Even as the nation started talking about Gujarat’s minister of state for home Amit Shah who has been summoned by CBI, there were and are few people who know the RSS loyalist and shrewd politician who hardly has any personal friends.

A day after RTI activist Amit Jethwa was shot dead outside the Gujarat high court in Ahmedabad’s Gir forest, his father alleged that a BJP MP was behind the murder of his son who he said had recently

During the NDA government, the then law minister Arun Jaitley had opined that the case seeking extradition of Warren Anderson is “weak” on the ground of lack of evidence against him regarding leakage of poisonous gas which killed thousands of people. “There is no evidence that Anderson had knowledge of design defects and

With an aim to rejuvenate Gandhian principles and values and to immortalise the historical salt march undertaken by the Mahatma in March-April 1930, the UPA government has launched a unique Rs 25-crore green project for Dandi and the surrounding villages to transform the area into an eco-friendly tourist destination.

The BJP on Friday formally invited Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar, a move that is likely to create problems with its alliance, the JDU, and may revive the clash between Mr Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar ahead of the state Assembly polls.

The Gujarat police is likely to be soon charged with having staged yet another fake encounter. Top sources confided to this newspaper on Sunday that the special investigation team (SIT) set up by the Gujarat high court has got evidence that will expose and debunk the Gujarat police theory that Ishrat Jahan was shot dead in a daredevil operation carried out a vigilant police.

The Nanavati Commission, probing the Gujarat riots, has been given a further extension and has now been asked to submit its report by December 31, 2010. This is the 14th extension that the commission has sought.

In an unexpected development, Gujarat police chief S.S. Khandwawala and chief secretary A.K. Joti called on CBI director Ashwini Kumar and Cabinet Secretary (home) in Delhi to raise their concern about the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, which is being probed by the agency following a Supreme Court order in January this year.

In a twist to a fake encounter case in Gujarat, mother of Tulsi Prajapati, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin case, has sent a legal notice to the state DGP and CID to stop the probe in her son’s encounter case.