Islamabad: The assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer on Monday confessed in a Pakistani court that he had acted alone in killing the politician and that he had been planning the attack before being deployed to guard him. Even as suspicion lingered that he was part of a conspiracy, Mumtaz Qadri denied that he was influenced by any political or religious group. Qadri was produced in the anti-terrorism court in...
03:49 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani policeman attached to Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's security detail has been detained along with an official of the country's electronic media watchdog in connection with Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination, while investigators are looking for a cleric who motivated the killer. Mumtaz Qadri, the Elite Force guard who gunned down 66-year-old Taseer in Islamabad on Tuesday for opposing the controversial blasphemy law, told police that he had...
02:55 PM, Jan 09, 2011
Chennai: Taking on the ruling DMK over the issue of corruption and price rise, AIADMK-led Opposition on Friday disrupted the Governor's customary address to the Tamil Nadu Assembly, resulting in their mass eviction. Dressed in black, members of AIADMK, CPI(M), CPI and MDMK raised slogans against the DMK government over the 2G spectrum allocation scam linked with its party leader and former Telecom Minister A Raja. As Governor Surjit Singh...
02:08 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Islamabad: The assassin of the outspoken Pakistani governor was showered with rose petals by lawyers and people as he made his appearance in a court room to face murder charges, laying bare increasing radicalisation of the Pakistani society. Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who killed the Punjab governor Salman Taseer, appeared unrepentant in court, where waiting lawyers showered him with rose petals and others in the crowd slapped his back...
03:03 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Islamabad/Lahore: Pakistani investigators on Thursday probed the possibility of a larger conspiracy behind the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer by his bodyguard as they arrested over 40 people, including 36 policemen. In Lahore, Taseer, 66, was laid to rest with full state honours at the Cavalry Ground graveyard, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other top leaders paying homage. President Asif Ali Zardari did not attend the funeral...
08:00 AM, Jan 06, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani police have arrested a man who had announced a Rs 20 million prize for anyone who killed Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for opposing the country's controversial blasphemy law. Sardar Ebaad Dogar of Khangarh near Multan was arrested on Tuesday shortly after Taseer was gunned down by a guard who claimed he was angered by the Governor's opposition to the blasphemy law. Taseer was shot dead on Wednesday at...
02:13 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Islamabad: Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, has disclosed during investigations that he had informed his fellow Pakistani guards about his intentions, a report said on Tuesday. Qadri had told the other guards not to open fire at him after he killed Taseer as he would lay down his weapon after the murder, 'Geo TV' quoted officials as saying. Qadri said that he wanted to be arrested....
10:26 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Friday met Governor HR Bhardwaj to talk truce. In a fence-mending move, Yeddyurappa had said that he would meet Governor H R Bhardwaj once in 15 days as he stressed that there should not be any room for rift and disagreement. "There should not be any rift with the Governor, neither any room for disagreement. As a Governor, he has freedom to offer...
11:10 AM, Dec 31, 2010
New Delhi: In an unprecedented move, the Goa Information Commission has summoned governor Dr S S Sidhu after his office refused to give information to a social activist under the Right to Information Act. Sidhu's office had blocked information sought by social activist Aires Rodrigues on a case related to advocate-general Subodh Kantak. Goa governor SS Sidhu claimed that the RTI Act didn't apply to the governor's office as it...
09:15 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Kolkata: For the last few days, campus violence has spiraled out of control in West Bengal. It's crunch time before next year's assembly elections. The worried state governor MK Narayanan has stepped in - given the face-off between the ruling Left Front and opposition Trinamool Congress. It's time for some answers for West Bengal chief minister before the real test next year. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee called on Governor MK Narayanan on...
11:33 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Kolkata: Beleagured West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya will meet Governor M K Narayanan on Tuesday evening at the Raj Bhavan. Buddhadeb will meet the West Bengal governor and apprise him of campus situation post the violence. Over the past week, Bengal has seen violence in the university campus after skirmishes between Trinamool Chatra Parisahd and CPI(M) backed Students Federation of India (SFI) left one dead and many injured. Narayanan...
12:13 PM, Dec 21, 2010
Bangalore: Hitting back at Congress President Sonia Gandhi for hurling charges of corruption against him, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday shot off a letter to her asking her to provide proof for her allegations. "The charges against me are baseless and made with the intention of maligning my government", he said, a day after Gandhi lashed out at BJP leaderhship for not acting against Yeddyurappa despite corruption charges...
09:12 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Washington: Indian Americans on the whole might not have done well in the elections but one candidate has gone beyond expectations. She's the first woman Governor of the State of South Carolina and only the second Indian American to become Governor. Enter Nikki Randhawa Haley, daughter of Sikh immigrants from Amritsar undeterred by racial slurs and accusations of an affair with a political blogger, she won the Republican nomination in...
12:26 AM, Nov 04, 2010
Washington: A daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from Amritsar, Nikki Haley won the governor's race in South Carolina as Americans started voting on Tuesday to decide which party controls the Congress and pick governors in 37 states. All 435 seats in the House and 37 in the Senate are being decided on Tuesday with polls and pundits predicting a rout for President Barack Obama's Democratic party with the election considered...
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Melbourne: Top bosses of New Zealand's state-owned TV channel, whose former host Paul Henry had made racial remarks against Indian-origin Governor General Anand Satyanand, have apologised to the leader in person. TVNZ's Chairman John Anderson and CEO Rick Ellis called on Satyanand at the Government House in Auckland and apologised over the Henry episode, the channel said today. Satyanand "very graciously" accepted the apology they offered to him, it said....
01:10 PM, Oct 14, 2010
Bangalore: CNN-IBN has a record of the proceedings of the Karnataka Assembly when the controversial trust vote was moved. All that was recorded immediately after Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa moved the trust vote was nothing but commotion following which which Speaker K.G. Bopaiah pronounced the voice vote complete. The Opposition contention in Karnataka is that there was no division and the Speaker contends that nobody asked for a division....
05:54 PM, Oct 12, 2010
Bangalore: The BJP government in Karnataka is in an open war with Governor HR Bhardwaj who termed Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s floor test a “farce” and offered him the chance of a second trust vote on October 14. The BJP called for the immediate recall of Bhardwaj accusing him of abusing his power to destabilize the government. Yeddyurappa has reportedly accepted the Governor’s challenge and agreed to face a...
01:00 PM, Oct 12, 2010
