Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is in the dock after his nephew was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 90 lakh from a Railway board member for a plum posting. ...
10:05 PM, May 04, 2013
The Opposition has demanded the immediate resignation of Railway Minister. Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said that this is a clear case criminal liability. ...
09:36 PM, May 04, 2013
Greater Noida: Noble laureate Amratya Sen on Saturday said it is unfortunate that government has not been able to push through the Food Security Bill that sought to provide subsidised foodgrains to people below poverty line. "It is unfortunate that we are not able to pass the Food Security Bill because Parliament is not able to meet", he said during a seminar at the ADB annual meet here. He further...
08:58 PM, May 04, 2013
Panihati: Stopping short of giving a call for a fourth front at the national-level, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday exhorted regional parties to come under one umbrella and oust the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre. "Now there should be a slogan - No third UPA government. Let all regional parties unite to provide a stable and pro-people government at the Centre," Banerjee told a party rally...
08:11 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence 7RCR on Saturday, has offered to quit over the Railway Board bribery controversy. Sources, however, said no decision has been yet taken on Bansal's offer and the final call was likely to be taken at the Congress core group meeting on Saturday evening. Bansal, who was at 7RCR for 20 minutes, left the...
01:50 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Seeking to blunt BJP critcism of "inaction" by UPA government in Sarabit Singh case, the Congress on Friday released a paper documenting actions taken by the government in the matter and accused NDA of "never raising the issue" when the Opposition alliance was in power. The three-page document released by AICC said "it started in 1990. Sarabjit was in jail all through NDA rule but never did the...
10:26 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Friday expressed solidarity with the Sikh community which is anguished over acquittal of Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and accused Congress of failing to ensure punishment to the guilty. "I empathies with the community which feels betrayed as justice has not only been delayed but justice has been denied to them," Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said. He said successive Congress governments...
08:58 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G scam is likely to meet on Tuesday to decide on the "future course of action" amid possibility of it seeking a fresh extension of tenure to adopt the controversial draft report. After Lok Sahba Speaker Meira Kumar expressed her inability to remove him as JPC Chairman as demanded by 15 opposition members of the committee, PC Chacko has started contacting members...
07:55 PM, May 03, 2013
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita Shetty, Radha Ravi, M S Bhaskar, Simha, Ashok Selvan, RJ Ramesh Thilak and Karuna Karan Director: Nalan Kumarasamy Packed with several funny, outrageous twists, 'Soodhu Kavvum' (SV) makes for a great one time watch. You can't possibly enjoy the film a second time because most of the plot is closely attached to the twists. Treading the path few Tamil films have attempted, 'Soodhu Kavvum' proves yet...
03:36 PM, May 03, 2013
Mangalore: Senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday cautioned Karnataka's electorate against voting for the Congress in the state legislative assembly poll May 5, 2013, as it had failed on all fronts at the national level. "You have seen how the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government in Delhi has been faring during the last nine years, how it failed to control price rise, inflation and in...
05:33 AM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the UPA government of "degrading" constitutional institutions and endangering the federal structure of the country. "All our constitutional institutions are being degraded. If we don't give strength to our constitutional institutions, all systems will be finished," Modi said. "A democracy functions according to systems. It cannot be based on individuals. People may come and go, but the system of democracy is...
03:57 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's inability to remove him, JPC chairman PC Chacko on Thursday contacted the committee members to hold a meeting before May 10 when its term ends and is learnt to be ready to extend the tenure of the panel to adopt the controversial draft report on 2G spectrum scam. Chacko has received a go-ahead from the Congress high command to...
09:50 PM, May 02, 2013
Patna: Rahul Gandhi and Congress leaders should stop shedding "crocodile tears" over Sarabjit Singh's death, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Thursday and demanded that the government makes a statement about steps taken to save the death row prisoner in Pakistan. "Today Congress crown prince Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders are shedding crocodile tears before the kin of Sarabjit Singh," Rudy said. "He (Rahul) is considered as the...
08:07 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The government which introduced amendments to the landmark Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha on Thursday could not get it passed as opposition stalled proceedings in the House over killing of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan and other issues. Food Minister KV Thomas moved amendments to the National Food Security Bill, which was originally introduced in Parliament in December 2011, but no discussion on it could take place...
06:42 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran on Thursday defended the UPA government over the coal scam probe and said that it was not the first time that a Law Minister had met the CBI chief. "It happened in UPA-I and during the NDA rule too. We will have to restore public confidence in us which has eroded." Parasaran went on to add, "If the CBI or the Law Minister had...
06:22 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: After achieving a career-high of World No.6 last week, Parupalli Kashyap dropped out of the men's singles top-10 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released Thursday. Due to a first round exit at the recently concluded India Open, Kashyap dropped five places to be ranked 11. But on the positive side, a brilliant performance by Indian shuttlers has led seven of them to be ranked in top-55...
05:31 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police has denied permission to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the capital to press for his demands including handing over the body of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru to his family. "Yes," said City Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar when asked by reporters whether any decision was taken to deny permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar starting on Friday....
04:16 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday said the government may not last beyond October and early elections seemed inevitable. "I don't think this government will survive beyond October...elections seem inevitable," SP leader Naresh Agarwal said in the Rajya Sabha, after the Finance Bill 2013 was introduced. The SP, which extends outside support to the UPA government, and has bailed out the Union government at crucial points, slammed Prime...
03:05 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik will not be allowed to stage any protest in New Delhi as announced by him, to press for handing over of the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his family. Official sources said the Home Ministry is likely to advise the Delhi Police to refuse permission to Malik to stage any protest at Jantar Mantar demanding handing over of the body...
01:06 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: After stalling Parliament, the main opposition BJP has decided to hold nationwide protests on May 4 and 5 to "expose" the scams of the UPA government. "These protests will unmask the misuse of constitutional institutions to cover up scams, corruption and sins of the Congress," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters here. "BJP leaders including LK Advani, party chief Rajnath Singh, Leader of Opposition in the...
11:50 PM, May 01, 2013
