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Belagavi, Jan 10: Close relatives and supporters of the BJP MLA from Kagwad, Bharamgouda alias Raju Kage, are accused of assaulting a Congress worker for his social media post critical of the saffron party. Vivek Shetty, a Congress worker, said Kage’s family members and associates barged into his house at Ugar Khurd in Athani taluk around 8.45 pm on January 8. Armed with sickles, rods and other

New Delhi, Jan 9: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament can call Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of demonetisation if it is not satisfied with the answers given by top finance ministry officials and the RBI Governor Urjit Patel, to whom a detailed questionnaire has been sent. A PAC meeting on this issue has been called on January 20th, in which the RBI Governor Urjit Patel

New Delhi, Jan 9: The factional war in the Samajwadi Party escalated today with the Akhilesh camp seeking an early decision on the disputed party symbol while the embattled Mulayam Singh Yadav asserted that he is still the party chief and has no differences with his son. Paralelly, Mulayam urged Rajya Sabha Chairman to derecognise his cousin Ramgopal Yadav as leader of the party group following

New Delhi, Jan 9: Dismissing concerns of slowdown due to demonetisation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said both direct and indirect tax collections have shown robust increase during the April-December period, indicating uptick in economic activity including manufacturing. He said direct tax collection was up 12.01 per cent at Rs 5.53 lakh crore in April-December 2016 as compared to revenue

New Delhi, Jan 9: Asserting that he remains Samajwadi Party president, Mulayam Singh Yadav today told the Election Commission that the convention called by Akhilesh Yadav camp was "unconstitutional" and that the party's electoral symbol of 'cycle' should remain with his camp. Accompanied by his loyalists Amar Singh and Shivpal Singh Yadav, Mulayam also contested the affidavits of party leaders

New Delhi, Jan 9: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took to Facebook to convey to the countrymen about the virtues of demonetisation, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about two months ago. Jaitley, replying to those raising doubts over the efficacy of demonetisation in eliminating black money, said the colour of funds would not change by merely depositing these in banks. The money had now

Bengaluru, Jan 9: Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Sunday recalled his Indian roots at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Bengaluru and said that he was proud to be a person of Indian origin. Costa, who traces his roots to Goa, was the chief guest at PBD-2017. "Yes, I am actually a person of Indian origin," Costa said and even took out a card from his coat pocket and waved it at the audience

New Delhi, Jan 9: Three personnel of the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) have been killed in a terror attack in Khour area of Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor sector. The area has been cordoned off. Terrorists attacked a GREF camp in Batal village near the international border along the Line of Control (LoC). A high alert has been sounded in Khour area and at all Army camps following the

Bengaluru, Jan 8: Government is working to put in place procedures for making descendants of the indentured labour living in Fiji and other countries eligible for OCI cards, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. "Starting with Mauritius, we are working to put in place procedures so that descendants of Girmitiyas could become eligible for OCI Cards. We remain committed to addressing similar

New Delhi, Jan 8: With doubts being raised about demonetisation eliminating black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said colour of funds has not changed by merely depositing them in banks as the money has now lost its 'anonymity' and can be identified with the owner. In a Facebook post titled 'Demonetisation -- A look back at the last two months', he also said the period of pain and