"Investigations confirmed the suspicion; evidence at the trial court all but proved his complicity. He, however, escaped with an acquittal. Immediately after Madanlal Pahwa’s failed attempt on Gandhi’s life on January 20, 1948, suspicion fixed on V.D. Savarkar as the brain behind the crime. Investigations confirmed the suspicion; evidence at the trial court all but proved his complicity. He, however, escaped with an acquittal. Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel was convinced of his guilt.
'No evidence was found during a preliminary enquiry against the man booked for sedition and insulting national honour for a Facebook 'like', state government informed the Kerala High Court on Tuesday. The submission was made during the hearing of a petition filed by KH Muhammed Ali, a native of Eloor and an employee of Dubai Municipality, challenging the FIR registered by Eloor police based on city police commissioner's direction. During his stay in Dubai, Muhammed Ali had befriended few co-workers, including Pakistani nationals.
"Home Secretary RK Singh today claimed that Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) associates were involved in terror activities in the country. “The government has names of at least 10 persons associated with the RSS in bomb blast cases,” he said. Singh said that RSS was involved in Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Dargah Sharif blasts. His statement comes soon after Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi distanced the Congress from Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s earlier comment on “saffron terrorism”.
'RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who stoked a controversy a few days ago saying that rapes do not take place in rural but urban India, has created a fresh row now with remarks that a woman is bound by contract to husband to look after him. "A husband and wife are involved in a contract under which the husband has said that you should take care of my house and I will take care of all your needs. I will keep you safe. "So, the husband follows the contract terms.
'After creating a furore with his India-Bharat remark on increasing rapes in the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again kicked up a controversy by saying that women must restrict themselves to household work. In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are bound by a social contract where the wife has to take care of the household chores and the husband's duty is to earn for the house and protect his wife. Defending Bhagwat, RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav had said, "The statement should be taken in the right prospective.
"The RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat (or to call him out in the way he is referred to in the Sangh – Sarsanghchalak Param Pujya Shri Mohan-ji Bhagwat-ji) has now joined the pavilion of eminent Bharatiya moustachioed misogynists. In a breathtakingly revealing statement, he has told us that rapes happen in India, not in Bharat.
"It is not a mere coincidence that Narendra Modi had labelled his tour across the state of Gujarat "Vivekananda Yatra". In a context where Vivekananda has been posited as a "leader of the youth", it is pertinent to remember the principles the man stood by – casteism, racism, slavery, patriarchy and xenophobia. He is considered by many as the first Hindutva ideologue. It is no wonder then that the right wing finds Vivekananda so useful in its agenda of "Cultural Nationalism".
"Former home minister of Gujarat Amit Shah is among the top three candidates from the major political outfits featuring in the second phase of the Assembly elections who have "serious criminal cases of murder, kidnapping and theft" registered against them. Shah, who is fighting on a BJP ticket from Naranpura constituency of Ahmedabad district, has declared two charges of murder and two charges of kidnapping registered against him.
"Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is back to doing what he is best at — raking up Hindutva when his plank of development doesn’t seem to be working in what has turned out to be a three-cornered contest in the Assembly elections. At one public meeting after another, as the campaign hots up, Mr. Modi says the Congress has a secret plan to pitchfork Ahmed Patel, political secretary of party chief Sonia Gandhi, into the job of Chief Minister. To ensure that the message reaches home, Mr. Modi now refers to Mr.
"Hated and mocked in much of the world, the Nazi leader has developed a strange following among schoolchildren and readers of Mein Kampf in India... My wife teaches French to tenth-grade students at a private school here in Mumbai. During one recent class, she asked these mostly upper-middle-class kids to complete the sentence “J'admire …” with the name of the historical figure they most admired. To say she was disturbed by the results would be to understate her reaction.
