A key witness to the Babri Masjid demolition case, IPS officer Anju Gupta, on Friday deposed about BJP leader L K Advani and other Sangh Parivaar leaders presence at Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 when the mosque was brought down by Hindutva supporters. 'I did not see these leaders making any attempt to prevent the kar sevaks from demolishing the disputed structure,' IPS officer Anju Gupta said.
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Three government-owned oil firms would end the current fiscal with a revenue loss of over Rs 45,000 crore. If we do not increase price, the under recoveries revenue loss in 2010-11 would be Rs 70,000 crore, says a top official. The projection may lead to the companies hiking fuel prices, particularly that of the cleaner Euro IV fuel.
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Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has always taken a keen interest in the right to food act, a legislation that the Congress party had promised in its election manifesto. A few months back she had written a detailed letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh articulating her vision.
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Unwilling to accept the government s position that David Headley s bargain plea with US prosecutors was not a setback to India, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Friday said it would accept nothing short of extradition of the Pakistani born terrorist who is believed to have played a key role in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
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The Supreme Court on Friday declined to stay former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa s trial in a 14 year old disproportionate assets case being heard in Karnataka. A bench headed by Justice B Sudershan Reddy, however, directed the trial court to fix a time frame for cross examination of the 42 witnesses after giving sufficient opportunity to Jayalalithaa.
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The Bahujan Samajwadi Party BSP has sacked BSP spokesperson from Karnataka, Y N Sarma, over the multicrore garland controversy surrounding BSP supremo Mayawati. The decision on Sharma has been taken for speaking to CNN IBN s India At 9 on Monday regarding the cash garland. He is the first casualty in the latest controversy that has hit Mayawati.
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