'I don't think the Congress party has learned any lessons from 1984. What can they have learnt when the Sikh victims are still to get justice?'
'Do you allow the guilty to go scot free just because the perpetrators of such heinous crimes were able to protect themselves from the law for 20 years?'
Sikh groups demand that the report should be made public in two weeks.
kerala to resume state lottery. Online lottery would be banned
Devotional music rent the air as scores of political leaders and Congress workers remembered the late leader for his services to the nation.
The commission has got 39 extensions so far.
India would take up with SAARC nations the refugees issue so that neighbouring countries could take them with the assurance that they will be treated in proper manner.
While the rain fury has subsided in several areas of the state, including Mumbai, the situation in Nanded district of Marathwada continues to be serious, with the Godavari river still flowing a metre above the danger level.
The UP chief minister has said that all MPs misuse their area development funds.
This was decided at an all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss relief and rehabilitation in tsunami-affected areas of the country.
Patil said the activities of SIMI were under constant watch of law enforcement agencies.
Given the 'nature of this calamity, furious and ferocious along the coastline, the normal norms of Calamity Relief Fund cannot apply and a special package should be developed', Jayalalithaa said in letters to Manmohan Singh and Shivraj Patil.
The Home Minister has said the two belong to the IRB.
The government is likely to take a 'favourable' decision on enhancing the interest rate on Employees Provident Fund and the ministries of labour and finance are holding discussions on how to mobilise resources for it, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs presided over by the PM on Wednesday, sources said.
Concerned over the demolition of a centuries-old dargah in Vadodara that led to communal flare-up, the Centre on Tuesday said the role of the police during the violence would be probed and those found guilty punished.
The Centre is concerned over the sudden upsurge in militant violence in Assam and neighbouring Nagaland, which has claimed over 60 lives so far.
A number of other dignitaries, Sonia Gandhi, Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Leader of the Oppositon L K Advani also offered floral tributes at Gandhi's 'samadhi' at the Raj Ghat in Delhi.
'Let me tell you in so many words that just as I do not wish to have any security cover,' the former defence minister wrote in a letter to Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
The PM's 'Day at Sea' will be on Friday off the Goa coast -- accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister Shivraj Patil and others.
The Centre also favours a dialogue with the Naxalites, said Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
All temples may not get the CISF covering, according to the Home Minister.
The meeting also discussed the progress made so far in the investigation into last Saturday's serial bomb blasts in the national capital, they said.
The home secretary said his foremost duty was to review the relief supplies to the quake-hit Uri and Tangdhar but he would also take stock of the security scenario in the state.
Terrorism and narco trafficking will be high on the agenda when Pakistan's Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah holds talks with India's Home Secretary V K Duggal from Monday. \n\n
Home Minister Shivraj Patil says the Nanavati report will be tabled once the Union Cabinet okays it
With torrential rains continuing unabated in Gujarat for the seventh day on Saturday, the death toll has risen to 123 even as the army, navy and air force personnel, that were carrying out rescue operations, have evacuated more than 2.5 lakh people.
The security cover of Anil Ambani is likely to be beefed up following reports that he was getting threatening calls.
Anil Ambani on Wednesday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Home Minister Shivraj Patil presumably to brief them about the settlement of Reliance empire with the elder scion of the Ambani family, Mukesh.
The incident, involving a Chinese patrol, occurred in Arunachal Pradesh, on June 26, 2003.
Modi decided to cancel his visit after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil telephoned him and said he will face security risk during his visit.
The BCCI has asked the Centre if the cricketers could use the three colours on the national flag in their costume without the Ashok Chakra
Under the Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, convicted prisoner or people entitled to act on their behalf may make a request for transfer in view of age or physical or mental condition to serve the sentence in their own country.
Highly-placed sources said an invitation will be sent as soon as Hurriyat leaders agree to hold talks with Patil.
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