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
Dubai: Marc Warren shot a 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a one-stroke clubhouse lead in the opening round of the season-ending Dubai World Championship. Warren, looking for his first European Tour win since 2007, had three birdies over his first five holes and made seven total at the USD 8 million tournament. Fredrik Andersson Hed and Padraig Harrington each shot a 67, while Henrik Stenson was in a group...
06:31 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: The clean chit by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to party president Nitin Gadkari is now spiraling into a fresh controversy. RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy is now being accused by the Congress of conducting an in-house inquiry that has only further embarrassed the BJP leadership. However, the BJP is sticking to its stand, saying Gadkari is a social entrepreneur who has committed...
10:21 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again reasserted its support to its beleaguered president Nitin Gadkari. This comes after confusion over a series of tweets on Tuesday by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy in his tweets appeared to have been distancing himself over his defence of Gadkari, but later tried to clear the air by once again coming out in support of Gadkari. He even deleted some...
01:26 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, on whose analysis of the Putri Group account the BJP had backed its president Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday made a flip flop when he declined to have given him a clean chit and later retracted his remarks. "I have not given clean chit to NG (Nitin Gadkari). I cannot give clean chit to any one who I don't know fully I don't know NG...
09:36 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Days after he probed the Purti group and concluded that BJP President Nitin Gadkari had committed no legal or moral offense, RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has now clarified through his tweets that though he stands by his probe report on Gadkari, he has not given a clean chit to the BJP President since he does not know him fully and that he cares very little whether Gadkari remains...
02:15 PM, Nov 13, 2012
SS ideologue MG Vaidya in his blog has said that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against BJP president Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. ...
11:15 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Senior RSS ideologue M G Vaidya triggered a controversy giving voice to murmurs that Modi was behind Gadkari's troubles. ...
10:45 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday rejected Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member MG Vaidya's blog in which he had hinted that Gujarat Chief Narendra Modi was responsible for the campaign against party president Nitin Gadkari, calling it 'unfounded'. However, Vaidya sticks to his view that the campaign to dethrone BJP President Gadkari may have been initiated by Narendra Modi. "BJP completely rejects Vaidya's blog as it is totally unfounded. All...
01:58 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member MG Vaidya has sparked a fresh controversy by writing in his blog that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat and the state's Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vaidya said that BJP leader Ram Jethmalani in one breath said he is seeking the resignation of Gadkari and that he also wanted to see Modi...
11:25 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue MG Vaidya in his blog has said that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against BJP president Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vaidya says, "Ram Jethmalani in one breath said he is seeking the resignation of Gadkari and that he also wanted to see Narendra Modi as PM in 2014." This, he says, seems to suggest that the campaign...
09:43 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy who gave BJP President Nitin Gadkari a clean chit over his alleged dubious business dealings is expected to reveal the findings of his own investigations into Gadkari's firm Purti. In a tweet, Gurumurthy had said that part one of his findings will be published in a newspaper on Monday. Earlier, Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani had claimed sources in BJP have told him that...
08:07 AM, Nov 12, 2012
The Congress MP from Dewas said RSS workers are better than Congress leaders because they work with dedication. ...
03:49 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Bhopal: A day after the Congress session in Surajkund was marked by austerity, reports have emerged of a party MP embarrassing it with his remarks praising RSS workers for their dedication and criticising Congress workers for staying in air-conditioned chambers. Congress MP from Dewas Sajjan Singh Verma said RSS workers are better than Congress leaders because they work with dedication. "RSS workers work for their party with dedication, surviving on...
03:01 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP is still fighting against voices of dissent from within, for its President Nitin Gadkari. Another voice of dissent within the BJP against Gadkari, National executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar, said the party president must take a cue from senior party leader LK Advani who resigned from the Lok Sabha in the nineties after similar charges were levelled against him. BJP National Executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, senior BJP leader and lawyer Ram Jethmalani criticised the Congress party as a government of crooks that had to be brought down and said that he will do so using "all his weapons". Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the outspoken lawyer said that he would not apologise to anybody for his remark on Ram, the protagonist in the epic Ramayana, whom he...
07:57 PM, Nov 09, 2012
BJP leader LK Advani on Friday celebrated his 85th birthday, making him the oldest politician to ever be in active politics. ...
09:08 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met senior party leader LK Advani, who is apparently unhappy over Gadkari's continuance in his post, to wish him on his 85th birthday. Gadkari met Advani at his residence in New Delhi for nearly 15 minutes. The meeting came three days after Advani skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi where the party leadership once again announced its support for...
11:20 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari is likely to meet senior party leader LK Advani on Thursday. Advani is celebrating his 85th birthday on Thursday. In what was perceived as a snub, the senior leader had skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi on Monday night at which the leadership had once again announced its support to Gadkari. Advani is reportedly upset with the RSS...
09:05 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, who has mediated on behalf of beleaguered BJP President Nitin Gadkari following allegations against him of dubious funding by his company Purthi Sugar and Power cropped up, on Wednesday came out in his support saying he is "legally and morally" clear. "Re Gadkari. I examined legal & moral aspect. The 14 questioned cos belong Nagpur group that invested in Purti in 2004 and told...
12:00 AM, Nov 08, 2012
