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No resignation letter received from Maria: home dept

The Maharashtra government on Friday said it has not got any letter from Mumbai police crime branch chief Rakesh Maria offering to resign in the backdrop of allegations by slain IPS officer Ashok Kamte’s widow.

‘Atalji was also involved in the movement’

Three days before the debate on the Liberhan Commission Report in the Lok Sabha, the VHP on Friday said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee....

Maoists call for poll boycott in Jharkhand

Chief election commissioner Naveen Chawla on Friday visited Jharkhand to review preparations for the second phase of Assembly elections on December 2.

No dilution of Bali mandate on climate change, says India

Up against sustained pressure from developed countries, including the US, to settle for a political declaration at Copenhagen on climate change...

Pak-China nexus a matter of serious concern: Antony

Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India has noticed a ‘certain amount of assertiveness’ by China, Defence Minister AK Antony has voiced concern over the increasing military ‘nexus’ between China and Pakistan.

Pranab, Advani spar on Mumbai attack

The government and Opposition were visibly at odds with each other on the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attack in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

During 26/11, Omar Sheikh posed as Pranab, called Zardari

Detained Pakistani militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the three freed in 1999 by India at Kandahar in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane, was the one...

Jharkhand phase 1: 52% polling recorded

About 52% polling was recorded in 26 constituencies in the first of the five-phase Assembly elections in Jharkhand amid air surveillance and tight security on Wednesday, Election Commission officials said.

Ulfa won’t bend, but wants political solution

A day after Union home minister P Chidambaram made it clear in Parliament that the government would neither ease pressure on nor talk with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam unless they gave up violence, the outfit’s....

Cong, BJP connived to demolish Babri Masjid: Mayawati

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday alleged the Congress and BJP were trying to draw political mileage from the Action Taken Report on the Liberhan Commission Report, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

Pak court frames charges against Lakhvi, six others

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today formally charged seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, with planning and helping execute....

Would choose India’s values over China’s GDP: PM

In what is clearly among the most candid assessments on China from the Indian leadership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday conceded that there was some amount of 'assertiveness' from the neighbouring country, but did....

Maha anti-terror unit launched

Two days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, Maharashtra’s counter terror unit, Force One, an elite force formed on the lines of National Security Guards, became operational here on Tuesday.

Atal, too, tarred by Babri brush: Liberhan

Calling former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee one of the party’s “pseudo-moderates”—along with L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi—the Liberhan Commission makes several....

Lonely Kalyan turns nostalgic, BJP hopes for mandir plank

When leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani stood up on Monday to react to the contents of the Liberhan Commission report first revealed by The Indian Express, he recalled the statement that has come to define the ambiguity in the relationship of the man with the movement.

Babri ATR silent on indictments, promises speedy hearing of cases

Making no reference to the indictment of top BJP and Sangh leaders in the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition, the government, in its Action Taken Report which was tabled on Tuesday in Parliament

I do not know whom to deal with in Pakistan, says Prime Minister

Accusing Pakistan of not doing enough to bring to book the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India did not know whom to deal with in Islamabad as the army is the most powerful force in the neighbouring country.

Manmohan to meet US defence secy, may discuss China

A day before he meets US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to have his first meeting with US secretary for defence Robert Gates Monday evening as both sides will look to discuss ways to further improve defence cooperation besides exchanging views on China and US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Babri storm engulfs Parliament, brings both Houses to a standstill

With the Indian Express report on the Liberhan Commission probe triggering a political storm, the BJP stalled proceedings in both Houses of Parliament on Monday. Its demand: the government must table the commission report along with the ATR without delay.

Traces of Babri villains thrive in every pillar of the system: Liberhan

Underlining that bureaucrats helped the then Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh to subvert the system so that the Sangh Parivar could achieve its goal of demolishing the Babri Masjid, the Justice Liberhan Commission of Inquiry is said to have observed that the infiltration of the government and of the administration by pro-Sangh elements was complete.

‘Advani & Co were barely 200 m away... could have prevented Babri demolition’

The events on the morning and afternoon of December 6, 1992, that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid were facilitated by a compliant administration and a political leadership—including LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Vinay Katiyar—that stood barely 200 metres away and did nothing to prevent the kar sevaks from tearing the domes down.

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