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Srinagar, Mar 24: Mehbooba Mufti was today unanimously elected as PDP legislature party leader, with a senior leader saying that she is the PDP nominee for the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister's post. The 56-year-old PDP President was elected the leader of the legislature party at a meeting of PDP MLAs, MLCs and MPs at her residence in high-security Gupkar here this evening. Mehbooba is PDP's

Hyderabad, Mar 24: The non-teaching staff of Hyderabad Central University (HCU), who had gone on a strike protesting vandalisation of VC's lodge on March 22 allegedly by a group of students, resumed their duties today as the situation on the campus remained peaceful. Members of HCU Non-Teaching Staff Union had boycotted duties from Tuesday afternoon protesting ransacking of Vice Chancellor Appa

Mumbai, Mar 24: Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, convicted in the US for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, today told a court here that terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) wanted to eliminate Bal Thackeray but the person who was assigned the job to kill the late Shiv Sena chief was arrested. The 55-year-old, who has turned approver in the terror case, disclosed this fact during a

Pune, Mar 24: Amidst drama at Fergusson College over the purported raising of anti-national slogans, an NCP MLA was allegedly manhandled on Wednwesday on its campus as a clash broke out between workers of his party and ABVP supporters. A day after heated exchanges there between ABVP activists and students affiliated to Left organisations, NCP legislator Jitendra Awhad was allegedly manhandled on

New Delhi, Mar 24: Jet Airways will operate three recovery flights from Amsterdam to Mumbai, Delhi and Toronto on Thursday to fly the passengers stranded in Brussels following a series of explosions that rocked the airport and metro station in the Belgian capital on Tuesday. An airline spokesperson said the first recovery flight, 9W 227, will depart from Amsterdam for Mumbai at 1400 hrs (local

Hyderabad, Mar 23: Twenty-five students and two faculty members of Hyderabad Central University were arrested today in connection with incidents of ransacking of Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile's lodge and stone pelting on police personnel, police said. According to Gachibowli police inspector J Ramesh, so far two cases have been booked on charges of damage to public property, trespass and

Hyderabad, Mar 23: Hyderabad Central University has not granted any permission to JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar to address a meeting on the campus, Vice Chancellor Prof Appa Rao Podile said today. "No body has approached for permission. Definitely, there is no permission," he said here. Kumar was scheduled to address a meeting on the campus this evening at the invitation of the

Mumbai/ New Delhi, Mar 23: Sharp rises in education and healthcare costs in the last two years have hit the nation’s burgeoning middle class hard, denting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity among the relatively well-off ahead of a series of state elections. Price increases for services deemed a luxury for most Indians could also complicate the central bank’s plans to cut borrowing costs

Kochi, Mar 23: India has the highest number of people—7.6 crore—in the world without access to safe water supply, followed by China and Nigeria, a WaterAid report said on Tuesday. The people end up incurring high costs for access, which is primarily due to poor management of water resources, says the report “Water: At what cost? The State of the World’s Water”—released by the global agency to mark

New Delhi, Mar 22: Two Jet Airways crew members were injured in the blasts at Brussels airport today even as the authorities have relocated the airline's passengers in Brussels to a safe location. "Two of our staff have been injured and are receiving medical care," a senior airline official said. According to the airline, as per initial information, Jet Airways guests in Brussels have been re