Thursday, 9 May 2013

Demand to sack Ashwani, Bansal grows but Congress remains silent

Demand to sack Ashwani, Bansal grows but Congress remains silent

Demand to sack Ashwani, Bansal grows but Congress remains silent

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday remained non-committal on the continuance of its two ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal. The two have been under fire over allegations of misuse of power. On Thursday, while Bansal chose to skip the ...
12 ministers fall as Congress storms back to power in Karnataka, BJP decimated

12 ministers fall as Congress storms back to power in Karnataka, BJP decimated

BANGALORE: Congress on Wednesday made a spectacular come back in Karnataka wresting, power after seven years in its old southern fortress and in the process decimated the ruling BJP whose fate was sealed by a fractious split and corruption charges.
Sanaullah case: India sidesteps Pak

Sanaullah case: India sidesteps Pak's international probe demand

India on Thursday assured Pakistan that it would make all necessary arrangements to hand over the body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who died Thursday morning following an attack in Jammu jail, but sidestepped the demand for an international probe ...
VVIP Chopper scam: India to get details of conversations taped by Italy, say ...

VVIP Chopper scam: India to get details of conversations taped by Italy, say ...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will get detailed conversations of middlemen, taped by the Italian authorities in the VVIP chopper scam. CBI sources said the records are related to phone conversations which were tapped by Italian ...
NSA

NSA's call to Chinese official for border affairs resolved Ladakh stand-off

NEW DELHI: It took a phone call from national security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon to Yang Jiechi, China's new special representative for boundary talks, last Sunday to finally get the Chinese troops to pack up their tents and leave the Depsang Bulge.
Congress euphoric; BJP and JD(S) get ready for 2014

Congress euphoric; BJP and JD(S) get ready for 2014

While the Congress was euphoric at its victory, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (Secular) — JD(S) — were circumspect about their setback in the Assembly elections, here on Wednesday. Gopal Poojary, president of Udupi District Congress ...
YSR Cong attacks Cong

YSR Cong attacks Cong

After the Supreme Court rejected the bail plea of its leader Jagan Mohan Reddy, YSR Congress said it honours the verdict and attacked Congress accusing it of keeping Jagan away from the people. "We will face the situation bravely and people will teach ...
Sudipta Sen, 2 others sent to police custody in fresh case

Sudipta Sen, 2 others sent to police custody in fresh case

Saradha group chairman Sudipta Sen and two others were today remanded to nine days police custody in fresh cases and 14 days judicial remand in earlier cases in the alleged multi-crore chit fund scam. Sen, along with Saradha group director Debjani ...
State Finance Ministers take to the hills to discuss GST roadmap

State Finance Ministers take to the hills to discuss GST roadmap

Sushil Modi, Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister (file photo). – Kamal Narang. Mussoorie, May 9: Amidst the heat generated due to the tense political situation in Delhi, State Finance ...
Bajwa: Akalis using cops to browbeat Cong to win polls

Bajwa: Akalis using cops to browbeat Cong to win polls

Blaming the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the murder of Youth Congress leader Sukhraj Singh Bhugupur near Patti and the attack on Guru Harsahai MLA Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa on ...