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Dadri, Oct 7: Firebrand VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi was today denied entry into Dadri's Bishada village in view of prohibitory orders imposed by the administration following the lynching of a man over rumours of alleged beef consumption. Prachi alleged "conspiracy" behind the administration's move and asked why AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's entry was not curbed in a similar manner. "I wanted to meet

New Delhi, Oct 7: Strongest possible action will be taken against those who try to disrupt communal harmony in the country, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today, days after a man was lynched in UP's Dadri district over beef consumption rumours. "Be it the state government or the central government, strongest possible action will be taken against those who try to break communal harmony in the

New Delhi, Oct 7: A young man here is seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention after the railways denied him a job although he secured 96 percent in a recruitment exam. It was in December 2013 that 31-year-old Lalit Kumar appeared in the Northern Railway Group D exam. When the results came out, he was declared not selected. Convinced that something was wrong, he chose to file a query

New Delhi, Oct 7: Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta has criticised the report of the expert committee on the revision of salary and allowances of MLAs, demanding its review to make it more "rational". The three-member committee chaired by former Secretary General of Lok Sabha PDT Achary, in its report submitted to Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, has favoured a 400 per cent

New Delhi, Oct 6: Eminent author and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sehgal on Tuesday returned the Sahitya Akademi award in protest against increasing intolerance towards right to dissent in the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" on the "reign of terror". Sehgal, who received a Sahitya Akademi award in 1986 for her English novel 'Rich Like Us (1985)', said, "The ruling

New York, Oct 6: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has condemned the lynching of a man over beef eating rumour in UP, saying such incidents hurt the country's image. "India is a mature society. We need to rise above these kinds of incidents because they certainly don't give a good name as far as the country is concerned," he told reporters here after a lecture at Columbia University yesterday. He was

Bengaluru, Oct 6: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit the Bosch factory at Adugodi and take part in the Nasscom event at Hotel Leela Palace today. She will be sharing the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at both the events. After viewing presentations on Bosch engineering and business solutions and vocational centre, both the leaders will walk through its facilities and

Patna, Oct 5: Latching on to the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's controversial remarks that the 'Hindus too eat beef', senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today promised to frame a legislation to ban cow slaughter in the state if NDA comes to power in Bihar Assembly elections. "The forthcoming Assembly polls in Bihar is going to be a direct contest between those who justify beef eating and those seeking

Lucknow, Oct 5: Taking the political slugfest over Dadri lynching incident to another level, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, Monday, declared that he will approach the United Nations to seek justice. Asserting that the Dadri incident is no less than the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992, Khan said that the RSS and the BJP have declared that they will create 'Hindu Rashtra'. “If Hindustan

New Delhi, Oct 5: German Chancellor Angela Merkel met PM Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today to hold bilateral talks in the afternoon. Merkel was greeted with a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi has come up with an ambitious program for the development of India and Germany fully intends to support it, said Merkel. Merkel, accompanied by a large delegation of top officials, was