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Washington, May 30: A powerful American Senator has proposed "100 days action plan" for the Modi Government and the Obama Administration to "refresh" the Indo-US relations. Senator Mark Warner, who is the Democratic Co-Chair of the Senate India Caucus, has suggested the Modi Government to modify the defense-offset regime, agreeing to build community colleges in India, lifting the foreign direct

New Delhi, May 29: India will release 30 fishermen and 5 civilian Pakistani prisoners on Thursday. The move by India comes after bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. Earlier, 150 prisoners who were released by Pakistan reached Vadodara in Gujarat late on Wednesday night. Pakistan had freed 150 prisoners as a goodwill gesture a day

New Delhi, May 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today quit his Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, choosing to retain Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP recorded a landslide victory bagging 71 of the 80 seats in the recent elections. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was also elected two seats in Uttar Pradesh, has quit from his pocket-borough Mainpuri and has retained Azamgarh. Under

New Delhi, May 29: Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Thursday called his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and conveyed his government's desire to establish robust partnership with the new government of India for further development of ties. Li, who is the first foreign head of government to call up Modi since he took over as Prime Minister, congratulated him on his victory in the recent general

New Delhi, May 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled his top 10 policy priorities seeking to unblock an investment logjam and setting deadlines for action in order to revive the economy. After a cabinet meeting in New Delhi, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the Prime Minister stressed on three issues: efficient governance, delivery and implementation. Naidu said PM Modi

New Delhi, May 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to unveil his top 10 policy priorities on Thursday, seeking to unblock an investment logjam and setting deadlines for action in order to revive the economy. A top aide flagged the action points ahead of a cabinet meeting at which Modi will begin the task of meeting the aspirations of voters who handed his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the

Hyderabad, May 29: The day-long shutdown called by TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday protesting the Centre’s ordinance to hand over 200 villages of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh for Polavaram irrigation project, affected normal life. Buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) went off the roads in all 10 districts including Hyderabad. Shops, hotels and business establishments

New Delhi, May 29: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh believes Rahul Gandhi should head the party in Parliament if he is to lead the Congress, a linkage that is sure to put pressure on the reluctant Gandhi scion ahead of the decision on who should be leader of opposition in Lok Sabha. "If Rahul wants to lead the Congress, he must lead," Singh said, when asked if he wants the Congress vice-president

Kochi, May 28: Blaming Rahul Gandhi for the party's electoral reverses in the Lok Sabha election, a senior leader in Kerala Wednesday termed the Congress vice president a "joker" and demanded he be removed from his posts if he does not step down voluntarily. T.H. Mustafa, a former minister, also demanded Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi be made the new party chief. Addressing reporters here

Hyderabad, May 28: With the 'Appointed Day' (June 2) when Telangana and (new) Andhra Pradesh (AP) would come into existence drawing closer, the countdown has begun for the formal bifurcation of AP. As the mammoth task of dividing assets, liabilities and employees is underway, the bitterness that was witnessed in the run-up to the passage of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill in Parliament still