New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday presented a memorandum against price rise with nearly 10 crore signatures to President Pratibha Patil and sought her intervention in finding a solution after talking to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Senior BJP leaders, including party president Nitin Gadkari, parliamentary party chairman LK Advani, [...]
Ahmedabad : The owner of Arham Farm where fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s wife Kauser Bi was kept has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday. Meanwhile, retired IPS officer and former ADGP OP Mathur has been granted two days time by the CBI to appear before the investigating agency. Mathur, [...]
New Delhi : The Commonwealth Games begin in Delhi in October but before that the fight is between Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the games organising committee. Aiyar, a former sports minister, on Tuesday said he would be “happy” if the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi are “spoilt”. “Personally, I [...]
Hyderabad : The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh knows the word tussle well. Historically, and specifically in the last eight months. Today it witnesses an electoral tussle. A political battle for 12 Assembly constituencies, necessitated by the resignation of 10 TRS, one BJP and one TDP MLA on the issue of statehood to Telangana in [...]
New Delhi : Today is the first working day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament but going by the Opposition’s mood it’s unlikely to see any legislative work being done. The BJP and other Opposition parties are all set to put the government on the mat today in Parliament on the issue of spiralling prices. [...]
New Delhi : Myanmar’s military ruler, General Than Shwe is in Delhi to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He is on a five-day visit to India and touched down in the Indian capital Monday after a day’s halt in Gaya in Bihar to offer prayers at Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi temple. The visit comes [...]
New Delhi : The President’s Estate today became the first urban habitat in the country to be ISO certified following introduction of solar power and waste management system among other energy-efficiency measures under the project ‘Roshini’. “The ISO 14001:2004 certification means the standards set by the International Organisation of Standards (ISO) for Environmental Management Systems [...]
New Delhi : The government is gearing up for a stormy Monsoon Session of Parliament and minutes before it began, the Prime Minister commented on the case of Amit Shah, the Gujarat minister who has been arrested by the CBI for murder. Dr Manmohan Singh rejected BJP claims that the case against Shah is a [...]
New Delhi : An all-party meeting was held by the Speaker on Sunday, who is hoping for a smooth Monsoon session but that could be tough. The Opposition and even some allies of the government are united on the price crisis which they say has been aggravated by the fuel price hike. So, they want [...]
Ahmedabad : Former Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah has been arrested by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He was taken to the CBI judge A Y Dave’s house, who has remanded him to 13 days in judicial custody. Shah will spend the next two weeks in Sabarmati Jail, [...]
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