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New Delhi, September 5: Rejecting BSP chief Mayawati's request to allow Parliament to pass reservation in promotion Bill, BJP today decided it will continue to force adjournment of both the Houses on coal block allocation issue. BJP parliamentary party floor leader held a meeting here under the chairmanship of L K Advani to discuss the party strategy in the Rajya Sabha when the reservation in

Chennai/Tirunelveli, September 5: With the pro-Tamil outfits attacking Sri Lankan pilgrims in the state, the DMK on Tuesday said it was only opposed to India’s training defence personnel from the island nation while the CPI(M) expressed concern over the hostility towards the visitors. DMK president M. Karunanidhi said his party was strongly opposed to India’s training of defence personnel from

Ahmedabad, September 5: In a big blow for the Gujarat government ahead of assembly elections at the end of the year, former state Home Minister and close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, has been chargesheeted by the CBI in the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case. Virtually the entire top brass of the Gujarat police that was posted in the CID when Tulsiram Prajapati was gunned down

New Delhi, September 4: CBI today registered cases against five companies and unknown government officials as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks and carried out searches across 10 cities. According to CBI spokesperson, five FIRs have been filed against five companies and unknown government officials for alleged cheating. The agency sleuths were also

Mumbai/New Delhi, September 4: Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Monday came under all round fire for threatening to throw out Biharis from Maharashtra even as a case was filed against him in Nalanda for his hate speech. A complaint was registered against the MNS chief in Nalanda district court in Bihar by a social activist under several sections of the IPC. Raj Thackeray

Lucknow, September 4: A panchayat in the Jat-dominated region of Uttar Pradesh, known for imposing controversial restrictions on women in the community, has banned schoolgirls above fifth standard from wearing skirts. A “mahapanchayat”, (grand assembly) attended by hundreds of people belonging to the Jat community in Garh-Mawana area in Ghaziabad district, about 450 kilometres from here, imposed

New Delhi, September 3: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday ruled out immediate cancellation of 142 coal block allocations as demanded by BJP and made it clear that he was ready for a fight with the opposition on the issue. Singh conveyed his determination about not going for immediate cancellation of the coal block allocations informally to some senior ministers here, sources told . BJP has

New Delhi, September 3: Amid the raging row over coal block allocation, as many as 90 mines face the threat of de-allocation as these are under scanner for non-production. Of these, 58 coal blocks are in the immediate focus with an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) set to decide their fate today. The government has already issued de-allocation notices to these 58 blocks -- 33 alloted to government

Kochi/New Delhi, September 3: A growing number of fitness gyms are selling and encouraging the use of body-building steroids. A family lost its young son Rijo to these drugs. "My son was very healthy and he used to go to the gym to maintain himself. His gym instructor lured him to take supplementary powders and six months later we lost our son after he got a sudden stroke," said Rijo's father

Ahmedabad, September 3: Shunning the Hindutva card, the campaign of the major parties in Gujarat for the forthcoming Assembly elections this time is centred around issues like water, housing and inflation. The 2002 and 2007 Gujarat elections were held in a charged environment by whipping up communal sentiments in the backdrop of the 2002 riots and numerous encounter cases, including the