The Maharashtra government has asked Mumbai police to conduct a probe into controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's speeches amid reports that his sermons inspired one of the terrorists involved in the attack on a restaurant in Dhaka.
Also, the Maharashtra police will not ask the Gujarat police to reimburse the cost for their security, as is the norm.
The Gujarat Government has challenged a high court order granting bail to certain accused persons in the Godhra train burning incident.
Friday's trade saw a reversal in the mood, as investors embarked on a buying spree across sectors.
Special Judge Abhay Tipse directed prosecutor P R Vakil to submit drafts of charges against all the 21 accused by September 13. The trial is on in Mumbai.
They are residents of the posh Navrangpura area, which did not witness any killing.
Citing the testimonies of eye witnesses, Vyas said that people of that area saw Kodnani at Naroda Gam during the morning.
A young Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded government office in Pakistan's restive northwest killing 26.
But the police had to face stiff resistance as a mob pelted stones when they went to Godhra town to arrest Usman Abdul Gani Coffeewala.
'Seems more than half of the 'desh' remained untouched by his 'samajik ekta ka andolan',' points out Jyoti Punwani.
POTA Judge Sonia Gokani passed the order, as the special investigating team did not seek further police remand.
A railway mobile court at Godhra has further remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.
'What happened in Godhra was wrong and what happened thereafter was even worse,' Vajpayee told the Indian community there.
The VHP and Shiv Sena have planned various programmes to mark the occasion.
Mohammed Sharif Mallik alleged that a man in his locality was stabbed, while his friend's house was torched on February 27 last year.
The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity to give a sense of the feeling of other members of the Security Council after China blocked the move to designate Azhar a global terrorist. Beijing previously put a technical hold on similar proposals at the UNSC thrice.
Limited overs stalwarts Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed scintillating centuries to help India secure a series-clinching 15-run victory in the second one-day international against England.
Villagers from Shivrajpur, Pavagadh and Kalol who were going to Halol town to attend a function to pay homage to the Godhra carnage victims, raised anti-minority slogans while passing through a sensitive area in Halol.
The victims made this allegation before mediapersons after an in-camera deposition before the two-man inquiry commission probing the post-Godhra riots.
For two decades after his release in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, Azhar has since been the darling of Pakistan's external snooping agency Inter-Services Intelligence.
The former president of Godhra municipality and was granted interim bail by a special POTA court in Ahmedabad on May 21, after his wife, Haseena, moved an application seeking a six-day bail for him.
Godhra municipality councillor Salim Abdul Gaffar Sheikh has been accused of being at the spot, armed with lethal weapons, where the Sabarmati Express was burned down.
'I don't think there is a need to order a fresh investigation into the complaint against Modi & Co. As the amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran said in his report to the Supreme Court, the existing material is more than sufficient to prosecute Modi and other high-ups of his regime,' Manoj Mitta, author of the book The Fiction Of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra tells Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore.
French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by the Islamic State group.
Police have found the DNA of a newly-identified suspect on explosives used in last year's Paris attacks, a French source said on Monday.
Lewis Hamilton took a huge stride towards a fourth Formula One title on Sunday with victory in an incident-packed Singapore Grand Prix after Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel crashed out at the start.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday referred to Delhi Legal Services Authority the Public Interest Litigation seeking a direction to provide protection to the witnesses in 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar.
The gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in rural Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland -- the capital of Oregon -- and then went on to other classrooms gunning down his victims, witnesses said.
Pakistani authorities have arrested the main facilitator of the gruesome attack on Bacha Khan University that killed 21 people, mostly students, while he was trying to slip across the border to Afghanistan, a media report said on Wednesday.
Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt wrote a letter to senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Arun Jaitley, inviting him for a national debate on any issue pertaining to the 2002 riots in the state.
The National Highways Authority of India will this year witness the highest ever growth out of the last decade. But Gadkari himself admits his biggest failure as India's roads minister has been his inability to curb loss of life in road accidents.
Daniellie Wyatt helped England pull off a record chase and crush India by seven wickets in their second T20 triangular series match, in Mumbai, on Sunday.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday distributed compensation cheques to families of 1,300 people killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots on the 31st anniversary of the carnage even as the victims' kin asserted that they wanted justice more than anything.
Union Minister Manish Tewari on Thursday slammed Narendra Modi's speech as "unoriginal" and raised the 2002 Godhra incident to question the Gujarat chief minister's claim that train travellers felt safe on entering his state.
The Trump administration announced this major reward on the 10th anniversary of the terror attack in which 10 Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists went on a shooting rampage in India's financial hub killing 166 people, including six Americans.
Some eyewitnesses present at the sight of attack gave their horrific accounts about what happened during the attack.
