New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday accused the CBI of playing a 'partisan' role in pursuing the Ayodhya case against party leader LK Advani and decided to raise the issue in Parliament. At its weekly meeting in New Delhi, the BJP Parliamentary Party discussed the role of the CBI in a number of cases and decided that these issues be raised in both Houses with the utmost seriousness. "We discussed...
04:27 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has told the Supreme Court that the trial of BJP leader LK Advani in the Ayodhya demolition case has to be carried on without dropping the conspiracy charge against him as the razing down of the medieval monument was part of a "single larger conspiracy". The agency, in its recent affidavit, opposed the separation of trial of eight accused leaders - Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma...
11:14 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will be hearing a Central Bureau of Investigation petition seeking restoration of conspiracy charges aganist senior BJP leader LK Advani, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and others in the Babri Masjid demolition case on July 25. The apex court had on March 4, 2011 issued notice to 21 people including LK Advani, Bal Thackeray, Kalyan Singh, Uma Bharti, Satish Pradhan, CR Bansal, MM Joshi, Vinay...
12:42 PM, May 04, 2012
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02:17 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: In an unprecedented ruling, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday awarded Rs20 lakh compensation to the mother of Khwaja Yunus, an accused in a bomb blast in 2002 in Maharashtra who died in police custody, a lawyer said. On Jan 3, 2003, Yunus, an engineer working in Dubai, had been picked up in connection with the Dec 6, 2002 bomb blast in an empty bus parked outside a railway...
06:28 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government Monday informed the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court (HC) that it had provided Z-category security to the three judges connected to the Ayodhya Title suit. The security provided to Justice SU Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice DV Sharma (now retired), was owing to threat perceptions emanating from terror groups like SIMI and Indian Mujahideen, the government informed. The court on Monday was hearing...
09:00 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost in Ayodhya Assembly constituency for the first time since the Babri Masjid was demolished on Demcember 6, 1992. BJP candidate Lallu Singh lost to Samajwadi Party's Tej Narayan Pandey alias Pawan Pandey in the results declared on Tuesday. Singh had been winning the seat since 1991 state elections. Pandey won Ayodhya by a margin of 5,405 votes. While Pandey got 55,262 votes,...
05:15 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has sought BJP's comments on the promise in its manifesto for Uttar Pradesh poll of construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya following complaints that the party has "violated" the model code of conduct by making the promise. A number of organisations have complained to the poll body for restraining BJP from raising the issue of Ram temple construction. Organisations like Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha, Akhil...
09:14 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Ayodhya: The Ram temple was clearly not on the agenda of those who voted in this Hindu pilgrim town in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections. Ordinary men and women showed much more interest in development issues than the temple, which has ceased to be a talking point even among the saffron-clad sadhus here. For many, the makeshift temple hurriedly built after the razing of the Babri mosque...
03:08 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Amethi: The Congress and the BJP will be pulling out all stops on Saturday in their election campaigns in Uttar Pradesh with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visiting several cities, including Varanasi and Jaunpur, across the state. Rahul is expected to meet supporters in Siddharthnagar and Gorakhpur on Saturday. Meanwhile, his sister Priyanka will focus on Amethi and Raebareli. She has ruled out campaigning across the state for the Congress....
07:03 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Ayodhya: The Ram-janambhoomi issue looms so large in this semi-urban Assembly constituency that locals maintain they vote for the BJP time and again though they are well-aware that development has taken a backseat over the years in the temple town. The area around the Ramjanambhoomi is always bustling with people, from nearby towns as well as far flung areas, who come to Ayodhya for a darshan of Lord Ram. The...
01:19 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: BJP's attempt to revive the Ram Temple issue and its promise to provide one cow each to every BPL family in its poll manifesto, on Monday drew derisive comments from the Congress. "If BJP is giving a cow to the poor, this will definitely be one, which does not give milk," remarked party spokesperson Rashid Alvi amid peals of laughter. Attacking the Opposition party for raking up the...
07:50 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday released its election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh, saying the party is opposed to Muslim quota but committed to the welfare of the minority community. It also announced that it would honour its old promise of a Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. In its manifesto, the party is mainly focusing on education, health, employment and law and order. Key party leaders, including national vice presidents Mukhtar...
01:30 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Ayodhya: A transgender, claiming to be a true disciple of Lord Rama, is giving sleepless nights to other candidates in the temple town of Ayodhya. While it's difficult to say how many votes Gulshan alias Bindu would be able to garner in the coming elections, 'she' has undoubtedly made the poll scene in the constituency exciting. Gulshan has roped in some of the most high-profile transgenders from across the country...
01:55 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani and his colleagues accused in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case have told the Supreme Court that a CBI plea that challenged the quashing of conspiracy charges against them amounted to abuse of process of law. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has challenged an Allahabad High Court order that upheld the quashing of conspiracy charges against them by a Lucknow...
02:41 AM, Jan 17, 2012
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