Condemning the police action against Baba Ramdev, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders said on Sunday that the party would now take it upon itself to move the protests forward.
Vijay Goel, All India General Secretary of the party, said, “The BJP was not directly involved with the protest earlier but we will make this a national [...]
Mamata Banerjee took oath from governor MK Narayanan in the presence of around 3,200 guests that included union home minister P Chidambaram, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, outgoing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Left Front chairman Biman Bose and leaders of other LF partners. Trinamool Congress supremo is the first non-Marxist leader in 34 years to [...]
Read More...Strains between the Congress and DMK relations became visible on Saturday after Congress is said to have increased its demand for seats after an informal agreement to accept 60 seats. The DMK is said to be toying with the idea of breaking off if the Congress pressure on seats continues and has scheduled an [...]
Read More... In the backdrop of the stalemate over seat-sharing discussions with its key ally Congress, the DMK today announced that its top-level Action Committee under party president M Karunanidhi will meet on March 5.
DMK General Secretary K Anbazhagan said in a statement that the April 13 Assembly polls and the party’s election agenda would be [...]
Wankhede Stadium, venue for the Cricket World Cup final on April 2, has not met fire safety standards, the chief fire officer for Mumbai said on Friday. “We will soon write a letter to the MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) stating there is a need to comply with fire safety norms at the stadium. Once [...]
Read More... RIM (Research In Motion Limited) announced its plans for two new versions of Playbook tablet at the World Mobile Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
The new playbooks are for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and 3G HSPA+ networks will be available in the market by the end of this year.
Both the tablets will support Bluetooth tethering, mobile hotspot [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah flayed the PDP for its controversial map of the state, saying “gifting away” of state’s territory will be not be acceptable.
The map displayed by PDP during a power point presentation on Saturday showed Aksai Chin painted in red and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in green. The depiction of [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked state governments to launch a crackdown on corruption and inflation, which he identified as two of the biggest challenges the country faces today. Octroi and local taxes could be waived to bring down costs of essential commodities, he suggested.
Speaking at the annual meeting of chief secretaries of states, Singh [...]
Sourav Ganguly’s hopes of playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) have suffered a huge blow as three franchises have opposed the move to include unsold Indian players back in the IPL.
The snub comes after Kochi team who were reportedly interested in buying Ganguly wrote to the Board of Control for Cricket in India [...]