Mangalore: KPCC Secretary Ivan D’Souza has accused that the NDA government was responsible for the move on ban on arecanut. A report submitted by an expert committee constituted by the NDA said that there are also evidences to show that chewing arecanut is carcinogenic. Addressing a press meet here on Friday, he said the committee […]
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has decided not to merge his party Karnataka Janatha Paksha with the Bharatiya Janata Party but support the National Democratic Alliance. This came after a meeting of the KJP to decide its stand on its ties with the BJP. “We have unanimously decided that we will not be […]
Mumbai: Praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate’s name is associated with three ‘D’s, dynamism, decisiveness and development. “Narendra Modi is 3D — decisive, dynamic and development-oriented, because he has done something in Gujarat,” Naidu told reporters here on the sidelines of […]
The Sudden Resignation of LK Advani from all the Important posts from BJP central Working committee and subsequent withdrawal has thrown BJP in to quandary. Narendra Modies elevation as head of publicity in BJP Working committee let the Worms out of can. Underestimating Advani factor in the over-all strategy of fighting forthcoming Lokasabha election will […]
The Manmohan Singh government’s free fall continues. With the ruling coalition hamstrung by corruption and misgovernance, its popularity ratings have been on a downward spiral. The trend persists in the latest India Today-Nielsen “Mood of the Nation” poll. If elections were to be held on Thursday, the survey predicts, the Congress-led alliance would get 152-162 […]
Pune: Key UPA ally Sharad Pawar of the NCP has got a lucrative offer from the Shiv Sena – to join the opposition coalition NDA and even “become the Prime Minister”. The invitation to the NCP chief was extended on Tuesday by senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi who said “he (Pawar) would be able […]
New Delhi : UPA candidate Hamid Ansari was today re-elected as the Vice-President, becoming the second person to get the second consecutive term as he defeated NDA nominee Jaswant Singh by a large margin of 252 votes. 75-year-old Ansari, a former IFS officer, got 490 votes against 238 bagged by Mr Singh out of 736 […]
New Delhi: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam has made it clear that he would not be contesting the Presidential elections against the UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Kalam’s decision has been a great setback to Trinamool Congress President Mamatha Banerjee and the NDA alliance which wanted Kalam to contest. However, Kalam has said he was not […]
New Delhi : Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is fast emerging as the choice of NDA for the post of President, but the moot question is: whether Kalam himself is agreeable to contest for the coveted post. In 2007, Dr Kalam had emphatically said that he would be agreeable to become president again, only […]
New Delhi: Three BJP high ranking leaders all MPs who had gone to Jammu to organise the Indian tricolour hoisting in Srinagar on Jan26 morning, could not go into the city as they were arrested and sent to Punjab today. As BJP remained adamant on the issue, its NDA ally – JD(U) disapproved of the […]
