The Tehelka expose on the Gujarat carnage was a "belated attempt" by the Narendra Modi government to boost his sagging image among the voters ahead of forthcoming state assembly elections.
Minutes after the carnage at the bourses, government on Wednesday said it is not in favour of banning Participatory Notes and hoped that "the initial sense of alarm in stock markets" will quieten as the day progresses.
Bhai Surinder Singh, head 'granthi' of Majnu-Ka-Tila gurdwara in north Delhi, also alleged that Tytler was 'plotting' to eliminate him after his ruse to send him abroad did not work.
While investors' money is going down the drain, merchant bankers are drawing fat pay packages.
The question, whether these CDs are authentic or not, has to be cleared first," Justice G T Nanavati, chairman of the two-member commission probing the Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots said while hearing the matter.
According to a Credit Suisse report, the steep Sensex fall has validated two fears: (1) The Indian market is linked to global developments; and (2) Foreign flows are the biggest drivers of the market.
Both Houses had to be adjourned twice after agitated opposition members accused the Centre of trying to divide people on communal lines.
The petition said there was need for constituting a commission of inquiry headed by a sitting judge of the high court, as neither the Centre nor the state government has taken appropriate action over the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the incident and the riots in 2002.
The toll rose to 78 on Thursday in attacks by NDFB-S and retaliatory violence in lower Assam with Adivasis setting afire houses of Bodos as the backlash to Tuesday massacre continued for the second day.
The rioters of the 1984 Sikh carnage, in which over 3000 people were killed in Delhi, were apparently paid Rs 500 for each person they killed, a new book on the riots reveals, reinforcing the allegation that the violence far from being spontaneous was the outcome of a conspiracy.
A new book on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi claims that the Ranganath Misra Commission which probed the carnage presented a "diluted" version of events and also blames the police for the mass killings.
The seventh anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which had claimed lives of 166 people and left hundreds injured, would be observed on Thursday.
In the wake of the deadly 13/11 carnage in Paris, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has called for the world to fight against the 'terrorists trap' of growing a prejudice against a particular religion or community, as their sole intention is to divide the society on the basis of fear.
Here's why stock market investors should take the current market crash to buy stocks or invest in mutual funds.
In the middle of turmoil, the stock markets have become the butt of jokes being circulated across media such as the Web and mobile phones.
This bloodbath, however, provides investors with yet another opportunity to buy quality stocks at cheap valuations. And many experts buy this argument.
'Why not simply make some more ventilators and find some more beds? How much would it cost?' asks Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
It seems that while the majority of the 68 passengers killed in the explosions-cum-fire in two coaches of the Samjhauta Express at Deewana, near Panipat, on February 18 were Pakistani nationals, more Hindus than Muslims were killed.
Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill slammed centuries as India U-19 crushed their English counterparts by 230 runs in the fourth One-dayer to take a 3-1 lead in the five-match series, in Mumbai on Monday.
The tribal belt of Gujarat, which decides representations in around 43 assembly segments in Central and South Gujarat, had been a Congress stronghold from independence to the 2002 election.
The ISI alone has not adopted the ULFA. The collateral adopter is the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence of Bangladesh.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia had raised the issue of a recent statement by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who had said in London recently that Congress, as a party, was never involved in the carnage.
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday termed as "full of hypocrisy" Rahul Gandhi's remarks that the Congress government tried to stop the anti-Sikh riots and accused it of shielding individuals involved in the "carnage" and delaying deployment the army.
Some long-running high profile trials, including 1993 serial blasts case and the Best Bakery retrial, reached culmination.
Six police officers have been charged with shielding the guilty, while a doctor couple, Arun Kumar and Sangeeta Prasad, are accused of destroying evidence.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi stunned his audience at a summit on Friday by claiming he believes in the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Both Mahatma Gandhi and his idea of Ram Rajya are relevant for me," he said in an interaction at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi on Friday. Modi said that he also believed in Gandhi's idea of Gram Swarajya, according to which village-level representatives should be appointed unanimously as elections led to violence.
The Commission also asked the NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch (which represented a section of the riot-affected families) to also conduct their own analysis of the CDs and submit a statement about the findings to the panel on July 21.
Chasing a record total, New Zealand could only muster 160 for 9 in their 20 overs.
The Commission has not given any time frame for the President's office to give the letters.
Promoters of companies who have pledged their shares to raise funds from banks will be asked to top up with more shares if the carnage in the market continues.
The change in the syllabus comes in the wake of the implementation of the National Curriculum Framework, which suggests that the textbooks should connect knowledge to real life situations.
Seven out of the top-10 falls in the markets took place in 2008.
Skipper Meg Lanning's blazing knock helped Australia reach a record total before Megan Schutt led a brilliant bowling performance to beat arch-rivals England by 57 runs in the final of the women's T20 tri-series.
The commander of the ULFA's 28th Battalion, Prabal Neog in a statement given to the local media here warned that Congress workers and leaders would be spared if the Army killed Assamese youth.
Two Indians, including an 8-year-old boy, were among 39 killed and four other community members injured in the attack by armed terrorists on an upscale mall in Nairobi in Kenya.
For Alma Urs, who studied at Blackburg 26 years ago, Virginia Tech will always be a a place where love prevails.
The recent bouts of violence by suspected Bodo militias that killed over 30 hapless 'Muslims, mostly children and women, and rendered several thousands homeless in lower Assam recently, once again offers a shocking glimpse of the horrendous game of violent communalism being played by the Congress government of Assam in furtherance of its cynical power politics for the last several years.' 'The result is, the state is a simmering communal cauldron that sporadically erupts at the slightest real or imagined provocation,' says R N Ravi.
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