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London, May 8: Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters. The sterling currency, bonds and shares surged on a result that reversed expectations of an inconclusive "hung parliament" in which Cameron would

New Delhi, May 7: Settling the country's 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Parliament today unanimously passed a historic bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement that provides for exchange of territories. The Lower House, showing rare unanimity, passed the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill to allow the operationalisation of the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary agreement

New Delhi, May 7: Rahul Gandhi today attacked the Narendra Modi government in Lok Sabha over the reported scrapping of a mega food park project in his constituency of Amethi, accusing the Prime Minister of practicing politics of revenge and not "politics of change" which he had promised. As the Congress Vice-President fired yet another salvo at the government over the issue of farmers, Home

New Delhi, May 7: Stepping up his attack on the Modi government, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today questioned why it was keeping the posts of RTI commissioner, Lokpal and Chief Vigilance Commissioner vacant. Gandhi also reiterated his "suit-boot" barb, saying the government kept the posts vacant as it wanted to "grab" land from common people on behest of its "industrialist friends". "Our

New Delhi, May 6: Opposition parties led by the Congress today charged the Modi government with tarnishing India's image by saying that the location of Dawood Ibrahim was not known, even as the government dubbed him a "terrorist" and said he was in Pakistan. The issue was raised during Zero Hour by Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad who said the enquiry in 1993 Bombay blasts had established

New Delhi, May 6: A combative Congress President Sonia Gandhi today mounted a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of running a government "of some people, by one person for a select few" and said he has not much to showcase even as the government completes one year. Addressing a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party, Gandhi, who is also CPP Chairperson took

New Delhi, May 6: Top Pakistan Army Commanders expressed serious concern at the alleged involvement by India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in “whipping up” terrorism in Pakistan. The issue came up for discussion at the corps commanders conference headed by Army chief General Raheel Sharif in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. “The conference also took a serious notice of RAW’s involvement in whipping up

Hyderabad, May 5: An engineering graduate from Hyderabad, who joined the terror group ISIS, has died "while fighting in Syria," Intelligence sources today said quoting his family members. Mohd Haneef Waseem, 27, had reportedly joined the ISIS in Syria in February this year, they said. The Telangana Police are in the process of gathering more information about Haneef's alleged links with Islamic

New Delhi, May 5: Gangster Dawood Ibrahim's location is not known and his extradition process will be initiated once he is located, government told Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary, minister of state for home affairs, said Dawood was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and a red corner notice had been issued against him. "The United Nations Security Council has

Mumbai, May 5: Shiv Sena today criticised Rahul Gandhi for his 'padyatra' in drought-prone Vidarbha district, saying he should have wiped away tears of farmers when the Congress was in power. The Sena also hit out at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his Maharashtra Day message, saying that merely being ashamed over farmers' suicides will not solve the problem. "Rahul Gandhi seems to have