India

New Delhi, Nov 10: Days after BJP complained to the EC against Rahul Gandhi's controversial "ISI" remarks, Congress has approached the poll watchdog seeking stern action against Narendra Modi for his "khooni panja" barb against the party. In its communication to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath, Congress accused BJP's prime ministerial candidate of making "intemperate, malicious and

New Delhi, Nov 9: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will head the Indian delegation at the CHOGM Summit to be held in Sri Lanka next week with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deciding against undertaking the visit in view of the opposition by parties in Tamil Nadu as well as a section in Congress. The decision on level of Indian representation and Singh skipping the meet will be communicated

New Delhi, Nov 9: The Centre will move the Supreme Court on Saturday to challenge the Gauhati high court's sensational judgment declaring that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was not set up legally and had no power to investigate an offence, arrest accused and file charge-sheet. Minister of state for personnel V Narayanaswamy met attorney general G E Vahanvati on Friday to fathom the

New Delhi, Nov 9: CBI has questioned Deputy National Security Advisor and former Intelligence Bureau Chief Nehchal Sandhu in connection with Sadiq Jamal encounter in 2003 by Gujarat crime branch. CBI sources said Sandhu was questioned here this week in connection with the encounter which allegedly occurred following a tip-off received from Intelligence Bureau officials here. The sources said their

Jalpaiguri, Nov 9: The closure of three gardens triggered back-to-back deaths due to starvation in the Dooars region. In last 20 days, at least 12 people have died. The latest victim, Tanu Singh Ghatowa, 55, died on Thursday night. It is learnt that three gardens at Surendranagar, Red Bank and Dharanipur - all under the Red Bank group - and were locked out on October 19, rendering more than 2,000

Nevada, Nov 9: Hindus are upset over having images of their deities Ganesh and Lakshmi pasted on beer bottles by an Australian brewery, calling it highly inappropriate. Hindu leader Rajan Zed said in a statement here Saturday that inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or concepts or symbols for commercial use was not acceptable because it hurt the sentiments of the devotees. "Lord Ganesh and

Chennai, Nov 9: The third of the total of five orbit raising manoeuvres of the Mars Orbiter spacecraft was performed early this morning, raising its apogee, the farthest point from Earth, to over 71,000 km. The manoeuvre started at 2:10 AM today and raised the spacecraft's apogee from 40,186 km to 71,636 km with a burn time of 707 seconds, ISRO said. The space agency had performed the first two

New Delhi, Nov 9: Global investment banker Goldman Sachs on Friday came under attack from government and the Congress over upgrading Indian markets on a likely Narendra Modi's election win but the US-based firm stood by its report. In its justification, Goldman Sachs said the report was prepared on the basis of investor sentiments and does not reflect political bias. Irked by the report, which

New Delhi, Nov 8: Former Telecom Minister A Raja and other accused in the 2G scam today pushed for a stay on the proceedings of the case in a Delhi court in the wake of the ruling of the Gauhati High Court holding as "unconstitutional" the setting up of the CBI. In a related development, Congress leader Sajjan Kumar wanted the court to declare as "illegal" the probe and charge sheets filed by the

Rajnandgaon/Chhattisgarh, Nov 8: Making a strong emotional pitch over the Maoist ambush on Congress leaders in May, Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that former PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel was killed to stop him from becoming the chief minister and to silence the voice of the poor and the tribals here. Slamming the Raman Singh government over the May 25 dastardly Maoist attack in Bastar which had wiped