New Delhi: Narendra Modi is attending a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s parliamentary board, a team of 12 top leaders who make the big decisions in the party. He is its newest member.
Mr Modi, who was inducted in March this year, is the only Chief Minister on the team, a concession that was made [...]
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was Tuesday remembered on his 22nd death anniversary with leaders paying homage at his memorial here.
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the late leader’s wife and Congress President Sonia Gandhi offered flowers at his memorial ‘Vir Bhumi’ here.
Sonia was also joined by [...]
Hyderabad: Two Cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh, charged with corruption, have reportedly handed in their resignations late last night to Chief Minister Kiran Reddy. Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao have been named in chargesheets issued by the CBI in the Jaganmohan Reddy disproportionate assets case.
The Chief [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.
Obama’s invitation to Singh was delivered by US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during his recent visit here, sources said.
Singh has accepted the invitation and will be travelling to Washington, the [...]
London: Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that the expert panel formed by the government will work towards giving CBI functional autonomy, but at the same time warned that accountability is important.
“We will give the CBI functional autonomy. But all over the world – all bodies are accountable to somebody – they are accountable to [...]
New Delhi/Lucknow: The recent acquittal of BJP leader Varun Gandhi in hate speech cases has now acquired a political colour. Union minister and senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma has alleged that Mr Gandhi was exonerated in the cases due to a tacit understanding with the Samajwadi Party-led government in Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, the state [...]
New Delhi: Stressing that there would be no cover-up, Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday said an inquiry had been ordered into the complaint of a naval officer’s wife that her husband had tortured her and forced her to have sex with his colleagues.
“The moment I got the complaint I have ordered an inquiry. Whenever [...]
Washington: Still a persona non grata in the US, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is again set to talk to the Indian community in 18 cities in North America via satellite from state capital of Gandhinagar on Sunday.
He will be the keynote speaker at Gujarat Day celebrations across North America, according to the organisers of [...]
Hyderabad: Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bail plea has been rejected by the Supreme Court and he is likely to stay behind bars for at least four more months. The YSR Congress chief has already spent almost a year in Hyderabad’s Chanchalguda jail after he was arrested by the CBI in connection with a disproportionate assets case [...]
JD(S) pushes BJP to no. 3
Bangalore: The Congress has emerged as the single-largest party in Karnataka and at noon on Wednesday, seemed set to form government, perhaps even on its own as it led in 117 seats in the 224-seat Assembly.
If all leads do not convert to results, the party says it is open to [...]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears to have made up its mind to expel maverick lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani from the party, sources told Zee Media on Tuesday.
The decision has been taken at the BJP parliamentary board meeting at LK Advani’s office, the sources claimed.
Jethmalani was suspended on November 25 [...]
New Delhi: Even as Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal continued to be under scanner in connection with the alleged bribery scandal involving his nephew Vijay Singla, CBI sources said on Monday that the agency was looking into the possibility of involvement of Railway Ministry officials in the scam.
CBI sources said Bansal’s senior personal staff could [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today decide whether politician Jagan Mohan Reddy should be granted bail. Mr Reddy was arrested in Hyderabad for alleged corruption and has been in jail for nearly a year.
During a hearing last week, the top court had asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the file its response by [...]
New Delhi: BJP MPs from both Houses of Parliament will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday in the Rashtrapati Bhavan to demand appropriate action against Chinese incursion in the Ladakh region.
All BJP MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been asked by the party top brass to be a part of the delegation that [...]
Lucknow: Holding the Samajwadi Party government responsible for the alleged dismal condition of farmers in Uttar Pradesh, the state unit of BJP will organise a ‘Swabhimaan’ rally in Bareilly district on Wednesday to be addressed by party president Rajnath Singh.
“The rally will be addressed by senior party leaders, including national president Rajnath Singh, general secretary [...]