Kolkata: Although she felt 'betrayed' by the Congress leadership many a time, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee describes the late Rajiv Gandhi as "the leader of our hearts" and Pranab Mukherjee as her brother. Recalling her days in the Congress when she was attacked by alleged CPI(M) activists at a rally in 1991 in Kolkata, she says, "Rajiv ji, the leader of our hearts, took up the responsibility of...
11:58 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Wrapping up its probe in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI on Monday claimed it has corroborative evidence to establish that the 36-year-old nurse was murdered and burnt allegedly at the behest of a political leader. Highly-placed sources in the agency said the auxiliary nurse had been strangulated and later burnt. Her ashes along with belongings were dumped in the nearby Rajiv Gandhi canal. One of the...
07:29 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Jodhpur: A day after the CBI recovered body remains and valuables allegedly belonging to missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, her son on Sunday identified wrist watch and an ear ring. The CBI had on Saturday recovered key evidences including watch, jewellery parts and body remains allegedly belonging to Bhanwari from Rajiv Gandhi canal near Jodhpur. Sources in the agency had claimed that the items could prove crucial in cracking the mysterious...
10:58 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) believes that it is close to cracking the four-month old Bhanwari Devi case that shook the Rajashthan government. After recovering human remains in the Indira Gandhi canal in Jodhpur, the CBI is all set to carry out more searches at the spot on Saturday. The water flow into the canal was stopped by the Rajasthan administration to help the CBI find material evidence...
08:19 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Jaipur/New Delhi: A CBI team scouring the Rajiv Gandhi link canal looked for the remains of the missing nurse from Rajasthan Bhanwari Devi. The water flow into this canal was stopped by the Rajasthan administration to help the CBI find material evidence. Sources said bones, a few bangles and iron rods were found by divers which will now be sent for forensic examination to check if they were of Bhanwari's....
08:36 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Jaipur: In a major breakthrough in the Bhanwari Devi case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found what could possibly be the remains of Bhanwari. Divers found a gunny bag from the Indira Gandhi canal link near Jaloda village near Jodhpur. The contents of the bag that can possibly be the nurse's remains and a sharp edged weapon have been sent for forensic examination. Search teams have also recovered...
12:30 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: In a strange coincidence, Rahul Gandhi's idea of conferring Constitutional status on Lokpal failed in the Lok Sabha much like his father Rajiv Gandhi's Panchayati Raj Bill 22 years ago. A BJP MP sought to strike an ominous note of coincidence claiming that government of the day was not lucky whenever the Lokpal Bill was taken up and on occasions, the Lok Sabha was also dissolved. The Constitution...
09:13 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: Striking an upbeat note about the prospects of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls next year, party leader Rahul Gandhi has pitched for younger leadership in the organisation at various levels and stressed that the absence of leaders in the 40-50 age group was a "big handicap". In an interaction with partymen, Gandhi is understood to have conveyed that the Congress need not be diffident as its...
12:19 AM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said left-wing extremism can be defeated by better implementation of rural development programmes and called for harnessing mineral resources in tribal areas in a way that does not destroy the land or take away livelihoods. Addressing a convention on "Empowerment of Tribal Women in India" organised by All India Mahila Congress here, Sonia called upon the workers of the party's women wing...
02:53 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Yet again, in 2011, Sonia Gandhi features in the top 20 of the Forbes Power list. How did a girl, born in a small town in northern Italy, rise to the position of being one of the most influential people in the world - and stay there, year after year? Having established an unassailable position in the Indian National Congress Party, she is now empowering her son Rahul with more...
02:38 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The hearing of the petition to commute the death sentences of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins has been adjourned. The Madras High Court will now hear the case on January 31. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. The trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
12:10 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The fate of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case may be decided on Tuesday. The Madras High Court will hear their petitions to commute their capital punishment. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. This trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
08:07 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Vellore: Senior Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday met the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case at the Central Prison in Vellore. Jethmalani, accompanied by MDMK leader Vaiko, met Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan, whose hanging has been stayed by the Madras High Court on August 30 on a petition seeking to commute their sentence to life term. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Jethmalani, who...
06:58 PM, Nov 12, 2011
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