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Modi wrote on his blog today that "Sardar Patel's birth anniversary would be even more special because we (the Gujarat government) are going to lay the foundation stone of the Statue of Unity".
"At a height of 182 metres, 'the State of Unity' would be among the tallest statues in the world, celebrating and paying tributes to the Iron Man of India. It would be situated at Sadhu Bet, which is close to the Sardar Sarovar Dam," he wrote.
"The statue is being built through the PPP model, using the latest technology. A few months ago, I had appealed to my farmer sisters and brothers from all over India to contribute their iron tools they used in farming to build the statue. After all, Sardar Patel was not only a Loh Purush (Iron Man) but also a Kisan Putra (son of a farmer). I once again appeal to everyone to support us in this endeavour," Modi wrote in his blog.
Musharraf was not named as one of the main accused in a police report after a joint investigation team completed its probe into the killing of cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his mother, Express News channel reported.
The former President was named only in Section II of the report, which pertains to those accused of assisting in a crime as opposed to having directly perpetrated it.
The case against Musharraf over the killing of Ghazi was registered after the cleric's son petitioned the courts.
Musharraf was recently arrested on charges of involvement in the killing of Ghazi during the operation, which was launched to flush our extremists holed up in the mosque in the heart of Islamabad.
New Delhi is agog with speculation about the government wanting to refer 371 D of Constitution relating to Andhra Pradesh to seek the Supreme Court's opinion on bifurcation of the state.
A source said the reason could be that Shinde has announced an all-party meet on Telangana in early November.
Shinde meeting the President directly after the Congress Core Committee meeting is considered politically significant.
The 75-year-old Chief Minister said people of Delhi are aware about BJP's credentials and they are not going to be misled by the party. She, however, said it would be premature to comment whether Modi will be able to impact voters in the Lok Sabha polls next year.
"I don't think Modi will have any impact in the Assembly polls. But as a Prime Ministerial candidate when the Lok Sabha elections take place, that is when his real impact will be seen, not just now," Dikshit told PTI.
The BJP has been trying to bank on Modi's 'popularity' to recapture power in Delhi after a gap of 15 years. The party has put up hoardings across the city featuring Modi along with its Chief Ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan.
The meeting is likely to be held before the November 7 meeting of the Group of Ministers, constituted to look into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, he said.
A statement to this effect was made by G W Mattos, Additional Government Pleader, in the high court yesterday.
However, Anjani Kumar Singh, the counsel for the organisation "Mann Ranglo", denied that the cultural body had flouted any norms earlier.
A bench of Justices S F Vajifdar and K R Sriram then asked the state government to file an affidavit in this regard.
The bench ordered that the affidavit shall be served on the petitioner latest by November 4, and gave liberty to the petitioner to apply for ad-interim reliefs before the vacation judge on November 5.
"Wherever there is CPI(M) they will spoil everything. They should first try to manage their own party before trying to organise a front," TMC secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said.
He was commenting on a mega rally in New Delhi where Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and Left leaders including CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat shared a stage fuelling speculation of a Third Front. "They have lost credibility in West Bengal. They have lost relevance," he said.
"I do not think the opinion polls reflected the ground reality. How can you say Aam Admi Party will get so many seats when they have not yet come out with their agenda. I do not know on what basis they arrive at conclusion and how credible their figures can be," Dikshit said.
Assisted by Ranchi police, the NIA arrested one Ujjair Ahmad this afternoon, police sources said.
Three other suspects, identified as Tehsim, Imtiaz Ansari and Tabish, were arrested soon after the bomb blasts in the Bihar capital.
Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar yesterday said in Hazaribagh that six persons were detained for interrogation in connection with the serial blasts set off at and near the Gandhi Maidan ahead of the rally addressed later by BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
"We had only a few litres of filtered water stored when our area got inundated last Saturday... We did not preserve more water and are paying the price now," B P Choudhury, a resident of Aska town, about 40kms from Ganjam said.
The police continue to find live bombs in Patna even after 48 hours since serial blasts rocked the state's capital. "We had given input about Patna rally to state government," said Shinde. However, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar maintains that he received no specific warning.
The Patna Police had recovered five bombs yesterday from the ground which were defused by the NSG bomb disposal squad.
The sanitization drive was underway for the third successive day today to clear the Gandhi Maidan of bombs and explosive material, Superintendent of Police (SP), City, Jayant Kant told PTI.
Diesel prices should be immediately hiked by Rs 5 per litre, the Kirit Parikh Committee has recommended while favouring reduction of the quota of subsidised LPG to 6 cylinders per household in a year from 9 at present.
The panel has recommended Rs 4 per litre increase in kerosene and Rs 250 per cylinder hike in LPG rates, Parikh told reporters after presenting the report to Oil Minister Veerappa Moily.
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The panel also recommended fixed subsidy of Rs 6 per litre on diesel while favouring deregulation of diesel price in a year's time. The expert group was tasked to suggest a methodology for pricing of diesel and cooking fuel.
Khan's seven staff--private secretaries Jeevan Singh Negi and Vijay Bahadur Singh and additional private secretaries Awadesh Kumar Tiwari, MN Jha, Sarvesh Kumar Mishra, Mohammand Naeem Siddiqui and S Prajapati -- yesterday wrote a letter to Chief Secretary, demanding that they be relieved from their duty and transferred elsewhere.
"We have stuck to our principles. This isn't a risk, it's a gamble. We will face the consequences," the Bihar Chief Minster said to much applause and added, "They say I am in the firing line...but we are like a rock. Any bullet will bounce off us." Read more
Conspicuous by their absence are the TMC, YSR Cong and the BSP.
Rahul made the statement at his rally in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, last week. The BJP has a filed a notice with the Election Commission over the remark which they said incited communal violence.
The power of the youth in UP is the largest in the country, says Rahul Gandhi, in a speech that steers clear of controversy. "We will empower the youth," he promises.
The Opposition makes tall claims but it is the Congress that has built the maximum number of roads, railway lines.
According to the cleaner of the bus, most of the passengers were sleeping when the accident took place.
The cleaner, who has been admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad, said he was pulled out of the burning bus by the driver of a car passing through the area.
An eyewitness said he saw the bus going in flames at around 5.15 am and within 30 minutes it was reduced to ashes.
Meanwhile, worried relatives rushed to the office of the bus operator in Lakdi-Ka-Pul area in Hyderabad to collect information.
"When we enquired no details are being given. We are worried. There is no clarity here. They are still collecting the list from their Bangalore office," some of the relatives said.
"Charred bodies of 45 persons have been retrieved from the bus," Deputy Inspector General (Hyderabad Range) V Naveen Chand said.
The accident occurred at 5.10 am when the diesel tank of the Hyderabad-bound bus from Bangalore hit against a culvert near Palem in Mahabubnagar, around 140 kms from Hyderabad on NH-44 (Bangalore-Hyderabad), police said, adding the entire bus was engulfed in flames in a matter of minutes.
Fifty-two persons, including 50 passengers, were travelling in the Volvo bus when the mishap occurred. Initial reports had said that some software engineers were among the victims.
The bodies have been burnt beyond recognition and it is difficult to ascertain how many of the dead are men or women, Chand said.
Five passengers, the driver Feroze Khan and cleaner Ayyaz, managed to escape with burn injuries and were undergoing treatment at different hospitals, another police officer said.
"They (AgustaWestland) have violated the contract. We have taken steps to protect our interests," he said when asked about the final show cause notice issued to the firm by the Defence Ministry. He said the Government has to move as per the law and "now, the final show cause notice has been served. We have given them 21 days to reply to it."
On October 26, somebody uploaded the photograph of a young woman in an advertisement and offered her for Rs 2,000. The name and telephone number of a contact person was also given. Read
"30th Jan 1933 Hitler becomes German Chancellor, 27th Feb 1933 he burns the Reichstag, language of fascism is a prelude to its actions, Nitishji," the Information and Broadcasting Minister said in a post on Twitter.
"Irony of History is fascists and totalitarianism invariably usurp power through democracy only to subvert it totally. A great evil stalks our land," he said.
Tewari's comments on twitter come after Nitish Kumar had in a speech in Rajgir said that Modi is like Hitler and added that he will never become Prime Minister.
"He (Modi) is behaving like Hitler by propagating fascism," Kumar had said, adding the people of the country will never make him the PM.
After conclusion of the hearing by the CBI counsel against Lalu's bail plea, the bench of Justice R R Prasad reserved the order for tomorrow.
The court had on October 25 granted provisional bail to another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra.
Modi will arrive in Patna by a special helicopter and visit families of serial blast victims in different districts and express his condolence to the affected families, the state BJP leader said.
Dutt, 53, is serving the remaining 42-month term of his five-year jail sentence for possessing illegal firearms, part of the cache of weapons which were meant to be used during the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.
Dutt was released from jail on furlough for 14 days on October 1. Later, he sought an extension of additional 14 days on medical grounds which was granted to him by the jail authorities.
She was the first Indian-American woman to teach psychology at Harvard, Tufts, and Stanford, and she is best known for her groundbreaking work on person perception. Read
The ASI has been given the responsibility of restoring the Kedarnath Temple post the devastation caused by the June floods in Uttarakhand but the adverse climatic condition is delaying their job.
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Rafiq-ur-Rehman, a primary school teacher in North Waziristan, lost his 67-year old mother, the local midwife, when a drone struck a field near his village on the sunny morning of 24 October 2012.
Two of his children -- Zubair, now 13, and nine-year old Nabila -- were wounded in the strike. On Tuesday, the three recounted their story. Read
Among those who died in the Volvo bus accident in Mahbubnagar, five were engineers working for IBM and other software companies in Bangalore. The police have confirmed 36 deaths. Read
"Agar pata chalta to pahle hi saja de deta, uske karname se mera sar sharm se jhuk gaya (if I knew anything, I would have punished him. His actions have made my head hang in shame),' said the father of Patna blasts' accused Imtiyaz Ansari at his home in Sithio, some 20km off Ranchi. Read
The judges presiding over the trial of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leaders have stepped down from the proceedings, citing "uneasiness" over the trial as the defence lawyers said the panel had come under pressure to hold the trial inside a prison. Judge Mohammed el-Qarmouti from the three-judge panel at the Cairo Criminal Court announced the decision to step down on Tuesday, just before the second session in the trial was to convene.
"We step down in both cases and we are sending the cases back to the head of the appeal court. The head of the appeal court will assign these cases to another court. Meanwhile, the defendants remain imprisoned," el-Qarmouti said. The move forces the trial of 35 Brotherhood figures, including the group's top leader Mohammed Badie, to start all over again, though Tuesday was only its second session.
Four French hostages kidnapped in Niger in 2010 have been released, France's President Hollande has announced. He said the country's foreign and defence ministers "have left for Niamey" and the hostages would return home as soon as possible.
The four men were seized on 16 September 2010 in raids targeting two French firms operating a uranium mine near Arlit, northern Niger. The al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group said it was responsible.
Thousands of Syrian civilians have finally been allowed to leave the besieged Damascus suburb of Moadamiya. The BBC's Lyse Doucet, who was at the scene, describes a tide of desperate people leaving the area, which has been closed off since March. Supplies in Moadamiya had been running desperately short, and residents had pleaded to be saved from starvation.
The exodus of civilians has been made possible by an apparent relaxation of a blockade by government forces. The Syrian army had previously said that rebel-held areas of Damascus such as Moadamiya could surrender or starve.
At least three of Damascus's suburbs - Yarmouk, Eastern Ghouta and Moadamiya - have been besieged by government forces for several months.
Two servants of Bollywood star couple Ajay Devgan and Kajol have been arrested in connection with the theft of 17 gold bangles, valued at Rs 5.10 lakh, from their residence at suburban Juhu, the police said in Mumbai.
"Two accused Gayatri Devendra (22) and Santosh Pandey (43) were arrested yesterday in connection with the theft at actor Ajay Devgan's residence. The two were produced before Andheri's magistrate's court today and were remanded to judicial custody," an officer at Juhu police station told PTI.
The two servants allegedly stole the gold bangles on October 15 and the matter had come to light a week later during a function when Kajol could not find them when she wanted to wear them.
On October 23, an FIR was registered for theft against unidentified persons at Juhu police station. Kajol's family had also informed the police that an insider could have been behind the theft.
Based on their suspicion, the Juhu police zeroed in on the two servants, after questioning 10 odd servants working at their residence. The two servants have confessed to the crime and the valuables have been recovered, the police said.
Eyewitness: 'There was no checking; and police said venue was unsafe for Modi'
BJP will decimate Congress in Rajasthan, says survey
Vahanvati knew about first-come-first-served procedure: JPC
Vice President Ansari leaves for Cuba
Shall we call Rahul 'badshah' if not 'shehzada': BJP
Need someone to assist us with coal-gate probe report: SC
Coal gate: CBI to question two former PMO officials
PM, Modi spar over Sardar Patel in Ahmedabad
The great contradiction about women voters in Rajasthan
Onion price rise will be downfall of Dikshit: Sushma
Tharoor's video address cut off in Pak for slamming LoC violations
Gold hunt STILL CONTINUES in UP village
Anand Sharma declines Modi's invitation for Patel statue function
Nitish takes on Modi, says his Red Fort dream will remain unfulfilled
Mulayam and son sound the Samajwadi poll bugle in Azamgarh
Yeddyurappa spikes speculation about joining BJP
Coalgate: SC DISMISSES plea against PM
JPC report on 2G scam submitted to Lok Sabha speaker
AP bifurcation: Panel discusses division of assets of AP police
Rahul's polarising speeches not going down well with Sonia