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Panaji, Oct 12: Incidents like the Dadri lynching "damage" the image of the NDA government and RSS has nothing to do with them, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said. "These incidents damage the image of the NDA as well as the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It cannot be said to be the intention of the government," Parrikar said. He was asked about the lynching of man over beef eating

Mumbai, Oct 12: Shiv Sena activists today allegedly smeared black ink on the face of ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni for organising former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book launch here. "Shiv Sena activists threw ink at me and smeared my face. They abused me," Kulkarni alleged and said that his Observer and Research Foundation (ORF), a foreign policy think-tank, will hold

New Delhi, Oct 12: Facing opposition fire for not taking them along, the Modi government on Sunday got a gentle nudge from BJP veteran L K Advani. “It is our collective duty to ensure that democracy and fundamental freedoms of citizens in India will never again be infringed,” Advani said at a function to commemorate the 113th birth anniversary of Jayprakash Narayan. Though Advani’s remarks were

Patna, Oct 12: The high-stake Bihar Assembly election began today with voting starting at 7 AM in 49 seats, spread over 10 districts, in the first of the five phases of elections amid elaborate security arrangements. A total number of 1,35,72,339 electorate will cast their votes in the 49 Assembly seats for which 583 candidates, including 54 women, are in the fray. The polling will be held between

Mumbai, Oct 11: Invoking the legacy of B R Ambedkar on the eve of the first phase of Bihar polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today categorically ruled out scrapping the reservation system and assailed "a group of liars" for the false propaganda that it is under threat. "Every time when a BJP government is in power, a group of liars spreads the malicious propaganda that we are out to scrap

New Delhi, Oct 11: As many as 62 pilots of Jet Airways and Air India have flown out of the two airlines in a little over one year to join other carriers, with a majority of them boarding the Rahul Bhatia-promoted IndiGo. While private carrier Jet Airways has lost 30 pilots in 15 months to budget carrier IndiGo, state-owned Air India has seen the migration of 32 pilots in the past one year

New Delhi, Oct 11: Terming Emergency as the biggest blow to democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said its memories should be kept alive to further fortify the democratic structure as the struggle against it gave birth to a new generation of leaders and a new kind of politics in the country. "Emergency was the biggest blow to democracy. The kind of crisis that hit the country during that

Mainpuri (UP), Oct 10: After Dadri, tension now prevails in this district where rumours of cow slaughter triggered violence with protesters targeting police vehicles and setting afire shops, leaving seven policemen injured. Twenty-one people have been arrested for yesterday's violence even as the circle officer has been suspended for alleged laxity. The violence started after some persons spread

Dadri/Lucknow, Oct 9: Dadri's Bishada village in Uttar Pradesh was today slowly limping back to normalcy after days of tension over the lynching of a man over rumours of eating beef even as the political blame game continued. The 52-year-old lynching victim Mohammad Iqlakh's son Sartaj, who is a corporal with the Indian Air Force, meanwhile, has been provided an accomodation in Delhi, Defence

New Delhi, Oct 9: Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity may shut down thirteen orphanages run by them as the government is planning to derecognise them. These orphanages had refused to give its children to single and separated people for adoption. Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Thursday, Missionaries of Charity has refused to comply with the provisions related