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According to sources, Rajnath Singh is set to take over the post.
A camp led by BJP patriarch L K Advani was against Gadkari's candidature after he was accused of financial impropriety. In fact, the name of Sushma Swaraj was also doing the rounds but a consensus seemed to have emerged on the name of Rajnath as he acceptable to all factions, including the RSS.
The four men were riding in a car when they were stopped by security personnel on duty outside Bilawal House in Clifton area and when questioned they pulled out weapons on the security officials refusing to come out of the car, a policeofficial said.
"They have been detained and moved for further interrogation," the official said.
He is also said to be showing these documents to media in Delhi, Nagpur and Mumbai.
Car bombings in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more, police say. In one attack, a car packed with explosives exploded near an army checkpoint in the town of Mahmoudiya, south of the capital, killing five.
Shortly after, a car bomb was detonated in the northern Baghdad suburb of Taji, killing six, officials said.
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a youth in a village in MP's Bhind district, police said today.
The minor was raped and killed by Dau Baghel in a field yesterday when she went out of her home at Tudila village under Malanpur police station limits in the district.
The villagers caught hold of the accused and beat him up before handing him to police. A case has been registered against the accused under relevant sections, police added.
Gujarat Congress MLAs, who held a meeting in Gandhinagar today, passed a resolution that the party president Sonia Gandhi will decide about the new state Congress Legislature Party leader.
The meeting of elected Congress MLAs, first since the declaration of results, was held here in the state Assembly in the presence of central party observers -- Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and party's state in-charge Mohan Prakash. During the meet, all the newly-elected Congress legislators passed a resolution authorising Sonia Gandhi to choose the new leader.
Police have arrested the vice president of the Don Bosco School in Pune over charges of misbehaviour.
Four schoolgirls have alleged that the vice president used to call them in his room and misbehave with them.
Union Minister for External Affairs Salman Khursheed said on Tuesday that India will not take any decision in haste on dealing with Pakistan in the wake of beheading incident.
Khurshid also backed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over his right-wing terror remarks, saying there are elements who are engaged in nefarious activities. Terror has no religion and colour; religion should not be associated with terror, he added.
Recognising the need to build a special economic partnership framework to achieve the shared goals of poverty alleviation, job creation and economic development for the people of the two countries, India and Sri Lanka on Tuesday agreed to encourage closer economic and trade linkages between all stakeholders with a view to doubling bilateral trade to $10 billion in the next three years.
In this context, a Ministry of External Affairs release said that it was also agreed to initiate a dialogue between the Commerce Secretary of India and the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Sri Lanka at an early date to evolve a framework for a special economic partnership between the two countries.
The decision was taken during the eighth meeting of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission here today. The meeting was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Sri Lankan counterpart Prof G L Peiris. The Joint Commission Meeting was preceded by the Senior Officials Meeting at the level of the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries on Monday.
Eight envoys presented their credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
A release issued from the press secretary's office of Rashtrapati Bhavan said that the envoys who presented their credentials were: Ali Abd-Al-Aziz-Isawi, ambassador of Libya, Rizali Wilmar Indrakesuma, ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, Gholamreza Ansari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ndubuisi Vitus Amaku, high commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Daniele Mancini, ambassador of the Republic of Italy, Viljar Lubi, ambassador of the Republic of Estonia, Wei Wei, ambassador of the People Republic of China and Patrick Michael Suckling, high commissioner of Australia.
Haryana Janhit Congress chief Kuldeep Bishnoi on Tuesday welcomed a Delhi court's verdict of awarding a 10-year jail term to former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and others in connection with the JBT teacher recruitment case.
"I welcome the decision given by the court. It is a historical decision. It will impact on the future politics of the country,' Bishnoi said. "After this, any politician will think ten times before doing corruption,' he added.
The Supreme Court will hear today a petition by one of the six December 16, 2012 gang-rape accused seeking transfer of the trial to a place outside Delhi. The matter will be taken up for hearing by a bench presided over by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir.
The bench fixed the hearing after M L Sharma, the lawyer for accused Mukesh Singh, pleaded for an urgent hearing on the grounds that a free and fair hearing is not possible in Delhi because of the strong public sentiment against him.
Mukesh, who has been charged with murder, gangrape and unnatural offences, submitted in his petition that in view of the regular agitation, police and judicial officials are allegedly under pressure to pass orders according to the demands of the agitators.
He referred to protests that are held regularly at Jantar Mantar where students and activists are calling for swift justice and tougher anti-rape laws. Sharma had earlier said that the statements issued by the Prime Minister, other leaders and officials, have given direct message to the judicial authorities about what they should do and how they should handle the case.
After taking over for a second term, US President Barack Obama lauded the "resilience" and "fundamental goodness" of the American people and promised his supporters to try his best to achieve the goals he set out four years ago. "Now it's time to finish what we started -- let's get going," Obama said in an email to his supporters.
51-year-old Obama is the first African American to hold the office. He was re-elected for the second four year term in the November presidential elections, defeating Mitt Romney of the Republican Party.
Obama's second term started on January 20 noon, which happened to be a Sunday when all the federal offices are closed, hence the ceremonial inauguration was held yesterday.
"I just renewed my oath of office to serve as your President for four more years. Thank you for making this possible. It's an honour to be your President," Obama said in his email yesterday.
Supporters of former Haryana chief minister and Indian National Lok Dal Om Prakash Chautala have clashed with police outside a Delhi court. Police had to resort to lathicharge to tackle the situation. Tear gas shells were also hurled.
A Delhi court will will pronounce the quantum of sentence against Chautala and his MLA son Ajay in the illegal teacher recruitment scam case. The Chautalas were taken into custody on January 16 after they were found guilty of illegally recruiting more than 3,000 Junior Basic Trained teachers in 1999-2000.
The BSE benchmark Sensex today rose by over 25 points in early trade to touch a new two-year high of 20,128.58 on sustained buying by funds on strong third quarter earnings posted by corporates amid a firming trend in the Asian region.
The 30-share index, which had gained nearly 284 points in the previous three sessions, rose by 26.76 points, or 0.13 per cent, to trade at a new two-year high of 20,128.58.
Similarly, the wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty rose by 6.80 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 6,089.10. Brokers said sustained buying by funds as well as retail investors driven by announcement of encouraging third quarter results by blue-chip companies, buoyed the trading sentiments.
However, stocks of gold trading companies such as Titan Industries, P C Jewellers, Rajesh Exports and Gitanjali Gems were under pressure and lost up to two per cent, after the government hiked the import duty on gold and platinum to six per cent from 4 per cent yesterday.
In the Asian region, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index and Japan's Nikkei were marginally up in the morning trade today.
A Delhi court will pronounce the quantum of sentence against former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his MLA son Ajay in the illegal teacher recruitment scam case.
The Chautalas were taken into custody on January 16 after they were found guilty of illegally recruiting more than 3,000 Junior Basic Trained teachers in 1999-2000. Apart from the Chautalas, Sanjiv Kumar, the then Director of Primary Education, Chautala's former Officer on Special Duty, Vidya Dhar, and Sher Singh Badshami, political advisor to the then Haryana chief minister were convicted by the court in the case.
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