New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking action against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly showing disrespect to the national flag during his agitation for the Lokpal Bill last year. A bench of justices BS Chauhan and JS Khehar rapped the petitioner, Chennai-resident L K Venkat for filing the PIL. The petitioner had alleged that during the agitation in December last year, the associates...
01:52 PM, May 04, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The tallest flag mast in the country to hoistthe mammoth national flagto be installed at the entrance ofthe Kanakakkunnu Palace here has been brought to the city. The 65-metre long stainless steel flagpole will carry a national flag 72 feet long and 48 feet wide atop. The spokesman of the Flag Foundation of India spokesman K V Singh had stated in a news conference few months ago that the...
08:46 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: After his former official blogger Raju Parulekar hit out at key members of his team, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare said he had never signed the letter that Parulekar has now revealed and claimed that crores of rupees are being spent to discredit his campaign. Anna's former blogger Raju Parulekar earlier on Saturday accused prominent Team Anna members of misleading the Gandhian for their vested interest and released a...
06:52 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Madurai: A petition was on Monday filed in the Madras High Court bench here, seeking action against sportstars Sachin Tendulkar and Sania Mirza and two others for "insulting" the national flag. Petitioner B Stalin sought a direction to register the cases against the four under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 and Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper use) Act, 1950. Popular TV host Mandira Bedi and...
07:15 PM, May 23, 2011
In 'The Last Word', Karan Thapar discusses with a panel of experts how media covered the BJP's 'Ekta Yatra'. ...
10:42 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Jammu: Thirteen activists of BJP and its youth wing Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) have been arrested in connection with the attack on cavalcade of Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather in Jammu. The BJP and BJYM activists were taken into custody from various places in the city, police said, adding they were booked under sections 147, 148 and 353 (unlawful assembly, disruption of movement and attack) of...
05:22 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Wednesday tendered unconditional apology for hoisting the national flag upside down during Republic Day celebrations here. "We are sorry for the incident. The person who tied the flag should have made proper check before hoisting of the Tricolour," party's senior leader and former minister B B Harichandan said. Claiming that they had no intention to dishonour the Tricolour, Harichandan said, "It was a mistake and we...
10:19 AM, Jan 27, 2011
New Delhi: Amid high drama, three senior BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were arrested at the Lakhanpur border of Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP leaders said that the Omar Abdullah government had panicked and bowed to separatists in the state. Sushma Swaraj, LK Advani and Anurag Thakur were arrested for the second time in less than 24 hours. They were determined to hoist the national flag, but...
08:57 PM, Jan 25, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP has hit back at the Prime Minister for calling its plans to hoist the flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar as divisive. Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley pointed out that while advocacy of sedition by separatists gathered in Delhi is passed off as right to expression, the UPA is trying to stop the BJP workers from peacefully unfurling the national flag in Srinagar. The BJP says...
08:54 PM, Jan 23, 2011
BJP secretary Satish Sharma, incharge of the Ekta Yatra, says Congress tried to sabotage the plan. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Backing the measures of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to deal with the march of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) youth wing to Srinagar, the Congress said on Saturday that the state administration was fully empowered to deal with the situation. "Whosoever from any quarter, irrespective of ideology, religion, or political affiliation, tries to create any ambiance of provocation, tension or antagonism in Jammu and Kashmir is...
12:22 AM, Jan 23, 2011
Jammu: A day after the Jammu and Kashmir government officially stated it would not allow Bharatiya Janta Patry's Ekta Yatra in the state, the law minister reiterated they are willing to go to any extend to maintain order in the state. Despite the strict warning, the BJP workers are defiant and busy planning the event in Jammu. Nitin Navin, national general secretary of the youth morcha, who is already camping...
07:18 AM, Jan 22, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, should BJP abort its plan to hoist the national flag in Srinagar on Republic Day? ...
12:16 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Jammu: Ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) plan to hoist the national flag at the historic Lal Chowk in Srinagar on the upcoming Republic Day, the Jammu and Kashmir government said on Thursday that it would not allow any "programme which has the potential of vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in the state". The announcement was made after a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Jammu, a day after...
07:49 PM, Jan 20, 2011
How the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister plans to deal with the BJP's move to hoist the Tricolour in Srinagar on Jan 25. ...
10:44 PM, Jan 19, 2011
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