Ahmedabad: Water-scarcity in major regions of Gujarat is heating up the political arena in the state, with Opposition parties and NGOs up in arms against the Narendra Modi government’s “inaction” and “mismanagement” of the crisis. Passing the buck, Gujarat has targeted the Centre for denying permission to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam, and [...]
So what if he was snubbed by Wharton ? Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is the man of the moment. While the Congress scion is busy issuing statements that he wishes not to be PM and party cadres crying out loud that he be PM, Modi is slowly and steadily building himself up for the big [...]
Focuses on development, youth and tourism. Washington: Denied a visa to visit US, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today took to video conferencing to address the Indian-American community, saying his idea of secularism is “India First”. Modi, who often faced questions over the killing of Muslims in the post-Godhra riots in 2002, did not refer [...]
Washington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would after all speak to audiences in North America courtesy the Overseas Friends of BJP, following the cancellation of an invitation from the Wharton India Economic Forum. The Bhartiya Janata Party’s overseas liaison unit announced Wednesday that Modi shall address American and Canadian citizens via live video speech March [...]
New Delhi: Amid reports that the Wharton School has invited Arvind Kejriwal as a replacement to Gujarat Chief Minister for a lecture, the AAP leader Tuesday said his address at the US management college has “absolutely nothing to do” with the BJP leader. The abrupt cancellation Sunday of the invitation to Modi to speak via [...]
Congress-ruled Andhra Pradesh is forced not only to follow BJP-ruled Gujarat in political sagacity, but in power generation too.
Modi inspires Kiran when dealing with farmers. TGujarat bug has indeed bitten the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. In an attempt to emulate the policies and programmes implemented by the Gujarat government, the AP CM seems to have decided to implement Modi government’s policies in the agricultural sector of the State. The [...]
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the hanging of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was better late than never. “Der aaye durast aaye (Better late than never),” Modi said on the microblogging site Twitter. Afzal Guru was convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament in 2001. He was hanged Saturday [...]
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed the elevation of Rajnath Singh as BJP president, saying he has always been associated with farmers which would benefit the party. ALSO READ: Blow to BJP, boost for Modi “I called up Shri Rajnath Singh ji and congratulated him. He brings with him vast experience of both [...]
Jabalpur: Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice Markanday Katju today released a report on Gujarat polls which claimed that the malpractice of paid news was noticed on a large-scale in the recently held elections. Releasing the report before the media here, Katju said that the team has found large-scale practice of paid news, both [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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