"I want to peacefully meet the family members of the victims who had fallen to the bullets in the clash. I want to see the orders under which I have been stopped to meet them," Priyanka Gandhi said while sitting on the dharna .
CBI is also probing a criminal conspiracy angle of the Saradha scam.
"The government is afraid of oath ceremony of a student leader and is stopping me at the airport to prevent me from visiting Allahabad," the SP chief claimed.
'The UPA was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The NDA is the gang that can't stop shooting. They (the Modi government) are shooting at anybody, everybody, all directions, shooting themselves in the foot.'
'Truth be told, Amrita Singh and Saif Ali Khan's daughter has tons of filmi blood and it is what powers Kedarnath from start to finish,' says Sukanya Verma.
According to the company, 200,000 handsets have already been shipped in the country for the first phase of delivery.
If Kejriwal wins the Delhi election, then most regional parties will copy Kejriwal's do's and don'ts of jugaad to win an election against the Modi-Shah juggernaut, reports Sheela Bhatt.
Appealing to the kin of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to give it a chance to heal their wounds, the centre on Friday said the recommendations of the Nanavati commission would be implemented as soon as possible.
He also warned that if the Modi government failed to do so, the party would conduct a 'BJP, quit Delhi' campaign.
Taking the floor test for the fourth time, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday won the vote of confidence in the state assembly amid empty Opposition benches following walkout by Congress and boycott\\nby the Janata Dal-Secular.
At least 10 persons, including four cops, were injured when police resorted to lathicharge on Tuesday to chase away a mob protesting alleged diversion of kerosene meant for relief at Chikiti in Odisha's cyclone-hit Ganjam district.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday refused to vacate the stay granted by it last month on Haryana government's decision to grant reservation to Jats.
The government decided to call off the operation as the slum dwellers put up a strong resistance, with women and children in the forefront of the agitation.
Students in Orissa's capital staged a dharna against the incident.
Students in Orissa's capital staged a dharna against the incident.
Unhappy over several decisions of the government, major trade unions and independent federations will observe a nationwide protest day tomorrow
Bank unions on Thursday called for a nationwide strike on August 24 to protest the 'negative attitude' of the Indian Bank Association over employees' wage revision.
The advocates are holding a stir to press their demands, including the setting up of advocates' chambers at the HC complex.
So long as no females were allowed to pray there, the strength of emotion kept the issue burning. As more and more women do this, the matter will fade.
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
It was a battle for broom-upmanship as both Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party leaders took to cleaning the streets of Delhi on Saturday while blaming each other for the garbage crisis in the city.
Kejriwal believes in good governance and takes pride in his Hindu identity, points out Sudhir Bisht.
Legislators from Bahujan Samaj Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Lok Dal, Apna Dal jumped into the Well of the House with placards and banners even before the assembly proceedings started.
A day after President Pranab Mukherjee's veiled criticism of the Aam Aadmi Party in his address to the nation, it said it would carefully consider whatever he has said.
Situation in Jammu was "tense" on Friday as Sikh youth defied prohibitory orders and held protests in various areas as part of a three-day old agitation which is spreading and saw one more policeman being stabbed and his AK rifle taken away.
They staged an hour-long 'dharna' at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi inside the Parliament House complex denouncing the BJP and Sangh Parivar outfits for creating communal tension.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The students and their parents staged a protest outside the Department of Pre-University Education and pelted stones at the PUC building.
As the situation went out of control, police first used water cannon and then burst tear gas shells to disperse the unruly crowd.
As the political drama unfolds in Bihar, Janata Dal-United chief Sharad Yadav on Monday said the decision of Nitish Kumar to quit as Chief Minister is 'final'.
Rajeev Kumar, the Kolkata police commissioner, is known for his impeccable investigating and electronic surveillance skills.
Govt refuses to budge on their demand for scrapping the present toll system
IMA will organise protest rallies and dharnas from November 21 to 24 all over the country in support of the agitating Bihar doctors.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned opposition leader Imran Khan and cleric Tahirul Qadri on a petition filed against them over their protests that have called for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ouster.
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