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New Delhi, Aug 2: The welfare of minorities in Pakistan, including Hindus, will be monitored closely and issues taken up at appropriate meetings, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said. Swaraj also assured taking up with Pakistan the difficulties faced by Hindus there in getting their marriages registered. These assurances was given by Swaraj to Rajya Sabha BJP MP from Punjab Avinash Rai

New Delhi, Aug 2: Involvement of community elders, monitoring of radical social media platforms and real-time sharing of information are a few steps government plans to take to prevent youths getting attracted to radical ideologies, such as that propagated by ISIS. A high-level meeting on Saturday, chaired by Union Home Secretary LC Goyal, formalised a strategy to neutralise extremist ideologies

New Delhi, Aug 2: The depression created from cyclone Komen, which has been hovering over Bangladesh, has triggered heavy rain in India’s northeastern and eastern states, flooding large swathes of West Bengal and killing 20 people in Manipur. Odisha, West Bengal and Manipur were hit hardest by the heavy rains that began late on Friday. In Manipur, at least 20 people were killed and several houses

New Delhi, Aug 1: BJP today fired yet another salvo at Congress over the issue of 'Hindu terrorism' as it raked up reported comments of Rahul Gandhi in 2010 when he had said radicalised Hindu groups might be bigger threat than the local support for terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit back at Congress after Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Congress on Saturday said the NDA government was trying to rake up the Hindu terror issue in a bid to divide and polarise the country. "The comment of the then home minister is being quoted out of context. It is a deliberate attempt on the part of the government, it is the deliberate attempt on the part of the BJP for various reasons - to divide the country, to take up the

Srinagar, Aug 1: Former militant-turned Congress MLA Usman Majeed on Friday stoked a controversy by claiming he had met Tiger Memon after the 1993 Mumbai blasts in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir during which he seemed "worried" about his brother Yakub's surrender fearing the ISI might kill him. Majeed's claim comes a day after Yakub was hanged in Nagpur Central Jail. "I met Tiger in 1993. I met him 2-3

New Delhi, Aug 1: Petrol price was cut by Rs 2.43 per litre and diesel by Rs 3.60 a litre, the third reduction in rates this month, with effect from midnight on Friday. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 64.47 per litre from Saturday instead of Rs 66.90 at present, while a litre of diesel will cost Rs 46.12 as against Rs 49.72 currently, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said in a statement. Petrol and diesel

Mashaldanga (Cooch Behar), Aug 1: At midnight between July 31 and August 1, 68 years of protracted struggle of nearly 55,000 people on either side of the Indo-Bangladesh border came to an end. As a somewhat elaborate ceremony ushered in the witching hour, more than 15,000 people from various enclaves around Cooch Behar were welcomed into the Indian citizenry just as some 40,000 people were

New Delhi, Jul 31: More than 9,700 cases of atrocities against women, including domestic violence and rape, have been registered since April one this year, with Uttar Pradesh seeing the highest number of such cases, the government said today. These many cases have been registered with the National Commission for Women so far this financial year. Giving details in the Lok Sabha, Women and Child

Mumbai, Jul 31: Lashing out at those who sought leniency for Yakub Memon, the Shiv Sena today demanded they should be "tried for being enemies of the country" and also asked the government to ensure that the 1993 serial blasts convict does not become a martyr in the eyes of people. The souls of all those affected by the 1993 bombings will be at peace only when its main conspirators and mastermind