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Lucknow, October 18: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today issued notice to a television news channel directing it to produce entire documents relating to the matter of Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on the basis of which a Public Interest Litigation was filed. The order was issued by the division bench comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and

New Delhi, October 18: The Supreme Court today slapped a Rs.5 lakh fine on an ex-SP MLA while dismissing as without substance his petition against Rahul Gandhi in which he had alleged that the Congress leader had confined a girl in Uttar Pradesh. "The allegation is without substance and without an iota of evidence," a bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar said. "The reputation of

Mumbai, October 18: From a man who ran a family-owned furniture shop in a cobbled lane of Nagpur in the early nineties, 55-year-old Nitin Jairam Gadkari today, apart from being the president of the BJP, is the chairman of one of the biggest business groups in Vidarbha called Purti Group dealing in liquor, power, sugar, fuel, mineral and super bazaars. Gadkari has come a long way from his days in

New Delhi, October 18: The BJP stoutly defended party president Nitin Gadkari, facing charges of acquiring farmers’ land in Vidarbha, and turned the tables on Team Kejriwal saying, “hitmen have secured a self goal and damaged the credibility of civil society”. India Against Corruption led by Kejriwal, on Wednesday, held a press conference to charge that Nitin Gadkari acquired farmers land in his

New Delhi, October 17: India is set to witness a spike in deaths due to heart diseases, far exceeding that of China, with more and more younger people falling victim and a large percentage of patients coming from south India, said an expert. According to well-known radiologist Harsh Mahajan, by 2020 India will have more than 4.77 million deaths a year due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and 2.58

New Delhi, October 17: Turning his attention to Nitin Gadkari, activist-politician Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president had colluded with Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Ajit Pawar to exploit farmers in Maharashtra. Questioning whether the BJP was an opposition party or acting in concert with the government, Kejriwal said Gadkari was involved in land

New Delhi, October 17: India and Australia have begun talks to strengthen economic and strategic ties and explore cooperation in civilian nuclear energy. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard began the daylong talks on Wednesday with her Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh. Officials said the two leaders will discuss Australia’s decision to overturn a long-standing ban on exporting uranium to

New Delhi, October 17: In a marginal relief to air passengers, the airport development fee (ADF) will be withdrawn at the Delhi and Mumbai airports from January 1, 2013. Now the Delhi airport is charging Rs 200 per domestic passenger and Rs 1,300 per international passenger, while in Mumbai the fee is Rs 100 and Rs 600 respectively. The move comes close on the heels of the Civil Aviation Minister

Kolkata, October 17: The holy Ganga is a poison river today. It's so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than anywhere else in the country, says a recent study. Conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) under the Indian Council of Medical Research, the national study throws up shocking findings

October 17: A leading British daily today suggested that Britain and other countries, who have decided to engage with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, should "make it clear that rehabilitation is not licence for the type of supremacist inspired nationalism that fuelled the 2002 massacres". In a strongly-worded editorial, The Financial Times said "The timing (of Britain's decision to engage