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Mumbai, Feb 7: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today said Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel will be his party's face in Gujarat Assembly polls even as he asserted the alliance with BJP in Maharashtra is on "notice period". Thackeray's statements came after Patel called on him at his residence Mathoshree here. Patel's visit is being seen as significant since Sena has been trying to woo the

Chennai, Feb 7: The AIADMK today said it was the constitutional obligation of the Governor to swear-in Sasikala as Chief Minister and there is no ground for stopping it even as it rejected former Speaker P H Pandian's allegations of foul play in Jayalalithaa's death. Addressing a press conference hours after Pandian questioned Sasikala's election as party chief and Legislature Party Leader paving

Kathmandu, Feb 7: One of the key suspects in the Kanpur train derailment in November has been arrested from Tribhuvan International Airport here after being deported from Dubai. A special team of Nepal Police arrested Samshul Hoda along with three others. Hoda has been detained from the Tribhuvan International Airport yesterday, said Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Pashupati Upadhyaya.

Kathmandu, Feb 7: One of the key suspects in the Kanpur train derailment in November has been arrested from Tribhuvan International Airport here after being deported from Dubai. A special team of Nepal Police arrested Samshul Hoda along with three others. Hoda has been detained from the Tribhuvan International Airport yesterday, said Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Pashupati Upadhyaya.

Mumbai, Feb 7: Shiv Sena functionary Anil Parab on Monday riled Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar for alleging that the Sena-Congress had entered into a clandestine agreement in 42 Mumbai wards to defeat BJP candidates. "Shelar keeps talking of match-fixing as he is Mumbai Cricket Association president. He picked up this term from MCA, I believe. I dare him to cite the number of seats where Sena has

New Delhi, Feb 6: A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.8 on Richter Scale today hit Uttarakhand, tremors of which were felt in Delhi and other parts of northern India. The epicentre of the quake was Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand, said J L Gautam, Operations head at the National Seismological Bureau, a unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences. "The depth of the quake was 33 km and it

New Delhi, Feb 6: A PIL was today moved in the Supreme Court seeking to restrain AIADMK leader V K Sasikala from being sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister tomorrow on the ground that the apex court was likely to pronounce within a week the judgement in a corruption case in which she and late CM J Jayalalithaa were accused. The PIL was filed by Chennai resident Senthil Kumar, General Secretary of

Chennai, Feb 6: As questions continued to rage over the death of J Jayalalithaa, London-based specialist Richard Beale, Apollo and government doctors today ruled out poisoning as the cause and asserted that there was "no conspiracy" or mystery in either the treatment or what led to her end. Beale faced a number of questions including some hostile ones as he and the other doctors sought to clear

New Delhi/Jaipur, Feb 6: National carrier Air India on Monday reported that all 122 passengers on-board its Bhopal-New Delhi flight were safe after the aircraft was hit by a bird. According to an airline official, the aircraft was diverted to Jaipur where it landed safely. "The airline's concerned department is looking into the matter and checking the aircraft for any damage," a senior Air India

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has expressed concern over the Centre’s push to link the Aadhaar number with subsidy schemes related to school education. In a recent inter-ministerial meeting, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL), under the HRD Ministry, said the decision to use the Aadhaar number as an identification document for receiving