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Varanasi, Aug 2: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today had to leave the party's impressive roadshow in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency towards the fag end of the eight-km march route this evening after she complained of uneasiness. According to Congress sources, Gandhi, 69 , who led the roadshow to launch the party's campaign for 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh

Ahmedabad, Aug 2: A day after Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel announced her decision to quit, speculations are rife on who will succeed her ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls, overcoming the grim challenges on its way to maintain the over two decades of winning spree in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though the decision is to be taken at the "highest level" of the BJP

Kozhikode, Jul 2: JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar yesterday alleged that US Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were speaking the same language against "Muslims and other minorities". "Both are speaking against Muslims. In America, Trump says Muslims and blacks should go out and in India, Modi's leadership is also speaking on the same lines

New Delhi, Aug 2: A day after Anandiben Patel decided to step down as Chief Minister, Rahul Gandhi today said making her a "scapegoat" would not save the BJP in Gujarat as the 13-year Narendra Modi rule in the state was responsible for its "burning". "13 years of Modi rule, not 2 years of Anandiben are responsible for Gujarat burning. Sacrificing the scapegoat won't save the BJP," Gandhi said on

Ahmedabad, Aug 1: Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel has submitted her resignation after a week of protests across the state following the assault on four Dalits by a so-called cow vigilante group. Patel sent her resignation to the BJP top brass seeking relief from the top job in the state. In a letter posted on her Facebook page, Patel, who took charge as Gujarat’s first woman chief minister

New Delhi, Aug 1: Rajya Sabha today witnessed a brief uproar by opposition members over alleged remarks by Manohar Parrikar against actor Aamir Khan even as the Defence Minister denied having said what was been quoted to him. During the Zero Hour, Derek O'Brien (TMC) raised the issue of "dangerous" rise in religious fundamentalism in the country, saying the government, ministers and people

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Supreme Court today rejected a petition challenging the discharge of BJP President Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. "Rejected," a bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and Ashok Bhushan said after nearly a half-an-hour hearing on the plea filed by former bureaucrat and social activist Harsh Mander. Mander had challenged the Bombay High Court order which had

Chennai, Aug 1: Days after she reportedly got into a scuffle with a DMK MP at Delhi airport, Rajya Sabha MP M Sasikala Pushpa was today expelled from the AIADMK by party supremo Jayalalithaa for "bringing disrepute to the party". In a brief statement, Jayalalithaa said that Pushpa was being expelled from all party posts, including primary membership, as she had acted in violation of the party

Ahmedabad, Jul 31: The ongoing agitation by Dalits in Gujarat claimed its first victim from the community when one of the over 20 youths who had attempted suicide died today even as thousands of protesters converged at a rally here where the state's BJP government came under attack. The state dalit leaders while asking their community to give up the work of disposing dead cattle to "send a message

Bengaluru, Jul 31: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today expressed confidence over getting the long-pending Goods and Services Tax bill passed in Parliament. "We are getting constitution amended for GST on which discussions have been on since long...since Congress' time. I am confident that we will do those amendments and pass the GST," Singh said. "Due to lot of structural and procedural