
Arvind Kejriwal has been on an indefinite fast since March 23 hoping to trigger a 'civil disobedience movement' against the Sheila Dikshit government in Delhi. More than 8 lakh people have already pledged their support to the campaign against 'inflated' electricity and water bills which reflects a popular discontent, though it remains to be seen how many of these people will actually refrain from paying their bills. In an obvious...

02:59 PM, Apr 04, 2013

Anticipating General elections later in 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani on Wednesday said no government can be formed at the Centre without the support of either his party or Congress, virtually conceding that neither could get a majority. Partly agreeing with Advani, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav also saw the possibility of early polls and asked his partymen to work for getting "maximum" number of seats for...

06:39 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Raking up the issue of misuse of CBI, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said fighting with the government is not easy as it can use CBI and put one in jail. ...

04:50 PM, Apr 03, 2013

The Congress on Wednesday reportedly reprimanded Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma for attacking Mulayam Singh Yadav and asks him not to make personal barbs against Samajwadi Party chief. Meanwhile, Beni Prasad met another Mulayam baiter Amar Singh earlier in the day. ...

03:29 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday unveiled projects worth Rs 3,300 crore for the development of Noida and Greater Noida from Lucknow on Tuesday. Akhilesh unveiled the projects from the state capital giving Noida and Greater Noida a miss reportedly due to a superstition that any serving chief minister who visits the two cities loses the next election. ...

02:43 PM, Apr 02, 2013

A case was registered on Monday against BSP MP and party's zonal coordinator Jugal Kishore for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, a senior police official said in Gonda. ...

04:13 AM, Apr 02, 2013

The Samajwadi Party-Beni Prasad Verma war turned bitter on Sunday with SP leader Shivpal Yadav accusing the Union Minister of "smuggling opium" and using "charas". ...

05:07 PM, Mar 31, 2013

Dismissing claims that the Congress is misusing CBI to target its opponents, Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh on Sunday said the central agency was impartial and even the ruling party leaders were not spared. ...

04:49 PM, Mar 31, 2013

The actor however, is currently awaiting the release of Kannada revenge drama 'Bachchan'. ...

02:28 PM, Mar 31, 2013

Fatma Begum is considered as the first woman director of Indian Cinema. She directed her first film in 1926. ...

12:15 PM, Mar 31, 2013

The deadline set by Government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across fourteen states will end on Monday and television sets without set top boxes would go blank. ...

11:13 AM, Mar 31, 2013

Parveen Azad, wife of the slain Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq, is scheduled to depose before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday. Akshay Pratap, cousin of former cabinet minister Raja Bhaiya, who was forced to resigned after Azad named him in the FIR, was questioned by the investigative agency. ...

08:51 AM, Mar 31, 2013

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has requested the Centre to extend the digitisation deadline for his state by six months. In a letter to Minister of State (Independent Charge) for I&B Manish Tewari, Akhilesh said seven UP cities have been chosen in the second phase of digitisation. ...

10:14 PM, Mar 30, 2013

Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, who led the protest of Congress workers against the SP-led UP government in Kanpur on Saturday, alleged that most of the development projects in the city were lying incomplete in spite of release of funds by the Centre. ...

07:17 PM, Mar 30, 2013

Responding to the salvo fired by Congress leader and Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma that the Samajwadi Party (SP) would win just four seats in the 2014 polls, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that people will see the reality of the Congress-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) relationship. ...

04:49 PM, Mar 30, 2013

The likes of Malinga and Narine have been a revelation in the IPL and this year too, the bowlers will definitely have their say. ...

04:28 PM, Mar 30, 2013

The war of words between Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma and the Samajwadi Party does not seem to be ending. Even as the Congress distanced itself from Beni Prasad's remarks, he continued to fire salvos at SP and its supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. ...

03:53 PM, Mar 30, 2013

Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma has yet again put the Congress-Samajwadi Party relationship at stake by saying SP will win only four seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress has distanced itself from Beni Prasad' statement. ...

01:35 PM, Mar 30, 2013

Reacting sharply to Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's remark on its poll prospects, Samajwadi Party on Saturday said Congress would suffer due to such "baseless" statements and demanded his removal from the Union Ministry. Talking about the poll prospects of various parties in UP, Beni had said that Mulayam Singh Yadav's party will win only four seats in the next Lok Sabha polls and there will be a "funeral procession...

12:16 PM, Mar 30, 2013