An hour before Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani was scheduled to address a press conference on Thursday evening, party leaders informed him that he could face a media boycott as some senior journalists were irked with him, for meeting only a select group of journalists for a news briefing the day before.The BJP quickly went into a damage control mode, with Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy acting as trouble shooters to appease the scribes.
Brand Advani is more credible than brand Rahul, the Bharatiya Janata Party suggested on Friday and said there is no substitute for experience both in governance and delivery.
The Bharatiya Janata Party top brass met on Sunday to discuss the ongoing visit of United States President Barack Obama but did not come out with any statement on his remarks about tackling terror.
Describing the gruesome attack on CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh as a "war against India", the BJP on Tuesday said it was completely with the government in the fight against Naxals and would support all measures the UPA regime took to combat the menace.
The idea of a handful of MPs to pedal their way to Parliament could become a reality soon amid chances that the trend will catch on among lawmakers who have always upheld the 'green' cause.
Days after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan briefed Leader of Opposition L K Advani of the threat perception to Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the party will send both the leaders to campaign for twenty-five party candidates in Nagaland.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will make a statement in Parliament on December 14 on the recent developments in India-Pakistan relations.
BJP Members of Parliament from Assam, Rajen Gohain and Narayan Chandra Borkotoky, have been appointed in-charge of Mizoram and Nagaland respectively.
Seeking to placate the Shiv Sena which is miffed over the recent thaw between Bharatiya Janata Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, party's Maharashtra in-charge Rajiv Pratap Rudy will on Tuesday meet Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai to reassure its ally and fine-tune the tie-up in the state.
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav is pitted against former civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The empowered group of ministers on Friday deferred a decision on the appointment of a financial consultant for privatisation and modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
The Union Cabinet's nod is required to give effect to the government decision to allow private carriers to fly to Colombo, Civil Aviation Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Wednesday.
B C Khanduri, who was elevated to Cabinet rank in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, and Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who was given independent charge of the civil aviation ministry, were among those who joined work on Monday.
There is a need to have a balance in these negotiations so that environment friendly products from developing countries also get improved market access
India has asked the United States to bring 850 additional agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical items within the purview of Generalised System of Preferences scheme which allows duty-free entry for specified products into US markets.\n\n\n\n
The Bharatiya Janata Party has expressed its anger over the manner in which the Congress party is trying to bring Nagaland under President's rule through the backdoor and thereby, have an better playing field in the forthcoming state assembly elections in Feburary 2008.
He will retain Chhapra, where he trounced BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The government on Monday decided to scrap the tenders for privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, and invite fresh bids within a fortnight, highly placed sources said.
The government is considering a proposal to allow Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Indian Airlines, to lease new aircraft to replace its ageing fleet, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Monday.
Air-India has decided to operate two weekly flights to China's commercial capital Shanghai from December 11.
Air-India has plans to operate twice-weekly services to China effective from December 2003, government told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Major proposals relating to the aviation sector, including allowing the private domestic carriers to fly abroad, are being considered by a panel set up by the government to formulate the new civil aviation policy, to be finalised by October.
'Intense rivalry between the AIADMK and the DMK was standing in the way of the development of the state.'
The BJP on Sunday said its senior party leader L K Advani had never said that he was not aware of the decision to send former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh along with terrorists in an aircraft to Kandahar for release of passengers of a hijacked Indian plane.
The government on Monday assured the Rajya Sabha that it was not seeking to privatise the Airports Authority of India, but was only trying to spruce up the country's image by providing world-class airports.
Indian Airlines has submitted a project report for aquisition of 43 aircraft comprising Airbus A-319s, Airbus A-320s and Airbus A-321s from Airbus Industries
Indian exports are set to reach the targeted $80 billion mark by the close of 2007, thus raising the country's share in global exports to one per cent, the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Why MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his party, the BJP, are angry with Pappu Yadav.
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