Jayavel was rescued from begging and through his hard work and determination has now won a scholarship to complete his engineering in Italy.
Several Bharatiya Janata Party legislators in Gujarat, who have been denied a party ticket to contest the assembly elections, have started exploring options to fight the polls and Uma Bharti's Bharatiya Janshakti seems to have emerged as the favourite platform for them.
A bench headed by Justice P C Ghose said the appropriate bench comprising him and Justice R F Nariman will be hearing the matter on Thursday. Justice Nariman was not present in the court on Wednesday.
Priest-turned politician Yogi Adityanath, 44, who was on Sunday sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, now joins Trivendra Singh Rawat of Uttarakhand, M L Khattar of Haryana, Sarbananda Sonowal of Assam and 70-year-old Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik of Odisha in the league of singletons running state governments.
Since Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on June 2, 2014, the high court in Hyderabad was functioning as the common high court for the two states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address six regional meetings during the 192-day-long exercise.
Rampal Singh defeated his nearest Congress rival Rajshri Singh by over 85,000 votes.
After getting Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's largest oil firm, to drop four independent directors and Engineers India Ltd to boot out two, it is now seeking to sack former Power Secretary P Uma Shankar, chartered accountant S Ravi and former BPCL Chairman R K Singh from the board of ONGC.
The colour has been rendered to activities that would have astonished Swami Vivekananda, says Sunanda K Datta Ray.
The STF team came under attack from the gang on Sunday night when they were returning after an encounter.
The sitting MLA, Prabhatsinh Chauhan, is Minister for Tribal Affairs and has been shifted to the neighbouring constituency Godhra. However, his son, Pravinsinh Chauhan has jumped into the fray.
To involve workers in various social campaigns initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has formed nine separate committees of senior leaders.
The Bharatiya Janshakti Party of firebrand leader Uma Bharti is likely to field at least 60 candidates in the Gujarat assembly elections scheduled to be held on December 11 and 16.
Yeddyurappa, however, will miss his wife Maithra Devi, who was a pillar of strength during his early days when he had to struggle a lot.
Altogether, 38 other suppliers, including five women, were sentenced to prison terms ranging between two and a half years and five years and a fine of up to Rs 2.75 lakh each.
A case has been registered against Yadav, the MP from Machlishahar in neighbouring Jaunpur district, his son and some supporters after they allegedly razed some houses and shops.
In a dramatic development in Lucknow on Wednesday, Samajwadi Party legislator Kazim Ali Khan resigned to join the ruling BSP, while Ram Sewak Singh, the lone newly-elected MLA belonging to Uma Bharti's BJP switched loyalties to the ruling party.
'Every other person I met at the interview was so well prepared and deserving,' says Rhodes Scholar Maya Uma Shankar.
Come up with a compelling idea; have a well thought out execution plan; and execute as planned and demonstrate success quickly, says Uma Ganesh, CEO, Kalzoom Tech.
Self-employed Ramgobin is alleged to have defrauded two local businessmen of more than 11 million South African Rand (Rs 5.38 crore) by claiming that she had secured a tender to import bedding from India for the private hospital group Netcare.
Over 400 incumbent Lok Sabha members including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Lal Krishna Advani and Rajnath Singh have not yet declared their assets and liability details, according to an RTI reply.
Responding to the I&B ministry's notice, the channel said that the sting operation was carried out in good faith and its intentions were not wrong.
The sting operation had implied that Uma Khurana, a school teacher, was involved in the flesh trade and was forcing young students to accompany her clients.
Truly a compelling contemporary musical feast by Rajhesh Vaidhya.
A Delhi court gave relief to Uma Khurana, who a TV channel had alleged had pushed her students into prostitution in a purported expose, on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 5,000.
The sting operation had implied that Khurana was involved in the flesh trade and supplied school girls to her clients.
Budhni fell vacant after Rajendra Singh (BJP) resigned to pave way for Chouhan's entry into the assembly.
The BJP has the maximum number of such politicians.
Teams of Maharashtra ATS and Mumbai police have been roped in to assist the Kolhapur police in the probe on the attack on the veteran communist leader Govind Pansare and his wife.
A 71-year-old man, whose dream of starting a business with his life savings got shattered as a bank negligently transferred his money to a stranger, has now been provided relief with the National Consumer Commission asking the Punjab and Sind Bank to pay him Rs 15.5 lakh.
The meeting is being held purportedly to discuss ways and means of raising the issues of Hinduism and the Ram Temple at Ayodhya in the coming weeks.
Knowing the pitfalls, some of the leading channels have decided to jointly work out a code of ethics to prevent recurrence of such cases.
"It (resigning as chief minister) was the biggest mistake of my life. I was influenced by Advaniji and Vajpayeeji... and took the decision to uphold the tricolour," Bharti said at a public meeting Tikamgarh on Thursday.\n\n
Joshi had reportedly said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP MP Uma Bharti and Hindu activist Sadhvi Ritambhara are from "lower castes" and know nothing of Hinduism.
Another senior officer of Karnataka CID conducted some preliminary enquiries regarding the possible links the hardline outfit with murder of Kalburgi.
Older people are finding out that they have to push a little harder to get jobs in the corporate world. But they are proving a point or two in the bargain
Tamil film Biriyani is a fun-filled thriller.
Massive dredging of the Jhelum, the main waterway crisscrossing the Kashmir Valley, is finally underway to prevent state capital Srinagar from the flooding it witnessed in September 2014.
The stand-off between Speaker Ishwardas Rohani and the opposition Congress saw both sides flaunting rule books in support of their stand.
The BJP has seven days to file its reply, sources said.
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