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In order to avoid causing inconvenience to residents and commuters on Sunday during the Sabarmati Marathon, Ahmedabad police have listed certain traffic diversions to facilitate the event. According to the police, certain roads in the city will be closed to traffic between 6 am and 1 pm on January 5.Commissioner of Police Shivanand Jha issued […]
Social activist Anna Hazare has written a letter to BJP chief Rajnath Singh, complaining that a leader of his party from Haryana was creating hurdles in the installation of his statue in Gurgaon. Mr Hazare has urged Mr Singh to help.Rajnath Singh on Friday met Anna Hazare’s Gurgaon-based activists at his Delhi residence following the […]
Congress High Command has made some drastic changes in Gujarat Congress with two changes at city level and eight changes at district level. Ahmedabad city’s new president is Chetan Raval who replaces former Pankaj Shah and Baroda’s new city president is Naishadh Desai. As far as eight districts are concerned, Dinesh Chovatiya as Rajkot president, […]
The Obama Administration is focused on moving Indo-US relationship forward, a senior US official said, even as the paperwork on transfer of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to India’s UN mission is under review.”What we’re focused on at the State Department is moving forward with the bilateral relationship,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf said […]
The Maharashtra government on Thursday partially accepted the report of the judicial commission on Adarsh housing scam, days after both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi expressed their displeasure over the rejection of the panel’s findings.The Prithviraj Chavan-led government also announced action against the bureaucrats who have been indicted in the case by […]
Until December 8, 2013, television news channels and social media had little time for anyone other than Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi who was seen as the country’s only hope against the UPA in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. But the results of the Delhi assembly elections announced on December 8 seem to have changed […]
Today, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he will step down after elections due this year even if his Congress party defies predictions and sweeps to power for a third consecutive term.“In a few months’ time after the general elections, I will hand over the baton to a new prime minister,” he said in opening […]
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its displeasure with several Union ministers who had reacted adversely to its verdict reversing a Delhi High Court order on Section 377 that decriminalised homosexuality.The SC order had evoked sharp reactions from gay activists and NGOs, as well as senior ministers and political leaders who had said that the […]
In his strongest comments so far on the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Dr Manmohan Singh today said, “It would be disastrous for the country to have Narendra Modi as Prime Minister.” He went on to describe Mr Modi as “someone who has presided over the mass massacre of citizens on the streets of Ahmedabad.”Dr Manmohan […]
