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Bangalore, Jan 4: Contrary to his earlier assertions of a decisive move Friday to pull down the BJP government in Karnataka, the party's former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa deferred the plan to Jan 15. "We will take a final decision Jan 15 as it is an auspicious day," Yeddyurappa told reporters after the first meeting of the working committee of his new party, the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). The

Hyderabad, Jan 4: Vishwa Hindu Parishad international working President ParveenTogadia has been brought to notice for his communal speeches in his last December visit to Hyderabad. A complaint was filed against him by in the 7th metropolitan magistrate by Advocate Ghulam Rabbani against the press conference of Praveen Togadia last December. VHP president in his press conference on the issue of

Hyderabad, Jan 4: Vishwa Hindu Parishad international working President ParveenTogadia has been brought to notice for his communal speeches in his last December visit to Hyderabad. A complaint was filed against him by in the 7th metropolitan magistrate by Advocate Ghulam Rabbani against the press conference of Praveen Togadia last December. VHP president in his press conference on the issue of

Silchar, Jan 4: RSS supremo Mohanrao Bhagwat criticized 'western' lifestyle of people in urban areas and said, without empirical evidence to back such a claim, that rape is prevalent mainly in cities where Indians are deeply influenced by western values and not by rural India. Various women's NGOs and even police records suggest rapes in rural areas largely go unreported. Addressing a citizens'

Bangalore, Jan 4: Announcing a slew of measures to curb sexual crimes against women, the State government on Thursday announced that anyone accused of rape will henceforth be booked under the Goonda Act (Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Grabbers Act, 1985). The government’s move comes in the wake of a

Mumbai, Jan 3: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested a key accused in the Samjhauta blast, Dhan Singh, in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. Singh was earlier arrested in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Meanwhile, a key accused in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case, Rajender Chaudhary, was also produced today in the special NIA court in connection with the 2006 blast case. The court has

Bangalore, Jan 3: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today cautioned his party not to adopt a “soft attitude” towards B S Yeddyurappa-led Karnataka Janatha Party in Assembly elections due this year, saying it needs to fully exploit the anti-incumbency sentiments. Moily, a former Chief Minister, stressed that the Congress should not make a distinction in its fight against the BJP and the KJP

New Delhi. Jan 3: Delhi has never been so bone-chillingly cold as it was on Wednesday. At 9.8 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature in the Capital was the lowest in 44 years. This was also 11 degrees below normal. The minimum temperature was 4.8 degrees. At Palam, on the fringes of Delhi, the maximum temperature was 9.7 degrees. On Tuesday, Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 15.2 degrees

New Delhi, Jan 3: The family of the 23-year-old girl who died after being brutally raped in Delhi last month has no objection to her name being made public if the government decides to name a more stringent law after her, the victim's father has said. "I have no objection if the new anti-rape law is named after her. That would be an honour...for that purpose the name can be made public. Otherwise

New Delhi, Jan 1: aThe revised anti-rape law, which is expected to be stringent and facilitate speedier justice, is unlikely to be named after the Delhi gang-rape victim as suggested by some quarters. Home Ministry officials said the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) do not have provisions for naming any law after an individual. “No law has been named after any person