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New Delhi, Jul 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for an eight-day official visit to five Central Asian countries and Russia, starting from Uzbekistan on Monday. The tour will further take PM Modi to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and to Ufa in Russia where he will attend the BRICS and SCO back-to-back summits. Furthermore, according to news channels, on the sidelines of

New Delhi, Jul 5: The last rites of investigative TV journalist Akshay Singh, who was covering Vyapam scam, were held today in the capital where Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were among those present, amid mounting outrage over his mysterious death. Delhi BJP Chief Satish Upadhyaya, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, DPCC chief Ajay Maken and Congress leaders Digvijay

New Delhi, Jul 5: A passenger on board an Air India flight from Kathmandu reportedly found a "housefly" in the meal served to him during the journey, but the airline said that no sample of the food item was submitted to it for verifying the claim. The incident took place yesterday on the airline's flight from Kathmandu to Kolkata. Air India said that since the aggrieved passenger did not provide a

New Delhi: Jul 5: After Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje, the Congress on Saturday trained its guns on Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, claiming to have fresh proof linking him to the Rs 36,000-crore rice scam in the state. Renewing its attack on Singh, the main Opposition demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the scam, from which Singh’s wife Veena and sister-in-law

Mumbai, Jul 4: NCP leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar today said senior advocate Ram Jethmalani had contacted him over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's willingness to surrender but conditions put forward for it were not acceptable to the state government. The offer was made during Pawar's tenure as Chief Minister in 1990s. "It is true that Ram Jethmalani had given a proposal

New Delhi, Jul 4: The Union Public Services Commission, or UPSC has announced the results of the civil services exam for this year. Four of the five toppers are women.The top three candidates are Ira Singhal, Renu Raj and Nidhi Gupta. Ms Singhal and Ms Gupta are Indian Revenue Service officials from Delhi. Ms Raj is a doctor from Kerala. "I am really very happy. I can't believe this. I just

Mumbai, Jul 4: Amid outrage over Maharashtra government's decision to de-recognise madrasas which only educate students on Islam, the Shiv Sena today said the move should not be seen as one intended to strike a blow to religious education in the state. The Sena came down heavily on those opposing the state government's decision and said that protests are being held only due to fears that if

New Delhi, Jul 4: The highest earning member in about three-fourths of all rural households in the country made less than Rs 5,000 per month, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 released on Friday. As per the Census data, there were 13.34 crore or 74.49 per cent households where "monthly income of highest earning household member" was below Rs 5,000 a month. There were

New Delhi, Jul 3: The Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 today painted a grim picture of rural India, indicating that one out of three families living in villages is landless and depends on manual labour for livelihood. The SECC 2011, also the first paperless census conducted on hand-held electronic devices by the government, said 23.52 per cent rural families have no literate adult above

New Delhi, Jul 2: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had expressed his discontent over the 2002 Gujarat riots and called it "our mistake", according to former RAW Chief A S Dulat. Dulat said this while recalling a meeting with Vajpayee. In an interview to Karan Thapar on his India Today TV programme telecast tonight, Dulat briefly mentioned about his last meeting with the former Prime