The PM's choice of ministers is interesting, to say the least, says Jyoti Punwani.
The Anti Terrorism Squad on Wednesday told the MCOCA court hearing the case into the September 2008 Malegaon blast that it has video recordings of a meeting in which the blast accused were present
Special counsel for ATS Ajay Misar argued before the court that since investigation into the blast was still on, the judicial remand of the accused should be extended.
The top court, which had earlier fixed August 31 as the deadline for completion of proceedings including pronouncement of the verdict, took note of the report filed by special judge S K Yadav in the high-profile case.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, an 89-year old largest such Islamic body in the country that issued a 'fatwa' signed by 6,000 Muslim clerics in Hyderabad ten days ago against terrorism, on Monday moved the Supreme Court for release of a large number of Muslim youths held in connections with blasts in Malegaon in 2001, 2006 and 2008.
'This court has not granted bail...wrong forum has been chosen'
Pankaj Phadnis who co-founded Abinav Bharat, says that it is not his fault if the men alleged to be accomplices of arrested Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur had used the name of his organisation.
Campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti on Monday used abusive words to urge voters to choose between candidates.
The members of the Dal alleged that the hotel staffers were throwing meat in the open and cows were getting sick after consuming the remains.
A Facebook user, who had allegedly posted hate comments against Christianity, was on Tuesday slapped with a case after the community leaders lodged a complaint accusing him of disrupting peace and harmony.
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Ishwardas Rohani has accepted the resignation of former chief minister Uma Bharti from membership of the Vidhan Sabha.
A special CBI team, escorted by heavily armed police, reached the Dera headquarters in Sirsa on Saturday morning and was made to wait for over three hours before the notice could be served to the Dera chief in his gufa (cave), CBI sources said.
The SC asked special judge to control the proceedings in accordance with law so that inordinate delay that is beyond the time-frame is no longer breached.
A fresh bailable warrant has been issued by a court in Muzaffarnagar against Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan and Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Suresh Rana in connection with a case of violating prohibitory orders and inciting communal tension during the riots in 2013.
'If any party talks too much about Muslims, it will lose.'
If the finance minister's tax proposals have stimulated demand at all, it's for CAs, notes Kanika Datta.
"I thought that rediff.com was only a portal and had nothing to do with news," he said.
'As long as a Hindu rashtra is not formalised, one can live in hope,' says Amulya Ganguli.
said the CBI verdict has been challenged on several grounds. "One of the grounds was that there was a delay of more than six years in recording the statements of the women (victims) by the CBI after the incident," the defence counsel said.
"Party disciplinary committee will submit the report within 10 days," Shah said.
Besides the life term, Narayan Sai has been asked to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the victim.
He had not played any role in the blast, Purohit had said, adding that he was in jail for the last seven years without trial.
Uma, who was appointed party General Secretary just days before her expulsion, claimed that she never nursed greed for power and added that the general secretary's post was higher than that of chief minister.
The mahant said that only devotion to God will bring her happiness and solace.
'There are around 400 Lok Sabha constituencies where Dalits and Muslims combined constitute 30% of the electorate.' 'Also, 90% to 95% of Dalits and Muslims go out and vote.' 'So, if they are come together, they become significant electorally.'
Sadhvi Meenakshi Devi, who deposed before the commission on Tuesday, did not turn up.
Their enthusiasm evident in the loud chants of 'Bam Bam Bhole'.
In the latest medical bulletin issued by AIIMS, the hospital said that he 'continues to respond well to treatment'.
New BJP President L K Advani could not attend due to other urgent engagements
The CBI claims Kishan Lal, who is one of the managers at the Dera Sachha Sauda, owned by a self-styled godman Maharaj Gurmeet Singh on the outskirts of Sirsa, was allegedly involved in the murder of Ranjit Singh in July 2002.
A special CBI court on August 28 had sentenced Ram Rahim Singh to 20 years in prison.
VHP leader says that the ghar wapsis will continue till 15 crore people are reconverted.
"The remarks made about Gandhiji or Nathuram Godse are very bad and very wrong for society," he said.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has rubbished allegations in the Supreme Court that Salian was pressurised by the National Investigation Agency to 'go slow' in the case.
'Certainly if Advani had agreed to Vajpayee in sacking Modi, then we would never have been talking of Modi today.'
The bench, however, granted Purohit the liberty to raise his contentions before the trial court and said it is not expressing any opinion on his petition.
On March 8, the court had convicted Patel, Gupta and Joshi in the case while acquitting others including Swami Aseemanand.
The outfit proposes to hold a meeting at the town to decide on the construction of the Ram Temple.
This followed a revision petition by six BJP and VHP leaders.
Triggering controversy over capital punishment to Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday sought to know whether the perpetrators of demolition of disputed structure in Ayodhya, communal riots of Mumbai and Gujarat and other such sensational cases would get a similar punishment.
