India

Mumbai, October 25: Ailing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday virtually announced his retirement from public life and urged his followers to stand by his political heirs: son Uddhav and grandson Aditya. “I have collapsed physically… I can’t walk... I am tired,” said an emotional Thackeray, 86, in a video-recorded address that brought tears to the eyes of many of the Sena workers who had

New Delhi, October 25: The questions over the source of funds to Nitin Gadkari's Purti Power and Sugar Ltd have deepened, with investigations revealing that money flowed in from a multi-layered maze of companies registered all over India. A TOI report on Tuesday had mentioned some two dozen companies, many with unverifiable addresses, whose directors included Gadkari's driver and astrologer. A

Nagpur, October 24: Virtually advocating a war with Pakistan, the RSS Wednesday urged the government to "liberate" parts of Kashmir held by Islamabad to arrest the growth of terrorism. Addressing the annual Dassehra rally here, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said terrorism was on a comeback trail because of the government's policies on Jammu and Kashmir over the past decade. "The areas under Pakistani

New Delhi, October 24: Senior BJP leader L K Advani today backed party chief Nitin Gadkari saying he has come "clean" by asking for a probe on charges against him and said the party should not claim immunity on either scale or nature of the allegations. "Nitinji has come clean by asking for an inquiry by the Department of Company Affairs," Advani said in a statement here on certain media

New Delhi, October 24: Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Wednesday backed party chief Nitin Gadkari saying he has come “clean” by asking for a probe on charges against him and said the party should not claim immunity on either scale or nature of the allegations. “Nitinji has come clean by asking for an inquiry by the Department of Company Affairs,” Mr. Advani said in a statement here on certain

New Delhi, October 24: A UPA cabinet reshuffle, anticipated for months now, might finally take place on Sunday, October 28. Among the changes expected is that ministers who currently hold additional charge of portfolios are likely to give those up, sources said. The sources said a Sunday reshuffle was also likley to effect other changes like Tariq Anwar of the Nationalist Congress Party replacing

New Delhi, October 24: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has refused to comment on the corruption allegation against BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, saying it was an internal matter of the saffron party. "Gadkari's issue is BJP's internal matter," said Bhagwat. Media reports on Tuesday said an infrastructure company, Ideal Road Builders (IRB), had made major investments in and given a large loan to a company

New Delhi, October 24: India's home ministry Tuesday recommended the rejection of the mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, lone survivor among the 26/11 attackers, a government source said. The mercy petition made to the president by Kasab, after the Supreme Court Aug 29 upheld his death sentence, has been rejected and the recommendation in this regard forwarded to the president, the

New Delhi, October 24: An internal audit report of the Defence Ministry has detected a loss of over Rs 100 crore in spendings by six army commanders between 2009 and 2011, prompting Defence Minister A K Antony to order strict checks and balances on expenditure. The army, however, contested the loss of Rs 100 crore in procurements and insisted that no rules have been violated. The Defence Ministry

New Delhi, October 23: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a probe into allegations of dubious funding of companies run by BJP president Nitin Gadkari. In his communication, Digvijay Singh urged the Prime Minister to ask the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to institute an inquiry by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) into the