An interesting multi-cornered contest is on the cards for the urban local body elections in Tamil Nadu scheduled for February 19 with opposition parties, which were with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam till a few days ago, set to take on the ruling DMK banking on their respective party's own strength.
Ganapathy was found dead at Madikeri in Karnataka on July 7 last year.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah asked Modi to "walk the talk", posing four questions, including appointing an "untainted person" as Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate in the state whereas Yeddyurappa tweeted with a tagline #Date2Answer asking, "Why did you quash all the powers of Lokayukta and make it a toothless body?"
SC asked the CBI to file a status report on the probe before it within three months.
Hebbalkar termed the incident as a "political conspiracy" to malign her name.
Cutting across party lines, members in Lok Sabha highlighted the cases of atrocities being committed on Dalits in various parts of the country and demanded steps to prevent them.
Uttarakhand's Gurmeet Singh turned out to be the winner as a record number of seven Indian 20km race walkers bettered the Rio Olympics qualifying standards on a fast Jaipur course in the National Championships, in Jaipur, on Saturday.
The 24-year-old Punjab athlete clocked 1 hour 36 minute and 41 seconds, more than two minutes outside her season best of 1 hour 34 minute and one second, to finish 42nd out of 52 competitors who finished the race.
National record holder Sudha Singh of Railways bettered her own meet mark while winning gold in the women's 3000m steeplechase on the third and penultimate day of the 53rd National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi on Monday.
The resignation came after a court ordered a registration of a case against George and two senior police officers in connection with the suicide.
CM Siddaramaiah announced the CID probe and warned of action against the seniors accused of harassing Ganapathy.
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