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Kamalpur (Assam), Apr 9: Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of making ‘big promises’ on bringing back black money and asked him to explain why he has not instituted a probe into the matter of the Chattisgarh chief minister’s son’s name featuring in the ‘Panama Papers’. “The Panama Papers have been leaked and many names have been

New Delhi, April 8: India is in talks with the United States to purchase 40 Predator surveillance drones, officials said, a possible first step towards acquiring the armed version of the aircraft and a development likely to annoy Pakistan. India is trying to equip the military with more unmanned technologies to gather intelligence as well as boost its firepower along the vast land borders with

Ahmednagar, Apr 8: Yielding to a high voltage campaign by activists, the Shani Shingnapur temple trust today allowed women to enter the sanctum sanctorum, breaking the tradition followed for several decades. Significanly, lifting of all gender barriers for access to the core area came on the auspicious occasion of "Gudi Padwa", marking New Year by people across Maharashtra. Sayaram Bankar, a

Mumbai, Apr 8: Following the Shani Shingnapur temple’s announcement that both men and women will be allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the temple, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis welcomed the decision and said religion never discriminates on the basis of caste or gender. “The state government has taken the same stand from the very beginning and we filed an affidavit in the High

Mumbai, Apr 8: Defying the temple authorities over 100 male devotees brazenly stormed into sanctum sanctorum of Shani temple in Shingnapur on the occasion of Gudi Padwa on Friday, according to reports. This incident is likely to escalate the ongoing stand-off between the Shani temple authorities and Bhoomata Brigade activists who had forced entry into the inner sanctum of the temple. Women

New Delhi, Apr 8: Would it be shocking if the industrialist Vijay Mallya's name crops up in the Panama Papers leak? As per The Times of India report, Vijay Mallya, who has bee declared as willful defaulter by banks in India, has also been named in the papers released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists( ICIJ) among people who may have stashed away wealth in offshore

Washington, Apr 8: The US government is believed to have received about 250,000 petitions for H-1B visas –- the most sought after American work visas -– with a majority of them being from either Indian companies or having huge footprint in India. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services yesterday said it has reached the Congressional mandated cap for H-1B visas in the general category and also

New Delhi, Apr 8: Information received from anonymous individuals in Pakistan, after photos of the slain Pathankot terrorists were put up on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) website, was crucial in identifying four Pakistan terrorists who stormed the airbase, a senior government official said. The NIA had published the photographs of the deceased terrorists on its website last month

Mumbai, Apr 7: The Bombay High Court today declined to stay the IPL opening match on April 9 here as sought by a public interest litigation challenging use of large quantity of water for maintaining pitches despite the grave water crisis in Maharashtra due to drought. The PIL, filed by Loksatta Movement, sought shifting of IPL matches out of Maharashtra and wanted a stay on the matches scheduled

New Delhi, Apr 7: Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, who were summoned as accused in a criminal defamaiton case filed against them by Union Minister Arun Jaitley, were today granted bail by a Delhi court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass granted the relief to Kejriwal and AAP leaders Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai, on a