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New Delhi, Oct 27: In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi government, BJP leader Arun Shourie on Monday contended that it believes that managing economy means “managing the headlines” and that people had started recalling the days of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “Doctor Singh (Manmohan Singh) ko log yaad karne lag gaye hain (People have started recalling the days of Manmohan Singh). The

Jalandar, Oct 27: 22 packets of heroin, worth Rs 110 crore in the street market, were seized along the India-Pakistan border near Bahadurke check-post in Abohar sector, a BSF official said. The personnel posted at the check-post noticed suspicious activities near the border by smugglers in the wee hours, Inspector General of BSF, Punjab Frontier, Anil Paliwal said. When the BSF troops challenged

New Delhi, Oct 26: A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale shook north India a little after 2.30 pm on Monday. Massive tremors lasting almost a minute were reported in Delhi, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. The US Geological Survey or USGS said the quake's epicentre was in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Tremors that lasted about 40 seconds were also reported in

Chhapra/Nalanda/Patna, Oct 26: Taking on rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad on their home turfs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday painted them as leaders with regressive agenda with "18th century mindset", attacking the Bihar Chief Minister over the "tantrik" controversy and said the RJD chief was leading "Rashtriya Jadu Tona" party. In a string of poll rallies, Modi projected BJP's six

New Delhi, Oct 25: A former Navy chief Admiral L. Ramdas has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee in the wake of attacks on minorities and Dalits. The octogenarian Magsaysay awardee writes, he was forced to hang his head in shame over the attacks on minorities and Dalits under the rule of the current government. He regrets that such serious attacks

New Delhi, Oct 25: Invoking Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel ahead of his birth anniversary, he strongly batted for 'unity in diversity' while asserting that peace, harmony and unity are the key to progress. "The mantra of unity should always be the medium of our thinking, our behaviour and expression," Modi said in his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat'. "India is full of diversity. It has different

New Delhi, Oct 25: The former Parliamentarian, who often fought against attempts by the judiciary to encroach upon the legislature's turf, says it was time the judiciary engaged in some introspection in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment which brought back the collegium system. Chatterjee, who is a barrister and was a senior advocate in the Supreme Court for several years, told PTI the

Gurgaon, Oct 25: Around 5-6 young men claiming to be Shiv Sainiks climbed atop the stage at an open air theatre in Gurgaon, on Delhi’s outskirts, where a group of seven Pakistani actors were staging a play “Banjh” (infertile). “They shouted slogans like ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ and disrupted the show for about 5-10 minutes,” said Satbir Rohilla, PRO of Municipal Corporation of

New Delhi, Oct 24:The first women fighter pilots would be selected from the batch which is presently undergoing training at the Air Force Academy, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. "This progressive step is in keeping with the aspirations of Indian women and is in line with contemporary trends in armed forces of developed nations," the Ministry said. It said that the performance of women

Amritsar, Oct 24: Terming as painful the alleged incidents of desecration of holy books, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said it was a "willful act" to disturb Punjab as he prayed at the Golden Temple here for "return of peace" in the state. It "is unfortunate and painful. It seems it is a willful act by somebody who wanted to disturb peace in the state," Kejriwal told reporters here