Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Sunday said the central government had been sending adequate funds to Odisha but they were not reaching the people. Addressing a public meet at Bhatapada village near Cuttack, Gandhi said: “The money we send is being stolen.” “Your money is not reaching you. It’s getting lost in between,” he said. […]
An American woman has remarried her husband after she lost all the memories of her first wedding, a media report said Saturday. Amanda Karth, 27, from Florida had tied the knot with Cody Karth 10 months ago but on her wedding nightsuffered a rare heart phenomenon called Broken Heat Syndrome, in which the heart became […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said that BJP is a ‘bimar’ (ill) party with a communal mindset, the harshest criticism by the chief minister so far of his former ally. “BJP is an ill (bimar) party and its thought is rotten (soch sadi hain),” said Nitish Kumar, targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party for creating […]
The Congress Saturday accused the BJP-led government in Goa of working as a “waiter” and charged it with helping the builders of a sub-standard building which collapsed last month killing 31 people. The comments from Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president John Fernandes came a day after a district court came down heavily on the […]
A court here Saturday issued an arrest warrant against former Jammu and Kashmir minister Shabir Ahmad Khan, accused in a sexual assault case. Doctors too demanded his arrest. A senior police official said: “We have obtained an arrest warrant from the chief judicial magistrate Srinagar against Shabir Ahmad Khan…”. Khan Friday resigned from the ministry. […]
The CBI probing the mining scam in north Karnataka has written to the Goa mines department for a list of iron ore traders registered with the state government. The letter comes following the series of raids across India by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is on the illegal multi-billion rupee mining trail following […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, for not doing anything for the state and the northeastern region. Addressing a rally here, Modi said that Assam had not received anything despite electing Manmohan Singh to the upper house for over last 20 years. “If […]
A war of words broke out between Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over constructing a statue of India’s first home minister Vallabhbhai Patel. Gandhi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not understand Patel’s ideology but was erecting his statue, to which Modi hit back, saying the Congress […]
The RSS Saturday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who had accused the BJP of not understanding Sardar Patel, saying he had no right to speak on the issue since his party had disowned the late leader’s ideology. “Ideally we don’t react to kindergarten comments… He (Rahul Gandhi) should read history first,” Rashtriya […]
Attacking the UPA government, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday said that India’s neighbours are creating trouble because it is weak and these countries would be friendly only if the central government is strong. He said if the Indian government is strong, fishermen from Tamil Nadu would not be languishing in Sri Lankan jails […]