‘NSA revocation is a slap on Mayawati’s government’

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - All Air India pilots will return to work after they received assurances on salary related issues from the airline mnagement. The decision came few hours after the Central Government warned that it would take strict action against Air India pilots if they do not report for duty by 5:00 p.m.

September 20th, 2009 JIND - Two groups clashed during a election rally, being addressed by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati in Haryana's Jind district on Sunday. Mayawati was campaigning ahead of the upcoming Haryana assembly elections.

July 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's move to slap the SC/ST act on Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi was "vindictive" and exposed the "autocratic" functioning of the state government. "The government's move to book the Congress leader under the SC/ST act is disproportionate and vindictive," senior BJP leader and Lucknow MP Lalji Tandon told reporters here.

July 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday suggested that the issue of troop withdrawal and revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir should be left to the Centre. Ansari, who was the chairman of a working group on rehabilitation and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) that recommended withdrawal of security forces and revocation of the AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir besides rehabilitation of surrendered militants.

June 22nd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Activists of People's Democratic Party (PDP) took to streets on Monday demanding action against those involved in the killing of two women in Shopian on May 29. The authorities deny of any misdemeanor and say all reports are investigated and the guilty will be punished.

May 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday asked for the resignation of over 50 party leaders heading various corporations, official sources said. After becoming chief minister in 2007, Mayawati had given plum postings to several of her party leaders, with many given red-beacon cars and enjoying facilities and perks given to ministers of state.

May 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Varun Gandhi Friday termed as a 'historic moment' the revocation of the National Security Act against him and said the 'authorities' would have to 'answer' for the 20 days he spent in detention. The BJP's Pilibhit candidate, who was slapped with the stringent NSA for his hate speeches against Muslims and jailed in March in Etah in Uttar Pradesh, said the revocation of the law against him was 'a historic moment, not just for me but for Indian democracy'.

May 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday welcomed the revocation of National Security Act (NSA) charges against Varun Gandhi and termed the move as a 'rebuff to those who tried to implicate him'. 'It is a big rebuff to those who played vendetta politics and vote bank politics.

May 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI - In a setback to the Uttar Pradesh government, the special advisory board of the Allahabad High Court Friday recommended withdrawal of the stringent National Security Act (NSA) invoked against the BJP's Varun Gandhi for his inflammatory communal utterances. The Mayawati government has decided to move the Supreme Court.

May 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Thursday said he will support the party that will dismiss Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati's 'unconstitutional' government in Uttar Pradesh. 'Whichever party will dismiss the unconstitutional government in Uttar Pradesh, we will support them,' Mulayam Singh told reporters after casting his vote at a polling both in his constituency Mainpuri.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leaders of both the Congress and the BJP are going all guns blazing to attract netizens ahead of the forthcoming general elections. They are using not only social networking sites but also advertising heavily in the virtual world.

April 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Arun Jaitley Saturday demanded that the Uttar Pradesh government revoke the 'vindictive' charges under the National Security Act slapped on Varun Gandhi, who is in jail for his reported hate speeches against Muslims. Addressing a press conference at the party's state headquarters here, Jaitley attacked Chief Minister Mayawati.

March 19th, 2009 JAMMU - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said security scenario had improved in Jammu and Kashmir, but cautioned the state government to be on 'very high alert' in view of 'turmoil in Pakistan'.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - For a scene in her forthcoming marathon-based film '42 kms', Mandira Bedi had to slap co-star Gautam Kapur and the actor says it was a 'slap to remember'. 'I did expect a slap but not with that intensity...

January 14th, 2009 NOIDA - Hundreds of Samajwadi Party workers protested in this Uttar Pradesh district over 'absence of law and order' and demanded the removal of Chief Minister Mayawati, who celebrated her 53rd birthday Thursday. The Samajwadi Party activists gathered at the Shimla Park in Sector-12 shouting slogans against Mayawati.