
New Delhi: Team Anna on Wednesday stayed firm on its allegations against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and questioned as to why didn't he say he'll go to jail if the charges were proved. Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said, "Why is the Prime Minister avoiding probe in the coal scam? The Prime Minister says if the allegations are proved, he will quit public life. Why doesn't he say that he...

01:36 PM, May 30, 2012

Cannes: Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film "Chinese Zodiac" will be his last action movie. Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan,...

05:18 PM, May 19, 2012

Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1990 custodial torture case. Justice AS Dave, who stayed the investigation against Bhatt, also issued notices to the state government and complainant Vijaysinh Bhatti. The next hearing will be on June 22. The IPS officer approached the High Court through his lawyer IH Syed after a case was registered against him on the...

07:44 PM, May 02, 2012

Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said he will not meet social activist Anna Hazare as long as he is surrounded by key aides Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Kiran Bedi. "Till Kejriwal, Sisodia and Kiran Bedi are part of Team Anna, I cannot think of meeting him (Hazare)," Thackeray told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Mumbai. Last week, Thackeray had refused to meet Hazare,...

04:31 AM, May 02, 2012

Noida (UP): High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna Core Committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim. Kazmi stormed out of the meeting attended by Anna Hazare on Sunday afternoon and announced his resignation to the media outside the venue,...

05:14 PM, Apr 22, 2012

Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh DGP has ordered arrest of eight policemen for the alleged custodial death of a person in Gwalior in 2011. DGP Nandan Dube, after reviewing the case, ordered that all the accused policemen be arrested and chargesheeted, police sources said on Tuesday. Government Railway Police (GRP) had arrested one Sunil Rajawat on July 19, 2011 in connection with a theft case. He was allegedly beaten up in custody...

03:07 AM, Apr 18, 2012

Anna Hazare will sit on a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand that Parliament pass the Lokpal Bill and a stronger whistleblower protection programme. ...

08:37 AM, Mar 25, 2012

Ghaziabad: Team Anna stepped up its attack on Congress ahead of the final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh targeting Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in particular. Speaking at a public meeting on Saturday, Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said that while Sonia Gandhi abuses Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav in UP, she praises them in Delhi. He also slammed the BJP for allegedly dividing the nation in the name of...

02:59 PM, Feb 26, 2012

New Delhi A Delhi court has refused to direct the Delhi Police to register an FIR against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly disrespecting the national flag during their anti-graft protest in August 2011. "In the complaint, nothing has been mentioned or submitted during arguments as to why FIR should be registered in the matter," Metropolitan Magistrate Anil Kumar said on a private complaint for registration of FIR...

12:06 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Pune: Social activist Anna Hazare would be shifted to a hospital in Gurgaon, near Delhi, on Sunday, his associates said on Saturday. Anna's aide Datta Awari said from his native village Ralegan Siddhi that Hazare would be leaving for Delhi on Sunday. "We are now planning an Ayurvedic treatment," he said, adding that Hazare would be admitted to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon. Manish Sisodiya, a member of Hazare's core team,...

02:08 PM, Jan 28, 2012

Mumbai: The pressure on Anna Hazare is growing to call off his protest fast but Editor-in-Chief of IBN Lokmat Nikhil Wagle, who met the anti-corruption activist in Mumbai, on Wednesday says people like Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia are putting pressure on Anna to continue with his fast. He says these people don't know him well and want him to continue with his fast despite his deteriorating health....

02:31 PM, Dec 28, 2011

Team Anna member Manish Sisodia on Wednesday gave an update on Anna Hazare's health and asked him to break his fast. ...

08:24 AM, Dec 28, 2011

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the plea of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, challenging the legality of the proceedings initiated against him in Jamnagar custodial torture case of 1990. An apex court bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan had said the matter would be listed on its scheduled date after Bhatt's counsel D Sharma did not press for a stay of the trial...

07:00 AM, Nov 18, 2011

New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's former official blogger Raju Parulekar has spoken out after Hazare publicly denied that there was any plan to restructure his core committee. Parulekar has come out with a letter which he claims was written by Hazare. In the letter, Anna says he wanted to restructure the core committee. Parulekar also said Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisosida and Kiran Bedi are leading Hazare...

12:53 PM, Nov 05, 2011

Bhubaneswar: Orissa has been renamed Odisha after President Pratibha Patil approved the State Assembly's 2008 resolution. The language Oriya will now be called Odia. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has declared a holiday on Saturday to mark this 'historic' date. "To celebrate this historic decision, Saturday will be a holiday for all schools, all colleges and all state government offices in Odisha," Patnaik said. Sweets were distributed among those present at...

07:32 AM, Nov 05, 2011