The tensions have spiked in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian PM Narendra Modi's role during 2002 Gujarat riots, prompting...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma went on to say that in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, there is 'evidence' of love jihad. He opined that 'For any Left-leaning person, it is a communal remark. But I said this in a national...
HD Deve Gowda remembered AB Vajpapayee, with whom he differed on many issues, with fondness and recalls a time when Vajpayee offered support to Gowda when the latter was heading a coalition government at the centre.
UK PM Rishi Sunak said he does not agree with the characterisation of PM Modi by Pakistani-origin Imran Hussain, an Opposition Labour Party MP, when he asked if Sunak agreed with claims in the BBC programme that some UK...
In the name of ‘rationalisation’, NCERT seems to have adopted a method of hasty deletion. Passages have been reduced, quotes cut and exercise boxes flung out. But was it really done in haste?
The plea, which was filed by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri, will be heard on April 13.
'Like the 2001 earthquake, it was an accident. Gujarat got a bad name because of 2002. That is not how Gujaratis behave,' Gujarat BJP chief spokesperson Yamal Vyas told Outlook.
The Nanavati commission said in its report that there was no evidence to show that these attacks were either inspired or instigated or abated by any minister of the state
The Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat government to pay Rs 50 lakh to 2002 communal riot victim Bilkis Bano, within two weeks.
High and low points of the recent past that mark India’s present
After the communal riots in Gujarat, then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had decided that then state chief minister Narendra Modi should resign.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Rajan Gogoi was informed by the Gujarat government that action has been taken against the erring police officials in the case.
A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar today passed the order after hearing the bail plea filed by the convict. "We direct to release him (convict - Babu...
On February 8, 2012, the SIT filed a closure report, giving a clean chit to Modi and 63 others, including senior government officials, saying there was "no...
The convicts identified as Umeshbhai Bharwad, Rajkumar, Harshad and Prakashbhai Rathod are currently serving a 10-year jail term for arson and rioting.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said, "The matter will take some time for hearing. The plea will be heard on November 26".
The Gujarat High Court had last year upheld SIT’s clean chit to Prime Minister Modi and other politicians in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
In the Naroda Patiya riot, atleast 97 Muslims were killed following the Godhra riots.
A total of 97 people were killed by rioters in Ahmedabad's Naroda Patiya area in 2002.
The court directed the Gujarat government to appraise it about the departmental action taken against those cops found guilty of dereliction of duty.
Seeking capital punishment for convicts in the 2002 carnage, he said the state government should appeal in the Supreme Court before Diwali for the sake of...
Jafri's son termed the ruling as a victory, as the court allowed the petitioners to approach an appropriate forum to seek re-investigation.
Zakia and Teesta Setalvad's NGO had moved the criminal review petition against a magistrate's order upholding the clean chit given by the SIT
Special SIT judge P.B. Desai agreed to visit the site on an application filed by prosecutor Suresh Shah
