New Delhi: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea will come up for hearing in a Delhi court on Saturday in the 1984 Delhi Sikh riots case. Kumar has claimed contradictions in the affidavits and statement of key witness and complainant Jagdish Kaur. They were conducted by the GT Nanavati and Ranganath Mishra Commissions. Sajjan Kumar, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial in the...
10:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Bangalore: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. On Saturday, Rahul will be attending the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) - the national executive of Congress' student wings and state Youth Congress convention. Rahul's visit is being seen as another step towards getting party workers together before the 2014 general elections. Rahul, during his two-day visit, will attend many...
09:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Bangalore: In a jolt to the Congress in Karnataka, party opposition leader in the assembly Siddaramaiah on Friday announced his resignation from the post saying the High Command apparently lacked confidence in his leadership. "It looks that the High Command lacks faith in my leadership and since they have not taken me into confidence to nominate candidates to contest the Legislative Council election, I have tendered my resignation," he said....
02:16 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi. At least 27 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far. However, fire brigade officials haven't been able to bring it under control yet. The fire at the garment factory in Gandhi Nagar area was...
07:01 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi, a fire department official said. Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far, he said. "The fire at the garment factory in Gandhi Nagar area was reported at 2:00 pm and so far, no loss of life has been reported," he said, adding 20 fire tenders...
05:46 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: The nation on Sunday remembered the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice-President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him. Patil, Ansari and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who...
05:29 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be visiting Guwahati on Saturday to attend the first anniversary celebration of the third consecutive term of the Congress government in the state. Meanwhile, ULFA hardliners have called for a 12-hour bandh in the state in protest against the visit. On Friday night, one person was killed in a bomb blast allegedly by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district....
08:29 AM, May 26, 2012
Guwahati: Barely a few hours ahead of the scheduled visit of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to Assam, a blast rocked the state's Tinsukia district late on Friday night, killing one person. Police said the blast took place at Philobari in Tinsukia district, over 500 km away from Guwahati. Police said that the bomb was planted in front of the house of a Congress leader and that it killed one person...
01:48 AM, May 26, 2012
Tinsukia: A day ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit to Assam, one person was killed in a bomb blast by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district on Friday night, police said. The bomb was planted in a roadside at Selabari area. The deceased has been identified as A Agarwal, a local businessman, police said. Sonia is coming on a one-day visit to Guwahati on Saturday where she is...
11:14 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after returning from Turkmentistan. However, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) insisted that the meeting was not scheduled to discuss the petrol price hike. Reddy has also been summoned by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and he will meet her later on Friday to explain why the petrol price hike was necessary. Congress sources claimed that Sonia was unaware of the...
01:29 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy is likely to meet UPA chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday. Reddy was not in the country when the petrol hike announcement was made on Wednesday. The meeting comes against the backdrop of Congress President's concern over the Rs 7.54 a litre increase and the party hinting at the possibility of at least a partial rollback of the decision. Reddy who came back from his...
09:53 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after the government announced the steepest petrol price hike ever, it may go for a partial roll back. However, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy on Thursday indicated that it may take a few days. Reddy cut short his Turkeministan visit and met Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel to discuss the issue. AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari said the party was hopeful that some kind of a...
08:23 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has directed the police to register an FIR against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi-run animal care and veterinary hospital where 36 animals died due to their alleged failure in performing the duties. The court also pulled up the investigating officer (IO) for taking up the matter "casually" and directed him to probe the case "expeditiously" against Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre (SGACC). "The SGACC is a...
06:30 PM, May 24, 2012
Lucknow: Even as India has observed January 26, August 15 and October 2 as national holidays, the government does not seem to have issued any formal orders for the same. The disclosure from the central Home Ministry came in response to an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 filed by 10-year-old Aishwarya Parashar in Lucknow. The Class 6 student sent a letter April 25 to the Prime...
07:56 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has struck a deal with the Congress and agreed to back UPA-II's Presidential candidate, sources say. Even though the bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party is growing there is no talk of the latter joining the government, at least till the Presidential polls are over, sources add. With the Samajwadi Party's support in the Presidential polls, the UPA's strength will...
11:09 AM, May 23, 2012
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