Gujarat Riots 2002

Gujarat police's allegations against Ahmed Patel mischievous, manufactured: Congress

In a statement, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said that this is part of the Prime Minister's systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002

Lacking powerful leaders and worldly-wise elders, today's young Muslims have had to teach selves secularism, political savvy

The 1980s-born Muslims, like me, had seen their childhood go through the trauma of the Babri Masjid demolition and subsequent riots. They grew up with fear, care, and patience

In Gujarat, will it be Narendra Modi's organisational skills or Rahul Gandhi's nicely-formulated narrative?

If the Gujarat Assembly election turns out to be Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi, the results would predictably be in the favour of BJP

Visiting his birth place, PM Narendra Modi remembers 'venom' faced between 2001 and 2014

On his first visit to his birthplace since taking office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his school and said the town had taught him to "drink poison"

Naroda Patiya massacre: Amit Shah to be defence witness for BJP leader Maya Kodnani in a Gujarat riots case

In the Naroda Gam case, she requested the court to call Shah and others as defence witnesses to prove that she was not present at the scene of crime on 28 February, 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning incident which led to riots.

Gujarat High Court adjourns hearing on Jafri's widow Zakia's plea

The Gujarat High Court adjourned hearing on a plea filed by slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri's wife Zakia Jafri to sort out some discrepancies in the translation of documents submitted by Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 riots case.

A guarded U-turn? When Aamir Khan met Narendra Modi

Aamir Khan, who has been championining the cause of social issues, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But his bland tweets about that meeting betrayed little.

How PM Modi's meeting with Obama will be a gamechanger

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to turn a new leaf in bilateral relations with the United States and visit the country in September for a summit meeting is fraught with myriad strategic and economic implications for how a Modi-led India is going to deal with the world.

With exit polls predicting BJP sweep, will US grant 'PM Modi' a visa?

US President Barack Obama faces the prospect this week of having to offer his congratulations to a leader who was barred from the United States less than 10 years ago over massacres of Muslims in 2002.

PMO to seek Modi's views on disclosing his post-riot letters with Vajpayee

The Prime Minister's Office will take the nod of Gujarat government and its Chief Minister Narendra Modi before releasing the correspondence exchanged with the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the 2002 Gujarat riots.