Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi have struck a deal in their bid to stop the Congress from winning, Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said Saturday. “Is it not a coincidence that both leaders are holding rallies at the same time, at the same venues, one after another?” […]
rapeFaced with constant criticism over its handling of the brutal gangrape of a 20-year-old tribal woman allegedly at the behest of a kangaroo court, the West Bengal government Saturday assured the victim of rehabilitation. Woman and Child Welfare Minister Shashi Panja visited the victim, currently recuperating in a hospital after being repeatedly brutalised Jan 20 […]
President Barack Obama’s Indian-American filmmaker critic Dinesh D’Souza has pleaded not guilty to charges he made illegal contributions to New York Republican senate hopeful Wendy Long in her 2012 campaign. Mumbai-born D’Souza, 52, whose documentary “2016: Obama’s America” took a highly critical look at Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign, faces up to seven years […]
In a severe indictment of functioning of the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government, the Supreme Court Thursday pulled up state Revenue Minister Anandiben Patel for displaying “arrogance of power” by ignoring senior officers’ advice and “dictating” allocation of land to a private company in breach of statutory provisions. “She (Patel) has ignored that howsoever high you […]
During his half-hour meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid raised the issue of the US embassy here spiriting away to New York the husband and children of Sangeeta Richard, the nanny of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. The two ministers, who met on the sidelines of the Geneva […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Thursday stood by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti over his vigilante-style midnight raid on African nationals in the capital, saying the minister had no personal agenda against anyone and did not misuse his power. “Somnath Bharti didn’t intervene in the Khirki Extension matter due to any personal agenda but due […]
The BJP Thursday hit out at Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s comments at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the party’s economic policies, and quoted a report by a leading finance firm that the Narendra Modi-led BJP government, if elected, would be more business-friendly. “P. Chidambaram is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum. He […]
Delhi Police’s Crime Branch is to investigate the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, and would question him and other family members as well as hotel staff, a police official said Thursday. Six days after Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her room at the Leela Palace hotel […]
Chhattisgarh has emerged at the top of a list of states in many fiscal parameters, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said Thursday. The RBI report titled “State Finances – A study of Budgets of 2013-14” said Chhattisgarh’s development expenditure as percent of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) was the highest in the country. In […]
Indian-American filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, whose documentary “2016: Obama’s America” took a critical look at President Barack Obama, has been indicted on charges of using straw donors to illegally donate to a 2012 Senate campaign. And the man charging him is none other than Indian-American attorney Preet Bharara. Conservative commentator and author D’Souza allegedly made and […]