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New Delhi, Jan 31: President Pranab Mukherjee today favoured a constructive debate on simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assemblies and funding of polls to eradicate money power. The Government, he said, is also committed to combating terrorism and to ensure that perpetrators of such acts are brought to justice. In his address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament marking the

Srinagar, Jan 30: Five soldiers, found trapped under snow in Macchil sector and rescued on Saturday, succumbed to injuries today, taking the toll of army personnel killed in avalanches in Kashmir to 20. Braving inclement weather, Army aviation pilots today airlifted the five injured soldiers from Macchil to Srinagar for specialised treatment, an army official said. "Unfortunately, all five brave

New Delhi, Jan 30: The Supreme Court of India on Monday appointed former CAG Vinod Rai to head Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) along with noted historian Ramachandra Guha, former Indian cricketer Diana Edulji and IDFC official Vikram Limaye. SC in its hearing declined Centre's request to appoint secretary of sports ministry as the member of the committee. SC referred to its earlier

New Delhi, Jan 30: In a bid to corner Congress ahead of the Budget session, BJP today launched a fresh attack on it over the Vijay Mallya case, alleging the "corrupt hands" which helped him get bank loans belonged to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The party quoted from purported letters written by businessman Mallya to Singh in which he sought his

Mumbai, Jan 30: Upping the ante against its ally BJP, Shiv Sena today said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will be "sent home" if he continues to level charges against it in the run up to the local body polls. The remarks from the bickering ally came after Fadnavis hit out at it at a BJP rally here on Saturday, close on the heels of the Sena deciding against a pre-poll pact with the senior

New Delhi, Jan 30: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has rejected the request of the Election Commission to enhance the weekly cash-withdrawal limit, imposed after demonetisation, for those contesting Assembly elections in five states, prompting an angry reaction from the poll panel. The Commission had on Wednesday requested RBI to enhance the withdrawal limit of candidates to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 24

New Delhi, Jan 29: Voicing displeasure over the alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav today said he would not campaign for it in the state assembly polls. "I am completely against the alliance. I will not campaign for it," Mulayam said on a day his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi held their first joint press

New Delhi, Jan 29: Five years before Rajiv Gandhi was killed in 1991, the US Central Intelligence Agency had prepared a very detailed and thorough "brief" on what would happen if he is assassinated or makes an "abrupt departure" from the Indian political scene. A 23-page report, titled "India After Rajiv ..." was put out as early as in March 1986 for comments from other senior CIA officials. The

Uttar Pradesh, Jan 29: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Samajawadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said he and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandh are like two wheels of bicycle. Addressing the media in a joint press conference along with Rahul in Lucknow, Akhilesh said that the SP and Congress alliance for upcoming UP elections is for development, prosperity and peace. "Rahul and I

New Delhi, Jan 29: Marriage under the Hindu law is "sacrament" and "not a contract" which can be entered into by executing a deed, Delhi High Court has observed while dismissing a plea by a woman who had challenged an order refusing to declare her as the legally-wedded wife. The woman had approached the court seeking her appointment for job on compassionate ground after the death of her alleged