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Ahmedabad, May 31: In an additional affidavit filed before the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday, suspended DIG Sanjiv Bhatt has asked the rights panel to initiate action against the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by R K Raghvan for incorrectly recording his statements or tweaking them to give a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bhatt stated in the affidavit

New Delhi/MumbaI/Chennai, May 31: The BJP and the CPM will come together in a nationwide protest against hike in petrol prices on Thursday. Markets may remain shut and autos and taxis might go off the roads. Delhi: Traders decide to support BJP's call Residents of the Delhi may find many markets shut and fewer autos and taxis on the road today, with BJP workers staging demonstrations on arterial

Mumbai, May 31: Sachin Karpe would have never imagined that an innocuous $5,000 transfer from a friend's UBS offshore bank account to his personal bank account in Mumbai would come back to haunt him and the wealth advisory business his wife, along with three others, runs in the city. The unidentified NRI friend, who was travelling to India, had moved the money from his UBS account to Karpe's

New Delhi, May 31: The Bharat bandh call by the NDA and the Left parties started affecting normal life on Thursday with the other parties joining the the protests. Rail traffic was hit as Samajwadi Party and JD(U) workers blocked rail routes in Allahabad and Patna. The Saket Express and Ganga Gomti Express were stopped in Allahabad In Delhi, auto rickshaw unions have also joined the bandh with 55

Gandhinagar, May 30: Former Gujarat chief minister Suresh Mehta Wednesday said the Narendra Modi regime was akin to the Emergency rule of 1975-77. "Even if we are unsure that our phones are tapped or not, we don't dare to speak and discuss about Gujarat over phone,” Mehta told the media at former chief minister Keshubhai Patel's residence here. Patel had called all old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Ghaziabad, May 30: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declaring that he will quit public life if corruption allegations are proved against him, Team Anna today demanded an independent probe into the charges, saying they will be most happy if these are proved wrong. Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said it was not they who came up with charges against him but it was in the report of the Comptroller

Chennai, May 30: Within hours of threatening to pull out of the Central government if it failed to roll back the petrol price hike, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Wednesday denied having made any such threat. Blaming the media for misquoting him with a view to creating mischief, Karunanidhi told mediapersons that what he meant was that the DMK had not hesitated to pull out of the ministry in the past

Chennai, May 30: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a key ally of the United Progressive Alliance, on Wednesday issued a veiled threat of pulling out of the combine on the issue of the “atrocious” petrol price hike, saying the party had never hesitated to do so earlier respecting people’s sentiments. “The DMK is in the coalition. But (being in) alliance is different but it is our duty to voice concern

New Delhi, May 30: The Centre will move the Supreme Court against the order of the Andhra Pradesh High Court striking down provision to provide 4.5 per cent sub-quota for the minorities. Strongly defending its decision to earmark sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central educational institutions and jobs, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said on

New Delhi, May 30: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will be back in the capital from a brief summer break this week and will get down to taking decisions which will be crucial for the party and the UPA government in the interregnum before Lok Sabha polls. It is being seen as a crunch fortnight for the party. Soon after her return from the cool climes of Kausani, Sonia has to consult UPA supporters