Panaji, June 6 (IANS) Gujarat chief minister and prime minister ‘hopeful’ Narendra Modi may not have arrived in Goa for the BJP national executive meet yet, but he has already ‘spoken’. Modi’s written message was Thursday read out at the All India Hindu Convention (AIHC), organised by the Hindu Janajagruti [...]

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) BJP leader Arun Jaitley has urged Union Minister for Human Resource Development M.M. Pallam Raju to defer the introduction of four-year undergraduate programme in the Delhi University, saying the issue requires a debate. “I am of the opinion that the introduction of this course should [...]

Panaji, June 6 (IANS) The BJP said Thursday that its sweeping victory in Gujarat, where it wrested all six Lok Sabha and state assembly seats from the Congress, reflected the ground reality. Speaking to the media, BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi made fun of the “Bharat Nirman” advertising blitzkrieg as [...]

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma Thursday told Aung San Suu Kyi that India was ready to extend “all necessary assistance” to the development of Myanmar. Sharma made the pledge after meeting the chairperson of the National League for Democracy at Nay Pyi [...]

Panaji, June 6 (IANS) BJP stalwart L.K. Advani is neither supporting nor undermining any party leader, many of whom he and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have hand-held and nurtured into becoming political leaders of today, BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Thursday. Naqvi, who was speaking to reporters at the Bharatiya [...]

Panaji, June 6 (IANS) The contentious issue of building a Ram temple at Ayodhya will not be on the BJP’s priority list when its leaders converge in Goa for the national executive meeting, party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here Thursday. Naqvi was speaking to reporters at the party’s state [...]

Shillong, June 6 (IANS) Meghalaya’s powerful pressure groups Khasi Students’ Union and Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People Thursday sought the implementation of the inner line permit (ILP) to keep “doubtful citizens” out of the state. In view of suspected illegal migration from neighbouring Bangladesh into Meghalaya, moves are [...]

Islamabad, June 6 (IANS) The “tables have turned” in Pakistan, said a leading daily Thursday pointing out that Nawaz Sharif is again occupying the prime minister’s chair while erstwhile military strongman General Pervez Musharraf is under arrest Nawaz Sharif Wednesday became the first man to be elected prime minister in [...]

Patna, June 6 (IANS) Losing the Maharajganj Lok Sabha by-election was not a JD-U defeat as the RJD had won the seat in 2009 and had now just retained it, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday, a day after the results of Sunday’s polling were announced. “It is not [...]

Lucknow, June 6 (IANS) Amit Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and national general secretary of the BJP, will begin his innings as party in-charge of Uttar Pradesh June 12. Sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party state unit here said the controversial former Gujarat minister would [...]