The music composer is the state's first ever brand ambassador!
Modi will also push for involvement of Indian companies in setting up of ports in that country.
The Gujarat government on Friday stated that the Supreme Court did not have the power to stay the ongoing trial in the post-Godhra communal riots case and that the Special Investigation Team instituted by it cannot summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other accused in the murder of ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri during the riots.
The Special Investigation Team, probing some of the 2002 riot cases in Gujarat, has questioned three lawyers in connection with a complaint filed against them by some victims, SIT sources said on Monday.
The UNICEF said an estimated 2.4 million children have been affected by the recent floods in the country.
"We will not go into the larger debate as to what is Hindutva or what is its meaning. We will not re-consider the 1995 judgment and also not examine Hindutva or religion at this stage," a seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said.
The victims of the 2002 post-Godhra violence criticised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday, for not appearing before the Special Investigation Team in Ahmedabad in connection with a riots case and asked him to come clean.
The South Asian nations could script a new history of cooperation and prosperity that could serve as an example for other nations, notes Dr Rahul Mishra.
'Since 2002, we have not received any justice and we are still fighting for it.'
Blackmail on one side and bullying on the other doesn't make for a constructive partnership, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The Citizens for Justice and Peace through its secretary Teesta Setalvad has filed an intervention application in the pending cases before the Supreme Court on Saturday asking for the recent Telekha sting operation 'Gujarat Ka Kalank' to be summoned, examined as evidence.
An anguished Supreme Court on Tuesday took umbrage at social activists attempting to blame it for the delay in hearing Gujarat riots cases saying it was 'shameful' and 'not in good taste.'
The court, while refusing to stay the trial in Mumbai, directed the registrar general to submit the report within four months.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said Modi had been quoted out of context from his speech allegedly justifying the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin.
The magnet for these projects is the Teesta, a turbulent river that drops from an elevation of 5, 280 metres to about 230 metres over a distance of 175 km, making it ideal for a cascade of hydro power projects.
The pacts signed after Modi-Hasina talks provided for deeper cooperation between the two countries in areas of water resources, youth affairs, culture, education and coastal surveillance.
The bench said it will look into the application before hearing the matter on making Setalvad as the second petitioner in Jafri's plea.
Dr Raja Chelliah, who has been given a Padma Vibhushan is another old friend of Manmohan Singh. He was Singh's single most important adviser on tax reform when he became finance minister in 1991.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is expected to question representatives of NGOs whose names have cropped up during its probe against a Home Ministry official Anand Joshi who was allegedly issuing notices of foreign remittances violations to voluntary groups in an arbitrary manner.
Power Grid Corp of India Ltd is set to form joint ventures with five more companies, including Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Essar, for setting up transmission lines in the country entailing a total investment of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion).
All 'right-thinking citizens' should rally behind Setalvad, they said.
The matter is expected to come up for hearing on Thursday.
As part of its celebrations for the 125th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Congress will this week organise a conference bringing together many writers and historians, including Left leaning, to discuss freedom, equality, democracy and secularism in today's context.
She will be given protection by security personnel of the Gujarat Intelligence Bureau.
She accused the NGO that was helping her of 'pressurising' her into making statements and naming 'innocent persons' during the ongoing retrial.
Relatives of victims of the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat Tuesday claimed to have exhumed skeletal remains from a mass grave in Panchamahal district of those believed to have been killed in the post-Godhra riots.
Ahead of his two-day maiden visit to Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was looking forward to it with a great sense of "enthusiasm and delight" as the two sides readied a host of pacts to be signed including one on enhancing connectivity.
'We received a letter from her today in which she has complained of being coerced to name innocent persons in the case by Setalvad and her NGO,' Tarlochan Singh said.
Setalvad questioned in the application: "Who arranged for the press conference (in which Zaheera retracted her earlier statement)?"
The Supreme Court on Friday admitted the petition filed by the key witness in the case.
The Apex court, however, said that the interim order providing protection from arrest to Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand shall be extended till the larger bench takes up the matter.
'You change the guard in Gujarat with President's rule for six months and you will see a sea change. The only reason we are seeing this day is because the VHP men are not dealt with strictly,' says Teesta Setalvad, campaigner against communalism.
The Congress engages in all sorts of conspiracies after its ruling family loses power, he alleged and added the attempt to use judiciary for political purposes was a 'new low' in Indian politics.
'We are moving away from the path of democracy and towards Hindu religious dictatorship,' scientist P M Bhargava, who announced his decision to return the Padma Bhushan, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar allowed the probe agency to quiz Anand Joshi, who was arrested on Sunday from west Delhi, in its custody till May 20.
The event 'Student Youth Assembly Against Discrimination', which was scheduled to be held at the Janata Shikshan Sanstha in Worli, has now been shifted to Tilak Nagar.
