Maneka seeks ban on using animals for lab experiments

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Sunday alleged that members of underworld mobster Chhota Shakeel's gang were plotting to kill him while his mother and party leader Maneka Gandhi complained to the prime minister that the home ministry was treating the threats to his life casually. A day after six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from various parts of the capital, Varun Gandhi urged Home Minister P.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Saturday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi's reaction to the alleged security threat to her son Varun was "most ironical" and wondered how she had failed to react as strongly to her son's anti-Muslim speeches. "I am finding (it) most ironical that Mrs.

June 30th, 2009 RANCHI - Wild animals too need privacy for mating. Recognising this, the Jharkhand forest department has decided to close the Betla National Park to tourists during the mating season July 1-Sep 30 so the animals have congenial atmosphere.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Homage was paid to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi on his 29th death anniversary at his memorial 'Shantivana' in New Delhi on Tuesday. BJP leader and Sanjay Gandhi's widow Maneka Gandhi, her son and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Senior Congress leader Moti Lal Vora led a host of distinguished persons who paid homage to the late leader.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defending her son Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi Sunday said forensic reports verifying the contents of a CD containing his purported hate speeches were a "one-sided version" and the "entire tape is doctored". "The entire tape is doctored, words have been interchanged...

June 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi has said some party seniors were targeting her son and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi and blaming him for the party's poll debacle. According to reliable sources, Maneka was responding to party leaders Shahnawaz Hussain and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at the BJP's two-day national executive meeting which began Saturday.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - BJP leaders Varun Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi arrived here to meet Lal Krishna Advani at his residence on Sunday morning, following reports of the latter's wish to step down from party's parliamentary board. On Saturday, Varun Gandhi won from the Pilibhit Constituency and his mother Maneka Gandhi registered victory from Aonla Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

April 24th, 2009 38 animals die in fire at Calif. wildlife refugePASO ROBLES, Calif.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - If Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, behind bars for alleged hate speeches, cannot contest from Pilibhit, his mother and former minister Maneka Gandhi will fight the Lok Sabha elections from there, party sources said Tuesday. Maintaining that all options were open for Varun Gandhi, the sources said if all measures fail, Maneka Gandhi will contest from Pilibhit, from where she has been elected to the Lok Sabha five times, as well as from Aonla, the new constituency she shifted to.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Refusing to give up even after twice being denied police permission to protest outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), NGO People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has now filed a Right to Information (RTI) application to know the reason for the denials. Dharmesh Solanki of PETA, who filed the RTI plea, said they were twice denied permission to stage an awareness campaign on animal cruelty outside AIIMS, and despite being in constant touch with the police, they were clueless as to why permission was denied.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday broke silence over her son's alleged hate speech, saying the Congress was taking up the case to 'conceal' its 'anti-Sikh acts'. "It has become empirical for Congress to show such tapes (of hate speeches) to conceal their anti-Sikh acts," Gandhi said.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Coming out for the first time in defence of her son Varun Gandhi over his alleged hate speeches, former union minister Maneka Gandhi Thursday attacked the Congress, saying the party was pursuing his case actively to 'conceal' its 'anti-Sikh acts'. 'It has become imperative for the Congress to show such tapes (of hate speeches) to conceal their anti-Sikh acts,' Gandhi told a regional news channel, PTC News.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With mediapersons going berserk trying to get hold of Varun Gandhi, a 22-year-old youth sat quietly waiting to get an audience with him or even his mother and five-time MP Maneka Gandhi at her Delhi residence Thursday. Guddu, a shop owner, had come from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh to meet the mother-son duo to seek help following a theft in his shop.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has had to put up with a volley of questions on Varun Gandhi, who allegedly made communally inflamed speeches. One even compared him poorly with his animal activist-MP mother Maneka Gandhi.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Maneka Gandhi, mother of Varun Gandhi who has created a furore for his hate campaign against Muslims in Pilibhit, refused to comment Tuesday on the swirling controversy. 'I don't want to say anything,' Gandhi, who is five time MP from Pilibhit, told IANS.