-The Hindu Chhattisgarh government indicted for favouring firm in award of coal block The Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, citing the contents of a Comptroller and Auditor General's report that has indicted the State government for flouting norms in the award of a coal block to a firm owned by recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ajay Sancheti who, the party said, is “close...
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Nine per cent candidates declare criminal cases-Prgaya Kaushika
This municipal elections, all political parties are going in ‘clean’, or at least so they claim. The Association for Democratic Reforms on Tuesday listed the criminal cases against candidates in the fray for the post of councillors. Out of 211, BJP has 39 candidates (18 per cent) who have criminal cases against them. Congress has 28 candidates out of 207 (14 per cent), BSP has 19 out of 214 (14 per...
More »SIT finds no proof against Modi, says court-Manas Dasgupta
The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team had not found any evidence for prosecuting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and top bureaucrats and police officers and recommended that the investigation in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case be closed. Though magistrate M.S. Bhatt did not pronounce the court's decision on the closure report, he ordered the SIT to give a copy of it, within...
More »Protect rights of Bengalis from Bangladesh: CPI(M)
-The Hindu The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has called for legal measures to protect the rights of Bengalis from erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and a solution through judicial process to the problem of suspected foreigners living illegally in Assam. In a resolution adopted at its 20th party Congress that concluded here on Monday, the party urged the government to honour the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's promise of sympathetically considering the...
More »Marx and Engels not untouchables: Mamata
-IANS West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said her government did not regard Karl Marx or Frederich Engels as "untouchables", in the backdrop of a recommendation made by a syllabus committee to trim the "over presence" of their political philosophy in history text books at the higher secondary level. "I have full regard for the left movement in the country. I salute both, the nationalist movement and the left movement in...
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