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Kanimozhi moves High Court for bail

Written on 5 Nov, 2011 at 16:01 in India, States | viewed 517 times | 0 Comments

New Delhi: DMK MP Kanimozhi and three others, arrested for their alleged roles in the 2G spectrum allocation case, moved the Delhi High Court on Saturday for bail. Besides Ms. Kanimozhi, the three others who moved the high court against a... (Continue reading)

Pranab Mukherjee to explain need for petrol price hike

Written on 5 Nov, 2011 at 15:06 in India, States | viewed 177 times | 0 Comments

Kolkata: A day after the Prime Minister ruled out any roll back in petrol prices, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said he will explain the reasons behind the hike and expressed hope that the differences with ally Trinamool Congress... (Continue reading)

RTI activist Nadeem Sayed stabbed to death

Written on 5 Nov, 2011 at 15:01 in India, States | viewed 1,039 times | 0 Comments

Ahmadabad: Congress worker and witness in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, Nadeem Ahmed Sayed, was on Saturday stabbed to death by some unknown persons in Juhapura area here, police said. The incident took place this morning when Sayed left his... (Continue reading)

Bandh supporters torch police vehicle

Written on 5 Nov, 2011 at 11:59 in India, States | viewed 2,189 times | 0 Comments

Imphal: Supporters of ‘Hill district bandh’, which began on Thursday midnight, set ablaze three vehicles including a police van in interior Tamenglong district of Manipur, official reports said on Saturday. Reports said two small size trucks which were coming from border... (Continue reading)

Manmohan returns home after attending G20 summit

Written on 5 Nov, 2011 at 10:38 in India, States | viewed 112 times | 0 Comments

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday returned home after attending the crucial two-day G-20 summit in Cannes, which asked tax havens to adopt prudential norms for sharing of information to check money laundering and terror funding. Dr. Singh on... (Continue reading)

HC stays Jayalalithaa’s move to shift library

Written on 4 Nov, 2011 at 14:45 in India, States | viewed 327 times | 0 Comments

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday ordered an interim stay on Ms. Jayalalithaa government’s decision to shift the Anna Centenary Library, a pet project of the former DMK government. Granting the stay, a bench comprising Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and... (Continue reading)

Hazare to campaign against Cong if Jan Lokpal Bill not passed

Written on 4 Nov, 2011 at 13:26 in India, States | viewed 464 times | 0 Comments

New Delhi: Changing his stand, Anna Hazare on Friday said he will campaign against Congress in the five poll-bound States if the UPA government fails to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed in the Winter Session of Parliament. “Let anybody say... (Continue reading)

Illegal mining case: Jagan appears before CBI for questioning

Written on 4 Nov, 2011 at 12:29 in India, States | viewed 345 times | 0 Comments

Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday appeared before the CBI for questioning in connection with alleged illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of leases to a firm owned by former Karnataka Tourism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Mr. Jagan,... (Continue reading)

Hazare visits Rajghat, breaks his ‘maun vrat’

Written on 4 Nov, 2011 at 8:59 in India, States | viewed 400 times | 0 Comments

New Delhi: Anna Hazare on Friday broke his ‘vow of silence’ for the past 19 days after paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi. The 74-year-old Hazare visited Gandhi’s memorial at around 7 am and broke his ‘maun... (Continue reading)

Calcutta HC grants continuation of stay of Singur Act

Written on 3 Nov, 2011 at 13:12 in India, States | viewed 453 times | 0 Comments

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court today granted continuation of the stay of the trial court order validating the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act which has been challenged by the Tatas. A division bench of justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Mrinal... (Continue reading)