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Godhra, Jan 14: Maulana Hussain Umarji passed away Sunday night. He was 73. Maulana Umarji was called the “key conspirator” of the Godhra train burning incident by Special Investigation Team (SIT). He spent eight years in jail for no fault of his. He was acquitted in 2011 by a special court. Umarji organized relief camp in Godhra in 2002 for the survivors of Panchmahal & Dahod districts in the

New Delhi, Jan 14: Notwithstanding a huge controversy over expenditure on her foreign travels, the then President Pratibha Patil ran up a bill of Rs 18.08 crore on her last trip abroad shortly before demitting office, according to official information accessed through RTI. The chartering of the Air India Boeing 747-400 jumbo for her two-nation trip to South Africa and Seychelles from April 29 to

New Delhi, Jan 13: The accused in the series of blasts linked to Hindu terror had also participated in the 2002 Gujarat riots that claimed over 1,600 lives. Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have found that some of those accused in blasts such as the Samjhauta Express, Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid, Ajmer Dargah and Malegaon had gone to Gujarat during the 2002 riots on the

Nagpur, Jan 13: A man-eating tigress was shot dead by a sharpshooter of the C-60 anti-Naxal squad in Navegaon National Park in Maharashtra on Saturday, 27 days after it first killed a woman in Bhandara district. Gondia district deputy conservator of forests S V Ramarao said the animal was not more than three years old and was shot 20km from the Navegaon National Park boundary. The park is 130km

Nagpur, Jan 12: The Income Tax department has issued summons for appearance to BJP President Nitin Gadkari in connection with its investigation against him and some associated companies for alleged tax evasion. Top sources in the department said Gadkari has been asked for his personal appearance so that he can be confronted with the documents and probe conducted by the I-T in this regard in the

Bangalore, Jan 13: Another deadline set by KJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to topple the State government is taking on the impression of being a farce. His professed loyalists in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who have kept him on tenterhooks, with promises of joining the KJP, are now said to have forced him to abandon the Sankranti deadline to bring down the government. Yeddyurappa had vowed to

Bangalore, Jan 12: Social activist T J Abraham today sought Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar's sanction to prosecute three ministers, including Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok for alleged 'massive illegality and corruption.' In a letter to him, he said he intended to file separate complaints in the Court of Special Judge (Lokayukta Court) for trial of offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act

New Delhi, Jan 12: Asserting that repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan are “unacceptable”, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne on Saturday warned that India may have to look at “some other options for compliance” if such incidents continue. “We have a Line of Control, we have a ceasefire agreement, we have certain structures and mechanisms which are sacrosanct and any violation of these

New Delhi, Jan 12: In a village in Uttar Pradesh, a woman sits hunched on the ground in a green shawl, visibly weak and shivering in the January cold. She says she has not eaten for days, and neither have her five young children. She has never heard of Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, having never ventured further from her village than a nearby market town, and ekes out a living working in

New Delhi, Jan 12: Union minister Kapil Sibal on Friday warned against foreigners who come to India to do business. His remark comes at a time when the UPA-2 government at the Centre is trying to attract foreign direct investment ( FDI) to boost the economy. Pointing to history, communication and IT minister Sibal said, "People from foreign countries have come to India for business and then became