News Night | Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani has dropped a bombshell when he said that the Opposition is colluding with UPA for the advantage of both the sides. The bonhomie between Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj only reign...
Veteran BJP leader Ram Jethmalani, who has a penchant for annoying the BJP top brass, has done it again. He has taken a jibe at the party top leaders, when asked about the party meet which he attended, saying he is too old to comment on the issue.
The senior leaders of BJP, Sushma Sawraj, Rajnath Singh and Gopinath Munde have gathered for a meeting at LK Advani's residence to decide on fellow party member Ram Jethmalani, following his comments on the party. Jethmalani said that BJP was not handling the ...
BJP leader Ram Jethmalani attacked his own party leaders. He said that the leaders were not working properly and were not fighting corruption strongly. He also said that the way the top leaders were fighting against corruption, it looked like they were also in...
BJP has backed the government's demand to send back Indian prisoners of war who are languishing in Pakistan prisons. There are 54 Indian prisoners of war in Pakistan. Commenting on the situation, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh says that no other country in th...
A delegation of BJP leaders has met President Pranab Mukherjee, expressing concern over the Chinese incursion. Senior BJP leader LK Advani informs that the party has told the President that the government has been playing down this incursion, terming it a loca...
Politics has inevitably taken centre-stage in Delhi, moments after Sarabjit Singh died in Pakistan early this morning. BJP leaders have attacked the government and the Congress for keeping the next of kin of Sarabjit away from Opposition leaders to contain the...
BJP corners Congress-led UPA government in Parliament over several issues, prominent of them being the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan. Ripping into the government, leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley says that the government has fa...
The Congress has hit out at the BJP by demanding the ouster of BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Ravi Shankar Prasad from the Joint Parliamentary Commission. The move has come after the BJP had demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Si...
Trinamool Congress leaders have requested the government to postpone the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting to another day as a TMC MP Ambika Banerjee passed away earlier this morning. The TMC leaders said that they would not like to discuss political matte...
Delhi BJP leaders are enraged after Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit attempted to shift the blame saying that the state police does not report to her. Angry BJP workers stage protest, demanding the resignation of the Chief Minister. The protesters are also ...
BJP leaders in Delhi stage protest in the wake of the rape of a five-year-old girl, demanding answers from the Congress-led state government. The area surrounding the Parliament has been cordoned off and security has been beefed up as the protesters decided to...
News Hour | Four months on from the Nirbhaya case, nothing has changed for women in India and especially Delhi. A five year old child was kidnapped and raped for two days. Her body parts were horribly mutilated. She is currently going through treatment and onl...
Newshour| The JPC Report which was leaked yesterday has come in for a lot of controversy as the BJP party leaders allege that the report was made in favor of the Congress Party. They also allege that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a clean chit while a...
Newshour | Stringent laws against rape has not seemed to have deterred the monster who kidnapped and raped a five-year-old minor girl in Gandhinagar in Delhi. Just a few months after the horrific December 16 gangrape yet another case of an heinous crime has co...
May 5 is looming close and the BJP will today unveil its election manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly elections. BJP senior leader Arun Jaitely will be present at the function along with Karnataka CM Jagadish Shettar and state BJP president Pralhad Joshi. Oth...
The demolition of the Ganga Bhanvani temple in Ramantpur, Hyderabad, by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has led to major chaos around the area. The locals allege that a local politician wanted to usurp the 40-year-old temple land and the authoritie...
Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed reiterates his stand that the blast at the BJP office in Bangalore will benefit the saffron party, even after BJP raised objection to his earlier statement on Twitter, which said the same. In his new tweet, he says that the blast ...
BJP has criticised Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed's tweet saying that the blast at BJP office in Bangalore will benefit the party on poll's eve. At least 16 people have been injured in the blast that was allegedly caused by an IED strapped on a bike.
Delhi Police special cell filed its chargesheet in connection with BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone tapping case. The chargesheet runs into 1100 pages and states that the accused accessed the phone call records of not just Jaitley, but also former BJP president...
BJP leader Kalyan Singh says that he is not apologetic about Babri Masjid demolition and Narendra Modi should also not be sorry about the 2002 Gujarat riots as it was not his fault.
JD(U) leader Devesh Chandra Thakur sticks to his stand, says the split will be unfortunate. As an ally they (JDU) have expressed their demand for a secular leader and there is nothing new in it, he says. The leader also said that Nitish Kumar's demands are fai...
In the backdrop of the face off between BJP and JD(U) following Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's comments against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a few prominent BJP leaders from Bihar are set to meet BJP chief Rajnath Singh. Meanwhile, the BJP chief ...
Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, who is accused of attempting to interfere with the CBI report into the coal block allocation scam, maintains a stoic silence over the entire issue even as there are indications that many in the Congress are unhappy with the al...
BJP president Rajnath Singh has called for a meeting of the BJP leaders of Bihar unit in the wake of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's criticism of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the deadline set by him to announce BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate...
BJP leader Giriraj Singh in an interview to the media said that there was no haste in deciding the Prime Ministerial candidate as even the Congress are yet to announce their candidate. He said that when the decision is taken all the parties of the NDA will be ...
BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi reacts to the Delhi court order reopening the case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during th...
BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi reacts to the Delhi Court order reopening the case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during th...
The blatant misue of water by Maharashtrian politicians continues when a tanker with thousands of liters of water were used to set up a helicopter pad for NCP leader, Patangrao Kadam. Kadam went to Aurangabad to meet BJP leader Gopinath Munde, who is on a fast...
According to sources, the private jet carrying BJP leaders that developed a technical snag on Monday, belongs to a subsidiary company owned by 2G scam accused Shahid Balwa. Now, Aam Aadmi Party member Manish Sisodia has questioned BJP's double standards, for u...
A private plane with BJP leaders, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing in the national capital following a technical snag. The auto mode in the flight faltered and the pilot had to return to Delhi as flying in manual would pr...
BJP chief Rajnath Singh had a narrow escape after the place in which he was travelling, along with Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, had to make an emergency landing.
A private jet to Karnataka, carrying senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, was forced to make an emergency landing soon after the take off owing to technical glitches. The leaders reportedly are waiting for alternative arrangements ...
BJP in Madhya Pradesh suffered a huge embarrassment when two of its leaders traded blows in full public view at a function organized to mark the foundation day of the party.
Pre-poll analysis suggests that BJP, which has lost it strongman BS Yeddyurappa, is likely to suffer a setback in Karnataka. Congress, as per the analysis, will come to power in the state. Yeddyurappa is likely to cause a dent to BJP although Congress may not ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's refusal to depose before the JPC, probing the 2G scam has angered senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha who had demanded the PM to do so. In his response to Sinha, the PM has stated that he has nothing to hide and that JPC has to dec...
Newshour | If the police act as agents to quell political dissent then where is Indian democracy headed? Why should India look away when a 22-year-old student leader is killed for demanding a college election? On what basis do politicians expect the police to ...
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, questioning the functioning of JPC on the 2G Spectrum case and demanding that the PM himself should depose before the panel. Sinha has alleged that JPC is failing in its duty.
With the DMK pulling out of the UPA coalition and Samajwadi Party on a threatening mode, how is the government going to survive the crisis? Senior journalist Ajay Bose, political editor of Outlook magazine Sabah Naqvi, senior journalist Shesh Narain Singh disc...
In this session, moderated by Rahul Kanwal, in the India Today Conclave with the theme 'Reinventing Democracy', young turks debate India's future. I&B minister Manish Tewari, BJP leader Smriti Irani, SAD leader Simrat Kaur Badal, Congress leader RPN Singh, Shi...
In the conclave with the theme 'Reinventing Democracy', the topic of discussion in the session, moderated by Rahul Shivshankar, is 'Is India a soft power or a soft state? The participants at the discussion are senior advocate Harish Salve, BJP leader Ravi Shan...
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who skipped the party's Parliamentary board meet, issues a clarification claiming that he does not have any differences with the party. The veteran party leader chose to skip the meet after he was miffed with the appointment o...
News Hour | The information emerging in the autopsy report clearly points at some amount of conspiracy behind the death of the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Zia-ul-Haq. The autopsy says that the slain DSP was inflicted with 12 wounds after which he was beat...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured the Rajya Sabha of stringent action against those who had siphoned off money from the Rs 52,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The Prime Minister made the statement after...
Widely believed to be the Congress' prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 elections, Rahul Gandhi confirmed that he is not in the race for PM post. He is now focusing on building the party, empowering the youth and creating a middle level leadership. Rahul G...
BJP leader Varun Gandhi has been acquitted in the second hate speech case by the court. He was accused of delivery a hate speech in the state of Uttar Pradesh during the national elections of 2009. He was acquitted as the court said that there weren’t enough...
The ugly war words that erupted following the keynote address delivered by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the BJP National Council meet continues with BJP hitting out at Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar saying that not even Congress takes Aiyar seri...
Senior BJP leader LK Advani, while addressing the BJP National Council meet, praises Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and says that he is impressed by the keynote address delivered by the Gujarat CM.
Reacting to the speech of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in which he took on Congress-led UPA government, accusing it of failing to uplift the citizens of the country, Congress leaders have praised the works done by Congress Prime Ministers and questione...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been praised by BJP top brass, is gearing up to address the party leaders and activists at the BJPs' national council meet. Modi, in his keynote address, is likely to take up various issues like the economic crisis...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has a big fan in BJP national president Rajnath Singh. Singh sings praises of Modi for 'never before' three consecutive wins for the party in the state and says that even the international community has lauded Modi's govern...
Janata Dal (United) leaders Sharad Yadav and Shivanand Tiwari, both, have reacted to the warm welcome given to Narendra Modi by BJP president Rajnath Singh. The two leaders say it is the internal matter of the Bharatiya Janata Party which has all the right to ...
Looks like there is a higher role waiting for Narendra Modi, but more with a soft projection as the three-time Gujarat Chief Minister won singular praise from BJP national president Rajnath Singh. Modi received hoots of joy as Singh congratulates the former fo...
BJP national president Rajnath Singh, in his address at the national executive council meet of the party in Talkatora stadium, Delhi, attacks the UPA government's softness towards terrorism. In a scathing address against the UPA government's rule, Singh lists ...
Rajnath Singh, BJP national president, addresses the party's national executive council meet in Talkatora stadium, Delhi. Lauding his predecessor Nitin Gadkari for his patience and moral standing, Singh says the party will continue to fight challenges and rise...
Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary JP Nadda, at the national executive meet of the party in Delhi, says that whatever the party might decide for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, he is already a national figure to a large number of party members. On ...
Phone spying attempt on Arun Jaitley snowballed into a huge political controversy, even though Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde tried to defend the government. The Bharatiya Janata Party cornered the government, backed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj...
The three-day national executive meet of BJP began in the Capital yesterday, where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was given a special welcome by party president Rajnath Singh. As the party mulls over a new team for Rajnath, all eyes are now on Modi: will...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the venue for the BJP's national executive meet in New Delhi. The kind of welcome that Modi receives at the venue only triggers the question whether he will be elevated to a bigger national role or will he be sid...
Amidst uproar in Parliament over the phone tapping controversy, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde makes his statement on the Floor of the House. As the BJP seeks answers to the news of phone tapping of Arun Jaitley, Shinde says that the government did not auth...
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu brought up the case of Arun Jaitley phone tapping incident and demanded answers from the Home Minister. He also added that the phone tapping incident brought to life serious implications into the right of freedom of the leaders of Opp...
The phone-tapping of BJP leaders is not actually tapping of phones in the traditional sense, but just an attempt by some protesters to obtain call details from the service providers. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde tells the Parliament about the details of t...
Phones at many top BJP leaders were tapped by some private investigators who used the help of a Delhi police constable to write letters to service providers for tapping their phones. The names whose phones have been tapped, according to information from interr...
Phones of more than one BJP leader were tapped by a group of private investigators. First, it had emerged that four phones of BJP leader Arun Jaitely were tapped. The discovery of this case of political espionage came a week back. But it now appears that phone...
For the first time since Rajnath Singh took over as the Bharatiya Janata Party's national president, the party will hold a three-day executive meet in New Delhi, beginning today. The meeting is crucial as the party has to draw out a strategy for the 2014 Lok S...
Bharatiya Janata Party organises its national executive meet today in New Delhi. Apart from Rajnath Singh taking over the executive duties from his predecessor Nitin Gadkari, sources say today's meeting will be about drawing out a strategy for the 2014 Lok Sab...
Giving his views on Budget 2013, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, says that there are both good and bad aspects to the budget. He says the FM has made life better for the poor, however he does not give much clarity on attracting FDI. BJP leader Yashwant Sinha ...
FICCI President Naina Lal Kidwai and economist C Rangarajan agree that the Union Budget 2013 is a balanced one which was presented at a very tough time. They also add that the budget could have been more populist keeping in mind the upcoming 2014 Elections. BJ...
BJP leaders brought up the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case in the Rajya Sabha and demanded answers from the Government. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde assured the Opposition that the Government had no hand or role in the phone tapping case and they have lau...
Ex-chairman of the Indian Railway Board IIMS Rana talks about whether something more than a fare hike is required. He says productivity and efficiency must increase and there is a need to economise and modernise. There is a need to focus on zero accidents and ...
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley lashes out at the centre over the NCTC row and says that it is meaningless to debate on an imaginary federalism vs terrorism issue. He further says that the fight against terrorism must co-exist with federalism.
In the wake of the twin blasts that rocked the city of Hyderabad, the Opposition demands the suspension of question hour and requests that the issue of terror be discussed. BJP leader Prakash Javadekar accuses the government of failing to act despite the intel...
Ahead of the Budget session of Parliament, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha says that the Opposition is planning to aggressively take up the issue of AgustaWestland deal in the floor of House. The UPA government has a lot to answer regarding the deal, says the...
BJP leaders protesting against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's saffron terror remark at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi have been detained. This is believed to be a prelude to what might be in store for the government at the Budget session in Parliament tomorro...
The Budget session of Parliament is likely to be stormy as senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha says that the party is ready to raise the issue of AugustaWestland helicopter deal in Parliament. The government has to make clear if the deal is scrapped because there...
In the high profile Arun Jaitely call detail investigation, the Delhi police has arrested two more people, Anurag Singh and Nitish. Anuraj Singh is a private detective and his name had featured in the Amar Singh phone tapping incident case as well. The police ...
The police arrest one more person for attempting to access Arun Jaitley's cellphone records without permission. The police are now questioning the accused as to the motive behind trying to access the records.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitely has demanded the resignation of Press Council chairman Markandey Katju as he claims that Katju is selectively targeting two popular non-Congress states; Bihar and Gujarat. Jaitley has claimed that Katju is biased against non-Cong...
The Ministry of Defence team today came to the CBI to explain the AgustaWestland procurement process. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has written to the CBI director about the alleged involvement of the Indian company Emaar MGF. He has also raised questions on Rahul ...
The BJP in Karnataka has been accused of hiding the culprits who raped a Bangalore girl. KJP leader Shobha Karandlaje says that four BJP workers gangraped the girl. She also claims that these four men have been arrested and that the Karnataka home ministry is ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party says that the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the VVIP helicopter procurement scam is not enough and wants the government to order an investigation monitored by Supreme Court of India. According to BJP leader Mukhtar Abb...
BJP leader Jaswant Singh has come forward in defence of former IAF Chief SP Tyagi. In an interview to the media, Singh says it is too early to blame Tyagi. Singh also adds that a few changes were made in the deal during the NDA rule, such as the flying height ...
BJP chief Rajnath Singh says that his party wants a comprehensive and thorough investigation into the AgustaWestland helicopter scam and whoever is found guilty must be punished. When he was questioned about the changes made in the tender, in 2003, during NDA'...
BJP Leader Jaswant Singh comes forward in support of former IAF chief SP Tyagi. In an interview, Singh says that just because a person meets someone a lot of times, it doesn’t make them a criminal. He also says the investigation was underway and it was too e...
The chopper kickback scam has caused war of words between political parties. While BJP accused the government of failing to initiate any action against the tainted company, the government has reacted saying that the deal was done during the NDA regime. Senior ...
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad questions the government over the chopper kickback scam. He pauses a few stinging questions to Defence Minister AK Antony who, according to him, has hid facts which were already in the public domain, from Parliament. He sa...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition filed by CBI challenging the dropping of conspiracy charges against top politicians in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The case against BJP leader LK Advani, Uma Bharathi and others were dropped by the Allahabad High Co...
Political pressure on the government to act tough against separatist leader Yasin Malik who shared dais with LeT chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed is only growing. Latest to join the chorus is BJP chief Rajnath Singh who asks the government to take cogniz...
Reacting to the report about separatist leader Yasin Malik sharing the dais with LeT chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar demands to initiate stern action against Malik and to do everything possible to end the nexus betwee...
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Venkaiah Naidu speaks up on the issue of Yasin Malik sharing a dais with Pakistani terrorist and India's most wanted Hafiz Saeed, calling it highly objectionable. Naidu, on air, demands of the Centre to immediately impound Malik's...
The Supreme Court has demanded explanation over delay in filing appeal against Allahabad High Court verdict which granted relief to BJP and VHP leaders. The BJP leaders, who are accused in the case, were contesting the delay of CBI in filing appeal.
Condemning the religionization of politics by Sangh, VHP and BJP, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has said that even Lord Ram would not approve religious intolerance. He has said that it is everyone's desire that the Ram temple should be built, but it sh...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition filed by CBI against dropping of conspiracy charges against top politicians in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The cased against BJP leader LK Advani, Uma Bharathi and others were dropped by the Allahabad High Court. Th...
Hitting out at the JDU and Samajwadi Party who questioned the intentions of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Kumbh visit, BJP leader Kalraj Mishra has said that even leaders belonging to Congress are visiting the Kumbh and has asked why nobody is making ...
In an indirect reference, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal compares Narendra Modi to Jawaharlal Nehru and calls him a highly capable Prime Ministerial candidate. He claims this is the first time after Nehru that the 'whole nation' is supporting one m...
VHP has thrown its weight firmly behind Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as senior leader Ashok Singhal has rooted for him, calling him the most popular leader in the party. The clamor 'Modi for PM' appears to be orchestrated as senior members in BJP too h...
Hours after BJP chief Rajnath singh issued a gag order asking all party members to refrain from commenting on the BJP prime ministerial candidate, senior leader CP Thakur broke the diktat by saying that Narendra Modi is best for the post.
Pressure is mounting on BJP to declare Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate as the VHP has thrown its weight firmly behind Modi, calling him the most popular leader in the party and putting the onus on BJP to make the right...
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad points out that the government cannot make any changes to the Lokpal draft as it is now the property of the Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha. With regard to the autonomous status of the CBI, he said that the Select Commi...