Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday thanked the people of his state for their support to his sadbhavna mission. In an official statement, Modi said that the mission had become instrumental 'in creating a new peaceful world'. Modi had begun the mission with three-day fast in Ahmedabad on September 17, last year, which purportedly aimed to strengthen the atmosphere of peace, unity and harmony in the state. This...
12:27 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, said his country's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Wednesday accused the Narendra Modi government of "misrule and non-governance" after the Gujarat High Court issued a contempt notice to it for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt in the post-Godhra riots. "It is for the Modi government to take note of. It should bring to an end what they have been doing so far. It brings out the misrule and...
07:26 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Activist Teesta Setalvad said that she was happy with the court order to give the SIT report to Zakia Jafri. ...
04:14 PM, Feb 15, 2012
The Gujarat court has directed the SIT to give its report in the Gulbarg Society Massacre within a month. ...
03:57 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has issued a contempt notice against the Narendra Modi government in a compensation case regarding the 2002 riots. In 2011, the High Court had ordered compensation in a rioting case where 12 shops were burnt in Ahmedabad. But the Gujarat government did not comply following which the petitioner filed a contempt petition in the High Court. This has come on a day when the metropolitan...
02:22 PM, Feb 15, 2012
An Ahmedabad court will decide whether the SIT report, which was submitted on Feb 8 should be made public or not. ...
12:32 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Ahmedabad: The metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday will decide if the SIT probe report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots should be made public. The court will also take a decision on whether the SIT should submit the pertinent documents before the court. Earlier on Monday, the SIT opposed giving the report to activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha in court. The SIT report has...
06:44 AM, Feb 15, 2012
The Ahmedabad court hearing the 2002 riot cases will decide on the special investigation team's final report on February 15. ...
11:57 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Wife of a diplomat is taken into surgery with shrapnel injuries to her spine. Israel blames Iran for the attack. ...
10:52 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad court will pass its order on the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots on February 15. The SIT on Monday opposed giving its report on the massacre to Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace and senior lawyer Mukul Sinha, saying that they had "no locus in the case". The SIT opposed not only the duo in the...
03:11 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi remains optimistic as the court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhat in Ahmedabad is set to hear the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) closure report on the Gulbarg massacre during the 2002 riots. The court will also decide if activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha can get a copy of the SIT report. The Gujarat Chief Minister tweeted on Monday quoting Swami Vivekananda, "I stand for...
12:47 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Social activist Teesta Setalvad claimed on Monday that she was receiving death threats ever since the SIT report on the 2002 riots was submitted to the Gujarat court. ...
12:43 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court on Wednesday rejected Zakia Jafri's application asking for a copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre case. The court, instead, asked the SIT to submit all the relevant documents before it by March 15. Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, had approached Supreme Court in 2008 seeking a probe against Modi. Zakia Jafri's plea against Modi: sequence of...
10:59 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The court hearing of the SIT report on the Gulbarg society case in the 2002 riots will not just have legal, but political implications as well. It will make clear whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi can move out of the state to national politics. Lion of Gujarat, Chote Sardaar, the Chief Minister of Gujarat goes by many names to his friends. For his rivals, he is a...
09:27 AM, Feb 13, 2012
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