Controversy erupted in SAI hostel of Cuttack's Barabati stadium with a minor girl athlete on Wednesday accusing her athletics coach of beating her and sexually harassing her.
Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali's concert, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on October 9, was on Wednesday cancelled after Shiv Sena threatened to disrupt it. The opposition was predictable.
"Have you seen Modiji with the labourer, the unemployed, the farmer? But you might have seen him flanked by people wearing suit-boot," said Gandhi.
He said that there were forces, who were trying to turn “Hindustan into Hindu Rastra” but “neither Mulayam nor Akhilesh is ready to let Hindustan being turned into Hindu Rastra”.
Manjhi claimed such is his popularity among the poor that LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, whose clout among the crucial Scheduled Castes voters he had questioned some time back, had to "request" him to address an election meeting.
The push for India's struggling Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) also comes at a time when the air force is at its weakest operational strength since the 1962 war against China, which is causing anxiety within military circles.
Asked about his reaction to the matter, Asauddin told reporters in Hyderabad that the matter will be tackled by the party's legal team.
I&B Ministry Secretary Sunil Arora is presiding over the discussions. He is accompanied by Joint Secretary K Sanjay Murthy and Deputy Secretary Deepak Kumar.
The observation was made by a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu when senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Singh, sought an early hearing of the appeal filed by former Prime Minister.
During the brief hearing, some of the accused filed some written submissions before the court which took it on record.
Mukherjee is scheduled to visit Israel from October 13 to 15 as part of his six-day-long trip to West Asia during which he would also be travelling to Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
A pregnant woman and her unborn child in the womb died after being allegedly kicked and slapped by a nurse in a government-run hospital of tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district.
After BJP president Amit Shah called Lalu Yadav a 'chara chor' during a rally, the RJD chief reacted sharply and called Shah a Narbhakshi.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today termed "unfortunate" the lynching of a man over beef rumours in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri and appealed to the people to maintain communal harmony.
BJP General Secretary and In-charge of Bihar Bhupendra Yadav took a potshot at the RJD chief saying, "When he cannot keep his house in order, how will he take care of the state?"
The opposition members also demanded a discussion of Article 35 A which upholds the unique status of the permanent residents of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"MHA has called on the states to take strictest action as per law against such elements without any exception whatsoever,” a statement stated.
Since September 28, the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) had been seeking to ban the production, saying it’s a “misrepresentation” of Christian beliefs.
Under the URP, used in the National Sample Surveys since the 1950s, data is collected on the “30-day recall for consumption of both food and nonfood items to measure expenditures”.
WhatsApp group of 150 maulanas created to devise strategy to prevent radicalisation of youths.
Chief Justice H L Dattu was responding to a submission from senior lawyer Harish Salve that he had to take a steroid for the first time last week to tackle breathing problems caused by pollution in the national capital.
India, accounted for the largest number of poor people in any country in 2012.
The infrastructure includes setting up 275 lift irrigation points, 4199 bore-wells, 11 medium irrigation projects, 640 micro irrigation projects, four mega lift irrigation points and 111 check dams in the district to achieve the target.
The issue of enforcement as opposed to self-regulation lies at the heart of the debate which precipitated into the recent transport strike.
Some mediapersons were also injured in the incident. Heavy forces have been deployed in the areas from where violence was reported.