India

Ahmedabad, August 29: Mayaben Kodnani, a senior BJP leader and former Minister in the Narendra Modi Cabinet, and the former Bajrang Dal convener, Babu Bajrangi, were among 32 persons convicted on Wednesday in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case, in which 97 Muslims were killed. Special court judge Jyotsna Yagnik acquitted 29, giving them “the benefit of doubt” because of insufficient evidence; but she

New Delhi, August 29: Rajya Sabha MPs will get to stay in new 4-bedroom flats, each costing Rs 2 crore, under a housing project whose foundation stone was today laid by Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari. There will be a total 14 flats, 28 servant quarters, a common reception hall and a gym beside other facilities which will come up on a 0.6 acre land on Talkatora Road. Apart from the

New Delhi, August 29: Nearly four years after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Ajmal Kasab’s plea against death sentence awarded to him. Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 2008 terror attacks, has sought commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment. 25-year-old Kasab was sentenced to death by a Mumbai anto-terror court

Guwahati, August 28: Army staged flag marches at various places in BTAD as the All Assam Minority Students Union (AAMSU)-sponsored day-long Assam bandh turned violent with the attack on government officials and mediapersons leading to imposition of curfew in some areas. Assam IGP (BTAD) S N Singh told PTI “Flag marches by the Army are on at various places. The situation in the Bodoland Territorial

New Delhi, August 28: Senior IPS officer N C Asthana of CRPF was today at the centre of a controversy over his remarks that there was a "strong under-current against India" in Kashmir, prompting the Home Ministry to take action, if required. 52-year-old Asthana, a 1986 batch IPS officer from Kerala, has penned down a book "India's Internal Security: The Actual Concerns" along with his wife Anjali

New Delhi, August 28: Samajwadi Party, which is supporting UPA from outside, today saw "internal Congress politics" behind the disruptions by the BJP in Parliament wondering whether it was for replacing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Rahul Gandhi. "Some people from inside Congress want to remove Manmohan Singh and bring in the Yuvraaj. I have my doubts if this politics (demand of PMs

New Delhi, August 28: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre over leakage of its tapped conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia saying its probe report is hardly satisfactory. A bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice SJ Mukhopadhaya also took strong exception to the Centre's failure to put in place a proper mechanism to prevent such leakage in future. "Those probe reports

New Delhi, August 28: The Supreme Court today said it would consider allowing former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, to enter the state in view of the upcoming assembly polls but would like the trial of the case to be shifted to Maharashtra. "That is one aspect. That must come to an end (keeping him outside the state)," a bench comprising

New Delhi, August 28: Under unrelenting attack from the BJP over coal blocks allocation, the Congress Tuesday announced it will "hit the streets" to expose the double-speak of the opposition over sanctity of constitutional institutions. After a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party here under the chairmanship of Sonia Gandhi, spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters here that lakhs of party

New Delhi, August 28: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday asked party MPs to take the Bharatiya Janata Party head on and said it was a "matter of shame and regret" that the BJP was not allowing parliament to function. "Creating confusion in the minds of people has become bread and butter of the BJP," a Congress insider quoted Gandhi as telling the Congress parliamentary meeting. She also said