Two persons were killed when policemen fired on protestors in Qamarwari and Sangrama areas of Kashmir valley on Monday, according to official sources.
A specially-designated tribunal has lifted the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India. Justice Geeta Mittal, a Delhi High Court judge who is heading the tribunal, said that the material given by the Home Ministry, justifying the ban on SIMI, was insufficient. The government maintains that SIMI still indulges in communal activities and it is a threat to the country.The organisation has been banned by the Centre for the last seven years.
Kuselan would have been a great watch had the makers used the premise as a tool to explore the phenomenon that makes Rajni the enigma he is. In trying to serve up a 'Rajni film' when the original script had space only for a cameo, the makers have ended up with a film where the star is reduced to merely a walk-on role rehashing his most popular one-liners from recent times. But Rajni being what he is, don't be surprised if nobody complains.
The Lok Sabha was brought to an abrupt halt on Tuesday afternoon when some Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament waved bundles of currency, claiming the Samajwadi Party had tried to bribe them to vote in favour of the United Progressive Alliance government.A political observer, who did not wish to be named, said, "Why do I get the feeling that the BJP is preparing for a walkout. By walking out, the government will sail through the trust vote.
With two days to go before the United Progressive Alliance seeks the vote of confidence in Parliament, the Congress and the its opponents are both vying for the support of the independent Members of Parliament.Though the six independent MPs in the Parliament are yet to declare their stance on the India-United States nuclear agreement, at least four of them have already made up their minds. The Congress camp is confident that it has the support of at least 3 independent MPs.
A policeman who lost his hearing and how he has taken on life's challenge head-on and ploughed ahead.
A contruction labourer claimed the body of a victim to claim compensation. However, the victim's son with the help of the police and a former MP were able to bring about closure.
'Relief and rehabilitation has been a disaster, especially from the state government.' BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on the plight of the July 11, 2006 blast victims.
LTTE child soldier Shobasakthi, whose book Gorilla was translated into English earlier this year, talks about life as a refugee, LTTE chief, Prabhakaran, the future of Tamil Eelam and much more.
A condolence book for Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw kept at the Martyrs' Memorial in India Gate, New Delhi, will be open for two more days owing to tremendous public response, Defence Ministry officials said on Wednesday.
The needle of suspicion is on the Bangladeshi population in Jaipur after the blasts. Rediff.com checks out the ground realities.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has consumed electricity worth more than Rs 16.5 crore in the past five years and the prime minister and his office has consumed power worth Rs 37.26 lakh in the past three years, information gained through the Right to Information Act has shown.
While Prakash Karat was re-elected as the general secretary of the CPI-M, veteran leaders Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Singh Surjeet will no longer be part of the party's politburo, but will stay on as senior figureheads. West Bengal ministers Nirupam Sen and Mohammed Amin, and Kerala home and tourism minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan are the new members in the politburo.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Tuesday said it would not enter into any alliance or united front with the Congress while continuing to adopt tactics to isolate and defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. 'The party differentiates between the BJP and the Congress, considering the latter as a secular bourgeois party, though it vacillates when the communal forces take the offensive,' the party said in its political resolution adopted in the party Congress.
Continuing its offensive on the United Progressive Alliance over its failure to curb the rising prices of essential commodities, the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Monday said it will stall the passage of the Forward Contract Regulation Amendment Bill, which will enable foreign direct investment and foreign institutional investment in the commodities market, in Parliament.
Senior Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said the party has started discussions on the third alternative and any party that wants to be part of it must: 1. Uncompromisingly oppose communal forces. 2. Oppose the anti-people economic reforms. 3. Oppose all efforts to try to make India a subordinate ally to United States' imperialism.
The United Progressive Alliance government has failed to address the agrarian crisis and the price rise of essential commodities and there is a need for a third alternative, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat said on Saturday. Speaking at the party's 19th Congress in Coimbatore, Karat said this third alternative cannot be merely an electoral alliance.
Richard Madley, the man who presided over the Indian Premier League's players' auction, was thrilled at being part of a first in auction history.
Bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan, who owns the Kolkata franchise, emerged the smartest bidder at the end of three rounds in the Indian Premier League players' auction on Wednesday. Apart from iconic player and likely captain Sourav Ganguly, Kolkata now has Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akthar, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, arguably the best batsman in the world today, and Kiwi 'keeper Brendum McCullum, a buccaneering lower-order bat.
New Zealander Scott Styris ended up being sold for an embarrassingly cheap $175,000 in the IPL players' auction in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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