Gadkari's wife and sons held shares in three Purti shell companies, attempt to debunk the clean chit by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy on the basis of whose in-house investigation. The...
05:30 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Dubai: Jeev Milkha Singh was lying almost in the middle of the pack with a modest one-under 71 at the end of the opening round of the USD 8,000,000 DP World Tour Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates on Thursday. The 41-year-old Indian, who has still not fully recovered from his injury, was lying at tied 38th, six behind the leader Luke Donald of England, who arrived into Dubai, fresh...
11:20 PM, Nov 22, 2012
