New Delhi, Sept 3 – Shahsi Tharoor may have lost his ministerial job, but he has not fallen out of favor with the prime minister. Gursharan Kaur, Manmohan Singh’s spouse, was among those who came to wish Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar good luck on their marriage, the third for both, at a power-packed [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the best. All roads seemed to lead to the India Habitat [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party’s bad governance. ‘Poor people are becoming poorer and the rich are becoming richer during the Congress regime as it has adopted a wrong economic policy and [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi family. ‘I congratulate Sonia Gandhi for getting re-elected the Congress chief for a record fourth time but she [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday – the first day of its monsoon session – following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the state. Opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – In a step to reiterate the government’s commitment to tribal welfare, an apex National Council for Tribal Welfare (NCTW), to be headed by the prime minister, was constituted Friday. The formation of the NCTW was initiated by Minister of Tribal Affairs Kanti Lal Bhuria, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs said [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – The Election Commission Friday announced by-election to the Bhatgaon assembly seat in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district on Oct 1. Polls are being held following the death of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Tripathi in a car accident in April this year. While the notification will be issued Sep 6, [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Sonia Gandhi was Friday elected Congress president unopposed for the fourth successive time, becoming the longest serving Congress chief. Thanking party workers for their support, Gandhi termed the job as a ‘great responsibility’. ‘Congress workers have all elected me unopposed as head of this great, historical organisation. For this, I [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – An Indian-origin US official Friday said that providing information on the web to increase access to official data is a priority for the American government. ‘We created data.gov in 2009 with an aim to increase access to government data as close to the authoritative source as possible,’ said Vivek Kundra, US [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – Despite hype by the ruling Akali Dal in Punjab regarding elections to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini-parliament of Sikh religion, the polls do not seem possible in the coming months. Though the deadline for the publication of manuscripts of electoral rolls for the polls has been extended by [...]
Shimla, Sep 3 – In a setback to Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday turned down his plea for quashing the police complaint against him and his wife filed last year in the infamous CD case. After reserving his order Aug 20, Justice Kuldip Singh gave the ruling in the court [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – A handful of posters hanging on a flimsy wire and policemen outnumbering the voters and students — this was the scene outside Sri Venkateswara college in south campus as Delhi University (DU) went to polls Friday sans fervour. The students elections received a lukewarm response from the voters this year. [...]
Chennai, Sep 3 – AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Friday accused the union government of taking actions against her during 1991-1996 for standing firm on the state’s rights. ‘I stressed on the rights of Tamil Nadu in respect of Katchatheevu and the Cauvery river water issue while I was the chief minister and the central [...]
Patna, Sep 3 – Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called an all-party meeting Saturday to discuss the Maoist deadline set for releasing their eight jailed commanders and the rebels’ claim that they had killed one of the four policeman they had abducted, sources in the chief minister’s office said. The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal [...]
Amethi, Sep 2 – Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi reached a police station in his Amethi parliamentary constituency and asked the policemen there to investigate a murder case properly and within a stipulated period of time, a party leader said Thursday. ‘Rahulji late in the evening went to the Muzafirkhana police station after a woman, [...]
Kolkata, Sep 2 – In the wake of union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s comments on the existence of camps of armed cadres in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday claimed they were set up to house those evicted by the Maoists from their homes. ‘Our party is working in [...]
New Delhi, Sep 2 – With Sonia Gandhi set to be formally re-elected Congress president Friday, the focus has shifted to the state units, who have been advised to elect their chiefs and other office bearers and complete the process by Sep 17. Central Election Authority (CEA) chairman Oscar Fernandes said Thursday that states had [...]
New Delhi, Sep 2 – Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari will be visiting Russia for five days from Monday on an invitation from awareness group Water Freedom Revolution (WFR), a party statement said Thursday. According to the statement, WFR is an international awareness movement dedicated towards promoting the importance of clean drinking water. ‘Shri [...]
New Delhi Sep 2 – Sonia Gandhi, already the longest serving incumbent, was Thursday set for a successive fourth term as Congress president with 55 valid sets of nomination papers filed in her favour by party leaders. No other candidate is in the fray. Gandhi, 63, assumed office as party president in 1998. Chairperson of [...]
Mumbai, Sep 2 – Former union law minister Ram Jethmalani Thursday decried what he termed as the ‘totally dishonest’ attitude of the centre in the matter of huge amounts of money hidden in foreign banks. Addressing media persons here, the Rajya Sabha MP of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that huge amounts of money [...]
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