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R R Patil

Maharashtra home minister R R Patil moots upto 60 years' jail for terrorists

MUMBAI: Maharashtra home minister R R Patil said the state government is considering amendments in criminal laws to enhance the quantum of punishment for terrorists and has proposed upto 60 years' in prison in such cases.

Salman Rushdie

India should protect Husain: Rushdie

NEW DELHI: Author Sir Salman Rushdie took the Indian government to task for not acting positively in the MF Husain case and said modern India was giving itself up to extremism, both Hindu and Muslim, and narrow sectarian thinking which was inimical to Gandhi's ideals.

Narendra Modi

Eight years after Godhra, the law calls on Modi

AHMEDABAD: The special investigation team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 post-Godhra communal carnage has summoned Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to record his statement on the Gulbarg Society massacre in Ahmedabad.

Trouble in BJP over women's bill, party decides to issue whip

Trouble in BJP over women's bill, party decides to issue whip

NEW DELHI: Trouble is brewing for the Women's Reservation Bill with a section of BJP MPs in Lok Sabha expressing their opposition to the measure and threatening to vote against it and the party on Thursday decided to crack on the dissenters by issuing a whip to them to back it.

Women's Bill: Mulayam, Lalu protest, Lok Sabha adjourned

Women's Bill: Mulayam, Lalu protest, Lok Sabha adjourned

NEW DELHI: Women's Reservation Bill rocked the proceedings in the Lok Sabha for the third day on Wednesday forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the House till noon.

Sharad Yadav

Women's Bill: Lalu, Mulayam & Sharad Yadav meet PM Manmohan Singh

NEW DELHI: Sharad Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav, who are opposing the Women's Reservation Bill, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and informed the PM of their differences towards the bill.

Women's Reservation Bill

Centre unfazed by opposition to Women's Reservation Bill

NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday expressed the hope that the Women's Reservation Bill, 2008 would be passed in the current session of Parliament despite opposition from some political parties.

Indian medical mission

Indian medical mission's operations suspended in Kabul

KABUL: Operations of the Indian medical mission in Kabul have been suspended as much of its staff were either injured or killed in last week's terror attack in the Afghan capital.

Manmohan Singh

Economic growth to exceed 8 per cent next fiscal: PM

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the government was taking all possible steps to counter rising food prices and added that he was confident India's economic growth would exceed 8 per cent in the next fiscal.

Sonia Gandhi

Highest priority to women's quota bill: Sonia

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi told party MPs on Thursday that she would accord the "highest priority" to the women's reservation bill that would be introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 8,