TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should ensure that corruption is weeded out from Congress-ruled states before expecting similar measures from other state governments.
The Prime Minister should first cleanse corruption in Congress ruled states, Naidu said referring to Singh's statement yesterday where he asked all state governments to take measures to improve governance.
"Corruption has increased during UPA's second term and many scams like 2G Spectrum, CWG have come to light. In such a situation, the Congress for more details....

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BJP president Nitin Gadkari today said the party would fight the upcoming assembly election in Uttar Pradesh under a collective leadership and elected MLAs would choose the Chief Ministerial candidate in the event of the party coming to power in the state.
The party would contest the Assembly election under the leadership of Kalraj Mishra, Uma Bharti, Rajnath Singh and Surya Pratap Shahi, he told reporters here.
In the event of the party romping home, party's elected representatives would elect their leader for Chief Minister's post, Gadkari said in reply for more details....

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The country fondly remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 27th death anniversary today with President Pratibha Patil leading the nation in paying rich tributes to the departed leader.
Patil paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Gandhi, here this morning.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok for more details....

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Social activist Anna Hazare has hit out against a"gang of four"in the UPA government, which he said was opposed to the Jan Lokpal bill and was carrying out a systematic"character assassination"of Team Anna members.
"To accuse and humiliate seems to be the mantra of these few,"Hazare said in his latest blog posted on Monday night."I do not blame all the ministers in the Congress party or the government as a whole. There are some righteous and committed people in the government but they cannot raise their voice because of this gang for more details....

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit China in November.
Vice Minister of the Chinese government Al Ping today met Modi to discuss his schedule."In view of Gujarat's surge towards top position in global economy, Modi plans to visit China during November 2011,"an official release from the state government said."Ping extended an invitation to Gujarat Chief Minister to visit China and discussed with him his schedule for more details....

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A special CBI court, Monday, reserved its order on the bail plea of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi’s daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi and four others accused in the 2G spectrum case.
The court would pronounce its verdict on November 3. The four others whose bail plea would also for more details....

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BJP leader Varun Gandhi today hit out at Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh for his comments that there is a nexus between his party and Team Anna, saying he should "stop tilting at the windmills".
Singh has often attacked Hazare and his team for being close to the BJP and RSS. He had charged that Hazare's fast at Ramlila grounds was run with RSS support, a contention denied by the Gandhian but accepted by the Sangh fountainhead.
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BJP leader L K Advani today said the party's erstwhile ally BJD had ended their alliance in Orissa "without justification"  and the relations between the state units of both parties were "tense".
"We were in a coalition for quite some time and which they ended without any reason or justification on which I do not have anything to say,"Advani said.
He was asked about the possibility for more details....

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Delhi High Court granted bail to Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, who was accused for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam on medical grounds.
He has been asked to pay of Rs1 crore for surety.
Amar Singh will be released after he signs a petition and agrees to not move out of the country. Singh, who is admitted for more details....

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The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court at Patiala House will on Monday hear the bail pleas of DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi and six others - Sharad Kumar, MD, Kalaignar TV; R K Chandolia, former Personal Secretary to A Raja; Rajiv Aggarwal and Asif Balwa, Directors, Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables; Shahid Balwa, Promoter, D B Realty and Swan for more details....

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa continued her deposition in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate case against her before a special court here for the second day today.
Jayalalithaa, who flew back to Chennai yesterday after her statement was recorded, returned here this morning to appear before the makeshift court at Parappana Agrahara central jail premises on the city outskirts.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson has sparked romance rumours with '50/50'  star Joseph Gordon-Levitt after the pair were spotted out together in New York.,
The 'Avengers'  star, who was married to Ryan Reynolds for three years before separating earlier this year, was seen getting intimate with the 30-year-old actor, reported Us for more details....

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Noting that Anna Hazare's movement has"served its purpose", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday  said the government was working to put in place an effective Lokpal which would be an assurance to people that corruption"cannot flourish as a way of life".
He said corruption was hurting development, governance besides the poor people and his government was committed to"clean up the system".
"Well, I would not like to use this opportunity to criticise any individual,"he told journalists when asked whether Hazare had been"unfair"by continuously for more details....

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Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's aide and India's first woman IPS officer, Kiran Bedi has some explaining to do, if what a news story on Thursdays edition of the Indian Express is true.
The media reported that Bedi inflated travel expenses she has been charging NGOs and institutions which invite her for seminars or meetings.
The national daily has in possesion for more details....

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will appear before a court in Bangalore on Thursday and answer the judge's questions in a 15-year-old disproportionate assets case. The Supreme Court had yesterday rejected her plea and ordered her to appear before the special court today.
The AIADMK leader, who pleaded for postponing the hearing in the case against her by a few days, also failed in her attempts to get the venue of the proceedings shifted closer to airport with both the Apex court and the Special Court turning down for more details....

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India’s oldest and the most popular political party Congress has lost all the four by elections, including the one in Hisar in which Anna had campaigned against the Congress. Now, it is concluding that such results are due to‘Anna effect’ and that is probably the conclusion that Anna Hazare supporters and team Anna would jump to, but this is simply not the case.
Not only this Congress has also lost the other three bypolls in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in which Anna had not campaigned. The results indicate a deep cynicism against the ruling party.
In Hisar, the Haryana Janhit Congress for more details....

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The Delhi high court will on Wednesday hear the bail pleas of Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in the cash-for-votes scam.
On Tuesday, justice Suresh Kait decided to hear Singh's interim as well as regular bail pleas on Wednesday at 2.15pm after the statecounsel sought an adjournment due to non-availability of its senior advocate to advance arguments on its behalf.
Singh moved the high court after a city for more details....

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Former Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa's bail plea adjourned on Tuesday. The hearing will now take place on Yeddyurappa's bail plea on Thursday.

Following the courts decision to adjourn today's hearing Yeddyurappa has been taken back to the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, where he has spent the last 3 days since his arrest. Yeddyurappa has in fact not been in jail since the day of his arrest on Saturday after he complained of chest pain.

B S Yeddyurappa, who has been remanded to judicial custody till October 22 by a Special Lokayukta Court in alleged land scam cases, moved the High for more details....

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Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit Congress has won the by-elections in Hisar by 23,617 votes. Mr Bishnoi's father, Bhajan Lal, died in June; he was the Lok Sabha MP for this constituency.
So, did Team Anna's high-octave campaign against the Congress help him?
Mr Bishnoi thinks not."Team Anna has not been a factor here,"he said, referring to Anna Hazare's closest aides campaigning vigorously here, asking voters to spurn the Congress.  
Mr Hazare's group had asked Hisar for more details....

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Sanjiv Bhatt, arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence to implicate Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots, was granted bail by a local court in Ahmedabad on Monday, 17 days after he was sent to jail.
Sessions Judge V.K. Vyas granted bail on the condition that Mr. Bhatt would cooperate with the investigation and would remain present when called for.
Mr. Bhatt was in jail after being arrested on September 30 in connection with an FIR filed against him by a police constable K.D. Pant for allegedly threatening him and making him sign a false affidavit with regards to the IPS officer’s presence in the February 27, 2002 meeting called by the Chief Minister after the Godhra train burning incident.
Mr. Bhatt had moved a bail application on October 3, which was opposed for more details....

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Haryana Janhit Congress(HJC)-BJP alliance candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi is leading over his nearest rival Ajay Chautala of INLD by over 29,041 votes after seven rounds of counting for the by-polls to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat.
Bishnoi, son of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, has so far got 1,56,049 votes, while Ajay Chautala, son of former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, is placed second with a tally of 1,27,008 votes, the election office said here.
Ruling Congress candidate Jai Parkash is at the third spot with just 56,530 votes.
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Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who has been remanded to judicial custody till October 22 by a Special Lokayukta Court in alleged land scam cases, moved the High Court today seeking bail.
A memo to this effect was filed by senior counsel Jayakumar S Patil before Justice B V Pinto praying for posting it for tomorrow. 68-year-old Yeddyurappa is undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit of a city hospital.
Facing imminent arrest, Yeddyurappa surrendered before the Lokayukta Court on Saturday after it rejected his bail application.He was taken to Parappana for more details....

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Kuldeep Bishnoi of Haryana Janhit Congress is leading over his nearest rival Ajay Chautala of Indian National Lok Dal by over 11,000 votes after two rounds of counting for the bypolls to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat.
Jai Prakash of Congress is at the third position.
The bypoll held on October 13 had witnessed a turnout of nearly 69 per cent with the Anna factor raising the stakes for the Congress in a triangular fight.
The polling, which was necessitated due to the death of sitting MP Bhajan Lal of Haryana Janhit Congress in June will decide the electoral fortune for more details....

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It is perhaps one of the most closely-watched by-elections in recent times. Counting of votes has begun and after Team Anna's high-decibel campaign against the Congress, results for the Hisar Lok Sabha by-election will be known today.  
The election and the subsequent outcome have been significant in that it saw Anna Hazare and his associates'first tryst with electoral politics. Even though Mr Hazare wasn't physically present in Hisar, he sent out a tough video message, urging people to vote against the Congress for not bringing in the Jan Lokpal Bill for more details....

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The savage manner in which Team Anna activist and Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan was beaten in his own chamber speaks deeply of the factious times we live in. The social activist was assaulted in front of the television cameras— for  saying something that his attackers disapproved of. There is nothing new about it as the past is flooded with incidents, where impatient groups have targeted writers, groups, artists, journalists, scholars, and activists whose work was not liked. These dogmatic groups have no problem breaking the law with self-proclaimed license.
Lately Mr. Bhushan has been in the public eye for going in full swing against high-level corruption, both in his capacity as a lawyer and as part of Anna Hazare’s spectacularly-mounted and hugely echoing Jan Lokpal Bill campaign. As a petitioner for more details....

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A helicopter, a convoy of big cars, a red carpet and a line of officials in their Sunday best to greet their Chief Minister as Mayawati arrived at the Rashtriya Dalit Smarak in Noida to inaugurate her dream 33-acre park on Friday evening.  
Big purse in right hand, smile on the face, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister walked up to cut a red ribbon.
At Rs. 685 crore, it is an expensive dream. But Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has pulled out all stops to ensure that it becomes a grand reality. To make it a smooth affair, 2,500 policemen have been stationed.
The memorial is meant to honour Dalit for more details....

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Putting all speculations to rest, prominent member of Team Anna, Arvind Kejriwal today said that lawyer Prashant Bhushan is still a part of the core team. He said that there is a conspiracy against Team Anna. Earlier, Anna Hazare said Team Anna was not in agreement with Bhushan's views and that J&K was an integral part of India.
“Kashmir is an integral part of India. Bhushan has given his personal opinion and Team Anna is not in agreement with the views,” Hazare told mediapersons.
Hazare pointed out that he had visited some of the most sensitive areas of the state without any security, since“Kashmir belongs to my country for more details....

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Veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare on Friday clarified that eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan's comments on Kashmir are not the views of his team, but his own. Bhushan was attacked on Wednesday by three right-wing extremist youths for supporting a plebiscite in Kashmir.
Addressing the media Anna said,"Bhushan's comments on Kashmir are his individual views. He did not discuss those views with us."
On the Kashmir issue Anna further added,"Kashmir for more details....

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Security has been stepped up in both Delhi and Mumbai in the wake of terror alerts issued for the two cities after Thursday's explosive haul in Ambala.
About five kilos of RDX, two timers and five detonators were found in a car parked outside the Ambala Cantonment railway station on Thursday morning. Intelligence sources said the RDX was not yet in IED (Improvised Explosive Detonator) form; it was not connected to any detonator or timer and so the car seemed for more details....

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Anna Hazare last night hit back at Congress leader Digvijay Singh saying the charge of RSS support to his anti-corruption campaign was an attempt to defame him and ruled out joining politics or becoming a Presidential candidate. "I know very well that people throw stones only at those trees which bear fruits. People see the world in the colour of the glasses they wear. I think that the colour of your spectacle is wrong and you should change it,"he said in his eight-page letter.
The 74-year-old Gandhian has sought to puncture for more details....

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The car found in Ambala packed with explosives was meant for the banned Sikh terrorist group Babbar Khalsa, the Delhi Police announced on Thursday. The car was headed to the national capital for a terror strike, said the police."We recovered explosives from a Tata Indica car and the consignment was meant for Delhi,"Arun Kampani, deputy commissioner of police, Special Cell, told media in Delhi.
"Central intelligence agencies had informed us that a module of the Lashkar-e-Taiba was active in Jammu and Kashmir,"he added.
Haryana Police, along with a special team of Delhi Police, had found an abandoned Indica car outside the Ambala Cantonment railway station on Wednesday for more details....

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The Supreme Court today reduced the amount of compensation to be paid to the victims of Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy.
Compensation to family of deceased above 20 yrs cut from Rs 18 lakh to Rs 10 lakh each; for those below 20 yrs, from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh. Announcing the compensation the apex court said,"Owners of Uphaar for more details....

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Anna factor looms large on the Congress as Hisar votes in by elections today. It will be a test for both Team Anna and the ruling Congress as the civil society group social activists crossed the entire length and breadth of the constituency, opposing the Congress, during campaigning.
Team Anna gave a new dimension to the triangular contest between the ruling Congress, INLD and HJC-BJP combine. While the anti-corruption catchphrase was a fad for all the candidates during their campaign, it was local issues like discrimination for more details....

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A suspected terror plot has been foiled with the recovery of over 5-kg explosives and detonators from a car parked outside Cantt railway station of the city, police said.
The explosives have been sent for forensic test and a team of National Security Guard (NSG) from Delhi was rushed for more details....

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In what comes as an affirmation in regards to his conviction that the Anna Hazare led anti-corruption movement was supported by the RSS, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh says that he has "proof"  of the RSS 'links with Anna and that he shall go public with it on Wednesday.
 On Tuesday Singh had written an open letter to Hazare, where Singh had said RSS and its chief Mohan Bhagwat had extended their support to him during his recent fast. He alleged that Hazare's contention that he is not aware of this raises questions about his "credibility".
Recalling that whenever he had taken the name of RSS in connection with his campaign,"You have said that I should be sent to a mental hospital, but I don't want for more details....

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Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today told a Delhi court that he wanted to make a statement on why Union Home Minister P Chidambaram should be made a co-accused in the 2G scam case.
"Why Chidambaram should be made a co-accused in 2G case, I will make a statement in this regard in the court,"Swamy told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.
The proceeding was, however, deferred to October 24.
During the brief hearing, Swamy informed the court that the Supreme Court had reserved its order on his plea for a probe into the alleged role of Chidambaram, who was Finance Minister for more details....

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Declaring government's commitment to a strong Lokpal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Anna Hazare's demand for'Right to Reject'provision in electoral law needs political consensus. Even as Hazare came out against the Congress in the Hisar Lok Sabha bypoll, the Gandhian and the Prime Minister exchanged letters on Lokpal and measures to fight corruption and other issues like electoral and judicial reforms in the last 20 days.
"As you are aware, we are committed to enacting a strong Lokpal law and we hope that we will succeed in this in the near future. However, our government is working on a broad agenda to fight corruption and bring in administrative reforms,"Singh said in a letter for more details....

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Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday reached out to social activist Anna Hazare saying that he is being misled by his team. In a letter to the veteran Gandhian, Digvijay has also claimed that the Congress party has acted decisively against corruption.
Digvijay's letter to Anna reads,"I feel people who have surrounded you are leading you the wrong way and forcing you to take decisions opposite to your values."
"Congress has taken many steps against corruption. From introducing the RTI to putting ministers behind the bars, the party has always acted decisively,"added the Congress leader.
This letter to Anna from Digvijay came a day after he hit out at Team Anna saying that their entire campaign is sponsored by the RSS. Singh also said for more details....

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In one of his sharpest attacks, DMK Chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday (October 11) hit out at the Centre and the Congress party saying that the CBI raids on Marans is a conspiracy against the party. In the strongest language that he has used so far, Karuna has backed the Marans and said that the party backs the Marans and will assist them in whatever help they need.
This statement from the DMK supremo came after speculation surfaced that the party had distanced itself from the Marans following the CBI action against them in the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal.
The premises of top DMK leader and former for more details....

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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar flagged of BJP leader LK Advani's yatra against corruption today from Jai Prakash Narayan's village in the state. Advani's 12,000-km campaign against corruption--a journey many see as an attempt to be his party's candidate for the PM's post in2014.
The plan was to flag off the yatra from Sitab Diara but the venue was moved to Chhapra in view of the bad road condition and waterlogging.
Advani, accompanied by Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively, arrived by a chartered for more details....

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Senior BJP leader L K Advani is all set to embark on his 38-day 'Jan Chetna Yatra'  from Jayaprakash Narayan's birth place Sitabdiara in Saran district today.
Advani, accompanied by Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively, arrived here by a chartered plane from the national capital and straightaway took off in a chopper for Sitabdiara.
He is scheduled to address a public meeting at Chapra and proceed by road to Patna where he would be addressing another rally for more details....

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Bihar is all set to witness Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani's“Jan Chetna Yatra” from Sitab Diara in Saran district on Tuesday.
The 40-day nationwide anti-corruption‘rath yatra'is the culmination of several press conferences by the BJP and vociferous denunciations by the Congress-led UPA government. The State BJP unit has left no stone unturned to make Mr. Advani's moment“historic.”
Sitab Diara, a village noted only as the birthplace for more details....

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Ahead of his rath yatra, senior BJP leader L K Advani today hit out at the UPA for "lack"  of leadership, which, he said, was the main reason for the "people's anger"  against the government.
Advani said he would highlight the issue of corruption and stashing away of blackmoney in tax havens abroad during his 38-day'Jan Chetana Yatra'set to be launched tomorrow from Sitab Diara in Bihar, the birthplace of Jai Prakash Narain.
The 84-year-old leader said his yatra would focus on good and clean governance, which has been"lacking of-late and leading to anger amongst the people against the elected government".
"There has been an ethical decline in UPA's conduct of government affairs and of politics and this has been the principle reason for the anger of people for more details....

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Hundreds of protesters marched in Washington, angered at what they said was the US government's willingness to bail out rich corporations while neglecting the nation's hard-pressed citizens.
The Occupy DC movement, a fledgling activist group which set up a makeshift headquarters at McPherson Square on K Street one week ago, showed signs of growing as people from across the country for more details....

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Monday, filed an FIR against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanidhi Maran and two others in connection with the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal.
Apart from the Marans, the two others who have been named in the FIR are TA Krishnan and Ralph Marshal. The CBI had said that after Aircel was sold to the Maxis Group, investments were made by the Malaysian firm in the family business of Marans.
Following the FIR, the investigative agency raided for more details....

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A local court today adjourned the pronouncement of order on the maintainability of the remand revision application filed by the Gujarat government seeking custody of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, till October 10.
Principal Session judge G N Patel said he was unable to complete the order and it would now be pronounced on Monday.
The Gujarat government on October 3 had challenged in the sessions court, a magisterial court order denying remand of the suspended IPS officer, arrested for more details....

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A sessions court in Ahmedabad will on Friday resume the hearing of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's bail plea. Sessions judge VK Vyas had adjourned the hearing on Bhatt's bail on October 5 after partly hearing arguments of his lawyer.
On Wednesday, the court rejected the Gujarat government's application opposing hearing of Bhatt's bail plea.
The government had argued that a plea seeking police remand of the suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officer was pending before another judge of the court. 
Today, Vyas will hear Bhatt's bail plea as another judge hears the pending police remand application. The court hearing the remand application had reserved for more details....

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Dubbing PDP demand for his resignation as a political stunt, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah today  dismissed allegations of"political payoffs"against him and said truth will emerge in the judicial inquiry into the death of an NC worker."Farooq Abdullah has nothing to do with it. Whatever has to come will come in the judicial inquiry. We have nothing to hide. What else you want me to say.... The truth will come out,"Abdullah told media after a meeting of party MLAs and Ministers.
He said the opposition PDP's demand for his and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's resignation pending the judicial inquiry into the death of NC worker for more details....

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Terming Anna Hazare's decision to campaign against it in the Hisar by-election as"unfortunate", Congress today said the government is committed to set up a strong and effective Lokpal and the Gandhian should not have any"pre-conceived notions"on the issue.
"Anna on one hand is saying if Lokpal Bill is not passed in the Winter Session for more details....

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The Gujarat sessions court today hear the bail plea of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. The Gujarat government on Monday challenged in the sessions court a magisterial court's order denying remand of Bhatt, arrested for allegedly threatening and forcing a constable to sign a falseaffidavit.
Bhatt was arrested on September 30 in connection with an FIR filed against him by police constable K D Pant in June for allegedly threatening him and making him sign false affidavits regarding a meeting called by chief minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002, hours after the Godhra train carnage.
On October 1, additional chief judicial magistrate B G Doshi had rejected for more details....

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