Terming as "infructuous", the Supreme Court on Tuesday closed as many as 11 petitions, including the one filed by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), almost 20 years ago seeking an independent probe into the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
In 2011, Modi had refused to wear a skullcap.
After the break up of Bharatiya Janata Party's alliance with the Janata Dal- United, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address Bihar's top BJP workers on Saturday evening using teleconferencing, BJP sources said.
The Mumbai-based activist, currently in jail in Gujarat, has sought bail.
Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Shatrughan Sinha from Patna, who is up against the Congress' Kunal Singh, a Bhojpuri actor, described Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a 'dabaang action hero'and said that he and his party workers are concentrating on making him the prime minister of the country.
After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention.
Rediff.com brings you the results of the heavyweights in the Gujarat elections.
From the voter-level, traditionally anti-BJP, anti-Hindutva minorities and other secular voters would have an option, especially in the face of the mounting anti-incumbency against the ruling party -- as it happened in the 2001 assembly polls, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Backing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's elevation in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said that Hindutva was the only way to bring about change in the country.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to oppose the Food Security Bill, and has also called for a meeting of all chief ministers for a discussion on the issue.
Social activist Anna Hazare said that both Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi are "unacceptable" as prime ministerial candidates.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday began his three-day fast for "peace and communal harmony", saying the success of his endeavour would mean an end to vote-bank politics.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday questioned the need for dialogue between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif when soldiers and innocent people are being killed "day and night" by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
A survey has suggested that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance is losing its sheen.
The Congress on Monday termed as "deeply disappointing" the Supreme Court ruling upholding the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 communal riots, and asked whether Modi and the state government will ever be held accountable.
Singer Miley Cyrus has been reportedly chosen as the winner for Time magazine's online poll for the 'Person of the Year' title, booting down Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is half as popular as the pop icon.
Plotters of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts had also planned to kill then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi besides creating mayhem, one of the accused convicted for the bombings by a special court in Ahmedabad had admitted before the court in the past, the prosecution said on Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party's Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday performed 'Shastra Puja' in the presence of police and security personnel
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been depicted as Lord Krishna in a Bharatiya Janata Party advertisement published in a local newspaper on Friday. The advertisement, which is sure to kick up a controversy, has been given by BJP's Amreli district unit President Bharat Kamdar.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto for the state assembly elections, saying that it is a blueprint for development of all sections of the society.
Jantri rates act as benchmark for deciding stamp duty rates for registering property deals.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in his first speech after winning the state elections for the third time, thanked the voters and apologised for them for his mistakes, if any.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is fit to become the prime minister of the country.
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay the Centre's order dismissing Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who had assisted the CBI in its probe in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a month before his scheduled retirement.
Reliance Industries on Thursday took to social media to refute allegations of receiving favours from a Gujarat minister who is related to company promoter Mukesh Ambani, saying that the allegations are baseless and politically motivated.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday lashed out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his 'puppy' and 'Hindu nationalist' remarks and advised the senior BJP leader to study the Indian Constitution thoroughly.
The Uttarakhand government will not allow any state to make unilateral efforts to evacuate its citizens stranded in the hill state, a move that comes in the midst of war of words on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's claim that he had rescued over 15,000 people.
Katrina Lantos Swett, chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa that the USCIRF will be uncompromising about denying Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi entry into the US.
The BJP prime ministerial candidate was recently in the city.
Standard and Poor's (S&P) in its report released on Monday 'Will India Be The First BRIC Fallen Angel?' said: "Slowing GDP growth and political roadblocks to economic policy making could put India at risk of losing its investment grade rating".
A youth was arrested and three cracker bombs recovered from him at a function of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, officials said on Monday.
Rediff photographer Reuben NV captures the triumphant mood of the people who had come out in full force to listen to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
If Mr Modi is not in favour of privatisation, he should outline what alternative strategies he has in mind to revive PSUs whose deteriorating finances have become a drag on central resources.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the Special Metropolitan Magistrate's order rejecting Jafri's protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday at the latter's residence in Mumbai, first time after his elevation as the chief of Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign committee.
Completely ignoring his sworn rival Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised total transformation of the extremely backward and underdeveloped Bundelkhand region in Southern Uttar Pradesh.
'Modiji did not say anything so that there was no influence. He endured all this silently'
As India inches closer towards general elections, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi have emerged as the most searched politicians online, Google said on Thursday.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has called for transformation of Representative Democracy into Participatory Democracy by inviting suggestion from the across the country for his party's manifesto for the upcoming 2014 Loksabha elections.
In a veiled attack on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that it is a shame that political leaders still visit homes of the poor for a photo-op.
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