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New Delhi, November 24: Yoga expert Ramdev is in the spotlight again after he made a statement comparing the hanging of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab with that of freedom movement revolutionary Bhagat Singh's execution. "The government, in order to regain the confidence of the people hanged Kasab," said Ramdev, continuing, "It has made him a hero. It hanged him in secrecy the way

New Delhi, November 24: Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha member and Ram Jethmalani on Saturday questioned his party's objection over the appointment of the new CBI director. Jethmalani wrote a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari saying, "BJP is wrong in questioning the appointment of CBI director." Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj had on Friday written letters to Prime

New Delhi, November 24: Arvind Kejriwal's party was Saturday named 'Aam Admi Party' at a meeting of its founder members in New Delhi during which the constitution for the organisation was also adopted. The meeting of around 300 founder members was held at Constitution Club in New Delhi during which Kejriwal proposed the name of the party which was accepted by other members, sources said. The

New Delhi, November 24: Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for a new global governance that recognized the greater prominence of developing countries like India and Brazil. Lula, as he is popularly called, said that this included a permanent seat on the United National security Council for a Latin American country, an African country and India. "This is not the world that

Ahmedabad, November 24: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi might be relieved ahead of the crucial assembly elections in the state. It seems that Muslim youths in the state are impressed by the CM and are ready to forget their woes over 2002 riots. Times of India quoted the chairman of the Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment (JCMOE), Syed Shahabuddin as saying that their

Mumbai, November 23: The police inquiry report on the arrest of two girls of Palghar in Thane district over a Facebook post has recommended departmental action against police officers, according to sources in the police department. The report prepared by the Inspector-General of Police (Konkan Division) was on Friday submitted to the Director-General of Police, Maharashtra. According to sources in

Lucknow, November 23: The eight-month-old Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party (SP) government has been rapped by the Allahabad High Court (HC) for moving to release the accused of the 2006 serial bomb blasts in the temple city of Varanasi. A bench of justices R.K. Agarwal and R.S.R. Maurya Thursday observed: Today you are releasing them, tomorrow you may give them the Padma Bhushan. The court

New Delhi, November 23: The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General Friday refused to join issue over a former auditor's claims on 2G spectrum allocation that have sparked a political row, saying it does not react to media reports. "We do not react to media reports about our reports," a CAG official said tersely when IANS sought a response from the country's official auditor. R.P. Singh, who

New Delhi, November 23: An Iranian research scholar, in the capital for a seminar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, was detained twice by the police and subjected to questioning after Israeli embassy officials found him taking pictures near the embassy on Wednesday and handed him over to the cops. Milad Kharid Shahidi, 25, an Iranian national who is doing a PhD from London School of Economics

New Delhi, November 23: Much before bullet trains become a reality, travel time between Delhi and Mumbai is likely to reduce substantially with railways planning to launch semi-high speed trains with a top speed of 200 kmph. A railway official said a study to identify the need to strengthen the infrastructure for this service was nearing completion and work would start soon. The services could