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Ranchi, Mar 16: Congress today demanded a probe into the alleged snooping on party vice-president Rahul Gandhi as it claimed that the next targets could be persons from the bureaucracy, political parties and media. "We demand a judicial commission or a Parliamentary committee to probe the surveillance on Rahul Gandhi as it is aimed at suppressing democracy," AICC spokesman Ajay Kumar said at a

New Delhi, Mar 16: Opposition parties in Parliament today vociferously protested the "snooping" on Rahul Gandhi, with the government dismissing their contention saying they were making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill", leading the Congress to walk out of Rajya Sabha. The government maintained in both the Houses that Delhi Police personnel had recently visited Rahul's residence to

New Delhi, Mar 16: The CBI probe into alleged sale of confidential documents from Finance Ministry has revealed that most of the records related to controversial Jet-Etihad deal were allegedly leaked with the help of officials in the FIPB. The sources said during questioning of suspects arrested by the agency and phone intercepts available with it, it has emerged that the Rs 2,058 crore Jet-Etihad

New Delhi, Mar 16: Government today countered the Congress charges of snooping on Rahul Gandhi saying it was making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill" as information collection was part of a transparent security profiling used on 526 VIPs, including Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Ministers. Responding to charges of snooping and spying on political opponents by Opposition Congress and

New Delhi, Mar 16: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal may have inflicted a massive defeat on BJP in Delhi Assembly polls last month, but months earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw him as a "small single city leader" not even worth "my time to ignore". These comments were made by Modi to former BBC journalist Lance Price in July last year explaining his decision not to name Kejriwal during the

Panaji, Mar 15: In a decision that could spark nationwide outrage, the BJP government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 from the list of public holidays. Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, has not been marked as a holiday in the current year’s calender, released on Saturday. The decision has triggered strong reactions from a section of legislators in

Bengaluru, Mar 15: British filmmaker Leslee Udwin who's controversial documentary India's daughter on the 2012 gang rape victim has been the subject of much talk in the country has claimed that the victim's friend Avanindra Pandey the sole witness to the gruesome incident asked for money to appear in the documentary. The film which was banned by the Indian government, Udwin has called the ban "

Mumbai, Mar 15: Ratan Tata and his team faced "humiliation" when they went to sell the group's fledgling car business to Ford in 1999, but came back to "do a big favour" just nine years later by taking over the American giant's marquee brands Jaguar and Land Rover. "They told us 'you do not know anything, why did you start the passenger car division at all'. They said they will do us a favour by

Kochi, Mar 15: In a rare convergence, Kerala's ruling Congress-led UDF and CPI-M headed LDF opposition, at loggerheads on several issues, have come out against the NDA Government's move to impose a nation-wide ban on cow slaughter and beef, dubbing it as an encroachment on personal liberty. Some BJP leaders in Kerala, one of the largest beef consuming states in the country, have sought to justify

New Delhi, Mar 15: The number of women entrepreneurs in India is on the rise and their startups, many of whom are in the booming e-commerce space, are showing the way for gender parity at workplace with some having as much as 50 per cent female staff, according to experts. Women account for nearly half of the employable workforce but not all companies have such high levels of gender parity. As