Speculation over BJD RS nominees
With four Rajya Sabha seats from Orissa going to fall vacant in April and the BJD poised to get at least three of its nominees elected comfortably; speculation has begun as to who would get the favour...
View Article‘Everyone has right to form political party’
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi who left for New Delhi to attend AICC session here on Wednesday said that he was in favour of declaring Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi as prime ministerial...
View Article‘One lakh dam-hit villagers to join AAP’
Senior Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Alok Agarwal announced here on Wednesday that at least one lakh villagers affected by dams in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh would by joining the Aam...
View Article‘Resignation won’t affect Trinamul’
The Congress leadership is confident that the return of Somen Mitra will come as a shot in the arms of the beleaguered state unit of the party while the Trinamul Congress contemptuously dismisses his...
View ArticleSomen quits LS, may join Cong
In a setback to the Trinamul Congress, party MP Somen Mitra on Wednesday resigned from his Lok Sabha membership. Since a few months, it was being speculated that Mr Mitra will join the Congress ahead...
View ArticleUP is now Crime Pradesh: Maya
Mayawati has alleged that the BJP had used the CBI to hound her because she did not agree to a national alliance with the party. She further said that the “Statue of Unity” project was designed to get...
View Article‘India a nation of under-achievers’
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA over economic slowdown, saying India has become a country of “under-achievers” and the main...
View ArticleVishwas: Will build house in Amethi
AAP leader Kumar Vishwas has said that he planned to build house for himself in Amethi so that he could remain amidst the people of the constituency. “I am not like ‘Yuvraj’ (Rahul Gandhi) who stays in...
View ArticleBJP: Cong knows of coming loss
Alleging that the Congress is avoiding naming its vice-president Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate as it is aware of an impending defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP on Thursday...
View ArticleUP got statue every month in 22 yrs
Uttar Pradesh has turned into a land of statues if the responses received to an RTI query are any indication. In the past 22 years, from 1990-2012, the state government has erected 294 statues at an...
View ArticleVirbhadra sues Jaitley, othersVirbhadra sues Jaitley, others
Under attack from the BJP on corruption charges, Himachal chief minister Virbhadra Singh Thursday filed three defamation cases against Arun Jaitley and other party leaders, accusing them of unleashing...
View ArticleBJP slams ‘false’ Cong propaganda
Noting that the country is passing through a “crucial phase,” the BJP, on the eve of its three-day national conclave, on Thursday alleged that the Congress, with the help of other parties, is using...
View ArticleT-shadow over today’s AICC meet
The controversial issue of Telangana may cast a spell on the AICC meet scheduled for Friday, with a few MPs from Seemandhra threatening to hold a sit-in protest in front of the venue, Talkatora...
View ArticleCong slams govt economic policy
The government’s economic policy and its failure to check inflation came under attack in the extended CWC meeting called here on Thursday to approve a draft resolution to be placed before the AICC...
View ArticleSonia attacks BJP
Signalling that Congress is ready for the battle ahead in the Lok Sabha elections, party President Sonia Gandhi on Friday attacked the BJP saying its “divisive” ideology is the “biggest threat” while...
View ArticleCWC decision on Rahul not being named PM nominee final: Sonia
The CWC decision not to anoint Rahul Gandhi as Prime Ministerial candidate did not deter party workers from voicing their clamour but Sonia Gandhi put an end to any debate asserting that the decision...
View ArticleRahul’s blistering attack on BJP
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday made a blistering attack on BJP saying it believed in lighting fires of communal hatred and turning people against one another. In a no-holds-barred...
View ArticleGovt mulling check on social media to stop misuse: Shinde
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday drew attention toward alleged “misuse” of social media in forking old “provocative” photographs to foment communal riots and said his ministry was...
View ArticleSunanda’s death unnatural: Doctors
Doctors at AIIMS, who conducted autopsy on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, on Saturday said it was a case of “sudden, unnatural death” but ruled out poisoning even as police investigated various angles...
View ArticleUS Indian scientist ‘re-engineering’ tulsi
Led by an Indian-American, a team of scientists at an American university are genetically engineering tulsi or basil to enhance its pharmaceutical value, the institute said. In his lab at the Owensboro...
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