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Mumbai, Jun 28: In yet another attack on ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni, Shiv Sena activists today tried to disrupt his press conference in South Mumbai for inviting Pakistani photo journalists to the city under a peace initiative. The incident occurred at Press Club when Sena workers barged in at the venue despite the security arrangement and raised slogans against Kulkarni and against Pakistan

New Delhi, June 28: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apparent snub, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today turned philosophical quoting Lord Krishna to say that "a small change in one parameter effects changes in all variables". "The world is in general equilibrium. A small change in one parameter effects changes in all variables. So Krishna advised: Sukh Dukhe...," Swamy said in his tweet. The

New Delhi, Jun 28: PM Narendra Modi on Monday sent a direct message of disapproval to Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy over his attacks on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and senior finance ministry officials, saying such comments were inappropriate and Rajan's patriotism was beyond doubt. In an interview to Times Now, the PM said, "Whether it is someone from my party or not, I believe that such

New Delhi, June 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today disapproved of party MP Subramanian Swamy's attacks on RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and some top finance ministry officials saying they are "inappropriate". Calling Rajan "no less patriotic", he virtually ticked off Swamy saying "if anybody considers himself above the system then it is wrong". The Prime Minister's comments assume significance

New Delhi, Jun 27: India on Monday joined an exclusive club of countries controlling exports in missile technology, just a day after decrying its exclusion from the Nuclear Supplies Group or NSG, which governs international nuclear fuel and technology. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar signed onto the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) aimed at preventing the unchecked proliferation of missiles

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 27: Kozhikode-based JDT Islam orphanage and group of institutions have come forward to bear the expenses on treatment and education of the Kerala student ragged by seniors at a nursing college at Kalaburagi, Karnataka. Three senior students of the Al-Qamar College of Nursing, also from Kerala, have been arrested for allegedly forcing the victim to drink toilet cleaner at

New Delhi, Jun 27: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday clearly accused Pakistan of trying to destabilise India, a day after militants ambushed a CRPF convoy in Kashmir killing 8 personnel, and said a central team will look into possible lapses which may have led to the incident. He also said security forces have "standing orders" not to fire the first bullet, but "not count bullets while

New Delhi, Jun 26: Amid the debate on ways to check rising pendency in courts, new data say out of the over 2.20 crore cases awaiting disposal across the country, the next date of hearing has not been fixed for over 14 per cent of them. This means that the courts have not yet decided on when these 31,45,059 cases will be taken up for the next hearing. According to the data available on the

Beijing, Jun 26: India needs over USD 1.5 trillion in investment in the next 10 years to bridge infrastructure gap as the government intends to connect seven hundred thousand villages with roads by 2019 as part of a massive modernisation plan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. "We have been able to sustain growth in the phase of global slowdown essentially on the strength of the

Srinagar, Jun 25: In the deadliest attack on security forces in recent years, eight CRPF personnel were killed and 21 others critically wounded when terrorists rained bullets on a bus carrying them at Pampore, near here, in what appeared to be a Fidayeen attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba. "First hand impression of the bodies of terrorists is that both appear to be Pakistanis, definietly from