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 Rights activist Binayak Sen , Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha were today convicted for sedition and sentenced to life imprisonment for colluding with Maoists to establish a network to fight the state. Additional District and Sessions Judge B P Verma held the trio, who were present in the jam-packed courtroom, guilty [...]

Noted Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced for six years in jail and barred from directing and producing movies for the next 20-years, according to his lawyer. Panahi, known for his internationally acclaimed movies like ‘The Circle’, ‘White Balloon’ and ‘The Mirror’ on humanitarian struggles in the country, has been outspoken in his support [...]

  Belying predictions of diplomatic fatigue, the last visit to India by the head of a P-5 country in 2010 turned out to be one of the most significant, with 30 agreements and a meeting of minds on key political issues emerging from talks here on Tuesday between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President [...]

After 26/11, the US felt that the removal of “spectacularly inept” Shivraj Patil as home minister was inevitable although he had been “protected” by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi despite being found “asleep on the watch” during earlier terror strikes in various cities. According to a US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks, the then US [...]

During the election campaigning in Bihar in October this year Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Indian National Congress proudly claimed, “Aapki Congress party gareebon ki party hai, aapki party hai.” ["Your Congress party is the party of the poor, your party."] After 63 years of an independence that was hard fought, such a [...]

 There is anger in the dalit community over the mob killing of 2 sisters in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The sisters Mona and Geeta were allegedly burnt alive by a mob last Saturday for revenge. Their brothers are accused of killing a local trader’s wife and his eight-year-old daughter. Their mother claims that in [...]

BJP has revived its agenda by once again calling for abolishment of article 370 of the Constitution, under which Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) enjoys special status. BJP’s central office bearers, which met here on Thursday, unanimously passed the resolution. “Article 370 has worked against the interests of the people of the state. It has created [...]

It was an ordeal that will haunt Dr Shalini Chawla for the rest of her life. Her husband died in his sleep of a heart attack in Saudi Arabia, where the couple worked. But she was told that he had converted to Islam and accused, without a shred of evidence, of poisoning him. That was [...]

Pilbhit MP and BJP leader Varun Gandhi said on Sunday that he does not agree with his cousin Rahul Gandhi’s statement — reported by Wilileaks — that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat than terrorism. “I have nothing much to comment on the issue but I do not agree with the reported statement of Rahul [...]

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s assessment of terrorism in India, which was shared with US ambassador Timothy Roemer, has now found its way into the public domain, thanks to WikiLeaks. What is of real concern is that Gandhi, who claims he wants to change a few things in the party structure and thinking, has trapped [...]