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Panaji, Apr 3: Goa rural development agency minister Francisco Mickky Pacheco, whose conviction for abusing and slapping a government servant was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this week, has resigned from the cabinet, reports said on Friday. An FIR was lodged against Pacheco in July 2006 by Kapil Natekar, a junior engineer with the electrical department, alleging that Pacheco (who was a

New Delhi, Apr 3: BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday took a dig at Congress and asked the opposition party to search for Rahul Gandhi instead of finding faults in the NDA government. "Instead of trying to find faults in NDA government, faults that do not exist, the opposition should search for its leader," Amit Shah said during BJP's national executive meeting in Bengaluru. As expected, Congress

Bengaluru, Apr 3: Under attack over the Land Bill, the BJP on Friday said it will launch a mass contact programme to dispel 'myths and propaganda' spread by the Opposition and engage farmers in dialogue even as it insisted that it remains open to changes suggested by rival parties and farmers. As the two-day BJP national executive meet began today in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Bengaluru, Apr 3: Bharatiya Janata Party's two-day national executive meet begins in the Karnataka capital on Friday, but all eyes will be on party doyen LK Advani whose name doesn't feature among the list of speakers at the event, sources said. However, Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda confirmed that Advani will attend the meet. "Advani ji will come here on Friday. He is a national executive

Chandigarh, Apr 2: Terming his transfer as "painful", whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who shot into limelight after he questioned Robert Vadra's land deals in Haryana, said he tried to address corruption and bring reforms in state transport department despite "severe limitations and entrenched interests" . "Tried hard to address corruption and bring reforms in Transport despite severe

Srinagar, Apr 2: Two security personnel were killed and a civilian was injured in an encounter with militants in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district today. Acting on a tip off about the presence of militants in Kunzer village, security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area, a police official said. He said a gun battle broke out when militants opened firing on

Kochi/Mumbai, Apr 2: Two groups of Indian nationals evacuated from strife-torn Yemen landed at Kochi and Mumbai international airports on Thursday morning. An Indian Air Force plane carrying 168 Indian nationals landed at the Kochi airport at 2 AM, while another C17 Globemaster with 190 onboard landed in Mumbai. They were part of around 350 Indians who had reached Djibouti after being evacuated on

New Delhi, Apr 1: The Nigerian High Commission today took strong objection to the racist remarks by Union minister Giriraj Singh in which he refereed to a Nigerian woman and demanded an apology for the "unacceptable" comments. Acting High Commissioner of Nigeria O B Okongor said a complaint may be filed with the External Affairs Ministry as Singh's comments were in "very bad taste". "We expect the

Hajipur(Bihar), Apr 1: Union Minister Giriraj Singh has again kicked up a major row with racist remarks, wondering if Congress would have accepted Sonia Gandhi's leadership if she was not white-skinned, a statement condemned by the party which asked the Prime Minister to dismiss him and apologise to the nation. "Had Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and if she was not a white-skinned woman

New Delhi, Apr 1: In a relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Supreme Court today stayed the trial court order summoning him as accused in a case pertaining to grant of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco. The stay, which also applied to Hindalco Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, former Coal Secretary P C Parakh and three others, came after