Mumbai, Jul 2: UPA presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee would meet Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray here on Jul 13 to thank him for backing his candidature, a senior Congress leader said here today.
“Mukerjee is scheduled to meet the Sena chief on Jul 13,” MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre told PTI.
Thakre...
Bangalore, Jul 2: A CBI court today summoned the wife of mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy to appear before it on Jul 10 in an illegal mining case filed against them.
CBI special court judge BM Angadi ordered the issue of summons to Aruna Lakshmi, the second accused in the...
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi, who “proposed” the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee as ruling UPA’s presidential nominee, today indicated that he may not take a similar initiative for the Vice-President’s post.
Asked by reporters if he had proposed anybody’s name for the...
Mumbai: Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray hit out at former President APJ Abdul Kalam Azad calling him “hypocrite” and “shallow” for making a statement after so many years that he was ready to swear in the Congress President Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister after the 2004 polls.
“After...
The chairman of Barclays Bank, Marcus Agius, announced his resignation on Monday after accepting responsibility for a price-fixing scandal that saw the bank slapped with trans-Atlantic fines of $453 million.
Last week, the US and British agencies imposed the fines on Barclays for submitting false data...
New Delhi, Jul 2: Opposition’s Presidential nominee and former NCP leader PA Sangma in a political masterstroke has challenged the nomination of UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee.
Pranab is the Chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute, which according to Sangma is an office of profit. Sangma...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, on Monday made an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Assam.
The three leaders made an aerial survey by helicopter of Majuli island, Jorhat, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts, which...
The crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka appears to have been defused on Monday with nine ministers loyal to B. S. Yeddyurappa deciding to withdraw their resignation after the central leadership assured them that they would decide on their demand for leadership change in the next two to three days.
The...
Three days after the State police and the Central Reserve Police Force killed 20 villagers in a counter-insurgency operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, an 11-member team of the Opposition Congress visited the site and dubbed the incident a “completely fake encounter” and the victims “innocent...
UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday met ruling Congress MPs, MLAs and MLCs as part of his campaign for the July 19 Presidential election.
Mukherjee, who arrived here from Chennai this morning, met the Congress legislators and the Union ministers at Jubilee Hall.
In a brief interaction with media...
