Vinita Kamte, wife of 26/11 martyr Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, in search of truth about her husband’s death has penned a book. She has registered her findings in the book titled To The Last Bullet, co-authored by senior journalist Vinita Deshmukh. “I wanted to put his life and sacrifice in a proper perspective it deserves. It was not easy to take this decision because it was a question of whether I should go against force which my husband was a part o...

Stating that the Bhopal gas tragedy victims have not been paid adequate compensation even after 25 years of the world’s worst industrial disaster, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan (BGPMUS) on November 22 sought more compensation from the centre. “The Centre should step in and make available funds to adequately compensate the Bhopal gas tragedy victims,” BGPMUS convener Abdul Jabbar told reporters. He said only a flat amount of Rs 25,000 each was paid as compensati...

Twenty years after Bhagalpur riots, 844 families are finally going to get compensation. A total of Rs 29.54 crore, Rs 3.5 lakh for each victim will be distributed among hundreds of families affected by more than a month-long wave of violence sparked by the campaign for the Babri Masjid – Ram temple at Ayodhya. The large-scale killings that started after a Ram Shila procession had a clash with the Muslims in Bhagalpur town, spread to rural areas with rampaging mobs attacking Muslims, m...

Seventeen Shiv Sena activists have been arrested in Mumbai and six in Pune for attacking journalists and damaging property at offices of Marathi news channel IBN Lokmat in Vikhroli and Pune. They have been charged for attempt to murder, assault to outraging the modesty of women. A Vikhroli metropolitan magistrate’s court sent the culprits to police custody till November 23. The police said they needed to interrogate the accused in their custody to find out at whose behest they had att...

After forcing the government to table the Liberhan Commission report in Parliament, political parties on November 24 demanded tabling of the Ranganath Misra panel report, which went into the socio-economic status of minorities. The demand for tabling and implementation of the report of Misra Commission was raised during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha by JD-U, SP, NCP, CPI-M and even the Congress. Raising the issue, Ali Anwar (JD-U) attacked the government stating that while it did not place t...

The agitating students of Aligarh Muslim University on November 26 called off their dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi and decided to withdraw their month-long agitation. They were protesting over the murder of a student, Shanawaz Alam on October 25, 2009.

The agitating students said in a press release that they have full confidence in the Vice Chancellor and hoped that the Vice Chancellor will protect their interest and would not let their career suffer. The students appreciate...

Prof. Akhtar Haseeb, Chairman, Department of Plant Protection, and former Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has been conferred with the “Dr. B. Vasantharaj David Award- 2008” for outstanding contribution made in the field of Plant Protection during the National Conference on Biodiversity, Conservation and Management of Bioresources held at Department of Zoology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam organised by Applied Zoologists Researc...

Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan’s 17-year mission hasn’t burdened the Congress much with administrative dilemmas like punitive action against Sangh parivar rivals, but has given it enough fodder to torment its main adversary for a long time to come. A hint of what the ruling party intends to do with the report came from Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi. “This is the past of the BJP, this is the present and this is the future,” he said after the report had under...