Mangaluru: District Congress party commemorated the birth anniversaries of former PM Rajiv Gandhi and former Karnataka CM Devaraj Urs, on Saturday at district Congress office. Speaking on the occasion district in-charge Miniter Ramanath Rai said that both Rajiv Gandhi and Urs had progressive vision. Most of the youths and women were attracted towards politics during […]

This is a Love Story that the Indians may not know! This had happened before Antonia Maino ever met Rajive Gandhi in England! Franco Luison, recollects in this interview to an Italian magazine ‘GENTE’ of his four years of love story before she had met with Rajive. My love affair with Antonia Maino “We were […]

New Delhi: In its plea before the Supreme Court on Monday, the Centre said that soon after the court stayed the release of three persons whose death sentences in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case had been commuted, it sent a letter to the Tamil Nadu government, asking that the release be kept in abeyance. On […]

New Delhi: The Central government on Monday moved the Supreme Court in a bid to stop the release of seven convicts involved in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the petition and has fixed the next date of hearing on February 27. The apex court had last […]

New Delhi : A day after Congress vice-president slammed the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to release all seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court stayed the release of the convicts on Thursday. The apex court was hearing a review petition filed swiftly by the Central government in the morning. Attorney General […]

New Delhi: A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announced her decision to release six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday condemned the move. Expressing his unhappiness, Singh said the Tamil Nadu CM must reconsider her decision. On microblogging website Twitter, Singh said

New Delhi: Law Minister Kapil Sibal today said government would abide by Supreme Court’s decision commuting death penalty of convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, but took a jibe at BJP for not uttering a word on the issue while it had bayed for Afzal Guru’s blood. “They (BJP) were baying for the blood of […]

New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday commuted the death sentence to the three assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to life imprisonment, holding that the 11-year long delay in deciding their mercy petition had a dehumanising effect on them. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said that the delay was not […]

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court will on Tuesday resume hearing the plea of convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case seeking to commute the death penalty to life sentence due to delay in deciding their mercy plea. The SC will today hear the Centre’s arguments on the matter. The Centre is opposing the plea of […]

Mangalore : DK District in-charge Minister and State Minister for Forest and Ecology  B Ramanatha Rai   garlanded the portraits of former prime minister Late Rajiv Gandhi and former chief minister late Devaraj Urs  on the occasion of their birth anniversary at the District Congress office in Mangalore. Speaking on the occasion, he said the two […]