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New Delhi, Jul 24: After 33 years of service, environmentalist R K Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment, was removed as the chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) on Thursday. Pachauri had recently succeeded in obtaining a court order that enabled him to resume work at the institute. The governing council of Teri, which met in Bengaluru, removed Pachauri and appointed Ajay Mathur —

New Delhi, Jul 24: Pakistan has prepared a dossier on India's alleged role in instigating terror activities in Karachi and Balochistan, as per reports on Thursday. Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz has reportedly confirmed that the dossier will be handed over to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval when the two will meet in Delhi next month. As per reports, ?the dossier will contain

New Delhi, Jul 24: Former minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia on Thursday rubbished External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s tweet alleging a senior Congress leader’s involvement in procuring diplomatic passport for coal scam accused Bagrodia, saying the people of India cannot be ‘fooled’ by such tweets. “The tweet of the Minister is absolutely wrong. There is no question of any help

New Delhi, Jul 23: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who got an earful from his party chief Sonia Gandhi yesterday, received accolades today from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his skills in public speaking, leaving political tongues wagging on the timing of the praise. Modi showered praise on Tharoor, the only Congress MP present at a function organised by the Lok Sabha Speaker for MPs, while talking

New Delhi, Jul 23: Giving in to Lt Governor's assertion, the AAP government today sent him a file on appointment of Swati Maliwal as Chief of Delhi Commission for Women, two days after he struck down its decision for not taking his approval. After a meeting with LG Najeeb Jung, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said government has sent the file relating to Maliwal's appointment to LG for

New Delhi, Jul 23: Japan is set to take part in joint naval exercises with India and the United States in the Indian Ocean in October, military and diplomatic sources said, a drill that so riled China eight years ago that Delhi has not since hosted such a multilateral wargame. The Indian Ocean has emerged as a new arena of competition between China making inroads and India trying to recover its

New Delhi, Jul 22: A combative BJP top brass today rallied behind Union Minister Sushma Swaraj and two state chief ministers who are under Opposition attack over Lalit Modi row and Vyapam scam, asserting that they have done no wrong and there will be no resignations. Party leaders were also asked to aggressively "expose" Congress over its "disinformation campaign". The assertions came at the BJP

Jammu, Jul 22: Indefinite curfew was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri town Tuesday afternoon following communal tension, police said. The army later carried out a flag march there. "Indefinite curfew has been imposed in Rajouri town this afternoon to maintain law and order," a senior police officer said here. An order issued by District Magistrate Deepti Uppal said restrictions under section

Nagpur, Jul 22: Hours after the Supreme Court dismissed a curative petition by Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict on Tuesday filed mercy plea before Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao. This is his last-ditch bid to prevent execution of his death sentence on July 30. Memon, the only convict on death row in the case, handed over his mercy petition to the

New Delhi, Jul 21: The Centre today asserted in the Supreme Court that the killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi did nor deserve any mercy as the assassination was the result of a conspiracy involving foreign nationals. "Our former Prime Minister was killed by these people. There was a conspiracy to kill him in which foreign nationals were also involved. What mercy is to be seen or shown