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Srinagar, Sep 6: Curfew was today lifted from entire Srinagar city following improvement in the situation even as the death toll in the clashes between security forces and protestors climbed to 72 with a youth succumbing to injuries. Musaib Nagoo, who was injured during clashes between protestors and security forces on Sunday in Sopore town of Baramulla district, succumbed to injuries at a

New Delhi, Sep 6: Sharing his experience in politics of India post-Independence, PresidentPranab Mukherjee on Monday said that India is currently a victim of cross-border terrorism and not a homegrown one. He said homegrown terrorism is the biggest menace in the world today, but India has been broadly spared from it. Mukherjee said: "We certainly face attack but from cross-border terrorism

New Delhi, Sep 6: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be away from the national capital for nearly a fortnight for a throat surgery and to take stock of AAP's preparations in poll-bound Punjab. He will undergo the surgery on September 13 to cure his chronic cough problem. He will take a 10-day rest there. "Before leaving for Bengaluru, the CM will embark on a 4-day visit to Punjab starting

Hangzhou, Sep 6: In an apparent reference to Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that one single nation in South Asia was spreading agents of terror in the region. "Indeed one single nation in South Asia is spreading these agents of terror in countries of our region," PM Modi said. Speaking at the G20 Summit in China, PM Modi urged the international community to act in unity and

Hangzhou, Sep 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made it clear that effective financial governance requires "full commitment" to act against the corrupt and elimination of "safe havens" for economic offenders as he called on G20 members to break down the web of excessive banking secrecy. In his intervention on the second day of the G20 Summit in this east Chinese city, Modi said fighting

Bengaluru, Sep 5: Vijayanagar MLA M Krishnappa, a big-time land developer, will be inducted into Siddaramaiah's cabinet on Monday. According to Congress sources, Krishnappa's induction comes in the backdrop of pressure being mounted by Vokkaliga leaders to increase representation to the community in the government. "With two Vokkaliga ministers - MH Ambareesh and Kimmane Ratnakar - having been

The entry of Reliance Jio to the telecom market signals a paradigm shift heralding the arrival of the digital era and making voice telephony a mere byproduct. Recent projections are that as the price of data falls from about Rs 228 per GB as on 2016 to about Rs 66 per GB in 2020, led by the windfall price-cut offers from Jio, the mobile broadband penetration is slated to increase from the current

Srinagar, Sep 4: Separatist leaders on Sunday rebuffed attempts by five opposition members of the all-party delegation to reach out to them as they refused to talk to them, with hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani even refusing to meet them. Four MPs — CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D. Raja, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and RJD’s Jay Prakash Narayan — went to meet Mr. Geelani

Hangzhou, Sep 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that sainthood for Mother Teresa is a "memorable and proud moment", after her canonisation at the Vatican. "Sainthood of Mother Teresa is a memorable & proud moment," Modi, who is in this east Chinese city for the G20 Summit, said in a tweet. In the same tweet, he also shared a link to the video of his 'Mann Ki Baar' radio address to the

Meerut, Sep 4: In yet another heart-rending incident, a woman ran from one hospital to another with her daughter's body and was forced to spend a night outside the emergency wing of the district hospital with the dead child after ambulance drivers allegedly refused to take them to their village as it was in another district. It comes just days after the disturbing incident reflecting hospital