'For me, star is nothing, yaar.' 'It's really about the love you are receive from the people.' 'While I was in TV, I was getting that kind of love.' 'Now I've started doing films, I'm getting the same kind of love.'
Apart from the Naroda Gam case, seven other 2002 post-Godhra riots cases were investigated by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team.
A court in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded social activist Teesta Setalvad and former state director general of police R B Sreekumar in police custody till July 2 in a case of fabricating evidence to frame innocent persons in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former Indian Police Service officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, a senior official said on Sunday.
'Modiji did not say anything so that there was no influence. He endured all this silently'
Bollywood stars took a moment off to revisit their past, and share their thoughts.
Two lawyers on Monday wrote separate letters to Attorney General K K Venugopal seeking his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal for allegedly making statements "scandalising" the verdicts delivered by the Supreme Court.
'If it hits the right notes, actors will start trusting me with new stories.'
The Gujarat Assembly on Friday passed a resolution requesting the Centre to take strict action against BBC for tarnishing the image and popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its documentary on the 2002 riots in the state.
The inaction or failure of some officials of one section of the administration cannot be the basis to infer a pre-planned criminal conspiracy by the authorities or to term it as a state-sponsored crime against the minority community, the Supreme Court said on Friday while upholding the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested on June 25 for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame 'innocent people' in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
'They don't want anybody to stand up and support the vulnerable sections of society who may be targeted.'
British Indian entrepreneur Poonam Gupta bought a painting depicting Virat Kohli's Indian Premier League journey over 10 years for a whopping 2,90,000 pounds (approx Rs 2.4 crore).
Sibal also said the present dispensation wants an 'Opposition-mukt Bharat' not just a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'.
A group of noted former civil servants on Wednesday sought withdrawal of the Supreme Court's "gratuitous observations" against social activist Teesta Sitalvad and others while upholding the SIT's clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 communal riots in the state.
Why Nita and Mukesh Ambani hosted Radhika Merchant's arangetram.
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was among the 69 persons killed in the Gulberg Housing society riots in Gujarat in 2002
Zakia, the wife of Ehsan Jafri, an ex-MP who was killed in one of the worst incidents during the riots, has challenged the Gujarat high court's October 5, 2017 order rejecting her plea against the SIT's decision.
A Magistrate court in Ahmedabad is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on Zakia Jafri's petition against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team which had probed the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's role in the post-Godhra riots in 2002.
'It's so amazing that she doesn't look a day older than 25.'
A Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Saturday rejected the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, a 2002 Gujarat riot victim, to open the final report of the Special Investigation Team.
Hindu festivals are now becoming occasions when anti-Muslim hatred is expressed freely through slogans and songs that are full of abuse against Muslims or calls to either kill them or humiliate them, observes Apoorvanand.
'The place I used to sleep in the jail had a big window high up on the opposite side, where at sunrise and sunset time a bird would drop in every day.' 'It could be an eagle or a peacock. And sometimes a monkey.' 'Those moments calmed you, brought hope...'
Many of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf members who emerged victorious have their own distinctive style. While there is an expectation of a 'Naya Pakistan' to emerge out of this political reversal, it seems the country is also set to embrace the party's 'Naya' style as well.
However, her son Tanveer Jafri said there was definitely 'some sense of closure' at the convictions but it would have to be seen why some of the accused were not convicted.
The lawyer defending the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team, which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 post-Godhra riots case on the complaint by Zakia Jafri, Friday said that "her complaint contains nothing but all irrelevant things".
The prosecution is likely to seek capital punishment for the 11 convicted who were charged with murder, while the lawyer of victims may seek life imprisonment for them.
'The right wing has worked for 70-80 years at the grass roots before it burst onto social media.' 'Social media is an extension of its formidable work in society.' 'If you think you can fight them on social media, forget it. You can't.'
A local court on Thursday warned social activist Teesta Setalvad, who had sought to represent Zakia Jafri in her complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in 2002 riots case, for "misusing" the court proceedings.
Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress member of Parliament whose protest petition against the Special Investigation Team's clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat communal riots was on Thursday rejected by an Ahmedabad court, said she was not disheartened after the verdict and would appeal against it.
'Such memorable performances that brought so much joy and happiness all around.'
Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in Rumy Jafry's thriller Chehre, and while the trailer looks good, this isn't the first time the actor has *thrilled* us!
'Justice delayed is justice denied. "Move on, move on", sure, we'll move on, but first give us justice. The fabric and foundation of a democratic government is justice. You can't just move on, sorry. And that works for the anti-Sikh riots, the repatriation of Kashmiri Pandits; give us justice, then govern,' says Javed Jafri, the actor who will contest the Lok Sabha election in Lucknow for the Aam Aadmi Party. In this conversation with Swarupa Dutt/Rediff.com, Jafri says he doesn't waste time listening to "enemies of the nation" and feels he is running parallel to the BJP's Rajnath Singh as far as winnability in Lucknow is concerned.
Zakia Jafri's lawyer on Friday alleged before a court here that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had conspired to instigate Vishwa Hindu Parishad workers and other members of Hindu community after the Godhra train burning incident in 2002.
'There appears to be no end to the errors that our leaders are willing to commit and no risk they are unwilling to run,' notes Mihir S Sharma.
A Magistrate court in Ahmedabad on Thursday upheld the clean chit given to Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's over his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots in 2002.
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