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New Delhi, Apr 14: A number of AAP leaders and prominent individuals today stayed away from the convention of party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and chose to express solidarity through written statements instead. AAP's Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi, who had earlier faced the leadership's ire for taking stand in favour of the dissidents, in a letter stressed the need to work towards

New Delhi, Apr 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to B.R. Ambedkar on his 124th birth anniversary, and said, "Let us pledge to dedicate ourselves to creating India that Ambedkar dreamt of...an India that will make him proud". "I bow to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on his birth anniversary - Jai Bhim," the prime minister said in a message. "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is a yug purush

Raipur, Apr 13: Four security personnel died and 11 others were injured after Naxals triggered a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district today. The security personnel, belonging to Chhattisgarh Armed Force, were travelling in an anti-landmine vehicle near Cholnar village in the district when it crossed over a landmine planted by Naxals, police said. The injured security personnel have

New Delhi, Apr 12: Union Minister General VK Singh today alleged that an "insidious campaign" is being run against him by a section of media, at the behest of the arms lobby that is "working overtime" to subdue him, and that he has briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about it. "It is only an insidious campaign in which the arms lobby is working overtime. They were not able to subdue me when I was

Paris, Apr 12: In a scathing attack on previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it had allocated coal blocks like one gives away a pen or a handkerchief, resulting in loss of lakhs of crores of rupees. "You must have heard about coal (block allocations)...204 coal blocks were given away just like that...Like someone comes to meet you and you give him your pen, or you

New Delhi, Apr 12: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlala Nehru over the reported revelations that successive Congress governments had snooped on family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for 20 years after independence. Swamy took to microblogging website Twitter to show his distress saying self-interest is uppermost for the

Paris, Apr 12: India and France have agreed that a Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter-terrorism will meet and formulate the modalities of greater cooperation on the matter, said the Ministry of External Affairs. "What has been agreed to is that as a first step a Joint Working Group on counter-terrorism will meet forthwith and they will try and work out what will be the modalities of greater

Panaji, April 11: The deal struck with France for purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets will bring some relief to the Indian Air Force into which they will be inducted within two years, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said today. He described as "great" India's decision to buy these fighters after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande in Paris yesterday

France, Apr 11: India will buy 36 Rafale fighter jets in flyaway condition from France "as soon as possible" after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande on Friday night agreed to conclude an Inter-Governmental Agreement bypassing the protracted negotiations for purchase of 126 such jets. Taking Indo-French strategic relationship to a new level Modi and Hollande also

New Delhi, April 10: India has ended its massive evacuation efforts of its nationals in Yemen, pulling out 5,600 people, including 4,640 Indians and 960 nationals from 41 countries, the government said. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted: "The evacuation operation from Yemen is over. General V.K. Singh is returning tonight. We are closing our Embassy there." Earlier the external