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Rameshwaram, Mar 7: The Indian government on Tuesday conveyed its deep concerns to the Sri Lankan authorities hours after latter's Navy fired upon Indian fishermen and killed one of them off the Tamil Nadu coast. News agency ANI quoted highly placed sources as saying that the Indian government is deeply concerned at the killing of an Indian fisherman. Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka has

Shajapur (MP), Mar 7: At least eight persons were today injured, two of them seriously, in a blast in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train near Jabdi station in the district, a railway official said. The blast occurred in a general coach of the train between 9.30 AM and 10 AM when it was on its way to Ujjain from Bhopal, Railway PRO, Indore, Jitendra Kumar Jayant said. A bomb disposal squad has

New Delhi, Mar 7: The Centre on Tuesday expressed its concern to the Sri Lankan government over the killing of an Indian fisherman, allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy on Monday. "Government of India is deeply concerned at the killing of an Indian fisherman. Our High Commissioner to Sri Lanka has taken up the matter with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka," highly placed sources in the government told

Jaunpur, Mar 7: Claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has "grown old" and must be "feeling tired", Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said his party and ally Samajwadi Party would form a "government of youth" in Uttar Pradesh. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grown old, and hence a government of the youth will be formed in UP. And this government will make the state -- the

Chennai, Mar 7: J?Jayalalithaa was not administered wrong drugs prior to her hospitalisation in September last year, the Tamil Nadu government said on Monday. As the clamour rose for an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the chief minister’s death on December 5, 2016, the government released details from collated treatment records. Neither hospital that had treated her mentions “evidence of

New Delhi, Mar 6: Former Pakistan National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani has admitted that 2008 Mumbai terror attacks+ were carried out by a terror group based in Pakistan. At the same time, Durrani, however, said the Pakistani government had no role in the Mumbai attacks. Durrani was speaking at a conference on combating terrorism at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis in Delhi.

Varanasi, Mar 6: If it is the RSS cadre who are working silently for the BJP here, for the SP-Congress alliance it is the non-political volunteers who have fanned out across the city with the 'Phir Sey Akhilesh' message. Thousands of volunteers, including young women are campaigning for the alliance, wearing specially designed T-shirts embossed with the slogans 'Phir Sey Akhilesh' and 'UP ko yeh

New Delhi, Mar 6: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was quick to react on Sunday to the shooting of a Sikh U.S. citizen in Washington, the third attack on a person of Indian origin in the past two weeks, even as the External Affairs Ministry faces concerns domestically over the safety of Indians in the U.S. “I am sorry to know about the attack on Deep Rai, a U.S. national of Indian origin. I

Washington, Mar 6: Indian American Congressman Ami Bera has condemned the shooting of an Indian-origin Sikh man in Kent, saying crime motivated by hate are on the rise even as FBI joined probe into the "potentially hate-motivated crime". "This disturbing crime is an outrage that goes against everything we stand for as a nation of immigrants," Bera said in a statement in which he condemned the

Jaunpur (UP), Mar 5: Dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi today as a 'thug' (con man), Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav today accused him of lying to the people to form his government. "He (PM) is a thug (con man), who lied to the people to form his government. You should beware of him now," said Yadav addressing a rally here for party candidate Paras Nath Yadav, contesting from the