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New Delhi, Aug 27: The opposition today targeted the government over media reports that claimed Home Minister Rajnath Singh's son had been ticked off by the Prime Minister for alleged misconduct, with Congress questioning what the allegations are about. Congress General Secretary and Media Department Chairperson Ajay Maken said that the Prime Minister's Office had tweeted to say that rumours

New Delhi, Aug 27: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said he would quit politics if any allegations of wrong doing against him or his family members are proven. “I will quit politics if there is an iota of proof against me or my family members' integrity,” Rajnath said. Rajnath's clarification came in view of reports that the senior BJP leader is upset with some

New Delhi, Aug 27: The generational shift in BJP was complete today with its founders Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi being dropped from the Parliamentary Board, the highest decision-making body, which has the stamp of Prime Minister Narendra Modi all over now. In a token gesture, ailing Vajpayee and Advani and Joshi, for long the BJP's 'Trimurti', now figure in the new

New Delhi, Aug 26: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday appointed new governors for Rajasthan, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa. A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said they were Kalyan Singh (Rajasthan), Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala (Karnataka), C. Vidyasagar Rao (Maharashtra) and Mridula Sinha (Goa). The Central government sent the list of names to the President, whose office appoints the governors

Mumbai, Aug 26: The party warned its long-time ally that the elections cannot be won on 'wave' alone. The Shiv Sena on Tuesday snubbed its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the results of assembly by-polls which were announced on Monday, by warning that the elections cannot be won on 'wave' alone. "People voted for Modi in Lok Sabha to improve the country's governance. Political

Mumbai, Aug 26: Elaborate precautionary arrangements have been put in place at the Mumbai Airport to screen the 112 stranded Indians, who are expected to arrive on Tuesday by various flights from and around the Ebola-hit Liberia, authorities said in Mumbai on Monday. “As part of the tentative plan, the aircraft will be first taken to a remote bay and all passengers will be screened at the step

New Delhi, Aug 26: The results of the by-elections in 18 Assembly constituencies in Bihar, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, three months after the NDA swept the general elections, gave the BJP a jolt while bringing cheer to the Opposition camp. The Congress and its allies won 10 seats and the BJP and its allies the remaining eight. The Congress that won five seats on its own was cautious and

New Delhi, Aug 25: Amid reports that she may be shunted out of Kerala, governor Sheila Dikshit on Monday met home minister Rajnath Singh. She will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee in the evening, fuelling speculation that she may put in her papers. During her 15-minute meeting with the home minister, Dikshit is understood to have discussed about her continuation in the Thiruvananthapuram Raj

New Delhi, Aug 25: The Supreme Court today termed the method of allotment of coal blocks between 1993 and 2011 as illegal but stopped short of deallocating the blocks that were awarded during the UPA regime. The court will take a decision on re-allocation of mines on 1 September, 2014 and will reserve cancellation on a case-by-case basis. "All allocations were done in an illegal manner and it

New Delhi, Aug 25: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he has learned that "one must never quit the chair" even as he claimed that AAP had achieved more in its 49-day rule in the national capital than the Narendra Modi government in its 100 days at the Centre. "No one in India's history worked the way we did in those 49 days. We reduced prices of electricity, water, brought