Allegations against the CM were not established: report The Special Investigation Team headed by R.K. Raghavan gave a ‘clean chit' to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in May 2010 when it submitted to the Supreme Court its first report on the complaint of Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jaffri, former Congress MP, was among the 69 persons killed in the Gulberg Housing Society riots in 2002. The SIT, in its report, said:...
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SIT shielding Modi from prosecution: Ex-DGP
-PTI Former Gujarat DGP, RB Sreekumar on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) for allegedly taking a pro-Narendra Modi line in the probe into the 2002 riots cases, to shield him from the prosecution. In an open letter to the people, Sreekumar, who headed the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) during the riots period, has also made public his first statement before the SIT in May 2008. He had then talked...
More »Minister reiterates State's position on Food Security Bill
-The Hindu Tamil Nadu Food Minister R. Kamaraj has reiterated the stand of the State that it should be exempted from the Food Security Bill piloted by the Central Government. Speaking at a conference of the Food Ministers in New Delhi on Wednesday, Mr.Kamaraj pointed out that the Universal Public Distribution System (UPDS), being implemented in Tamil Nadu for several decades, covered the “entire population” of the State and “there is no...
More »RTE will be strictly implemented in state: Minister
-The Times of India Education minister Brij Kishor Sharma said that the Right to Education Act will be strictly implemented in the state in order to improve quality of education. However, he said that dialogues are open with private and public schools to maintain their structural set-up. The minister came to Ajmer on Thursday to participate in the convocation of Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education held at Jawahar Rang Manch. Overall, 205...
More »Liquor raids in Andhra: Big fish go scot-free by Mahesh Buddi
In the last two months, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials have been on the hot pursuit of liquor mafia across the state, but ironically not a single 'syndicate member' has been nabbed in the city. Reason: High political pressure as some ministers themselves are involved in liquor business in the city. As part of the statewide crackdown against liquor syndicate in the past 50 days, ACB officers have so far arrested over...
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