-Outlook Ahmedabad: A local court today granted more time to Zakia Jafri to file a protest petition challenging the Closure Report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister narendra modi among others in the 2002 riot cases. The court of metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra today directed Zakia to either inform the court about the status of the Special Leave Petition (SLP)...

-The Times of India After dominating headlines as anti-corruption mavericks India Against Corruption (IAC) members Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan found themselves at the receiving end of high-voltage attack from a fellow anti-corruption activist. Y P Singh, a former Mumbai cop and an active member of the Mumbai chapter of IAC, accused the Bhushan-Kejriwal duo of letting off BJP leader Nitin Gadkari with a "dud" while suppressing far more incriminating evidence...

-The Hindu Rebel IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has secured permission from the Gujarat High Court to inspect some of the official documents relating to the 2002 communal clashes in Gujarat, before submitting his final affidavit before the G.T. Nanavati-Akshay Mehta Judicial Inquiry Commission probing into the Godhra train carnage and the subsequent violence. A Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala, has directed the...

-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Chief minister narendra modi never leaves a chance to hit out at the Nehru-Gandhis. But he has thus far remained silent on anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal's allegations against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. Interestingly, Modi himself is alleged to have allotted one lakh square metres of prime land in Gandhinagar in 2007 to the realty major at concessional rate. According to a memorandum signed by...

-The Hindustan Times Gujarat's tribal voters, who traditionally favour the Congress, have received a pre-poll sweetener from chief minister narendra modi. Barely two weeks before the model code of conduct came into effect on October 3 with the announcement of two-phase polls in December, the Modi government decided to reconsider nearly 75,000 "rejected" claims from tribals on forest land. The ruling Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) decision  is being seen as a move to...