New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sushma Swaraj took on Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the pandemonium in Parliament and accused the duo of going all out to disrupt her speech. In a scathing attack on Meira Kumar and Sonia Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said that her party will boycott all meetings called by the Speaker and the...
04:42 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Bangalore: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP's frontrunner for the PM post, on Sunday left no stone unturned in wooing the voters in Bangalore and riling the opposition Congress with his remarks. Modi, in his trademark flamboyant oratory, asked Congress why it had failed to declare its CM candidate for the state so far. "All BJP leaders are asking Congress to announce their CM candidate in Karnataka. A 'hand'...
07:56 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Hubli: The asset value of Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has increased four times than that of his wife Shilpa Shettar, but he is literally indebted to her and brother Pradip Shettar, going by the affidavit filed by him along with his nomination papers in Hubli. Shettar, seeking a fifth win from a constituency in Hubli in the May 5 Assembly polls, has a loan of Rs 18.97 lakh, the...
08:40 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Gulbarga: A "flying squad" of the Election Commission on Saturday subjected Mayawati to checking for a second time in quick succession, following which an angry BSP supremo hit out at the poll watchdog, playing the Dalit card. As soon as Mayawati, who is in Gulbarga for campaigning for the May 5 assembly poll, landed by helicopter at a helipad on the outskirts of the taluk headquarters town of Jewargi in...
07:59 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Chikmagalur: Charging the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka with betraying the people's mandate, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday made a strong pitch for "change" in the state as it was passing through "some of the darkest days". "I remind the young generation that these are some of the darkest days...People want change. The need for change is now, and now", she said in her first campaign rally...
04:02 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Sachidananda Murthy, resident editor, Malayala Manorama and The Week, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Karnataka Assembly polls 2013. Q. The freebies announcements have started. How many more are to come? Asked by: sundar1950in A. Karnataka has the precedence of political parties announcing supplementary manifestos. In 1985 the Janata party benefited a great deal by announcing cheap food grains for poor, and school textbooks and uniforms for students....
05:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress core group met a short while back to discuss the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) affidavit on coal block allocation scam report with its allies and backed Law Minister Ashwani Kumar. Kumar told the core group his job was to look at the legal points in the draft and that he had done nothing wrong. Allies said the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be the next...
02:25 PM, Apr 26, 2013
A CNN-IBN-The Week pre-poll survey has revealed that Janata Dal (Secular) president and former Chief Minsiter HD Kumaraswamy is the most preferred CM candidate. ...
11:43 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Amid tight security and protests against his visit, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Kerala on Wednesday. Modi who will be on a day-long visit to the state, will address a public rally in Varkala. Modi had featured in recent debates in the state, after state Labour Minister Shibhu Baby John met him in Gujarat last week. Top Congress and Left leaders had condemned that meeting,...
10:56 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday sharpened its attack on the UPA government demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the 2G spectrum scam and coalgate. Even as the Opposition appeared divided over seeking PM's resignation, for the Congress these are worrying times. The passage of crucial bills in the Budget Session including the Finance Bill are at stake if the deadlock persists. The NDA is upping the...
09:40 PM, Apr 23, 2013
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11:49 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified on the third consecutive day even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. ...
11:46 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Protests against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in the national capital went on unabated on Monday despite the arrest of a second accused in the case. Anger against the city's police mounted, led by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and voices demanding resignation of the force's chief Neeraj Kumar kept rising. On a day that saw Parliament being rocked by the issue, Delhi Police Commissioner defended...
09:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified on the third consecutive day even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. ...
07:30 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old minor girl continued for a second day in the national capital even as the accused in the case was produced in a court and remanded to judicial custody till May 14. ...
11:24 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old minor girl continued for a second day in the national capital. Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj criticized Congress President Sonia Gandhi for her lack of efforts to curb crimes against women. She said, "Sonia Gandhi says it's the time to act, and not just talk. I want to ask her, who will act? Saying its ...
09:57 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday promised to conduct a fast track enquiry against its personnel accused of not helping the family of the five-year-old rape victim and offering them money to hush up the matter, even as a special court will be hearing the case at the same time. Police made these promises in a pamphlet distributed among protesters outside its headquarters demanding the removal of city Police Commissioner...
09:45 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old minor girl continued for a second day in the national capital even as the accused in the case was produced in a court and remanded to judicial custody till May 14. Protesters marched to India Gate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence at 7, Race Course Road and police headquarters in solidarity with the minor girl who was brutally raped, nearly...
09:36 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Karan Thapar spoke to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Devil's Advocate about the governance of the Congress party, who calls the shots, the equation between Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh and the prospect of Rahul Gandhi being nominated as the party's prime ministerial candidate. Karan Thapar Hello and welcome to Devils's Advocate. I am in an interview with a Congress leader who is not afraid to...
09:00 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Scores of BJP women activists were detained on Sunday when they staged a protest outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi's residence against the rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi. The activists of BJP's Mahila Morcha marched from party headquarters on Ashoka Road to Sonia's 10-Janpath residence. ...
04:36 PM, Apr 21, 2013
