Ramdev Eviction

• Baba Ramdev will spend night at Ambedkar Stadium, police on guard

  At a stadium in central Delhi near Ferozeshah Kotla, Baba Ramdev and thousands of his supporters are refusing to return home. They were arrested and taken there earlier today while protesting against black money and corruption. The police now has to figure out how to evict them without provoking any violence.

• Ramdev eviction not Chidambaram's decision: Centre tells Supreme Court

  The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the decision to evict Baba Ramdev from the Ramlila Grounds in a midnight crackdown was taken by the Delhi Police, and not by Home Minister P Chidambaram. Centre told the court the apprehension of breach of peace by the police can not be questioned by the Supreme Court.

• Hearing to continue today in Baba Ramdev eviction case

  The Supreme Court will continue the hearing in the case of the alleged police attack on Baba Ramdev's followers at the Ramlila Grounds in June last year. The amicus curiae appointed by the Supreme Court has found that Mr Chidambaram, as Home Minister, ordered the eviction of the yoga icon from his massive sit-in protest.

• Court to resume hearing on Baba Ramdev's eviction

  The Supreme Court will resume hearing the petition on the alleged police violence at Baba Ramdev's 'dharna' at Ramlila Maidan at Delhi on June 4.

• Supreme Court to watch video of police action at Ramdev camp

  The Supreme Court has decided it will watch footage of how Baba Ramdev's yoga camp in Delhi was broken up by the Delhi Police. The court will spend August 5 reviewing the visuals recorded by security cameras at the camp and news channels.

• Get ready with CCTV footage of Ramdev camp, says Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has told the Delhi Police to be ready with security camera footage of Baba Ramdev's  yoga camp which ended with a late night lathi-charge, tear-gassing, and the arrest of the yoga icon while he was disguised as a woman.The court has said it may view 31 hard disks' worth of footage to determine the sequence of events.Baba Ramd...

• Congress Core Group meets: All-party meet likely on Lokpal issue

  The growing chorus over Lokpal Bill and battling corruption, it seems, has the Congress-led UPA worried. And a meeting of the Congress Core Group at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signalled that.Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and other senior congress leaders attended the party's core committee meeting at 7, Race Course Road, in N...

• No lathicharge at Ramdev camp, claims Delhi police

  The Delhi Police has denied that its action to dismantle Baba Ramdev's massive sit-in on June 4 was inappropriate. The police have blamed the yoga icon for causing much of the chaos that led to violence that night.In its affidavit filed before the Supreme Court today, the police said that the permission was granted for only for a gathering of 5,000...

• PM speaks on Baba Ramdev controversy

  Amid public criticism of his government's action against yoga guru Baba Ramdev, some of it from within his own party, the Prime Minister today finally spoke about what's turned into a public relations nightmare."It is unfortunate that operation had to be conducted but quite honestly, there was no alternative," Dr Manmohan Singh said about the polic...

• Ramdev eviction: Human rights panel issues notice to Centre, Delhi govt

  The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Centre and Delhi government seeking reports within two weeks on the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev's supporters at Ramlila ground in New Delhi.According to the rights panel, it has issued notices to the Union Home Secretary, Delhi Chief Secretary and the city Commissioner of P...

• Bihar bandh tomorrow to protest Ramdev eviction

  Bihar bandh has been called on Tuesday by Bharat Swabhiman Samiti(BSS), yoga guru Baba Ramdev's apolitical outfit, to protest against the midnight police crack down on him and his supporters in New Delhi on Sunday.The bandh will be observed from dawn to afternoon and essential services like civil supplies and movement of ambulances carrying patient...

• Supreme Court asks government to explain action against Ramdev

  The government has been asked by the Supreme Court to explain why yoga icon Baba Ramdev was evicted from his camp in Delhi on Saturday night. Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and Delhi Police chief BK Gupta have been given three weeks to outline the events that led to the police lathicharging and teargasing a crowd of nearly 65,000 people at the Ra...

• Ramdev eviction: Advani and co pull an all-nighter in protest at Rajghat

  LK Advani and co spent the night at Delhi's Rajghat in protest against the government's controversial handling of Baba Ramdev and his fast against corruption.Mr Advani's daughter was seen giving the 84-year-old leader a glass of milk at Rajghat, home of Mahatma Gandhi's memorial.BJP's Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, turned it into...

• Ramdev's eviction: Sonia Gandhi calls emergency meet

  Last night's police crackdown on Baba Ramdev is generating much political heat now. Congress president Sonia Gandhi called a meeting of all leaders in-charge of states at her 10, Janpath residence.The meeting took stock of the political situation in different states and sent out a message from the Centre. Union Minister Kapil Sibal, who had held ne...

• Team Anna: Won't attend Lokpal meet

  Already under fire for the crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his supporters at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, the government on Sunday suffered another setback with civil society activists deciding to boycott Monday's meeting of the Lokpal Bill joint drafting committee.Terming the incidents at the Ramlila Maidan as the reason for their boycott, the five-m...