In a blow to BJP Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi, the Allahabad High Court today rejected his plea for quashing of an FIR filed against him for his anti-Muslim speeches in Pilibhit. In its order, a division bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtuza and S C Nigam said,”the petition stands dismissed”. In his petition, Varun Gandhi [...]
A group of hardliner Saudi clerics have called on the Islamic state’s new minister of information to halt efforts to liberalize the media by taking Saudi women off state television. In a statement posted on Saudi websites, the 35 clerics, including leading independent Abdul Rahman Al Barrak, argued that the Saudi government was violating its [...]
China has called for the replacement of the dollar as the main global reserve currency, expressing unhappiness with the US role in the world economy. Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the Chinese Central Bank, pointed out the dangers of the current economic crisis on heavily relying on one currency essentially controlled by the west. He [...]
BJP yesterday ruled out Election Commission’s appeal that it should not make Varun Gandhi it’s candidate in the wake of his recent communal remarks and reiterated that there is no change in Varun’s Candidacy from Pilibhit. BJP also questioned EC’s authority to issue such an appeal. This was decided in an Emergency meeting of BJP [...]
Congress projects Manmohan Singh as its PM candidate in the forthcoming LokSabha Election. Sonia Gandhi released the Party’s manifesto on Tuesday and ruled out the possibility of her becoming the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate and said she will continue to stick to the position in 2004, when she refused to become the PM, despite of [...]
The UAE on Monday urged Iran to respond positively to US President Barak Obama’s call for better ties between two countries, and view Washington’s new approach as “a sign f strength” and not weakness. In a round table discussion on the sidelines of the UAE-Australia dialogue, Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, UAE, [...]
PML-N chief Navas Sharif called off the long march after the decision has come from Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that all the judges will be reinstated , including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary who were removed by former president Pervez Musharraf during the emergency in 2008. Navas Sharif who was leading the march in [...]
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Left and regional parties today formally announced the launch of a “Third Front” offering an alternative to the combines spearheaded by the Congress and BJP. The front was launched at a massive rally in the town of Tumkur in the southern state of Karnataka “This is a historic get [...]
Aman Kachroo (24), a Medical student at the Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College Tanda, in Kangra, Himachal Pradhesh, was brutally murdered by his seniors. Aman joined the medical college in last August after passing out from DPS International in Saket. On Friday night and Saturday morning, Aman was beaten so badly by his seniors that [...]
CPM intensified its efforts to bring the Biju Janatha Dal to the third front on the wake of the party’s decision to end the 11 Year old partnership with B J P. Seetharaam Yechuri, C P M polit beauro member has arrived in Bhuvaneshwar to carry out discussions with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in this [...]
