Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Anna to end fast today, cancels jail bharo agitation

Anna to end fast today, cancels jail bharo agitation

Anna to end fast today, cancels jail bharo agitation

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 03:07 AM PST

Anna Hazare, 74 and unwell, has announced that he is calling off his fast at the MMRDA Ground in Mumbai and will take his anti-corruption rally to Delhi's Ramlila Ground on December 30.

Lokpal Bill war: Now, Mamata says delete all clauses on Lokayukta

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 02:59 AM PST

Mamata Banerjee, a senior partner in the UPA coalition, has put the government on notice over the Lokpal Bill. She wants 14 pages of the Bill to be dropped because she believes this section violates t...

Sonia Gandhi asks for list of Congress MPs who skipped Lokpal vote

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked for a list MPs from her party who were absent during last night's vote on the Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha. The bill was defeated - it managed...

Four arrests in 24 hours for Indian student's murder in UK

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 01:59 AM PST

The British police has arrested a fourth person in connection with the killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who died following an "unprovoked" attack on Monday. The man, who name is not yet known, is...

Lokpal Bill: Rahul and Sonia Gandhi lash out at BJP

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST

The government is trying its best to pass the buck to the BJP for the Lokpal fiasco that unfolded in the Lok Sabha last night. The government managed to push through a bill that creates the local or n...

Anna Hazare makes it into CIA's Factbook

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:57 AM PST

Anna Hazare and his organisation -India Against Corruption - has made it into the American spy agency CIA's World Factbook as a political pressure group in India, joining the league of RSS, Bajrang Da...

Lokpal Bill row: Not just Mumbai, Delhi ignores Anna's call too

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:15 AM PST

Team Anna's protest against a "weak" Lokpal Bill remained a damp squib for the second day today as supporters refused to be drawn to Ramlila Maidan.

Saw real face of BJP: Sonia

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:14 AM PST

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying the party had shown "its real face" by not supporting the constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha ...

Anna must end fast, worried that may lead to kidney failure: Doctors

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:13 AM PST

With his health continuing to be a matter of concern, doctors today made a fresh appeal to Anna Hazare requesting him to call off his fast saying that it could lead to kidney failure. "We are worried,...

Best one-liners from the Lokpal debate

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:58 PM PST

As Anna Hazare began a three-day fast in Mumbai demanding a strong Lokpal Bill, the Lok Sabha debated and passed the legislation on Tuesday. A bitter war of words was witnessed during the debate. Here...

Election Commission upset with Khurshid's remarks: Sources

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:51 PM PST

A war of wards seems to be brewing between the Election Commission (EC) and Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid following the latter's recent comments over the poll panel.

Russian court to decide today on Gita ban

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:30 PM PST

A Russian court is to decide Wednesday whether a religious text central to the global Hare Krishna movement is "extremist' and should be banned, in a case that has angered Hindus around the world and ...

Lokpal fiasco: Congress promises action against MPs who defied whip

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:20 PM PST

The Congress is fighting a wicked political hangover from last night's vote on the Lokpal Bill, and ensuring that it is protected against further humiliation in the Rajya Sabha. So before the Lokapl B...

Lokpal Bill passed in Lok Sabha, but no constitutional status

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:12 PM PST

As an ambulance waited to take activist Anna Hazare to hospital in Mumbai, the Lok Sabha in Delhi passed the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, which delivers a new national ombudsman with nine members to i...

Anna's village worried about his health, will visit him today

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:38 PM PST

Concerned about Anna Hazare's health, villagers of Ralegan Siddhi will arrive in Mumbai on Wednesday. "About seven to eight vehicles, carrying people of Ralegan, including the village sarpanch, will r...

Whistle-blowers Bill passed in Lok Sabha

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:36 PM PST

A Bill which seeks to provide for setting up a regular mechanism to encourage persons to disclose information on corruption or willful misuse of power by public servants, including ministers was passe...

Pranab, Yashwant trade barbs over PM's 'farewell speech'

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST

BJP leader Yaswhant Sinha today took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Lokpal Bill debate speech in Lok Sabha, calling it a "farewell speech". Mr Sinha's observation during the debate on the Lo...

Mumbai did not pause for Anna Hazare

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:21 PM PST

He could not pull the numbers he had in his August protest in Delhi, but Anna Hazare's speech did not seem to hold any misgivings as he thanked the people for giving him energy and warned the governme...

Lokpal will not be a constitutional body

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:26 AM PST

The Lok Sabha tonight passed the historic Lokpal Bill but a major clause of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, which provided for making the Lokpal a constitutional body, has been defeated. The govern...

Tests to determine if Malkhan Singh fathered Bhanwari's daughter

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:54 AM PST

A top doctor today revealed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had given him an application to send a team of experts for conducting a DNA test on Luni MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and Gungun...

Anna's fever climbs, refuses to end fast, may be moved to hospital

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST

Activist Anna Hazare is not well, his doctors say. At the end of the first day of his hunger strike, the 74-year-old is reportedly down with fever once again. But he is determined not to eat. Doctors ...

Lokpal vote: Mayawati and Mulayam's parties walk out

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:24 AM PST

Members of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party today staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha shortly before the voting on the Lokpal Bill tonight in protest against Government bringing a "weak...

Foreign media on Lokpal Debate and Anna's fast

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:20 AM PST

India's Parliament on Tuesday began a contentious debate over a bill to create an independent anti-corruption agency, while the activist Anna Hazare sought to rally public support for his own anti-cor...

Two UK teenagers arrested for Indian student's murder

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:01 AM PST

The British Police on Tuesday arrested two teenagers in connection with the unprovoked killing of 23-year-old-Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead on Monday in what could be a hate-crime.
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