In a veiled attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "encouraging imperialism", Communist Party of India-Marxist veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said it was unprecedented that the state government was eager to invite a United States president next year.
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said.
God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar offered prayers at the famous Lalbaugcha Raja on Tuesday with his wife Anjali and son Arjun. Thousands of devotees were elated to see their favourite cricketer. Tendulkar has been vocal about his devotion for Lord Ganesha. Whenever in the city, he is a regular worshipper of 'Ganpatti Bappa' and visited the temple frequently.
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar says Lord Ganesha holds a special place in his heart and he prays to him every day.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will arrive on a two-day visit to her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli on Thursday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrived in Mumbai on Saturday evening to attend centenary celebrations of his state, a day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray withdrew his threat to disrupt the event slated for Sunday.
The inquiry by will not deal with the allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI.
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A lawyer representing the three domestic helps, who were arrested and later let off in the Aarushi murder case, made a fresh demand for security from Uttar Pradesh authorities claiming his life was under threat. Naresh Yadav, the counsel for Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal said that he was provided state security cover after the attack on Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar but it was withdrawn within 15 days.
The condition of Rajesh Talwar, father of murdered teenager Aarushi, who was on Tuesday attacked by a 30-year-old man, is stable, doctors attending on him said. Talwar, 54, was admitted in the city's Apollo hospital with injuries in the right side of the forehead and the hands, which he suffered when he was attacked by Utsav Sharma outside a Ghaziabad court. According to the doctors, Talwar was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the hospital.
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Former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, wants an attempt to murder case registered against Utsav Sharma, the "physically imbalanced" youth who was charged with inflicting knife injuries on the former top cop outside the district court here a month back.
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A young man, who allegedly inflicted knife injuries on former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was on Friday granted bail by a court in Chandigarh. Sharma, a student of Ahmedabad's prestigious National Institute of Design, had stabbed 68-year-old Rathore thrice in the face with a pocket knife on Monday, while posing as a journalist. The incident occurred when the former top cop was leaving the court.
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The youths had earlier objected to being disciplined by the policeman Niteen Dondu Dagale.
An unidentified man attacked former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who has been accused in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, outside the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday.
In a sign of the growing political prominence of Hindus in America, the Trump and Biden campaigns are wooing this religious minority community like never before. Hinduism is the fourth largest faith in the US, representing approximately one per cent of the US population in 2016.
'I would evaluate her on her past policies towards American Hindus and her future approach towards the community'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will felicitate about a dozen Loktantra Praharis (defenders of democracy) on the occasion of the 113 birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan in the Plenary Hall of Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on October 11.
The former All India Bakchod CEO took to Instagram to share how the recent incidents have taken a toll on his mental and physical health.
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'He had a continuing interest in life, people, and the society in which he lived,' remembers Shyam Benegal, who collaborated with the polyglot playwright and actor through the 1970s and remained his friend for more than five decades.
Voicing his displeasure over several incidents of mob violence in the country, he said, "Lynching is not the word from Indian ethos, its origin is from a story in a separate religious text. We Indians trust in brotherhood. Don't impose such terms on Indians."
'He personified the kind of debonair charm, sublime sensuality and unabashed romance women fantasise about,' says Sukanya Verma.
To honour and support the cause of 'bauls', whose stringed 'ektara' is unique worldwide strumming up 'earthy' tunes embodying the soul of Bengal, we are bringing 80 'bauls' under the Rs 1,50,000 medical insurance scheme every year, Amitabha Samanta of Bolpur-based Sobuj Potro initiative, the name inspired by Tagore's confidant Promothonath Bisi's Sobujpotro, said.
"There are new developments in the neighbouring country. We are keeping a close watch on the happenings. I and the prime minister are taking stock of the situation," he told reporters.
Anuj Chauhan, one of the two persons injured in Thursday's BMW hit-and-run case in New Delhi, succumbed to his injuries at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday. Chauhan and his friend Mrigank Srivastav, who were riding a motorcycle, were hit by a BMW in the wee hours of Friday, when they tried to overtake it at the Moolchand Hospital flyover.The BMW was being driven by Utsav Bhasin, the son of an influential businessman, who was reportedly inebriated.
With most private television channels deserting it, DD Direct Plus, the direct-to-home (DTH) company from Prasar Bharati, has become a true pubcaster carrying 34 channels of which 31 are from Doordarshan.These 31 DD-channels include 19 television channels and 12 All India Radio channels. The private channels that were recently disconnected from DD Direct Plus include Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, BBC World, Star Utsav and Akash Bangla, sources said.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea seeking direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR into the alleged conspiracy to "fix" Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
A notice by the office of Supreme Court Secretary General also said that the report of the committee constituted as part of the in-house procedure is not liable to be made public.
He called for all-round efforts to inculcate a knowledge of history among the masses.
A prime witness in the 1993 riots case identified Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Sarpotdar before a special riots court in Mumbai on Friday.Police Inspector Madhav Khanolkar told the court that he was on duty on December 27, 1992, when a mob of people from the Ganesh Utsav Samiti Mandal gathered near the Ganesh temple in suburban Kherwadi area of Mumbai. He said that Sarpotdar, one K P Naik and Ramesh Pawar from the Sena were present with the trustees of the Mandal.
Lawyer Utsav Singh Bains claimed that he was offered Rs 1.5 crore to represent a former apex court woman employee and arrange a presser against the CJI at the Press Club of India in New Delhi.
