Rahul Gandhi gets his AICC team in time for the elections

New Delhi : BJP patriarch L K Advani may have turned anti-Narendra Modi of late but it’s a fact that it was Advani himself who groomed Narendra Modi for bigger role in BJP. Although he had never imagined that his own disciple will one day cut him to ...

Selected students from India will win a fully funded scholarship to pursue a master’s programme at the Oxford University in the UK in 2014. Read on for details One of the oldest and the most prestigious international graduate scholarship programmes the Rhodes Scholarship is inviting applications from Indian students to pursue a fully funded masters programme at the Oxford University UK in 2014. Established in 1903, the selection of Scholars for this award is based on academic distinction ...

With former Congressmen the Radadias in the BJP fold thanks to Narendra Modi’s deft coup, the latest bye-election result may create an energetic power balance within Saurashtra, reports Sheela Bhatt For Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the wonderful possibilities of 2014 cannot unfold in any better way than it happened today, with handsome wins in two Lok Sabha seats and four assembly seats. If a political party cannot make drought and serious water scarcity an election issue, it has ...

Britain’s interests in Gujarat were best served by engaging with the elected leadership there, the British high commissioner to India James Bevan in New Delhi said Thursday while clarifying his country's decision to end a decade-long boycott of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In his first 'twitter interaction', Bevan also said "it is the views" of Indian voters that count when asked how the UK views Modi and his role at the national level. "We judged that the UK's interests in Gujarat were ...

The State’s ambiguity has resulted in a stalemate in the crucial fight against the creeping progress of the Naxalite movement in the country, notes Nitin A Gokhale. Our aim is to overthrow this ‘democracy’ and ‘parliamentary rule’, which are nothing but means for the dictatorship of the feudals and comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie, which stand in complete opposition to 95 per cent of the population’s interests, using armed force, to establish a new ...

Mumbai : Taiwan-headquartered motherboard maker Asus has rolled out the world’s first dual OS (Windows 8 and Android 4.1) All-in-One PC ASUS Transformer AiO, which is priced between Rs 87,000 and Rs 1.07 lakh. ASUS Transformer AiO comes with a ...

Former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit is set to make an entry into the country’s financial sector by buying, along with partner Hari Aiyar, a three per cent stake in Nimesh Kampani’s JM Financial. The two will pay $10 million (about Rs 55 crore) for the stake, besides investing $100 million (about Rs 550 crore) for expansion of the non-banking financial company’s (NBFC’s) lending business. JM Financial’s board has approved filing of application for a banking licence ...

Behind Nawaz Sharif’s ‘peace with India’ stance remain unanswered questions about his role in the Kargil conflict and his family’s links with the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Jaish-e-Muhammad, says Ajai Shukla Pakistan’s army would have noted how distressingly unpredictable politics can be. In early 2000, having just been booted out as prime minister by his army chief, General Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif contemplated life in prison, a lenient sentence from complaisant ...

Daily revelations about the wealth amassed by Bansal’s family made it increasingly difficult for the Congress leadership to protect him, reports Anita Katyal It is often said that a week is a long time in politics. It proved to be dead right in the case of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. When reports first filtered in that Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla had been caught red-handed by the Central Bureau of Investigation while accepting a bribe of Rs 90 lakh on behalf of now ...