BSP leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq, who insulted the national song by walking out of the House when the Vande Mataram was being sung, refuses to offer an apology. Instead, he takes the shield of religion to defend this disgraceful act saying he walked out as the ...
BSP leader Mayawati releases the first list of candidates contesting the 2014 general elections in Uttar Pradesh. This time the party seems to be seeking brahmin votes, as more than 50% of the names announced belong to the community.
Projections reveal that if the general elections were to be held now, both Congress and BJP will not be able to outdo Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. The battle for UP is certainly going to be between Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav ...
Newshour | In case the elections are held today, based on results produced by the CVoter poll projections, it has been found that the Congress is losing ground, but despite that the BJP is failing to capitalise. CVoter projects a divided vote giving no clear m...
Delhi Police have arrested Deepak Bharadwaj's younger son Nitesh, in connection with the BSP leader's murder. The police have been successful in unravelling the link between Nitesh, his lawyer Baljeet and Swami Pratimanand. The police are trying to find out if...
The Delhi police have arrested Nitesh Bhardwaj, younger son of business tycoon and and BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, who allegedly conspired with self-styled godman Swami Pratimanand to hire contract killers to murder his father. Sources reveal that the elder so...
According to sources, the police might have finally solved the high-profile murder case of Deepak Bhardwaj. Nitesh, Deepak Bhardwaj's youngest son, has admitted to hiring Swami Pratimanand to murder his father. The plan had allegedly been hatched in November l...
Two weeks after builder-turned-politician Deepak Bhardwaj was murdered at his farmhouse in south Delhi, the police have detained his son. But the alleged mastermind, self-styled godman Pratimanand, is still absconding.
The police investigating the murder of BSP leader, and businessman, Deepak Bharadwaj have detained his younger son Nitesh. According to sources, the police believe that Nitesh put a contract for his father's murder as he wanted to avenge his mother's suffering...
The Delhi Police are yet to nab the mastermind behind the murder of the BSP leader, Deepak Bhardwaj. The police claim that a person who looks like Swami Pratimanand has been spotted in Madhya Pradesh. The police have also asked Deepak Bhardwaj's family members...
A video of the man behind business tycoon and BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj's murder, Swami Pratimanad, is out. According to prime accused Purushottam, Swami Pratimanand hired him to kill the BSP leader over a property dispute. The police is on the look out for t...
The murder of slain BSP leader and realty tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj has taken a new twist with spiritual guru Swami Patimanand being nailed as one of the suspects, who is absconding. Now the Delhi police is in search for Bhardwaj's lawyer. The lawyer was privy to...
The main accused in the Deepak Bhardwaj murder case, self-styled godman Swami Pratimanand, has gone missing. He allegedly escaped from his Haridwar ashram before the police could get to him.
There are fresh leads in the murder of BSP politician Deepak Bhardwaj. The suspicion is now on an Uttarakhand-based godman, Swami Pratimanad, who allegedly ordered Bhardwaj's killing for a bounty of Rs 2 crore.
As per sources, a self-styled godman, Swami Pratimanad, who allegedly had a property dispute with BSP politician Deepak Bhardwaj, orchestrated the murder, offering a bounty of Rs 2 crore.
BSP leader Deepak Bharadwaj's murder takes on a new turn after prime accused Purushottam revealed that a godman was behind the murder. Godman Mahant Pratimanand has been named as the person who paid Purushottam Rs 2 crore to kill the business tycoon. According...
Latest revelation in BSP leader Deepak Bharadwaj's murder, made by sharp shooter Purushottam, is that a godman, Swami Pratimanand, was the one who gave him a contract of Rs 2 crore to kill Bhardwaj. The reason behind the murder is being attributed to business ...
The three accused in the murder of BSP leader and realty tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj - Sunil, Purushotam and Amit - have been sent to ten days of police remand. The Delhi police claim that these three people had a possible link with Swami, a person who was close to...
The men accused in the murder of businessman and politician Deepak Bhardwaj have named one Guruswamy, who they claim is the mastermind in the crime. Bhardwaj was shot dead at his farmhouse in south Delhi last month.
The Delhi police question Deepak Bhardwaj's elder son Hitesh Bharadwaj in connection with his father's murder. The police are investigating the murder from three angles : an illicit relationship, business rivalry and internal family property dispute. The polic...
The Delhi police has taken Deepak Bhardwaj's eldest son Hitesh into custody for questioning. The police had arrested the two sharp-shooters, Purshottam and Sunil, at the Patiala Court House yesterday. The police have all the four accused in custody, but they a...
A petition demanding a CBI probe, has been filed in the Deepak Bhardwaj murder case, in the Delhi High Court. The realty tycoon and BSP leader was murdered by unidentified men in his farmhouse last week. The police are questioning the kin to obtain clues regar...
As per the latest developments, the Delhi police have four accused in custody in the murder case of businessman and politician Deepak Bhardwaj. While three of them were arrested, one surrendered.
One person has been arrested in the murder of Deepak Bhardwaj while another man, Sunil, has surrendered. Purushottam was arrested outside the Patiala Court. The businessman and BSP politician was killed at his farmhouse last month.
The Delhi police have arrested one person in the sensational murder of business tycoon and BSP politician Deepak Bhardwaj at his farmhouse in south Delhi.
Delhi police makes first arrest in Deepak Bharadwaj murder case. One of the contract killers Purushottam Rana has been arrested. The cops had earlier nabbed the man who was allegedly driving the Skoda Laura car in which the killers of the BSP leader entered hi...
Delhi police makes the first arrest in Deepak Bharadwaj murder case. One of the contract killers, Purushottam Rana, has been arrested. The cops had earlier nabbed the man who was allegedly driving the Skoda Laura car in which the killers of the BSP leader ente...
The son of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, who was shot dead at his Delhi farmhouse last week, has been called in for questioning by the police. According to sources in the police, they have found out that the relationship between Bhardwaj and ...
The Delhi Police arrest four suspects in connection with the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj at a Delhi farmhouse. The police have also recovered the Skoda car used by the accused in Haryana. The police is expected to address the media...
In a major breakthrough in the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, the police have found the car used by the assailants to flee the scene of crime. According to the police the car's owner had lend the car to a couple of his friends, who h...
The Delhi Police arrests two shooters in connection with the killing of business tycoon and BSP leader, Deepak Bhardwaj. The police are currently questioning Bhardwaj's family members as well as his friends. The police have taken in the mobile phone records of...
The police have recovered the car of the unidentified gunmen who murdered BSP politician Deepak Bhardwaj in his farmhouse. The police have recovered the car from Jind, where the assailants left it and took off in a Santro towards Punjab. They have detained two...
The police have taken into custody two employees of the south Delhi farmhouse, where BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj was shot dead by unknown assailants. Even though 24 hours have passed, there has been no breakthrough yet in the case.
CCTV images suggest an insider angle to the sensational murder of businessman and politician Deepak Bhardwaj. The BSP leader was shot by three men at his farmhouse in south Delhi on Tuesday.
The top brass of South Delhi police, including joint commissioner of South Delhi Vivek Gogia and officers from the crime branch are inside BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj's farmhouse, investigating his murder. The officers are questioning the family members which i...
Watch the footage of the two assailants who shot, BSP leader and tycoon, Deepak Bhardwaj dead in his farmhouse in South Delhi. One of the unidentified gunmen was seen brandishing his gun at the guard, forcing him to open the gate so that they could leave. The ...
Delhi Law Minister Ramakanth Goswami has spoken on the firing incidents in the national capital. He agrees that the law and order situation in Delhi is deteriorating and that such incidents are on the rise. He also said that a discussion over the deteriorating...
Two unidentified gunmen who came in a Skoda car entered the farmhouse of BSP politician Deepak Bhardwaj in South Delhi and shot him dead after an altercation. The Delhi police have not ruled out personal enmity as a reason for the tycoon's murder.
Two business associates of Deepak Bhardwaj have been questioned in connection with his murder. The businessman and politician was shot at by three gunmen at his farmhouse in south Delhi.
Two men in a BMW entered the south Delhi farmhouse of businessman and BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj and shot him. The 67-year-old was admitted a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The police are probing all possible angles in the murder of businessman and BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. He was shot at by unidentified gunmen at his farmhouse in south Delhi and later succumbed to his injuries.
Deepak Bharadwaj, businessman and BSP politician, has been killed in a firing in south Delhi. According to reports, he was critical after being shot, and succumbed to his injuries later.
Reacting to raid carried out at the residence of DMK leader MK Stalin, BJP accuses the government of misusing CBI for political gains. BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy claims that the government, through this raid, is attempting to send across a stern warnin...
Newshour | Bihar's CM Nitish Kumar stormed at Delhi, setting terms for the UPA saying that only backward states will rule India. He also said that his development model should be adopted. It looks as if the JD(U)-BJP ties have been tensed and Nitish added to t...
Newshour | The DMK and SP are continuing with their agendas to trouble and pressurise the government. While DMK pulled out from its alliance last night, the UPA started the day with a confident message of sailing through the crisis. Mulayam Singh is upset with...
BSP leader Mayawati declines to comment on the Beni Prasad fallout between Samajwadi Party and Congress. She says that Congress and SP would be the best people to comment on this issue as they are the ones involved in the controversy. She also adds that her pa...
Despite the attempts to put a brave face, Congress realizes the government is in a precarious situation. The UPA alliance still has the numbers owing to the support by SP and BSP. However, it is hard for Congress to sail along, keeping together both these warr...
The Congress has begun back channel talks with other allies and parties who are supporting the UPA from the outside. The Congress managers are stepping in to gather the numbers. Their key focus is to get a consensus on the resolution. Minister of State for Par...
Centrestage | The Cabinet has agreed to the new anti-rape bill. The age of consensual sex has been stayed at 18 years of age. Stalking and voyeurism clauses have been amended. The first offence of stalking and voyeurism have been made as bailable. Disrobing a ...
BSP leader Mayawati in her interview to the media says that the reduction of age of consensual sex to 16 years is regressive and instead of making progressive laws, the government is bringing in detrimental ones. The first round of meeting proved to be inconcl...
The anti-rape bill gets a nod from the Cabinet, but faces opposition from some parties. A meeting of political parties like BJP, Trinamool Congress and SP, will take place soon to discuss the parties' reservations over the contents of the bill. If the bill get...
Mayawati has questioned the UP government over its inability to arrest former Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya who has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the murder of Pratapgarh DSP Zia-ul-Haq. Raja Bhaiya was forced to resign after the to...
In the wake of the murder charge against him, controversial UP minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya resigns from the UP cabinet. Wife of slain Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Zia-ul-Haq claimed that her husband was murdered at the behest of R...
Even as the BJP and Congress are reluctant to declare their Prime Ministerial candidates, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP chief Mayawati has made her Prime Ministerial ambitions loud and clear as she has appealed to her supporters to ensure a big v...
BSP leader Mayawati makes her prime ministerial ambitions quite clear by stating that her next Independence Day speech would be from the Red Fort. She also urged the party workers to work hard and ensure that the party emerges victorious in the next elections.
Leaders of the opposition party, BSP, protest against the Sunday stampede at the Allahabad railway station in Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. The opposition leaders had earlier warned of such protests. They leaders create ruckus in the House and don't allow the Sp...
Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs created a ruckus in Uttar Pradesh Assembly, disrupting the Governor's address to the joint session of the Assembly. The protesting MLA s raise anti-government slogans and threw paper balls at the Governor. According to the MLAs, in the...
BSP chief Mayawati says that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde should have presented the proof before making a statement against the Hindus he has hurt the sentiments of the people.
Opposing the government's move to allow oil companies to periodically increase the diesel prices, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has said that this decision will adversely affect the poor and middle class in India. Terming the move 'anti-people' she has as...
Parties who do not have any links with Andhra Pradesh have come out in support of Telangana. BSP chief Mayawati has said she is in favour of smaller States and during her time a resolution was passed to divide Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati also added that should the...
BSP chief Mayawati slams the SP government in Uttar Pradesh and says that the law and order situation in the State is laughable. She says that rape cases have increased in the State and instead of providing security for women, the SP government has simply hush...
BSP leader Mayawati lashed out at the UPA for failing to push through the promotion quota bill in the Lok Sabba. She termed Sonia Gandhi's efforts to get the bill passed as 'just a drama'.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati says that the UPA is not interested in passing the SC/ST promotion quota bill that would benefit the Dalit community. She said that the government had staged a drama on the bill in Lok Sabha and had it been sincere, w...
Former UP Chief Minister Mayawati shares her concern over the rising number of rape cases in the capital. She calls for a much harsher action to be instituted against the rapists; an action so harsh that it will act as a deterrent to those even contemplating s...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The SC/ST quota bill has been passed by the Rajya Sabha,and the voting in Lok Sabha remains pending. The protesters in UP have been engaging ...
The bill to grant SC/STs reservations for promotions in government jobs was passed in the Rajya Sabha. 206 members voted for it, while 10 voted against it. The ten members belonged to the Samajwadi Party which insists on a similar quota for the OBCs. The BJP t...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill will take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House.
After the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day, following a disagreement on the SC/ST quota bill, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav sends out a stern warning to the UPA. Speaking to the media, Mulayam said that he would pull out support from the UPA if the governmen...
The Rajya Sabha will today vote for the SC/ST promotion quota bill. This is an amendment that the BSP has been strongly pushing and the SP has been opposing. SP has even threatened to withdraw support if the bill is passed in the House.
Former CBI director US Mishra has made a startling revelation that political pressure on CBI is routine when probing into high profile cases. He has also claimed that he faced political pressure when probing into the disproportionate assets case against BSP ch...
Newshour | A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the Hous...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. However, a divide has already appeared and one section states that they are fine with a quota. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely ...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House. While BS...
The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House. While BSP is vouching for the bill, SP is dead against the bill. The Congress has refrained from commenting on the issue.
In her sprightly argument in Rajya Sabha, BSP chief Mayawati says that she is not against offering reservation for people from the upper caste who are economically weak. She claims that her party never opposed quota in promotion to those from the backward clas...
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati says that she was also in favour of giving reservation to people from the upper caste who are economically weak. She further points out that her party was never opposed to quota in promotion to those from the backward classes...
A day after criticising the Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari, BSP chief Mayawati today changed tune and said that she had 'respect' and 'full faith' in the Chair and expressed hope that he will find ways to pass the Quota Bill. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a...
Achil Vandhavai | Today marks the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack where nine people were killed. While Afzal Guru, one of the masterminds, has been given a death sentence several years ago, the order has not been processed. Should the country hang Gu...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reportedly spoken to Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari, expressing distress over the accusations levelled against him by BSP chief Mayawati. The statements of Mayawati have now been expunged from the Parliamentary records. The...
The Rajya Sabha Rules Committee meet which is underway is likely to take up the unparliamentary conduct of BSP chief Mayawati. The BSP chief had accused the Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari of being apathetic towards the proceedings in the House. She claimed ...
Several reactions coming in after BSP Chief Mayawati's outburst against the Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Hamid Ansari. The Congress and the BJP have both condemned the BSP supremo's comments, claiming that the Parliament must be respected. Mayawati ...
BSP supremo Mayawati lashes out at Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari for not doing enough to control the chaos in the House. She says that Ansari is never seen in the House after 12 PM and that the leaders never allow the House to function before that.
BSP Chief Mayawati shocked the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday by telling chairman Hamid Ansari that he is 'not seen' in the House in the afternoon after which the House is not allowed to function. The protest by the BSP on the quota issue saw the House being adjourn...
BSP Chief Mayawati today shocked the Rajya Sabha by telling Chairman Hamid Ansari that he is 'not seen' in the House in the afternoon after which the House is not allowed to function. The protest by the BSP on the quota issue saw the House being adjourned twic...
BSP supremo Mayawati has hit out at the Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari. Mayawati has accused Ansari of purposely absenting himself from the House proceedings every afternoon. The BSP Chief accuses the Rajya Sabha Chair of being ...
Pressure is mounting on the UPA as Mayawati's deadline on the SC/ST Promotions Quota Bill ends today. The BSP supremo was instrumental in getting the FDI in retail motion passed in both Houses of Parliament. All eyes are now on the UPA as the Congress-led alli...
BSP's Mayawati remains firm on her stand about the SC/ST promotion quota bill. She says that the bill has to be passed by the government within two days. SP on the other hand is staunchly against the bill as the party believes that the bill would divide the so...
After securing the UPA's victory in Parliament over FDI in retail, BSP Chief Mayawati has threatened the government to take a tough stand on Quota Bill. BSP supremo Mayawati has put the onus on the UPA to ensure that the Promotions Quota is discussed in the Pa...
After bailing out the government on FDI in retail in Parliament, BSP chief Mayawati has asked the government to take a tough stance on SC/ST promotion bill. Taking on the BJP, she has accused the party of leading anti-quota lobby.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday after an uproar over the Constitution amendment bill for SC/ST quota in promotions in government jobs and after BJP raised questions on the reports of global retail giant Walmart lobbying US lawmakers to get ...
After winning the FDI vote in Parliament, the government will introduce more bills in the coming session covering the insurance, and pension sectors. With these new bills, the governemnt not only hopes to attract more foreign investment but also wants to ensur...
Once again BSP chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav came to the rescue of the UPA government, bailing out the Congress-led government in the Upper House too. The government had a convincing victory in Rajya Sabha on FDI in retail as S...
Following a confusion about the number of votes in the Rajya Sabha, the deputy Speaker orders a recount. The confusion ensued after the total number of votes exceeded the number of people present in the House. The recounting will happen after the House is adjo...
SP and BSP come to the rescue of the UPA government once again as the UPA garners 123 votes versus the 109 for the Opposition's motion. The FDI in retail policy has been passed in the Rajya Sabha as well. BJP and Left leaders expressed disappointment.
The Samajwadi Party stages a walkout from the Rajya Sabha minutes before the FDI in retail vote, leading the UPA to a victory. The BSP had earlier agreed to vote for the UPA government a day ago. With the FDI in retail hurdle finally crossed, the UPA governmen...
Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said that he is surprised and unhappy that BSP leader Mayawati who was until now speaking against the FDI retail has suddenly decided to vote in favour of it. He suspects that the Congr...
After winning the FDI debate in Lok Sabha yesterday, the UPA government is confident about its win in the Rajya Sabha today where it needs the support of 123 members in the 244-member house to defeat the motion brought by the opposition. Speaking to reporters,...
The voting for FDI in retail in the Rajya Sabha is scheduled to take place today. With the decision of walk out by the Samajwadi Party and the support by the Bahujan Samajwadi Party, the ruling government is confident about its win in the Rajya Sabha today.
Mayawati and her BSP says that she will support the UPA government in the Rajya Sabha during the FDI in retail vote. Now, will this change the power equation in the coalition politics? Will Mulayam Singh's SP become redundant?