New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha are among the prominent leaders who have failed to find a place in the new party President Rajnath Singh's core team. Both Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha have been senior Ministers in the NDA colaition government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee. While their names do not figure in the BJP Parliamentary Board, the Central Election Committee or the Central Disciplinary...
07:30 PM, Mar 31, 2013
New Delhi: UPA nominee Hamid Ansari appears set to get a second term as Vice President by emerging a clear winner against NDA's Jaswant Singh in a direct contest for the post on Tuesday. The election for the post of Vice President has seen UPA and its allies, the Left as also other parties supporting it from outside backing the incumbent. A total of 788 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...
08:19 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: NDA's Vice Presidential candidate Jaswant Singh on Friday filed his nomination papers. The 74-year-old BJP leader, whose candidature was declared by the NDA on July 16, filed his nomination papers to Lok Sabha Secretary General TK Vishwanathan, who is the Returning Officer for the Vice-Presidential poll. Three sets of papers - one each by LK Advani, Sumitra Mahajan and Yashwant Sinha - supporting Singh's candidature were submitted to...
02:11 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Patna/New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was united on Jaswant Singh's candidature for the vice president's post. "The NDA is united for the vice presidential poll and the Janata Dal-United is with Jaswant Singh," Nitish Kumar said. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA has named BJP leader Jaswant Singh as its vice presidential candidate. The JD-U is, however, supporting UPA's Parnab Mukharjee...
02:53 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: A strategy meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the presidential elections is being held at the residence of senior leader L K Advani. The meeting is also being attended by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, veteran leader Jaswant Singh and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy. According to sources, Swamy is keen on launching an all out attack on UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee...
06:34 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday witnessed commotion as Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. The Houses had to be adjourned repeatedly following the uproar on the issue as the treasury and the opposition benches continued to trade charges. While the Opposition demanded a new probe into the scam, the Congress maintained that...
01:18 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: RSS has praised late Indira Gandhi as the only one who had stood her ground against terror while it took a dig at BJP's Jaswant Singh for accompanying Kashmiri terrorists to secure the release of a planeload of Indian hostages. In its editorial on the current hostage crisis in Odisha, RSS mouthpiece Organiser has said neither the Centre nor the states have a "well-defined policy" on kidnapping and...
09:08 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party trained its guns on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former finance minister Jaswant Singh was also questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The statement of the BJP leader was recorded by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The CBI completed its interrogation of Jaswant Singh, which had been going on for the past two days, as part of...
01:13 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the 2G scam will be formally announced on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will move a motion for the JPC in Rajya Sabha after which the full list of all members - from both houses - will be announced. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Congress is likely to object to presence of seniors BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh on...
08:54 AM, Mar 01, 2011
Darjeeling: West Bengal government has sought the help of Army to control the situation after three people were killed in a series of clashes between the police and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supporters. However, sources say that the Army is reluctant to be involved in civilian operations. Army headquarters is New Delhi clarified that no unit has been deployed in Darjeeling even as the situation remains tense in the area....
12:05 PM, Feb 09, 2011
Jaswant Singh on Thursday returned to the BJP almost a year after he was expelled. ...
11:25 PM, Jun 24, 2010
Singh returned to the party formally in a function attended by Gadkari, Advani and a number of senior BJP leaders. ...
12:35 PM, Jun 24, 2010
The BJP forgives the former Union minister for his Jinnah worship and is all set to get him back into the party. ...
11:14 PM, Jun 15, 2010
MP won't confirm or deny rumours that he is returning to the party, but he is not going to apologise for his Jinnah book. ...
05:28 PM, May 21, 2010
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London: Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir will appear at the Court of Appeal here on Wednesday to contest the sentences imposed on them after being found guilty of spot-fixing earlier this month. According to reports in the media...
04:01 PM, May 02, 2010
