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New Delhi, Sep 25: Describing America as India's "vital partner", Prime Minister Narendra Modi today embarked on his first visit to the US confident that his five-day trip will mark a "new chapter" in bilateral strategic ties. As Modi seeks to promote India as open for business and to mend ties with the US after a bitter diplomatic row last year, Modi said he was looking forward to meeting

Mumbai, Sept 25: BJP and its oldest ally Shiv Sena are likely to part ways ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. A formal announcement in the split of the 25-year-old alliance between the two parties is likely to be announced shortly, top BJP sources said. This follows failure of talks between the two parties after Shiv Sena refused to accept BJP's demand for contesting seats more than last

New Delhi, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will roll out a red carpet to attract industrialists to make India a global manufacturing hub, to help create jobs and boost economic growth. Before he embarks on his high profile US visit slated from September 26-30, Modi will launch the Make in India campaign at a mega event here today. The campaign is aimed at making India a manufacturing hub

New Delhi, Sep 25: Smaller outfits on Wednesday put the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance on tenterhooks by rejecting the meagre seats allotted to them in the seat sharing arrangement for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Swabhimani Paksha, Shiv Sangram and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, the minor outfits of the grand alliance, threatened to walk out if they were not given “an honourable deal” forcing the

New Delhi, Sep 24: In a major blow to the corporate sector, the Supreme Court today quashed allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks which were alloted to various companies since 1993 and in which it was claimed that around Rs 2 lakh crores were invested. A bench, headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha, saved only four blocks--one belonging to NTPC and SAIL each and two allocated to Ultra Mega Power

Mumbai, Sep 23: A fortnight after openly voicing his desire to become Chief Minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today said he has no such ambition. "Today people from the Varkari Samaj have come to my house to bless me and support Shiv Sena for the upcoming Assembly polls. The love that I have been showered with is enough for me. I do not aspire to become the CM of Maharashtra," Thackeray

Mumbai, Sep 23: After hurtling to the brink over weeks, political alliances between the ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena appeared to be pulling back from total break-down, according to party officials. Partners in both groupings have narrowed down their sharp differences over the number of seats each wanted to contest in the Oct 15

Mumbai, Sep 23: Senior Shiv Sena leaders today held talks with BJP aiming to end the deadlock on seat sharing that is threatening to disintegrate their 25-year-old alliance ahead of the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly elections. Sena group leader in Assembly Subhash Desai, party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut arrived at the BJP office -- Vasant Smriti Bhavan-- in Dadar in central

New Delhi, Sep 22: Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi pelted stones atAllahabad MP Shyama Charan Gupta's residence here on Monday after he criticized Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi for commenting that her son should be the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Varun's supporters also burnt Gupta's effigy in front of his house. "An MP should not

Bangalore, Sep 22: India's spacecraft Monday entered the Martian sphere of influence on way to the red planet's orbit early Wednesday, while cruising in the sun's orbit. "Our navigators' calculation shows that our Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has entered the gravitational sphere of influence of Mars around 9 a.m.," a senior Indian space agency official said here. The 475 kg (dry mass) spacecraft