Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s letter directing chief ministers to be cautious while dealing with criminal suspects from the minority community amounted to vote bank politics and an attack on India’s federal structure, BJP leader Narendra Modi said here Sunday. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister was speaking at a pre-election […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken two vows — one, that he will never leave the Congress, and the second, that he will never speak when it matters, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday. Rajnath Singh was speaking at a Bharatiya Janata Party rally on the outskirts of Panaji. Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi […]
Hitting out at the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling National Conference for treating Ganderbal assembly constituency as Abdullah family’s “fiefdom”, a veteran party leader Sunday said he was quitting and would contest the state polls against the party candidate. Ghulam Ahmad Saloora, who belongs to Ganderbal and has been a prominent leader of the […]
To minimise chances of high-tech cheating, the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has installed mobile jammers in its examination halls in the state capital, an official said here Sunday. The jammers have been purchased after the arrest of 34 candidates, who were caught with mobile phones during the written examination of the combined graduate-level examinations […]
il India is encouraging domestic and global companies to explore potentially hydrocarbon-rich areas through stable and enabling policies towards achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in hydrocarbons by 2030, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday. He was inaugurating the 11th International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition “Petrotech-2014” at the India Exposition Mart here, organised by […]
Aam Aadmi Party member Kumar Vishwas Sunday said the Congress has failed the people of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, and that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi never raised the problems of his constituency in parliament even once. “Rahul Gandhi, prior to elections, turns up in Amethi seeking votes, but when the time comes to work […]
At least two toll posts were burned down and five others vandalised as the ongoing week-long anti-toll agitation took a violent turn here Sunday, officials said. Huge crowds from Kolhapur and surrounding areas trooped down to the nine toll posts, on the outskirts of the city, protesting the resumption of toll collection despite official assurance […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit Sunday approached the National Human Rights Commission seeking a probe into the alleged gang rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Madhyamgram town in North 24-Parganas district. In a letter to the commission, the BJP accused the Mamata Banerjee-led state government of “living in denial”, and urged […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday mourned the death of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and said his contribution to the promotion of India-Israel ties was lasting and would long be remembered. In a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister said Sharon was the first Israeli prime minister to visit India […]
Railway and bus stations in Hyderabad are packed with passengers while the road leading towards Vijayawada is choking with vehicles as lakhs are heading home to celebrate Sankranti, leaving the city roads almost deserted. Trains and buses to various destinations in Andhra Pradesh are overcrowded with people, who are in a hurry to be with […]