Shinde does a U-turn, says he was referring to social media
After threatening to “crush” the electronic media, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde did a U-turn, claiming he was referring to the social media and not journalists.“I have recording of my speech. I was...
View ArticleNitish trashes Lalu’s charge,says RJD MLAs welcome to join JDU
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said the JD(U) would welcome rebel RJD MLAs into its fold and rejected allegations that the Assembly Speaker worked at his behest by hurriedly giving...
View ArticleTry us once, BJP to Muslims; ready to apologise for ‘mistake’
Reaching out to Muslims ahead of Lok Sabha elections, BJP on Tuesday asked the community to give it a chance and not go by the “propaganda” spread by Congress while promising to stand for equality and...
View ArticleLJP to clear party stand tomorrow
While LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan is maintaining the suspense over the issue of alliance, sharp differences have cropped within the BJP ranks on the issue of a pre-poll tie up. The LJP parliamentary...
View ArticleJ&K House ruckus over red beacons
Almost all Opposition members created ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, now in its budget session in Jammu, and staged a walkout over not being included in the list of dignitaries authorised to use...
View ArticleKcr meets pm, Rajnath
Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader K. Chandrasekar Rao on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP president Rajnath Singh to thank them for having got the Telangana bill passed in Parliament. Mr...
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Aamir Khan meets the family members of the late “Mountain Man”, Dasrath Manjhi
Aamir Khan meets the family members of the late “Mountain Man”, Dasrath Manjhi, who single-handedly cut a road through a hill, at Gaya in Bihar on Tuesday.
View ArticleAIADMK vows to raise I-T exemption
Indicative of Ms J. Jayalalithaa’s national ambitions, the AIADMK on Tuesday promised to raise income-tax exemption limit to `5 lakhs and take away powers of oil marketing companies to determine prices...
View ArticleRahul talks of decentralisation
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, on the first day of his Assam visit, said that his interaction with leaders of a tribal council at Diphu has educated him and strengthened his belief in...
View ArticleSonia calls strategy meeting tomorrow
The Congress will grow more aggressive in its campaign against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who has built his campaign on a “Congress-mukta Bharat (Congress-free India)” in the coming...
View ArticleBJP a twin of Cong: Karat
The 11 parties led by Left made it clear they would not seek the support of the Congress or the BJP to form a government at the Centre if they failed to get past the magic figure of 272 in the Lok...
View ArticleNREGA man-days to be 150 from 100?
Wth the Lok Sabha elections just a few months away, the UPA is all set to hike the statutory mandays under rural job flagship scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to...
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi walks with village
Congress president Sonia Gandhi walks with village women during a visit to her parliamentary constituency, Rae Bareli, on Tuesday.
View ArticleSpeaker, facing Lalu’s anger, invokes caste
Facing a barrage of damaging accusations from RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar’s embattled Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary on Wednesday sought to give a twist of caste politics trying to...
View ArticleSignatures not forged, claims rebel RJD MLA
With Samrat Chaudhary, the most recalcitrant rebel among the RJD’s group of disgruntled legislators, insisting that the 13 MLAs had, in fact, signed the letter to the Speaker seeking the status of a...
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UP Muslims reject Rajnath’s apology
Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh have reacted rather strongly to BJP president Rajnath Singh’s offer for apology to the Muslim community and have said that the apology would be meaningless unless the...
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People wave towards the helicopter as BJP prime ministerial candidate...
People wave towards the helicopter as BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan return after launching a solar power plant in Neemuch, Madhya...
View ArticleSubmarine mishap: Navy continues search for missing officers
The Navy on Thursday continued its search for two officers, who have been missing after submarine INS Sindhuratna had a mishap off the Mumbai coast, leaving seven sailors seriously ill. The process is...
View ArticleSoldier shoots 5 colleagues dead, kills self
An army soldier on Thursday shot five colleagues dead at point blank range when they were sleeping before committing suicide in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.“A soldier of a Rashtriya Rifles unit ran...
View ArticleMet PM before accepting Navy Chief's resignation: Antony
Defence minister A K Antony on Thursday said he had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and consulted “everybody” before accepting the resignation of an “upset” Admiral D K Joshi as Navy chief in the...
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