A man injured in a stone-pelting incident in Anantnag district of Kashmir succumbed to injuries, taking the death toll to five in the clashes that erupted in the Valley following hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
Five years since he supported UPA's Presidential nominee Pratibha Patil after breaking ranks with National Democratic Alliance, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday appeared having second thoughts on the issue.
Chomsky along with 86 other academicians had last week condemned "the culture of authoritarian menace that the present government in India has generated".
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik, who created flutters in India by sharing dais with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan, on Friday said he is prepared for confiscation of his passport or his arrest on returning home next week.
'Imran Khan might actually get some initial leeway from the generals to pursue better ties with India -- but not beyond a point.'
The action against Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, comes even as Delhi Police on Thursday registered a case of sedition in connection with a Tuesday event at JNU campus.
Indigenous extremist outfits like Indian Mujahideen and the Student Islamic Movement of India could help Pak terror groups in retaliatory terror strikes in India in the wake of Afzal Guru's hanging, says Col R Hariharan, in an updated summary of comments made by him in a TV discussion
'Eight policemen were sitting in my drawing room, feeling at home. They had locked up my 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son in a room that did not have a toilet.' Onkar Singh reports on Iftikhar Gilani's plight after Afzal Guru's execution.
Afzal Guru had written a letter to his wife Tabassum hours before he was executed on Saturday morning in the high-security Tihar jail. "He penned a letter to his wife before he was taken to the gallows," a top official of the jail said.
The policemen who were deployed in and around Tihar Jail, where Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday morning, had no idea why they were on duty there. "We were given orders to secure Tihar," said one of the policeman manning the entry point of jail no 3. He added that they were not told why they were being asked to secure the prison premises.
Son of Matbar Singh Negi, who was duty on December 13 on the fateful day as part of the Parliament watch and ward staff, Gautam Negi said the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar jail was a good decision by the government and it will send a strong message to terrorist groups
The Delhi police on Saturday picked up Professor S A R Geelani in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail. Geelani had been arrested in connection to the Parliament attack but he was later acquitted by the court.
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was a tired man during the last few hours of his life, before he was hanged for his role in the Parliament attack in 2001. He was informed about his hanging on Sunday evening. He was told that his mercy petition had been rejected and the date of hanging had been fixed for February 9.
As secrecy shrouded the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, inmates and authorities of Buxar prison believe that the rope used for the purpose was manufactured by the jail.
The Bengaluru police on Tuesday booked two students -- Syed Afzal Ali and Vishal Banerjee -- for the murder of Manipur boy Richard Loitam. However, neither student will be arrested immediately as the police is waiting for the forensic report.
As the lone surviving perpetrator of the Mumbai terror attacks Ajmal Kasab filed a mercy petition before the President against his death sentence, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday sought to know if the government would delay his execution for "vote-bank politics" or deal with it on a priority basis.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday said he will have a look at the mercy petition of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru only after the Winter Session of Parliament.
'This country is not of one culture. We must live together and we must respect each other.'
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday supported cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and demanded that he be set free and the sedition charge against him be dropped.
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Kanhaiya has approached the high court as his six-months interim bail is scheduled to expire on September 1.
Notwithstanding the party denial of the possibility of national campaign by her, the Congress on Tuesday saw demands that Priyanka Gandhi contest Lok Sabha elections.
In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President.
Adding to woes of Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday warned him that a second contempt case could be initiated against him if he failed to act on its verdict that annulled a graft amnesty issued by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
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Suspected militants shot and killed a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader in the erstwhile Taliban stronghold of Swat in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
While the Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentence awarded to 26/11 gunman Ajmal Kasab, the fact is that the legal process has not come to an end just as yet.
Independent MLA from north Kashmir, Engineer Rashid, whose resolution for clemency to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru could not be taken up for discussion last year has again submitted the resolution for being included in the business of the budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
Initiating the discussion on demands for grants of Home Ministry, BJP member Anurag Thakur demanded a White Paper on government's initiative to deal with naxalism, which has become a big threat to the nation.
As protests continues over the Telangana decision, the Congress is making attempts to pacify the leaders from the Seema-Andhra region by setting up a high-level committee headed by A K Antony to talk to them.
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday slammed Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal after a video, showing anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare purportedly expressing disappointment over the alleged misuse of funds collected during the Jan Lokpal Bill drive by the AAP, surfaced on Wednesday.
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In an unprecedented move, a Pakistani parliamentary panel has directed the Defence Ministry and the army to submit a report on corruption charges against three retired generals who were serving in a military-run transportation company.
"Why did you file (the chargesheet) without approval? You don't have a legal department," the court said.
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's praise for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Congress kept cards close to its chest on whether its members of Legislative Assembly would vote in favour of the trust vote sought by him on Wednesday.
Afzal Usmani, an accused in 2008 Ahmedabad and Surat blast cases, escaped from the MCOCA court in Mumbai on Friday.
Reacting to Omar Abdullah's stand against hanging of death row convict Afzal Guru, families of the 2001 Parliament attack victims on Thursday accused the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister of being "insensitive" and demanded setting up of a special court to fast-track terror cases.
A Bangalore court has found six people guilty of abetting the attack on the Indian Institute of Science in 2005, in which one person was killed. The court, while convicting six of the accused, acquitted one. Mohammad Raza Ul Rehman, Afzal Pasha, Mehboob Ibrahim,Mirudin Khan, Nizamuddin and Munna have been convicted while Chand Pasha has been acquitted. The police had identified 11 people who helped stage the IISC attack. Four of them were gunned down in an encounter.
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded the resignations of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his father, union minister Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Just like the Congress, SP and BSP, small pro-Muslim parties are focussed on UP's 20 per cent Muslim voters, knowing that it could make the difference between defeat and victory. But many in the Ghazipur-Bhadohi-Azamgarh-Jaunpur belt insist that there is no such thing as the 'Muslim vote'.
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