Lack of opportunities and proper facilities -- and not the fear of a "particular community" as alleged by the BJP -- is what has been driving several families out of western Uttar Pradesh towns Kairana and Kandhala, a group of opposition MPs that visited the two towns a day before said here on Friday. ...
Timeline of the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case, in which a special court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment for the killing of 69 people, including Congress MP Ehsan Jafri....
BJP legislator Suresh Bhardwaj on Friday sought the withdrawal of permission granted to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra to construct a cottage in the vicinity of The Retreat here, claiming a "security threat"....
An Assamese youth, who was arrested in connection with the murder of law student Jisha, was on Friday remanded to 14 days' judicial custody. However, the victim's father has demanded a CBI investigation into the case...
Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was among the 69 killed in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre here, has expressed shock at the "triviality" of the life sentence awarded to 11 persons and seven-year jail term to 12 others in the case on Friday and called it "travesty of justice"....
India on Friday said it had raised with Bangladesh the death threat from suspected Islamic State militants to a priest at the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka....
Lawyer R.K. Anand has lodged a complaint with Chandigarh Police against media baron Subhash Chandra, who won the recent Rajya Sabha election from Haryana with the BJP backing, and others, a lawyer said on Friday....
Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a statement here that the Indian high commission in Dhaka "had contacted both the Bangladesh police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have been assured of full support and protection"....
Notwithstanding denials of any exodus of Hindus from Kairana town by the Uttar Pradesh government, BJP MLA Sangeet Som on Friday gave a 15-day 'ultimatum' to the state for the return of those who migrated from the town....
Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a housing society here during the Gujarat riots, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment, one man to 10 years and 12 others to seven years in jail. ...
