The crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit appears to be worsening. The latest development in ongoing power struggle is that the Reddy brothers led by Janardhan Reddy has left for Hyderabad with 15 MLAs in a bid to shield them from being wooed by the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's camp.
The Delhi high court on Monday directed the lower court to complete the trial of all pending cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, including those against Congress leaders Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, within six months. "We direct that the trial will be conducted as expeditiously as possible and will be completed within six months," a bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah said.
In Bihar, there is all kind of trouble for the party after its All India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Bihar, Jagdish Tytler, and Pradesh Congress Committee President Anil Sharma released a list of 569-member state committee. What is shocking is that the caste of each member has been written next to his or her names.
Vijay Zol will lead a 15-member Indian under-19 cricket team in a quadrangular one-day series against Australia, South Africa and Zimbabwe starting September 23 in Visakhapatnam.
The Matunga restaurant, known for its cleanliness and quick services, was established by Gopal Purshottam Kamath.
Senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Monday said the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case against him has been re-investigated by the CBI, which has filed a closure report before the court.
The Centre on Monday said the Delhi lieutenant governor had been advised to decide by month-end the Central Bureau of Investigation's request for prosecution of Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Condemning the shoe hurling incident, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that the Congress should take lessons from it and withdraw its anti-Sikh riot accused candidates from the Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party urged its rival Congress to reconsider the candidature of anti-Sikh riot accused Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, who are contesting the Lok Sabha elections on Congress tickets, from South Delhi and North East respectively.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday informed a Delhi court that it wanted to close the investigation into a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. The court has now fixed the matter for April 9.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday filed its final investigation report before a Delhi Court into a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler.
Notwithstanding the terror strikes on Mumbai, India continues to attract tourists with a majority of them flocking Kashmir, a top Indian tourism official has said.
The attack on Jagdish Grewal, editor of the Punjabi daily Punjabi Post, in suburban Brampton on October 23 is reminiscent of the assault on Tara Singh Hayer, a journalist who was murdered in 1998 in Vancouver. Both events are attributed to differences between the moderate and hardcore pro-'Khalistan' Sikhs.Both invited the ire of militant Sikhs who want to keep the demand for a separate state of Khalistan alive.
Eminent economist Jagdish Bhagwati said India had made a mistake in aligning with China at the recent climate conference in Copenhagen. Instead, the country should have taken a leadership role in climate talks by coming forth with fresh ideas.
Jagdish Khattar-promoted Carnation, a multi-brand car sales and servicing network, and the Dilip Chhabria-owned car design boutique DC Design have entered into a joint venture that will help the design studio offer its services to the mass segment at lower price points. Before this, DC's services were restricted to high net worth clients.
Scores of placard-bearing protesters gathered in front of the Congress headquarters on 24, Akbar Road.
A Delhi Court today dismissed the plea of CBI that a Metropolitan Magistrate cannot decide on the agency's closure report giving clean chit to former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 Sikh riots' case.
Months after an infuriated Iraqi scribe flung a shoe at US President George Bush, an angry journalist -- apparently upset over Congress leader Jagdish Tytler being given a clean chit over his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots -- flung a shoe at Home Minister Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Sikh groups on Tuesday said the incident of shoe-throwing at Home Minister P Chidambaram reflected the long pent-up anger of the community which had suffered in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
It signals a major jump in the global acceptance of India as a hub for small cars, but maintaining this will require a lot more including, for starters, large production volumes.
The designer Nano will hit the streets soon. The world's cheapest car has generated interest of designers like Dilip Chhabria and former Maruti Suzuki India chief Jagdish Khattar, both of whom are working on a re-designed avatar of the car.
According to Jagdish Shettigar, chairman of BJP's economic cell and former member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, infrastructure, especially road building, will be a priority. It is now also certain that work on the controversial 111-km Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise connecting Bnagalore and Mysore will be accelerated. "We have always supported NICE," said a BJP leader.
Six persons accused of killing four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji village, Maharashtra, were awarded the death sentence on Wednesday.
Central Bureau of Investigation Special Court Judge Shiv Pal Singh, hearing the case, was quick to reply, "Then play the tabla (musical instrument)".
Surekha Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, her daughter Priyanka and sons Sudhir and Roshan were murdered on September 29, 2006m over a land dispute. Surekha's husband and the only surviving member of the family, Bhaiyalal, managed to escape. The four were mercilessly beaten to death and their bodies thrown into a canal in Khairlanji village, about 60 km near Nagpur, the prosecution had said.
The fate of 11 accused involved in the killings of four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji, would be decided by a local court in Bhandara on September 15.
BSE CEO M L Soneji said the exchange was investigating the trading data of Satyam. Highlighting lack of corporate governance, he said this was an opportunity to revisit regulations to make company directors more responsible and auditors more accountable.
A magnificent display of India's cultural diversity through colourful parades across the length and breadth of the country marked the 71st Republic Day celebrations on Sunday which passed off peacefully, barring in Upper Assam, which was rocked by four explosions within a span of 10 minutes.
Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being 'casteist' and 'anti-Dalit', and said his party will always stand against the BJP's 'oppressive' ideology.
Despite the recent terror attacks on Mumbai, British tour operators are upbeat about India being a safe tourist destination.
He had moved the court on October 17 against his conviction and sentencing in a fodder scam case and filed a bail petition.
As the weather cleared in the morning, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and Union Territory administration started a joint evacuation drive and brought back all stranded tourists to Port Blair from Havelock and Neil islands of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.
Kharge was part of a three-member panel headed by Modi that had selected Verma last year to head the CBI.
"The BJP is totally opposed to the extension of President's Rule in Karnataka, based on specious procedural grounds of the commission not being in a position to complete the procedural work. We earnestly hope the commission will rise to the occasion and find administrative solutions for resolving this problem," BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said.
Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, was elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) as his panel swept all six posts in a tension-ridden election of the state body.
The court, however, rejected the prosecution's contention that the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare' category.
The rates of peas, which were ruling at Rs 139 per kg last week, have come down to Rs 79 per kg.
Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, who was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs five lakh in a 17-year-old fodder scam case, on Thursday claimed that he was falsely implicated.
IT major Wipro's promoter Azim Premji is investing Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million) to acquire a significant minority stake in a company floated by Jagdish Khattar, former managing director of Maruti Suzuki India who has recently turned entrepreneur.
Maruti Udyog Ltd said on Monday it will hike prices of its products by up to Rs 12,000 next month.
He said the move is aimed at benefiting a 'particular political party'.
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