Rediff.com brings you a combined update of the effect of Thursday's Bharat bandh, called by the National Democratic Alliance, Left parties and Samajwadi Party to protest against the latest hike in petrol prices, from various parts of the country.
If the present state of affairs continues, the tourism industry is likely to lose business worth Rs 10-20 crore per week.
Bhartiya Janata Party, Left and Samajwadi Party have decided to protest against the steep hike in the prices of petrol and would hold countrywide demonstrations, dharnas and court arrest to register their anger against the move during Thursday's Bharat bandh.
Anshuman Mishra, the non-resident Indian businessman who unsuccessfully tried to get a Rajya Sabha nomination from Jharkhand, may have played a key role in convincing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to attend last week's Bharatiya Janata Party national executive in Mumbai.
Ajit Singh, Minister for Civil Aviation has asked the striking pilots of Air India to restore the conditions before going on illegal strike in order to press for their demands.
Fali Nariman, noted jurist and a man of impeccable integrity, whose name was floated by the Bar Counil of India on Monday for the post of President of India, has declined the invitation.
The lawyers at Delhi's Saket district court complex have called for a strike on Friday to protest against an attack on three judges.
The Bajrang Dal has threatened to send a team of 100 volunteers to the Amarnath shrine on June 4 to take stock of the situation there. Earlier, a group of Bajrang Dal activists has tried to make their way to the shrine but were prevented by the Jammu and Kashmir police from doing so.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Prakash Javadekar has said that the party plans to the issue of Angola in Parliament where the government in power has confisicated the passports of agitating Indians working in various companies and refusing to return them, thereby not allowing them to return to their country of origin.
"Arjun is much better now but has been advised medication and rest. He is responding very positively to the medication. Arjun will be coming back to New Delhi on May 10. Thank you so much for all your prayers and well wishes," Priya Vajpai, mother of the 16-year-old who became the youngest Indian to conquer Mount Everest in May 2010, told rediff.com over telephone from Kathmandu.
Sixteen-year-old Arjun Vajpai, who became the youngest Indian to conquer Mount Everest on May 21, 2010, is being rushed to Delhi after he fell ill during an expedition. "Arjun Vajpai's expedition to Mount Cho Oyu and Mount Shishamangma has been called off due to Arjun's ill health. Arjun has returned to the advance base camp and he is being attended by the doctor," said his mother Priya Vajpai.
After losing the Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand by three votes, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader SS Ahluwalia hinted that horse-trading led to his defeat.
Following a directive issued by the Supreme court earlier this week prohibiting tainted glasses on all kinds of vehicles throughout the country, the Delhi police assisted by local police challaned 4,915 cars, taxis, RTV's on the first day itself.
Indicating fissures in the National Democratic Alliance over the issue of Presidential election, the Janata Dal United on Tuesday snubbed the Bharatiya Janata Party for unilaterally announcing its stand on the issue. "Whatever Sushma Swaraj has said is the opinion of the BJP. This is not our party's view. The issue was not discussed in any NDA meeting. BJP has not discussed the issue with us," JD-U President Sharad Yadav told reporters.
Setting aside internal differences, the Bharatiya Janata Paty on Thursday declared S S Ahluwalia -- its outgoing deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha -- as the party candidate from Jharkhand for the biennial elections to the upper house.
Vijay Kumar Malhotra, president of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has described the victory of his party in the Delhi Municipal Corporation as the defeat of the programmes and policies of the state government led by Sheila Dikshit. BJP candidates have performed well in North and East Delhi segments. After the debacle in the civic polls, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and senior leaders of the Congress have been avoiding media personnel.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma laughed at the suggestion that his name has been floating as a potential presidential candidate for the forthcoming elections to the office of President of India. President Pratibha Patil's term ends on July 24, and the new President would be sworn in on July 25.
In a dramatic turn of events, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which had raided dentist Nupur Talwar's residence after issuance of a non-bailable warrant against her, on Friday submitted to the Supreme Court that it would not arrest her during the pendency of her plea against the NBW.
A day after an earthquake measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale hit Sumatra in Indonesia, triggering panic among locals who have not forgotten the devastating tsunami of 2004, life is gradually limping back to normal on the island.
Metropolitan magistrate Sudesh Kumar will on Wednesday record the pre-summoning evidence in the criminal defamation case filed by Lt General Teijinder Singh against Army Chief General V K Singh.
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