The court accepted prosecution's case that the aim of the convicted accused was to create terror in the minds of people and to eliminate public leaders like then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Hindu leader Pravin Togadia.
It is the only project in the world which can lift two TMC of water every day, the government said.
Indian companies struggle in face of a set of common challenges related to logistics, labour regulations, tax and tariff policy
Having made farmer suicides a campaign issue, Modi and the BJP should have no complaints in now having to live with it, says Aakar Patel.
Modi hailed the close defence cooperation between the two countries and welcomed the completion of the logistics agreement between the two navies.
As many as 108 flights cancelled and another 51 diverted to nearby airports.
Five other convicts were also granted varying jail terms by a special MCOCA court.
Private weather agency Skymet said Mumbai is at 'serious risk of flooding' between July 3 and 5.
An eyewitness travelling in the train claimed some passengers suffered minor injuries.
Talented photographers from across the world have been named as winners of diverse open categories at the Sony World Photography Awards -- and the champions were judged on just a single image. Faced with hundreds of thousands of entries, the judges have chosen a winner for each of ten categories that include architecture, culture and landscape. Also announced were the winners of the National Awards. Chosen from the same pool of images as the open competition, the National Award recognises the best entrant from each of 62 countries.
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
World finance ministers will meet on Oct 7-8 in Lima, Peru, to try to agree on climate change framework.
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RLDA is a statutory authority established by the ministry of railways for generating non-fare revenue from railway land.
'All governments try owning the message, but the Modi-Shah BJP has developed it into a fine art.'
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So far, major emitters are far from curbs on emissions on a scale outlined by the IPCC.
Dismissing opposition charges, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ruled out dividing Maharashtra to separate Mumbai from the state.
Sahara has ploughed at least Rs 1,500 crore from two of its credit cooperatives into the Aamby Valley resort project
The Nepal earthquake has driven home the importance of home insurance. What are the factors you need to keep in mind before insuring your property? Indrani Roy offers a checklist.
India's 10 biggest cities face a whopping $179.8 billion (Rs 11.9 lakh crore) risk from a series of threats over the next decade.
Just an hour or so from the ones we commonly throng to, they promise a lot more for a lot less.
Apart from being luxurious, fast and expensive, it can take a serious beating any time of the day
'I want to know, how can any God become impure if woman enters the temple?'
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The Manmohan Singh government's rush to pass the Food Security Bill reflects extreme paucity of logic and action, says Neeta Kolhatkar
Much of the negative perceptions of the north-east diaspora owe their origin and existence to the perverse policies of the central government toward the region and its people. This realisation must be the beginning of an earnest endeavour to address the issue, says R N Ravi.
To avert another Uttarakhand-type catastrophe, we must change course. We should stop pandering to the Indian elite's insatiable appetite for electricity, which is driving reckless dam construction, says Praful Bidwai
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