JD(S) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has ruled out the possibility of forming a Third Front and has said that the party plans to take up the position of Opposition.
After a long hiatus, Congress returns to power in Karnataka, upsetting both JD(S) and BJP which hoped to win big in the state. Congress leaders in the state were quick to credit party scion Rahul Gandhi the victory. Reacting to JD(S)' performance, former Karna...
Former Chief Minister of Karnataka, DV Sadananda Gowda talks about whether he could have changed BJP's current situation in the state Assembly elections and taken it to a better position, if he were still the chief minister. The Congress is leading in the stat...
R Balakrishna Pillai, while addressing the media, slams former Forest Minister and Kerala Congress(B) member KB Ganesh Kumar. He asks Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to order a probe into the alleged 'external interference' and conspiracy which forced Yamini Than...
Supreme Court of India grants bail to Madhu Koda in one of the three money laundering case. The former Jharkhand chief minister is at present in judicial custody in connection with the coal scam.
A four-member committee headed by former Chief Secretary K Jayakumar will probe the bursting of the water pipeline supplying water to parts of Thiruvananthapuram city. The committee will look into the possibility of sabotage. An emergency meeting of Cabinet ha...
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy informs that a four-member commission will enquire the bursting of pipeline supplying water to parts of Thiruvananthapuram city on the eve of Attukal Pongala. An emergency meeting of Cabinet reviewed the situation yesterday. Oommen...
The indiscriminate construction of resorts by Tamil Nadu mafia in Ernakulam's Kumbalangi, an ecologically fragile area, runs into controversy. It is learnt that the LDF government led by VS Achuthananthan gave construction permits, neglecting the protests from...
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has made her prime ministerial ambitions clear during a rally of Bahujan Samaj Party workers. While addressing the rally, she urged her party workers to ensure that she delivers the Independence Day speech from the ...
Defence Minister AK Antony says if wrongdoings are found by the CBI in the VVIP chopper deal, the contract will be scrapped. The companies, who are found guilty in the alleged Italian chopper scam, will be blacklisted, he says. Meanwhile, former IAF chief SP T...
Supreme Court has denied permission to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda’s key aide Manoj Punamia to leave the country. Punamia had pleaded the apex court to grant him permission to travel to Singapore for medical treatment. Coming down heavily on P...
Sources within the Enforcement Directorate admit that Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Madhu Koda's other aide Sanjay Chaudhary could escape if no action is taken to nab him. A few days earlier, his aide Anil Bastawade was brought in from Indonesia and is now...
The aide of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, Anil Bastawade has been taken into a 10-day reform custody by the Enforcement Directorate from a prison in Ranchi. He has been accused of money laundering in the Rs 4000 crore mining scam. Reports claim t...
Reports claim that the I-T assessment report of 2010 called the 'Empire of Madhu Koda' has been obtained, which contains the links of all the mining scam kingpins. The file has been with the Enforcement Directorate and CBI for two years. Madhu Koda is the form...
A special court in Ranchi has given the Enforcement Directorate the custody of Rs 4000 crore mining scam kingpin Anil Bastawade. The ED would be interrogating Bastawade for ten days on how the money was obtained. Bastawade is a close aide of former Jharkhand c...
Anil Bastawade, mining kingpin and an aid of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, involved in the Rs 4,000 crore mining scam has been sent to 14 days judicial custody by the Ranchi court. Although Bastawade has been dodging the questions by the media, i...
Complimenting Times Now for exposing Anil Bastawade, mining kingpin and an aid of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, involved in the Rs 4,000 crore mining scam, BJP questions the government over the delay in initiating action against him.
Following the interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi, Anil Bastawade, mining kingpin and an aid of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, involved in the Rs 4,000 crore mining scam, is taken to Ranchi. Bastawade, who will be tried under var...
The Enforcement Directorate is hopeful that the interrogation of Anil Bastawade, mining kingpin and an aid of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, involved in the Rs 4,000 crore mining scam, will help it to strengthen the investigation into the coal sca...
Anil Bastawade, the Rs 4000 crore mining scam kingpin, a close associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who had been detained in Indonesia, following an Interpol notice against him on alleged money laundering charges, is now being extradited to...
Anil Bastawade, the Rs 4000 crore mining scam kingpin, a close associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, has been detained in Indonesia, following an Interpol notice against him on alleged money laundering charges. Anil and others opened Camtech...
BJP has distanced itself from the sexist comments made by former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur, saying that the party does not stand for any sort of commodification of women and that the opinions expressed by the former MP CM is not of the party's...
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur has said that women should not dance or take intoxicants as it goes against Indian culture. Claiming that women do not get respected in the West owing to their alleged misconducts, he went on to say that if Ind...
The BJP State government in Karnataka is tottering. Two Ministers--Sobha Karandlaje and CM Udasi, both supporters of former CM BS Yeddyurappa -- have resigned from the Cabinet of Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar. At least 14 BJP MLAs have also resigned. BSY has ...
News Night | Former Chief Minister of Haryana, OP Chautala, was today given a 10-year jail term. But even before the sentencing could commence at the Rohini court in Delhi, INLD party men were asked to assemble outside at the supremo's order. Chautala's suppor...
Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's supporters created a hungama outside the Delhi court where Chautala, his son Ajay and 53 others were sentenced to ten-year imprisonment over corruption charges. Last week the 78-year-old leader, with his son...
The four-time Chief Minster of Haryana, Om Prakash Chautala and his son, Ajay Chautala have been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and will be sent to Tihar Jail in connection with the Teacher's Recruitment scam. The rest of the 53 accused have been senten...
Congress Politician, Randeep Surjewala said that the court ruling in the Teachers' Recruitment Scam is a lesson for all the corrupt politicians in India. It is a reminder that no person will ever be bigger than the law of the land.
Supporters of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala who went on a rampage while protesting his arrest in the teachers recruitment scam, are under control. Hundreds of supporters of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader, who was found the main c...
Rohini Court has sentenced Om Prakash Chautala and his son to 10 years of imprisonment. Kuldeep Bishnoi, founder of Haryana Janhit says he welcomes the ruling of the court by saying that the ruling re-enforced the fact that all the citizens were equal in the e...
Haryana Congress Politician, Randeep Surjewala said that according to Congress, no one is bigger than the law. He said that if you flout laws, then you have to be ready to face the consequences. This judgement is indeed a setback for the Indian National Lok Da...
Kuldeep Bishnoi from Haryana Janhit party said that he welcomes the court's judgement on Om Prakash Cahutala and his son, Ajay Chautala in Teachers' Recruitment Scam. He said that the ruling of the court will be a lesson for all the corrupt politicians in Indi...
Chautala and his son, Ajay Chautala have been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in the Haryana Teachers' Recruitment Scam by the Rohini court. Chautala's supporters gathered outside the court alleging that Congress made use of CBI to frame wrong chargers a...
The CBI court will, in sometime from now, pass the judgement against Om Prakash Chautala, his son, Ajay Chautala and the 53 other accused in the Teachers' Recruitment Scam. Protesting the arrest and the trail, Chautala's supporters have gathered outside Rohini...
Om Chautala's supporters have gathered outside the Rohini court in Delhi, which is expected to announce the judgement over the father-son duo in connection with the Teacher's Recruitment scam, and turned violent, forcing the police to resort to tear gas shelli...
The special CBI Court in Delhi is expected to pass judgement in the Teachers' Recruitment Scam today. The prime accused in the scam is the former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala. Along with him, his son Ajay Chautala and 53 other people have also b...
A Delhi court will today pronounce its order on the quantum of jail sentence for former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala. The court had found both of them guilty in the illegal recruitment of junior basic trained teachers in...
The CBI Court set up in Delhi will pass the judgement in the Teachers' Recruitment Scam today. The prime accused in the scam is former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and 53 other people. The accused have been charged of ill...
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his MLA son Ajay, and 53 other officials were today convicted by a special CBI court on charges of illegally recruiting over 3,000 teachers in the state by using forged documents. An arrest warrant has been is...
The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee in Punjab has honoured the assassins of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At a time when Pakistan is trying to push terrorism in Punjab, why is the Badal government or the Centre not stepping in? Can the Punjab g...
Ten BJP MLAs and five BJP MLCs are attending the meeting called by former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in Bangalore. Ready to pull the plug on the BJP government in Karnataka, BS Yeddyurappa is likely to ask his loyalists to withdraw support from th...
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi lashes out at the comments made by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya. Mohan Bhagwat has now claimed that rapes happen only in urban 'India' and not in rural 'Bharat'. He has blamed influence of Western va...
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...
BJP demanded that the upcoming India-Pakistan series to be called off following Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik's comments. Former chief of the BJP Venkaiah Naidu while speaking to the media said cricket and terrorism could not go together. However th...
TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's statement that even two representatives could come from each of the nine political parties in the state to express their views at the all-party meeting on December 28 was a mere ruse ...
The canvassing for the first-phase of the Gujarat polls has ended and now Gujarat Chief Minister has shifted his focus to Phase 2. Modi continued his attack on the Congress top brass, in what is being viewed as a preparation for the 2014 National elections.
Two days before the first-phase of polling, the Gujarat Congress throws in a surprise to counter Narendra Modi's campaign in the state. On the final day of canvassing, Rahul Gandhi makes his debut appearance in Gujarat. Looking to woo voters from the defining ...
Congress General Secretary makes his mark on the political arena in Gujarat with his maiden appearance in the state ahead of the crucial first-phase of polling. Rahul addressed his first rally in Jamnagar to a massive crowd of supporters. The last day of campa...
The last day of campaigning in Gujarat will witness a showdown between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi today. Taking both Modi and the Gujarat BJP by surprise, the Congress scion has decided to undertake a whirlwind campaign trail in Guja...
The war of words is expected to peak on the last day of canvassing, with Rahul Gandhi likely to make an appearance in the highly-coveted Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Senior BJP leader LK Advani is expected to join Modi on the campaign trail today. Gujarat Chi...
As Gujarat enters its final day of campaigning for the first-phase of polling, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi is all-set to enter into Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's turf. This is Rahul's first visit to Gujarat during the election campaign.
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa will have his Karnataka Janata Party launch rally on Sunday, December 9. Yeddyurappa, who quit from BJP on November 30, is said to have the support of seven sitting Karnataka ministers and about 30 MLAs who joined...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi addresses his supporters at a massive rally in Rajkot, daring to woo the voters who are usually loyal to Keshubai's GPP party, Modi's rally in the Saurashtra region is being viewed as critical to his election campaign. This...
Former Gujarat Congress leader Narhari Amin has jumped ships and joined the BJP. This is being seen as a major setback to the Gujarat Congress days ahead of the crucial Gujarat Assembly elections. Unhappy that the Congress denied him a ticket, the former leade...
Just a week before the crucial Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress party has been dealt a major blow. Former Deputy Chief Minister and ex-Congress leader Narhari Amin has now embraced the BJP fold. The former Congress leader had quit the party after being...
The former Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister under the Congress wing, has now dumped his party after 25 long years because he was denied a ticket in the upcoming elections. Narhari Amin has joined the BJP, and in doing so stated that senior leaders are being ignor...
Centre Stage | Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa ended his 40-year-long relationship with the party today. He formally resigned from the party and faxed the letter to BJP President Nitin Gakdari. Yeddyurappa, who is set to float his own political ...
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has ended his 40-year-long relationship with the party today. He has formally resigned from the party and faxed the letter to BJP President Nitin Gakdari. Yeddyurappa, who is set to float his own political party, ...
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP rebel BS Yedddyurappa has formally resigned from the party. Although BJP insists that this move by the Karnataka strongman will have no effect on the party, there are indications that the party's southern bastion may fac...
BS Yeddyurappa, the man credited with bringing the BJP to power in Karnataka, has quits from the party. Yeddyurappa was forced to resign over allegations of corruption that were being heard in the Supreme Court. Since then he was kept away from the CM's post. ...
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is meeting Prime Minister to discuss strategies to launch a counter attack on the Opposition which has been cornering the government over the FDI in retail. Government reportedly is planning to go on the offensive as it has now the ...
Former BJP chief minister BS Yeddyurappa is all set to step on the gas in his declared move to break from the BJP and launch his new party by December 10. The firebrand ex-CM and man behind BJP coming to power in Karnataka, is hosting a grand lunch party in Ba...
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is likely to officially quit the BJP on December 9. The leader has formally announced the day of his break-up with the BJP. Yeddyurappa is expected to launch a new party called the Karnataka Janata Party soon. The...
A disgruntled BS Yeddyurappa has claimed that he is no longer part of BJP. He has said that he would announce his own party before December 10. Yeddyurappa has been unhappy with the party leadership as the BJP top brass failed to offer him the post that he has...
In another setback for the Congress, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has asked the CBI to probe the 'treasure-island scam' case, which involves former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. The High Court has asked the CBI to probe the role of senio...
Former IPS officer YP Singh's accusations against Arvind Kejriwal has put the activist-politician on the back foot. Singh questions why Kejriwal withheld crucial information against Sharad Pawar in the exposé against Gadkari. IAC member journalist-turned-acti...
Agitated Congress workers stage protest against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala for making allegations against Congress scion Rahul Gandhi. Chautala had accused the Congress general secretary of buying 6.5 acres land in Palwal, Haryana, fo...
The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings against former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. This appears to be an interim relief for Shah, who is a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. N...
Reacting to the allegations made by the India Against Corruption activists, former Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has said that there has been no special favours granted to anyone by the Maharashtra government. He claimed there was no flouting of...
The former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala spells more trouble for the Gandhi family by targeting Rahul Gandhi in a land deal. Tge ex-CM accused Rahul of buying 6.5 acre land in Palwal, Haryana, for a price much lower than the market rate. The fo...
A former IPS officer in Maharashtra has claimed that Arvind Kejriwal is using the India Against Corruption banner for his own political motives. Joining the quagmire wrought about by Kejriwal's expose of various top political leaders, ex-officer YP Singh claim...
After Robert Vadra, it was BJP President Nitin Gadkari's turn to feel the full force of Arvind Kejriwal's attack. The IAC activist has accused the BJP President of illegally grabbing the land of farmers in the Vidarbha district of Maharasthra using his nexus w...
INLD chief and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala has said Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi bought land in his name in Palwal in Haryana by evading a huge amount on the stamp duty. Chautala showed land purchase documents that had Rahul's picture ...
A non-bailable warrant has been issued against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK Supremo M Karunanidhi's grandson Durai Karunanidhi, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam case. A special police team has been set up on the look out by the TN ...
Five-time Himachal Pradesh chief minister and former Union minister Virbhadra Singh said the allegations against him were baseless and 'politically motivated'. He vehemently denied the bribery charges leveled against him. He said it was a conspiracy to malign ...
Following the widespread outrage against his remark that early marriages can prevent rapes in Haryana, former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala attempts to clear his stance, claiming that he is not trying to endorse the views of the khap panchayat. He...
Former Haryana Chief Minister Omprakash Chautala targets Sonia Gandhi over the accusations made against her son-in-law Robert Vadra. Social activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has levelled serious accusations against Vadra of using political clout to fu...
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who has been attacking the BJP for sometime now, has finally decided to quit the party in December. The BJP strongman says he might float a new political party or join hands with other outfits after consulting hi...
Newshour | Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautla has kicked up a controversy by endorsing the view of Khap Panchayat that early marriages can prevent rapes in the state. How can a person who is supposed to protect the interests of people endorse suc...
In 30 days, there were 30 rapes in Haryana. Now former CM and chief of Indian National Lok Dal Om Prakash Chautala says marrying of girls are young age, as the Khaap panchayat's had suggested, to prevent rapes. His comment raised a huge storm. This raises the ...
Slamming former Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautla for his remark that early marriages can prevent rapes, Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury says that it is a pity that there is still a section of people who ascribe to such views. Further on she say...
Marry off girls at young age to prevent rapes and gang-rapes from happening, says former chief minister of Haryana and leader of Haryana's Indian National Lok Dal, Om Prakash Chautala. He even went to meet the Governor with a plea to allow child marriage to ha...
The former Chief Minister of Punjab, Congress' Capt. Amrinder Singh has called the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee's move an attempt to disturb the peace of the State and has demanded an intervention. He said that the construction of the memorial is ...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close aide and former Home Minister, Amit Shah, has been chargesheeted by the CBI and the chargesheet has been accepted by the Gujarat High Court. Amit Shah has been named as the prime accused in the Tulsi Prajapati fake ...
The BJP is facing a huge crisis in the state of Karnataka. Former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has done another U-turn, claiming that he does not want to rock the boat at the moment, but will give the BJP time till December to make up its mind. Yeddyurappa la...
Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has decided to finally part ways with the BJP. In Chikamagalur, BSY said the path for any further discussion with the central leadership had been closed, and that he would be forming a new party in December.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has refused to meet senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley who has reached Bangalore to discuss the political scenario in Karnataka. Instead, he has chosen to visit Shimoga where he will be attending a programme. Yeddyura...
In a surprise move, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Yeddyurappa, decides to quit BJP and join hands with Janata Party's President Subramanian Swamy to start a political party in November. But the BJP does not seem to be interested in wooing him back.
Is KVP Ramachandra Rao the new weapon in the armoury of the Congress High Command to combat the influence of the YSR Congress party? Can KVP act effectively to reduce the latent attraction of many Congress leaders towards Jagan Mohan Reddy? KVP was behind the ...
Two former Chief Ministers in Goa, Pratap Singh Rane and Digambar Kamat face FIR in the 35,000 crore mining scam. The state government has decided to lodge FIRs against these two and scores of bureaucrats for their alleged involvement in the scam. The FIRs wil...
Just a week after Narendra Modi's former Minister, Maya Kodnani, is convicted and sentenced to life for her involvement in the Naroda-Patiya post-Godhra riots case, the Chief Minister of Gujarat faces another setback. This time it's Modi's right-hand-man, Amit...
Geetika Sharma's former boss, Nupur Mehta, has been questioned in connection with the suicide case. The former VP of the currently defunct MDLR Airlines was quizzed by the CBI for a couple of hours. Geetika Sharma had named former colleague Ankita and MDLR Chi...
The CPI(M) is taking out a massive march in Kolkata today. The Left government is protesting against imperialism in the state. It claims countries like USA are using India for their own selfish reasons. Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharje...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refuses to resign; Congress leader Digvijay Singh hits out at Vinod Rai over CAG report; Samajwadi leader Mulayam Singh Yadav stages a protest against Coalgate; MNS chief Raj Thackeray attacks singer Asha Bhonsle for inviting Paki...
Maya Kodnani, former minister in the state government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has been found guilty in the Naroda-Patia riots case. Kodnani was a minister then and this has come in handy for the opposition to allege Modi's complicity in the riots, and...
The Naroda Patiya verdict convicting 32 of the accused includes BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani and former VHP leader Babu Bajrangi. This has restored the faith in justice for the victims and activists; many of the victims continues to get death threats. One of the vi...
The Delhi Police indicate that money and property worth crores could be the reason why former Haryana Minister Gopal Goel Kanda harrassed Geetika Sharma. Even Geetika's family members had confirmed that in the days before her suicide, Geetika had recieved phon...
Stormy scenes were witnessed in the Haryana Assembly, where the Opposition took on the Congress in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. INLD MLAs waved copies of Geetika's suicide note and demanded a discussion on the former Haryana Minister's link to the death of...
Ankita Singh, possible the last link to unravelling the mysterious suicide of Geetika Sharma, will reach New Delhi from Singapore on Sunday. Ankita will be grilled along with Gopal Kanda and Aruna Chadda. All of the three have been named in the two suicide not...
The Geetika Sharma suicide case is getting murkier by the day. The police have now indicated that the air-hostess wrote two suicide notes on the same day and perhaps changed her mind after writing the first note, but committed to the act the second time around...