CM: Stayed on at Sonia’s behest
Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, who resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM on Wednesday, has still not revealed plans for floating a new political party and did not mention the legal fight he had earlier promised to...
View ArticleBJP fears Cong may take credit
The buzz is that the BJP has begun upping the ante after it felt that it could run out of allies in Seemandhra region, which has 25 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress, not wanting to be left behind, has...
View ArticleIndia’s top court halts release of Rajiv Gandhi killers
India’s top court on Thursday blocked the release of three of former premier Rajiv Gandhi’s killers after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh denounced their freeing as against all principles of justice....
View ArticleAP polls unlikely along with LS
The Assembly elections of Andhra Pradesh will not be held with the Lok Sabha polls, expected in April-May. This was indicated by the Congress here on Thursday night. The term of the current Andhra...
View ArticlePM allays Seemandhra fears
Amidst unprecedented scenes of ruckus in the Rajya Sabha during the passage of the Telangana Bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday reached out to Seemandhra region by announcing special...
View ArticleAnimal sets off scare at Khan Mkt
A gravedigger animal, “Kabar Bijju”, whose scientific name is Mellivora capensis, created a brief scare at central Delhi’s tony Khan Market on Friday morning after being spotted on a tree. The drama...
View ArticleAAP’s Rakhi Birla to take on Maken
The AAP is all set to field the Mahatma’s grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson, Adarsh Shastri, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj, Punjabi Sufi singer Rabbi Shergil and...
View ArticleKejriwal to Modi: Spell out stand on gas price
Trying to link the BJP with Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday wrote to BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi asking him to clarify his stand on the...
View ArticleIndia seeks security in Rome after bullet scare
The Indian government on Friday asked Italy to step up security for its embassy in Rome after the mission there received a live bullet and hate mails in the wake of the Italian marines’ case here. The...
View ArticleGovt begins process of splitting AP
The government on Friday sent the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill of 2014, as passed by Parliament, to President Pranab Mukherjee for his assent. The President’s assent is likely to come by...
View ArticleWhistleblowers’ Bill cleared
One of the six anti-corruption laws backed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Whistleblowers Protection Bill, was passed by the Rajya Sabha Friday, the last day of Parliament’s last session. The...
View ArticleCourt stays AAP govt’s 50% power bills’ waiver
The Delhi high court issued a stay Friday on the former Aam Aadmi Party government’s populist move of waiving electricity bill arrears of those who had not paid their bills in support of the party’s...
View ArticleAAP leader Arvind Kejriwal offers prayers during the 710th annual urs of Sufi...
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal offers prayers during the 710th annual urs of Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin AuliyaAAP leader Arvind Kejriwal offers prayers during the 710th annual urs of Sufi saint Hazrat...
View ArticleSurvey sees BJP alone getting 217 LS seats
An ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll has predicted that the NDA would secure 236 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls with the BJP alone likely to get 217 seats. The Congress is predicted to bag only...
View Article10,000 YC workers per UP segment
The UP Youth Congress will deploy 8,000 to 10,000 volunteers in every Lok Sabha segment in the state who will manage poll preparations down to the booth level. This will be the first time that the...
View ArticleChennai woman techie found dead
A 24-year-old woman employee of IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was killed and her body found in a decomposed state a few hundred metres from her company at Siruseri, in IT SEZ, Sipcot, on...
View ArticleCong to bring own manifesto
The UPA will not be fighting the coming Lok Sabha elections on its manifesto as the Congress is working on its own manifesto and will seek votes on it. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s...
View ArticlePawar slams Modi for ’02 ‘mass murder’
Barely three weeks after he appeared to be going soft on Narendra Modi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday attacked the BJP prime ministerial candidate on the 2002 riots issue, saying the entire...
View ArticleBandh may affect BJP Bihar rally
Narendra Modi’s scheduled rally in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on March 3 is likely to be badly affected by the ruling JD(U)’s statewide bandh on March 2, which has generated support from the CPI and the...
View ArticleRahul’s anti-graft effort not genuine: BJP
Predicting ruling Congress’s lowest-ever tally in the LS elections, the BJP on Saturday attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for being a “late entrant” in the anti-graft bandwagon and asked...
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