New Delhi : The AIADMK will ally with the NDA in the 2014 general elections. Sources in the BJP confirm that Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalithaa took the decision after seeing the visuals of BJP president Nitin Gadkari touching the feet of Baba Ramdev. “I am more used to my ministers in Tamilnadu going completely flat … Continue reading
New Delhi : A day after MPs cutting across party lines, condemned the use of cartoons in school textbooks, the Union Home ministry has provided HRD minister Kapil Sibal with a dossier of objectionable cartoons. “My officers have burnt the midnight oil in preparing this dossier. It is as big as the one we gave … Continue reading
New Delhi : Bofors, a child of pre-reforms era who went missing in Kumbh Mela years ago, is back now, expecting the nation to embrace him. But, little did this young man realize that much smoke has flowed from the barrel of the howitzers in the last 25 years. “I was hoping for an emotional … Continue reading
New Delhi : Defence minister A K Antony has clarified that he did not mean any disrespect to the office of the President when he said, “I am not a madman” when asked if he was in the running for the post of the country’s first citizen. “Vaat is dhis? I say vaat is dhis. … Continue reading
New Delhi : Even as the country waits for the election results in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, behind the scenes some furious activity is taking place, both in the real and virtual world. This is to prepare for any eventuality that may arise on March 6 when the votes will be counted. Tenali … Continue reading
New Delhi : Union Telecom minister Kapil Sibal, on Digvijay Singh’s insistence, has convened a meeting with internet service providers and websites on December 30. On the agenda is to tell them to stop the RSS feed immediately. “Digvijay ji believes there is a need to purge the system of the word `RSS’. So I have decided … Continue reading
Thiruvananthapuram / New Delhi : All trade unions in Kerala have called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the state on Friday to protest against Anna Hazare’s statement on alcoholism. Anna’s views on drinking are very well known and he recently referred to the practise in his village to tie a drunkard to a pole and … Continue reading
New Delhi : Fashion designers Manish Malhotra, Wendell Rodricks and Rina Dhaka have announced that they will showcase their version of the dhoti-knickers for the metrosexual man at the next edition of the Lakme India Fashion Week. This comes even as Congress leader Manish Tewari wants to make wearing khaki knickers under a dhoti, a … Continue reading
New Delhi : Every minister in the Manmohan Singh government wants Subramanian Swamy to be bundled out of India, with a rider that he cannot squeak against any member of the UPA. Every minister wants the CBI to be shifted to the Congress President’s office, since critics call it the Congress Bureau of Investigation in … Continue reading
New Delhi : With Narendra Modi and Shankersinh Vaghela spoiling the weekend for the media corps with their `Fast vs Fast’, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), an umbrella organisation of all major TV news channels, has shot off a letter to all political parties, asking them to stagger their fasts and hunger strikes. While admitting … Continue reading
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