The IOC would find it difficult to remove wrestling from the list given the sport's huge popularity across the globe, says Sushil Kumar. ...
06:34 PM, Feb 12, 2013
An official stated that the IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon and remove wrestling instead. ...
04:29 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Home Secrertary RK Singh on Tuesday said that the family of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried in Tihar Jail in Delhi on February 9, will be allowed to offer prayers at his grave. "No problem if Afzal's family come to Tihar and pray at his grave," he said. ...
02:41 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Government will consider any request by the family of Afzal Guru to visit his grave inside the Tihar jail here where he was buried after his hanging on Saturday, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Monday. "If they want to go (to the grave), it can be considered," Shinde said. ...
04:42 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said he had taken up with Pakistan the release of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death row convict in a Pakistani prison. ...
01:57 AM, Feb 12, 2013
JKLF leader Yasin Malik sharing a dais with LeT Chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan on Monday created a flutter in India. ...
10:55 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday reiterated that the sudden hanging of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case, on February 9 was not a political decision, adding that the family was informed through speed post on February 7 itself. ...
04:51 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Sushil has not participated in any competition since his silver medal winning feat in London last year due to the shoulder injury. ...
04:51 PM, Feb 10, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 3, leading to his hanging on Saturday, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said. "The President rejected Afzal Guru's mercy petition on February 3 and after that, I signed it on February 4," he told reporters. Shinde added that the final decision to hang Afzal Guru was taken on February 8. ...
10:46 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 8 am on Saturday, Home Secretary RK Singh said. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 21. The President gave it his assent on February 3. Announcing the details, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the final decision to hang Afzal Guru was taken on February 8 and he...
08:32 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 6.25 am on Saturday. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 23. The President gave it his assent on January 26. ...
08:19 AM, Feb 09, 2013
The BJP will protest outside the Prime Minister's House Feb 20 to demand an apology from Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his "saffron terror" and "Hindu terror" remarks, a party leader said on Friday. ...
01:55 AM, Feb 09, 2013
The VHP passed a number of resolutions at the Maha Kumbh in Allahabad on Thursday, demanding sacking of Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his 'Hindu terror' remarks and sought death penalty for rapists. ...
02:46 AM, Feb 08, 2013
The national capital has the highest number of security personnel on VIP-guarding duties in the country after Punjab. More than a dozen policemen guard each of the 427 VIPs, who are being given security in Delhi, according to the "Data on Police Organisations in India-2012". ...
01:05 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had recently sparked off a controversy by linking saffron groups like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to terror. Was the Home Minister lying? A special investigation by CNN-IBN has attempted to unravel the status of the terror cases involving right wing groups. ...
09:39 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The Gujarat chief minister addressed the students of Delhi University at Shri Ram College of Commerce, calling them India's biggest resource and saluted them for making India global power. ...
10:02 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Facing flak from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh Parivar over his controversial "Hindu terror" remarks, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday said he fully endorses Congress party's stand that there was no colour to terrorism. "There is no colour to any terrorism," he told reporters when asked to comment on his remarks during Congress party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur in December. ...
09:48 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to get a reprieve from the Delhi Police on his remarks on "Hindu terror". In its status report at a Delhi court, the Delhi Police has said that no cognisable offence could be made out against Shinde. ...
05:40 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will visit Nagaland on February 7 to campaign for the February 23 Assembly elections in the state. She will address two public meetings at Mokokchung and Dimapur districts respectively on February 7, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) General Secretary (Admn) Medokul Sophie said. ...
01:03 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Alleging that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's Hindu terror remarks were a ploy to deflect attention from the failures of the government, BJP on Tuesday said Congress will have to "bear the consequences" of this "insult" inside and outside Parliament. ...
04:41 AM, Feb 06, 2013
