Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has told a television news channel that he has 'evidence' against Home Minister P Chidambaram's involvement in 2G spectrum scam.
After the so called flop show in Mumbai, if one thought that the Anna movement was on the wane, one needs to be careful. In fact Anna Hazare remains top recall in people's mind and irrespective of what happened in Mumbai, they still believe the Gandhian is right and his Lokpal will successfully combat corruption.
Activist Anna Hazare, during a recent interview to a TV channel, stated that he could field "young and dedicated candidates" for elections across India in the future. This statement is in sharp contrast to his earlier assertion that he was not interested in political power or Constitutional posts. Hazare said, "I appeal to the youth that you keep yourself focused, keep yourself clean and keep out of controversies."
In what could be a history of sorts, a survery conducted by Star Ananda-Star News-AC Nielsen predicts a two-third majority for the Mamta Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance.
The poll results give the ruling Janata Dal-United-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance 170 seats in the 243-member house. The Laloo Prasad Yadav-Ram Vilas Paswan alliance is set to be reduced to 34 seats, according to the predictions.
An opinion poll conducted on the October 13 assembly polls predicts that the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine will emerge as the biggest alliance in Maharashtra while the ruling Congress is likely to win in Haryana with a safe margin. The survey, conducted by Star News television channel and Nielsen, with 23,122 voters in Maharashtra and 7,664 voters in Haryana, predicts that in Maharashtra, Congress will get 88 seats while giving 52 to the NCP.
India batting stalwart Sachin Tendulkar said images of the militant attacks in Mumbai last week has "left him numb and saddened." India beat England in the day-night fifth one-dayer in Cuttack on Wednesday when Islamist militants went on a three-day rampage in Mumbai, killing 183 people.
Leading TV channels will see a blackout of spot advertising from midnight tonight after Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Airtel, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Reliance Communications, among others, directed their media-buying agencies not to book such advertisements on 16 news and entertainment channels, including NDTV, Network 18, Zee News, Star News, starting October 16.
'Young Chinese have ended up being a socially-conservative group; that believes India is the reason why China should not be a democratic country.'
While the survey by Star News poll said Congress will get 37 seats, a gain of seven, the NDTV poll showed that the party will get 43 seats, up by 13 from its 2002 poll tally in South Gujarat and Saurashtra where elections were held.
It claimed that candidates are buying the ID cards from poor voters who they fear may vote against them.
A joint sting operation by a private television channel and a Web site on Saturday claimed that policemen in Uttar Pradesh were found selling seized arms and ammunition stored at government storerooms for money.
In his initial statement, Rajput had told police that he saw a man in white T-shirt firing at Jessica, but later turned hostile in court, turing the case on its head.
Television viewers have given the thumbs up to tabloid-like content on news channels by making Rajat Sharma's India TV the second most popular after Aaj Tak.
A list of prominent journalists who also became successful politicians.
33 per cent feel Mayawati will be the best chief minister.
Reader Rahul Palem sent us a picture of Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly from Hyderabad.
Twenty years ago, over 50 days in the summer of 1999, the Indian Army fought some of the toughest battles in the annals of military history to evict the Pakistan army from Kargil. The battle to recapture Tiger Hill was a major turning point in the Operation Vijay campaign, points out Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Alemao said he doubted the claim of the people who had approached him with the scheme.
The proposal of Media Content and Communication Services to uplink Star News channel from India is still being examined by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry after Foreign Investment Promotion Board cleared it.
With Star and conditional access system stirring up a hornet's nest, a three-member Group of Ministers will now give a broader look at all broadcasting issues, including uplinking, and even possibly the need to revisit the Convergence Bill.
Rupert Murdoch's Star Group has offloaded 74 per cent stake in its news operations to resident Indians and subsequently submitted an application to the ministry of information and broadcasting for permission to uplink from India.
The government has approved 23 foreign direct investment proposals including the Rs 460 crore (Rs 4.60 billion) plan of Shell Gas BV to set up a 100 per cent subsidiary in India to market transportation fuels.
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