India

New Delhi, Jan 17: Facing accusations of policy paralysis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today admitted that growth rate had slowed down because clearances were not granted to infrastructure projects for the fear of CAG and CVC. He asked the people to judge the record of his government while closely scrutinising that of opposition governments. Addressing the AICC session here, he rued that his

New Delhi, Jan 17: Getting more than 272 seats in Lok Sabha is in focus as Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) three day long brainstorming session starts here Friday. This will be the last session of the national executive and council of BJP before the Lok Sabha polls. Those who will attend include, party president Rajnath Singh, party patriarch L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar

New Delhi, Jan 17: In an apparent bid to avoid reopening of the issue, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decision on vice president Rahul Gandhi not being named as party’s prime ministerial candidate is final. “The CWC had taken a decision on Rahul Gandhi yesterday. And that is final,” she said in significant remarks before she began her formal

New Delhi, Jan 16: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lead the party's campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections but will not be declared prime ministerial candidate, the party said Thursday. A meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) Thursday evening decided the agenda for the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting Friday, in which a resolution will be moved about the

New Delhi, Jan 16: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said Delhi Police are "highly compromised", and if any crime is prevented in the national capital, it is not because of the police force but rather God's grace. "The security of the people has been left to God, and whatever little crime incidents are not happening is not because of Delhi Police, but despite them," Kejriwal said

New Delhi, Jan 16: The Delhi High Court Thursday restrained the media from publishing or telecasting the allegations levelled against former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar by a former law intern, who has accused him of sexual harassment. Justice Manmohan, in an interim order, also restrained the telecast or print of photographs of Justice Kumar, and directed that photographs of his be removed

Ghaziabad, Jan 16: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav said Thursday a show-cause notice would be issued to Delhi legislator Vinod Kumar Binny, who has raised the banner of revolt, as "there is no scope for indiscipline". He also said that the charges against AAP were scripted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)."There is no scope for indiscipline. We are left with no option but to take

New Delhi, Jan 16: Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's Twitter account was not hacked. His wife Sunanda P Tharoor had posted the tweets that hinted at the union minister having an affair with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar using Tharoor's handle. In a report published in the Economic Times, Sunanda was quoted as saying that she sent out the tweets. "Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been

Tiruchirapalli, Jan 16: The brother of terror suspect Bilal Malik was arrested at the airport here today while trying to leave for Abu Dhabi on an allegedly fake passport, police said. Mythin Madhar was arrested after a check of his passport by immigration officials showed it to be fake, they said, adding he was then subjected to a body search. He was later handed over to airport police and booked

New Delhi, Jan 14: In the latest twist to the controversy surrounding AAP leader Somnath Bharti, Delhi's CM Arvind Kejriwal defended his law minister saying that the court's observation in the matter is "completely wrong". "A sting operation has been called tampering of evidence — it is not tampering of evidence," the chief minister said. Defending his stand on the issue, Somnath Bharti has stated