New Delhi Harvinder Singh, the man who slapped Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, has been granted bail by the Patiala House court. Singh was granted bail on Monday with the court ruling that he was not mentally stable. Singh had slapped Sharad Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi on November 24 while shouting slogans against price rise and corruption. After slapping Pawar,...
12:04 PM, Dec 19, 2011
BANGALORE: Year 2012 could trigger a major political shake-up in the state with Congress ally at the Centre, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) headed by Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar, planning to engineer a split in the Congress and JD(S) in the next three months. The poaching of Karnataka MLAs is part of Pawars grand design to scale the Prime Ministers seat after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Revealing the plan,...
09:50 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Mumbai: It is phase two of the Municipal Council polls in Maharashtra on Wednesday. But it is being seen as a token phase since Sharad Pawar's NCP virtually swept the polls in the first phase itself. What is bigger is that Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign seems to have had no effect on the polls. It was a special birthday gift for NCP President Sharad Pawar as his party virtually swept...
11:41 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: UPA President Sonia Gandhi's pet project, the Food Security Bill, didn't get a cabinet nod on Tuesday. As the Industrial output is down, manufacturing is down and rupee consistently depreciating the government is attempting to put an extra burden of almost Rs 1 lakh crore on itself by bringing in the Food Security Bill. The bill was put up before the cabinet just a couple of months before...
06:30 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Ghaziabad: Team Anna had invited Sharad Pawar too for the debate at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, but his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) preferred to keep away, Anna Hazare said in Ghaziabad on Monday. Anna Hazare reached Ghaziabad to conduct a counselling session with those aspiring to join Tam Anna. The counselling programme will continue Tuesday too, added Hazare. Hazare compared corruption to pollution "which is ruining the Indian economy", while...
07:59 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Ghaziabad: Team Anna had invited Sharad Pawar too for the debate at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, but his Nationalist Congress Party preferred to keep away, Anna Hazare said on Monday. Anna Hazare reached Ghaziabad to conduct a counselling session with those aspiring to join Tam Anna. The counselling programme will continue Tuesday too, added Hazare. Hazare compared corruption to pollution "which is ruining the Indian economy", while talking to media...
01:08 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Under pressure from Team Anna and Opposition on the Lokpal issue, the UPA on Monday closed ranks slamming the Jantar Mantar agitation and said that Parliament will decide on Lokpal, not Team Anna. Taking a dig at Anna Hazare's Lokpal debate with politicians at Jantar Mantar, NCP leader Sharad Pawar said that it's good that the supremacy of Parliament was highlighted at Anna's fast venue. "Good that all...
01:46 PM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: Taking a dig at Anna Hazare's Lokpal debate with politicians at Jantar Mantar, NCP leader Sharad Pawar has said that it's good that the supremacy of Parliament was highlighted at Anna's fast venue. "Good that all political parties at Jantar Mantar emphasised the importance of Parliament. We cannot overlook Parliament," Pawar said. National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah also slammed Anna's idea of a debate on Lokpal outside Parliament...
11:19 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Thane: NCP leader Jitendra Awhad on Thursday said social activist Anna Hazare should desist from attacking party President and Union Minister Sharad Pawar. Addressing a press conference in Thane, he accused Hazare of repeatedly "defaming" Pawar, and asked the anti-corruption crusader to stop doing so. Awhad, who is an MLA, said Hazare should stop making any more statements regarding the slapping incident involving the Maratha strongman in Delhi last month....
01:43 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday discussed with his senior cabinet colleagues the Mullaperiyar dam issue over which Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been at loggerheads. The discussion took place after the cabinet meeting during which Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal were present. Singh had been meeting a number of delegations from Tamil Nadu...
09:09 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday backed Sharad Pawar by questioning the Gandhian credentials of Anna Hazare for justifying the recent attack on the Agriculture Minister and said any attempt at instigating people was condemnable. Party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters that the basic principle of the Gandhian thought was non-violence and wondered how could anyone justifying violence be Gandhian. On Pawar's statement that Justice PB Sawant Commission had spoken...
06:45 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday lashed out at the Government, claiming that it was not serious in fighting corruption. Anna said, "The Government is not willing to remove the corruption." He also demanded that the Group C & D employees should be brought under Lokpal's ambit. Questioning Parliament Standing Committee's Lokpal Bill draft, Anna asked, "When some Congress members are saying that C & D employees should...
05:53 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, who was slapped by a young man in New Delhi on November 24, has hit back at anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare for supporting the attack on him. "By supporting the attack on me, Anna has supported violence and has given new definition of Gandhism and non-violence. Anna has hatred against me. Next time, if someone attacks me...
03:47 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi: Firing a fresh salvo, Anna Hazare on Tuesday accused Sharad Pawar of persisting with his "old habit of protecting corrupt people" even as he virtually justified the recent attack on the NCP chief, evoking a sharp reaction from the party. Hazare alleged that Pawar turned a blind eye to a number of corruption cases. "If an inquiry is ordered, it will become clear who has been responsible. This...
01:58 AM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: After courting controversy for his comments on Sharad Pawar being slapped by a youth, Anna Hazare on Tuesday fired a fresh salvo, saying the Agriculture minister has an "old habit of protecting corrupt people". In his blog, Hazare alleged that Pawar turned a blind eye to a number of corruption cases. "If an inquiry is ordered, it will become clear who has been responsible. This shows that Sharad...
06:40 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi: Acknowledging that he "committed violence" when he made the infamous remark "just one slap" after Sharad Pawar was attacked in Delhi last month, Anna Hazare on Tuesday said he did not consider this violence as wrong. "For the betterment of the society and the country, I have used strong words many times in the past. "Just One Slap?" I admit that I committed violence when I said that....
06:13 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Jabalpur: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar day escaped unhurt in Jabalpur after the ceiling fan on the dais from where he was addressing a seminar, fell, police said. Pawar was speaking at the programme organised by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) when the incident occurred, Inspector General (IG) Jabalpur range, Madhu Kumar said. "The ceiling fan which was not properly fit above the dais suddenly fell about 4-5...
03:24 PM, Dec 03, 2011
Mumbai: Baramati MP and the daughter of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, on Sunday met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai to express gratitude for supporting Pawar after the attack on him in Delhi. "This was a family visit. We have close relations with the Thackerays for the last several years. I know Uddhav, Raj from my birth. And after the incident in Delhi,...
09:23 AM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Saturday accused Anna Hazare of provoking violence, in an apparent reference to his reaction over the attack on Union Minister Sharad Pawar. In two of his posts on the microblogging site Twitter, Digvijaya said, "Anna "Gandhian" - Provokes Violence. Bedi"X Cop"- Urges People to break Law Kejriwal"X IRS"- Returns Donations to Anonymous. "Shanti Bhushan "X Law Minister"- Promises to fix Judges.Pranab Da...
03:05 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Mumbai: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said that the Centre's move to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail was a pro-reform measure which would benefit the farmers as well consumers. "The decision is applicable to areas where population is more than ten lakh. If farmers' produce reaches consumers directly, it is beneficial to both. This is pro reform," he told reporters in Mumbai. "However, if a...
11:51 PM, Nov 25, 2011
