Raipur, March 11 (IANS) Amid a heated debate in the Chhattisgarh assembly Thursday, Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik ruled that a house committee will probe into a TV sting expose of alleged sale of a minor by an orphanage centre based on outskirts of capital Raipur.
'Since the allegations are of serious nature,
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London, March 11 (IANS) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked his wife Carla Bruni to end a holiday with her lover in Thailand and return home, a news report said. Sarkozy is also travelling to Britain on Friday without his spouse.
Sarkozy has asked Carla, 43, to end a holiday with
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Lucknow, March 11 (IANS) Not only certain political parties, but even some influential Islamic scholars and clerics are strongly opposed to the women's reservation bill.
Their opposition seems to stem from the fact that such a provision will not only entitle but also encourage more and more Muslim women to take
Lucknow, March 11 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Thursday summoned senior officials of the Uttar Pradesh government with an action plan for the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) March 15 rally in the state capital.
A division bench comprising Justices Pradeep Kant and Shabihul Hasnain directed several senior
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Bhubaneswar, March 11 (IANS) Orissa is planning to form a separate ministry that would exclusively focus on the problems of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and work for their growth, the state's top official said Thursday.
'Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has formed a committee which will meet and consider
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Gandhinagar, March 11 (IANS) Zakia Jaffri in her petition has levelled serious charges against Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots, and has made out a case of conspiracy and abetment to commit multiple offences of murder.
The charges of conspiracy and abetment to commit multiple offences relate to sections
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Gandhinagar/New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21 over his alleged complicity in the anti-Muslim violence that rocked the state, particularly in the death of Congress's former MP Ehsan
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New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The fate of the landmark women's quota bill Thursday appeared uncertain as the government, yielding to the bitter critics - the Yadav troika, offered all-party consultations while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tried to stem growing internal opposition to the proposed legislation.
The
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New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Faced with dissidence over the women's bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it will issue a whip to its MPs to support the proposed legislation in the Lok Sabha.
'All the MPs will support the decision taken by the party leadership. A whip will
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Gandhinagar, March 11 (IANS) The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21. The Congress immediately asked him to step down.
According to Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R.K. Raghavan, the move to question Modi follows
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