Cannot revise BPL criteria unilaterally: Guj govt

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 22:58

Gujarat government today clarified that it had not issued any new guidelines for identification of Below Poverty Line families, saying it could not take such a step unilaterally without involving the Centre.

Ahmed Patel takes on Modi over his machismo

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 22:57

Senior Congress leader and political secretary to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi Ahmed Patel on Thursday took on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his `56-inch chest` boast, asking why he did not venture out of his house during the riots.

Judge to be appointed in a day or two for snoopgate probe: Govt

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 17:41

Centre would appoint in a "day or two" a judge to head the judicial commission of inquiry into charges of spying on a woman in 2009 allegedly at the behest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Badal hails court order Gujarat riots

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 23:18

Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal welcomed a Gujarat court verdict rejecting the protest petition against the clean chit given to BJP`s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi by the SIT in 2002 riots.

Gujarat BJP celebrates former PM Vajpayee`s 89th birthday

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 19:55

Public development work worth Rs 24 crore was launched and an Atal Udyaan public garden inaugurated here, on the occasion of veteran BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee`s 89th birthday on Wednesday.

Modi will divide the country if he comes to power: Buddhadeb

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 16:54

Claiming that the country will be divided if BJP leader Narendra Modi comes to power, CPI(M) politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said Modi is a candidate who has been pushed forward only by industrialists.

Narendra Modi urges Chief Ministers to oppose Communal Violence Bill

Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 20:59

BJP`s PM candidate Narendra Modi wrote letters to fellow Chief Ministers, urging them to oppose the Communal Violence Bill saying it was a blatant intrusion upon the powers of the state governments.

CBI hoodwinking in RTI activist Jethwa`s murder probe: SC

Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2013, 21:34

Supreme Court said CBI was "hoodwinking" the procedure in its investigation into murder of RTI activist Amit Bhikabhai Jethwa in which Gujarat BJP MP Dinubhai Boghabhai Solanki was arrested.

Modi to address public rally in Jammu on December 1

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 22:19

BJP`s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on December 1.