New Delhi: Activists Kiran Bedi, Swami Agnivesh and Medha Patkar on Wednesday joined hundreds of protestors expressing solidarity with Anna Hazare outside Tihar Jail while a large number of the Gandhian's supporters took out marches across the city. Hazare's supporters in huge numbers also gathered outside Chhatrasal Stadium, which was converted into a special detention area, on Wednesday morning and shouted anti-corruption slogans demanding that the Gandhian be allowed to...
12:24 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday and justified Tuesday's police crackdown on anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. The Prime Minister said that Hazare made it clear on August 15 that he and his supporters would defy law and proceed on protest. Here is the full text of his speech: "Hon'ble Speaker, It is my painful duty to report to this House certain events that took place yesterday...
12:03 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Government on Wednesday said Anna Hazare was free to go wherever he wants to and that Delhi Police will take a decision on whether he will be allowed to hold protest at JP Park. Union Home Secretary R K Singh said since Hazare has been released he is free to go wherever he wants. "He is in the office of the DIG, Tihar Jail. He rested at night ...
10:42 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will meet President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday to submit a memorandum against the arrest of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare. Ramdev will meet the president at 11:45 am, said a statement from the guru. Jan He will then go to Tihar Jail to meet Hazare, it added. Hazare was jailed in New Delhi on Tuesday ahead of his fast for an effective anti-corruption law....
09:36 AM, Aug 17, 2011
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Anna Hazare's fight against corruption is now a full blown mass movement. The country is with him and he knows that! From school and college ...
08:50 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Anna Hazare's associate Manish Sisodia said that Anna has refused to leave Tihar until he is allowed to carry on with his fast at JP Park. ...
08:43 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: The deadlock between Anna Hazare and the government continues. The anti-corruption crusader spent the night in jail despite being freed by authorities. Despite being released, Anna Hazare spent the night in Tihar Jail refusing to come out insisting on an unconditional release and permission to launch his fast at JP Park. Tihar Jail has overnight become the new Jantar Mantar with Anna's supporters gathering there. Spiritual guru Sri...
08:17 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare spent the night in Tihar Jail on Tuesday despite being freed by the authorities. He says he won't leave if conditions against his fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park aren't removed. With Anna inside, his supporters congregated outside the Tihar jail, spending the night singing and dancing. The 73-year-old Hazare, who is continuing his fast, is understood to have spent the night at one...
07:08 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare has put the Delhi Police into a tizzy by refusing to come out of the Tihar Jail, even after his release orders were ready. Anna said that he will remain in jail till he gets unconditional permission to fast at the Jai Prakash Narain Park. The police now has some options to take Anna out of the jail. The first option is that they...
11:48 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Almost 2000 people gathered outside the Tihar Jail on Tuesday night shouting slogans in support of social activist Anna Hazare, as he refused to come out of jail despite being released. Some supporters also managed to reach the gates of the Tihar Jail headquarters in the national capital. Supporters holding the National Flag, raised slogans as they waited for Anna to step out of the jail. Meanwhile, Anna...
11:17 PM, Aug 16, 2011
A supporter in Patna wrote a song for Anna Hazare, supporting his movement against corruption. ...
08:58 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Was the government justified in swooping down on Anna Hazare and his followers just hours before he was set to embark on a public hunger strike certain to embarrass the scandal-plagued government? Social media thinks not. The social activist's indefinite fast and subsequent incarceration on Tuesday won him the first round of a social networking offensive with his cause garnering support from thousands of outraged internet users. Hazare,...
08:56 PM, Aug 16, 2011
While there are people who support Anna Hazare, there are others who feel an indefinite fast is not the right way to protest. ...
08:53 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Dubbing the arrest of Anna Hazare as a "plan" to impose Emergency in the country, BJP on Tuesday said it will launch a "peaceful" nationwide agitation from Wednesday to protest UPA's "dictatorship". Demanding immediate release of Anna and his associates, BJP President Nitin Gadkari said that party workers with muffled mouths will take out silent marches, hold dharnas and take out torchlight processions to protest the "dictatorship of...
08:09 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare, who has been lodged in Tihar Jail after he was sent to seven days judicial custody on Tuesday, is in the same ward or cell as that of sacked CWG chief Suresh Kalmadi or former telecom minister A Raja. Anna has been kept in Jail No. 4, which is the same jail as that of Kalmadi, but not the same ward. There were reports...
07:43 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare's supporters Kiran Bedi and Shanti Bhushan were released by the Delhi Police on Tuesday evening after their detention on Tuesday morning. Both Bedi and Bhushan were detained after they courted arrest following Anna Hazare's detention from his residence. Anna Hazare, who was detained on Tuesday morning, was later sent to seven days judicial custody in the Tihar jail. Speaking to CNN-IBN after being released,...
06:55 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: Hours after Anna Hazare was taken into preventive custody, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Home Secretary and the Delhi Police Commissioner seeking a report within two weeks on the episode. The Commission notice came this evening after it received a complaint from a human rights activist Anirudhasudhan Chakraborty, who alleged that provisions of Constitution and international human rights conventions were...
06:19 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Tuesday said he plans to introduce Anna Hazare's version of Lokpal Bill as a private member's bill in Parliament. "I plan to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill as a private member's bill in the Parliament. I will do that next week," the BJP Lok Sabha member from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh said. On whether his party supported him on the issue, Varun said,...
04:43 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts whether the civil society has found its true voice in Anna's movement?
04:25 PM, Aug 16, 2011
