At least 50 supporters of Anna Hazare were on Monday night detained by Delhi police at Jai Prakash Narain Park, the venue of the anti-graft crusader's planned fast from Tuesday, for defying prohibitory orders clamped in the area.
The Anna Hazare team on Saturday said it has been asked by Delhi police to give an undertaking that it will end its protest fast at a park in central Delhi in two-and-half days, a condition which it said was not acceptable and "totally unconstitutional".
The police in Noida has prohibited any religious activity, including offering of Friday prayers by Muslims, in a public park.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Sunday ordered suspension of her party MLA Purshottam Narain Dwivedi for his alleged involvement in the gang rape of a minor girl in a village of Banda district, abut 180 kilometers from Lucknow.
The Uttar Pradesh's Congress unit on Friday asked Chief Minister Mayawati to arrest a Bahujan Samaj Party member of Legislative Assembly and his associates for allegedly raping a girl belonging to the backward class and falsely implicating her in a theft case. "A most backward minor girl was raped by BSP MLA Purshottam Narain Dwivedi and his associates in Banda and she was later lodged in the jail on charges of stealing the legislator's licensed pistol and Rs 5000," said Cong
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"More than 1 crore signature of common people, collected in support of the popular demand of special category status to Bihar, will be submitted to President Patil in New Delhi on July 13," state Janata Dal-United president Vashisht Narain Singh told rediff.com.
Indian driver Arjun Maini's road to Formula 1 has become tougher with his shock switch to sports car racing.
Food inflation came down to 10.35 per cent in the first week of August from over 20 per cent late last year.
The minister said that starting July, in four cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai -- the PPN system had been put in place to include only those hospitals that have agreed to work at given rates for specified procedures. In the rest of the country, the earlier process of rendering cashless facility was still continuing.
Market regulator SEBI has gotten a suggestion for preventing the same individual from holding the position of chairman and managing director simultaneously in listed entities, but apex body of public enterprises SCOPE has opposed such a move, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
Several depositors and high-networth individuals were duped in the Rs 460.91 crore fraud which was engineered by a Citibank's Global Wealth Manager Shivraj Puri who was working at Gurgaon branch of the bank.
The government on Tuesday said the slowdown in the Europe and US may have contributed to the moderation in India's economic growth rate to 7.7 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal.
Polling began on Tuesday morning in 35 constituencies spread across eight districts in the fifth and penultimate phase of the assembly elections in Bihar under the shadow of a boycott call by Maoists. In the 17 constituencies that have been declared 'Maoist-hit', voting began at 7 am and will end at 3 pm. Polling in the remaining constituencies will end at 5 pm.
The CBI has alleged that Justice Shukla received illegal gratification from Justice (Retd) Quddusi and B P Yadav, chairman of Prasad Education Trust which runs a medical college in Lucknow, for getting a favourable order to prevent delisting from counselling sessions for admitting students in 2017.
The encounters took place in Bulandshahr, Shamli, Kanpur, Saharanpur, Lucknow, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Gorkahpur, Hapur and Meerut.
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Security was stepped up at the Hindu places of worship, including the Shiva temple in Clifton, the Swami Narain temple at the MA Jinnah Road, the Panj Mukhi Hanuman temple in Soldier Bazaar area and the Hanuman temples at Native Jetty, Cantt Station, Frere Market and Jahangir Road, the Daily Times reported.
Voters in Rae Bareli said they feel an emotional connection with the Gandhi family.
Force India managed to finish among points for the second successive race with Paul Di Resta signing off 10th in the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang on Sunday.
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Narain Karthikeyan's hopes of a triumphant return to Formula One at the Australian Grand Prix after a six-year break may yet be put on ice with concerns that the untested Hispania (HRT) cars may struggle to meet minimum pace in qualifying.
A Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, which left from Mumbai, caught fire on Thursday evening near Ankleshwar in Gujarat. The fire has been raging in the B3 coach over the last one hour and efforts are on to bring it under control.
Seventeen coaches will be splashed with the images of Nifty, NSE's flagship index. Inside, important investor awareness messages will be given on panels, with the message being 'invest carefully'.
The Reserve Bank is processing applications of 18 foreign banks, which have shown interest in setting up branches and representative offices in the country, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
Two other ministers Swantradev Singh and Mohsin Raza also took oath.
Indian teenager Arjun Maini has joined the US-owned Haas Formula One team as a development driver alongside 18-year-old American Santino Ferrucci.
Three weeks is all there is to decide whether Narain Karthikeyan can continue driving and administer motorsport in domestic and international events, after he and his drivers allegedly questioned the decision of stewards in an event here early this month.
In a new twist to the Banda minor rape case, the accused Bahujan Samaj Party member of Legislative Assembly Pushottam Narain Dwivedi has claimed that he is impotent.
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The second victim of the stampede at New Delhi Railway Station was identified on Tuesday as Govind Rai of Begusarai district in Bihar. His body was identified this morning at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain hospital mortuary by his father Anil Rai, who was injured in the stampede, which claimed two lives on Sunday.
Maoist ultras have asked Bihar assembly Speaker Udai Narain Choudhary to present the 'hishab-kitab' (a complete account) of the work he has done in his constituency.Choudhary, the first Dalit Speaker of the Bihar assembly, is a legislator from the Maoist-infested Imamganj in Gaya district. The Maoists have threatened that they will not allow polls to be held in that area and urged people to boycott elections in the constituency.
Members in Rajya Sabha on Monday voiced concern over official records not showing Bhagat Singh as a martyr, prompting the government to promise remedial steps.
"Available inputs suggest that fake Indian currency notes are printed in a neighbouring country and pushed into India through neighbouring countries," Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
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This is the biggest action taken against rebel leaders close to Yadav by the JD-U in Bihar.
Bihar Assembly Speaker Udai Narain Choudhry suspended 67 Members of Legislative Assembly of the opposition for the rest of the monsoon session as chaos prevailed in the House for the second day on Wednesday during which a slipper was flung at him.
On Tuesday, the government had agreed to refer it to the committee.
Rahul's babalog have forged an alliance that is now formidable. This is a challenge to older congress MPs. Second-timers and third-timers cannot be very happy with this development
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