India

New Delhi: Aug 31: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that the controversial land acquisition ordinance would be allowed to lapse on Monday. This was viewed as an attempt to blunt the “anti-farmer” tag the Opposition has been politically cashing in on ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls. In the absence of the ordinance re-promulgated thrice with some amendments that hit the Opposition

New Delhi, Aug 30: After providing LPG in easy-to- carry 5-kg cylinders, the government is planning to launch 2-kg bottles at local kirana stores even as it introduced online booking of new connections for subsidised cooking fuel. LPG is traditionally available in 14.2-kg cylinders, which are not very convenient to carry and its cost at Rs 418 is considered high for poor and rural population. A 5

Patna, Aug 30: On a day top leaders from the grand secular alliance assembled here to address 'Swabhiman Rally'to counter the NDA, RJD president Lalu Prasad today attacked the BJP on social media saying it "will face a debacle worse than Delhi" in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. "The public is outraged over non-keeping of promises by the BJP (on) corruption, unemployment and inflation. BJP

New Delhi, Aug 30: The arrest of over 370 persons and detention of around 2,400 - who are alleged to be habitual eve-teasers and stalkers - in just 20 days under an initiative launched by Delhi Police, has once again thrown light on the extent of harassment women have to face in the streets of the national capital. Areas around shopping malls, university campus and the ones with large migrant

New Delhi, Aug 30: The government has decided to allow the land acquisition ordinance to lapse tomorrow and include 13 points in the rules to provide direct financial benefit to the farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. "We had brought in an ordinance (on land acquisition) which is lapsing on August 31, and I have decided to let it lapse," the Prime Minister said in his radio programme

New Delhi, Aug 30: Cracking the whip on dissidents, AAP has suspended two of its Punjab MPs -- Dharamvira Gandhi, who had supported expelled leader Yogendra Yadav, and Harinder Singh Khalsa -- for anti-party activities and alleged that they had joined hands with ruling BJP-SAD combine in the state. The decision was taken at the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) in which Chief Minister

Ahmedabad, Aug 29: After the Gujarat High ordered a CID probe, nine policemen including two inspectors and a sub-inspector have been booked for the alleged custodial death of a 32-year-old man detained during Patel quota agitation. Hardik Patel, who is leading the agitation by Patel community for reservation under OBC quota, today said he is likely to attend funeral of the victim, Swetang Patel

Ahmedabad, Aug 29: Normalcy is gradually returning to Gujarat where authorities today lifted curfew from all affected parts of the state as no major incident of violence was reported for two days after the Patel quota agitation turned violent early this week. "As no violence was reported in the state, curfew has been lifted from all the parts of the state, where it was clamped on August 25,"

Srinagar, Aug 29: Fourteen soldiers were injured on Saturday in an explosion inside an army training camp in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, authorities said. A defence source said media: "Fourteen soldiers were injured inside the Corps Battle School (CBS) in Khrew area today (Saturday) in an explosion." "The explosion occurred due to mishandling of an explosive device and there are no reports

New Delhi, Aug 29: A prominent filmmaker has claimed that his documentary film on the high-profile electoral battle for Varanasi seat in the recent Lok Sabha elections has been denied the Censor Board's go ahead on the pretext that it "did not fit into its guidelines". National Award-winning director Kamal Swaroop said his film 'Battle for Benaras' on the high-profile Lok Sabha poll battle, which