Terming Baba Ramdev's charges against her as "diversionary tactics", Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat Saturday said attempts were being made to deflect attention from the core issue of violation of labour laws.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Anita Roy said the situation was brought under control within a few minutes. Some Arya Samaj members have been detained by the police.
Brinda Karat claimed that the Union health ministry has found that the guru Ramdev Baba has violated licensing and labelling provisions.
The Supreme Court's query asking a rape accused whether he would marry the victim was based on 'judicial records' containing an undertaking of the man that he would marry the minor girl, a relative, after she attains 18 years of age, it was stated on Wednesday.
BCCI spokesman Rajiv Shukla has told Greg Chappell to refrain from making comments about Members of Parliament.
In a four-cornered fight, the real battle is between Union minister Pratima Bhoumik and CPM's Kaushik Chanda.
For the first time in the history of the Communist Party of India - Marxist, its two founding members Jyoti Basu and Harkishan Singh Surjeet will give a miss to the party's 19th All India Congress, which begins in Coimbatore on Saturday, due to health-related reasons. The 94-year-old Basu expressed his regret and inability to attend the Congress. "Their absence would be deeply felt. But both the comrades, we know, are always with us," MP Brinda Karat said.
Doctors said his condition was "critical but stable."
"If you have to stay in this country, you will have to use swadesi items," Ramdev told reporters in Mumbai.
As charges and allegations fly thick and fast, what do you think the government must do?
The government has said it is constantly working towards reviewing the improving the MPLAD scheme.
'We had written to the army chief urging his intervention into the matter, but no action has been taken in this regard. Hence we have decided to move the Supreme Court,' Karat said.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to the Delhi government and the police on Karat's plea which has sought that a list of the arrested persons be put up outside the police control room and police stations in the district, and should updated on a case-by-case basis.
The silence is specially deafening from three parties that symbolised hope for Muslims: The Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Samajwadi Party. 'What fear prevents these leaders from at least talking about the way our community is being targeted?' 'Will they really lose Hindu votes if they do so?'
Karat, however, clarified that the third front should be formed on the basis of a policy and not as an electoral arrangement.
A day before her scheduled appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy case, Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha led a hunger strike here on Friday seeking the passage of the long-pending Women's Reservation Bill in this Budget session of Parliament.
'In India there is so much exploitation because of capitalism,' says CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat.
'We demand immediate release of all public representatives of mainstream political parties and innocent citizens,' the resolution said.
Around 1,200 protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship act were detained on Thursday when they defied prohibitory orders imposed by the Delhi Police in Red Fort area. Internet, voice and messaging services by Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance Jio were suspended in parts of Delhi-NCR, in perhaps for the first time that the national capital experienced such restrictions.
Several women's rights activists, eminent citizens, intellectuals, writers and artistes had also penned an open letter to the chief justice demanding an apology and retraction of the remarks.
The foundation of the Bhima Koregaon case was blown to bits by a senior policeman, reports Jyoti Punwani.
Under fire for his "rape" analogy, Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha on Wednesday apologised for his controversial remark and said he has deep sense of regard and respect for women and commitment to gender issues.
"One can understand when a woman is raped once. But what if she repeatedly says it. A woman with self respect will either die by suicide after she is raped or try not to be sexually assaulted again."
A joint delegation of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Communist Party of India on Tuesday met the family members of the Dalit woman who was allegedly gangraped and killed in Hathras, and demanded an independent judicial enquiry into the matter.
Our relations are very old. If she thinks whatever I had said has hurt her, I express my regret for that. I will also write a letter to her, Yadav said.
Chidambaram came down hard on the Jahangirpuri demolitions and those in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone earlier, saying the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders' justification of the bulldozer-enabled demolitions 'flies in the face of the law'.
Karat and CPI-M MP P K Biju are in Gujarat to meet the victims of atrocities on Dalits.
'One after the other, they have committed four murders (Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh)...' 'They feel they will not have to face the consequences of their actions as it is a favourable time for them.'
The government's foreign policy lacks coherence, clarity and consistency, they said.
Status quo to be maintained till further order..., the court said.
Yadav called Raje fat and asked people to give her rest.
Amid strong protests over the Centre'move to promote Hindi in social media, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday sought to douse the row, saying it is not being imposed on non-Hindi-speaking states and that Government respects all Indian languages.
'SC is giving us the distinct impression that verdicts, treatment of review petitions are influenced by what pleases/displeases those in power'
The family of the 16-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and murdered in West Bengal, on Tuesday met President Pranab Mukherjee demanding stringent punishment for the guilty.
The elated woman later said she was yet to come to terms with the reality that she has finally won her battle and her son, who was forcibly taken away from her by her parents on the third day of his birth last year, is with her now.
