Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said at Guwahati on Saturday there was considerable improvement in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years. He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table.
Gogoi completed his second year as chief minister for the third consecutive term Saturday.
He said that while 412 civilians were killed due to insurgency-related incidents in 2000 in Assam, only 39 civilians were killed in the state due to insurgency in 2012.
"Only eight people have been killed in insurgency-related incidents in Assam this year. The number of civilian causality has reduced, which this is a good sign," Gogoi said, and added that the development works initiated by the government helped containing insurgency....
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05:42 AM, May 19, 2013
As Varun Gandhi staked claim to his father's legacy in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader saying Varun, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi are from the same family and there is an internal fixing among them. ...
03:15 PM, May 17, 2013
Sultanpur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi is staking claim to his father's legacy. Addressing a rally in Sultanpur, a Congress bastion, on Thursday, the BJP General Secretary made an emotional appeal to voters. This came even as the UP government is facing flak for allegedly letting him off in the 2009 hate speech cases. Varun Gandhi's first public meeting came in Sultanpur, the same district that elected his...
08:47 AM, May 17, 2013
Guwahati: The Assam government might take up the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) throughout the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Thursday. Meeting a delegation of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), which made the request, Gogoi said this will be considered subject to approval from the central government. The AASU delegation had also sought the updating be completed before the Lok Sabha elections in...
05:30 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Thursday ordered withdrawal of Class X geography text books that excludes Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan termed as "unpardonable mistake" the exclusion of Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India published in the text books and disbanded the committee of experts which had approved of the textbook. "Orders have been issued to stop circulation of the textbooks to...
11:51 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: One-film old Varun Dhawan is interested in endorsing ayurvedic products because he feels such they are quite helpful. "A lot of these ayurvedic products are very helpful and these are the ones people should try to endorse. The products are sold at the cheapest MRP and are the ones, which do so well," the 'Student Of The Year' actor told IANS. Having just entered the film industry, he is...
10:58 AM, May 16, 2013
Thirteen-year-old Aditya Ranka was kidnapped and killed by the duo as they wanted to repay the money lost while betting on the IPL. ...
09:43 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks. Taking a serious note of the lapse, the state government today sought clarification from the chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, asking him to explain the factors contributing to the goof-up. "I...
07:32 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday lashed out at the Central Bureau of Investigation and questioned its investigations into the Sohrabuddin and Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter cases. The BJP defended Leader of the Opposition in Rajasthan Gulab Chand Kataria saying allegations against him were politically motivated. He also said that the Congress was misusing the CBI to target Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "Charges against Gulab Chand Kataria...
01:48 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Varun Dhawan, who is working in his father David Dhawan's next directorial venture, says the latter is a taskmaster. TV-film producer Ekta Kapoor has brought father-son duo David and Varun together for a new project - the Hindi remake of Telugu hit 'Kandireega'. "It is kind of a family time. But dad is a task master he forgets I am his son. All I can say is the...
12:20 PM, May 15, 2013
Lucknow: Nearly three months after a court acquitted Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Varun Gandhi of making provocative speeches in 2009, the Uttar Pradesh government will now appeal against the order. This, after CNN-IBN's sister channel IBN7 reported that as many as 14 government servants, including the then district magistrate of Pilibhit, turned hostile during the trial. The 2009 speech landed Varun Gandhi in jail during the election campaign, with...
08:31 AM, May 15, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said it would appeal in a higher court against the relief given to BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi by exonerating him of a hate speech charge. Inspector General (IG) Crime Ashish Gupta told mediapersons that the chief judicial magistrate's court had exonerated Varun in two different cases - February 27 and March 5. "We have ample time to appeal in further courts against...
10:40 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Criticising Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's "unwarranted advice" to the judiciary, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the motivation behind his criticism was the "frustration of a loser". Jaitley said the "ill-advised" suggestion made to the judiciary by Digvijaya has come when corruption of UPA government is being investigated by CBI and monitored by the Supreme Court and did not come when the...
08:30 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Assam government on Monday stepped up security on the North East Frontier Railway (NEFR) after a threat issued by a tribal group to disrupt traffic. The group, called the Adivasi People's Army, issued a threat to disrupt rail traffic at Srirampur and Kokrajhar in Assam. Kokrajhar in Assam is a sensitive area that witnessed violent clashes between different groups in 2012. Four Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD)...
05:33 PM, May 13, 2013
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Sunday said all bus stands in the state will be fitted with CCTV cameras to prevent any mischief in the premises. " A sum of Rs 4 crore will be spent on the installation of CCTV cameras in all the bus stands to prevent any mischief," Haryana Director General of State Transport Arun Kumar said in a statement in Chandigarh. He said that such cameras...
03:41 AM, May 13, 2013
Is 'Love' a show off?? Some are crazy about love, some go mad and some even lose their life for love. Realization of life is more important comes very late. Without coming before the media 'Love Show' has completed shooting and entered the dialogue recording stage. At Skyline Studio the talkie portion dubbing is under progress for this Sri Prasanna Venkateshwara Creations. Abathula Srinvasa Rao has written the story, screenplay...
05:28 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP has alleged that the CBI coalgate report was tampered with on the directions of the Principal Secretary in the PMO Pulok Chatterjee. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley made this allegation while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: Do you believe that Mr Shatrughan Singh attended the CBI meeting of his own volition...
08:06 AM, May 12, 2013
Leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley made this allegation while speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate. ...
11:58 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata will continue to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the coal scam controversy. Speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has said the exit of Ashwani Kumar in the matter was not enough and that his party will flag the demand for the Prime Minister's resignation. Following is an excerpt...
03:37 PM, May 11, 2013
