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New Delhi, Aug 7: The government today justified sacking Mizoram governor Kamla Beniwal - just two months before her tenure ends - as it confronted opposition allegations of "vendetta politics". Ms Beniwal, who had sharp differences with Narendra Modi when he was Gujarat Chief Minister, had been shifted from Gujarat to Mizoram exactly a month ago. "Action was taken within rules, as per

New Delhi, Aug 7: A total of 44,700 Indians are living in different countries affected by Ebola, a deadly virus that has claimed 932 lives so far. Of this, 300 are CRPF personnel deployed in Liberia for UN peacekeeping operations. Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said this on Wednesday in a written statement to Parliament. Vardhan said 500 Indians were in the Republic of Guinea, 3,000 in

New Delhi, Aug 6: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit out at Congress saying Rahul Gandhi's "contrived aggression" in Lok Sabha was a compulsion as the party leadership was facing a "palace coup" within. Hours after Rahul Gandhi stormed the well of the House on the issue of communal violence and later alleged that the government was not allowing discussion, the BJP leader said he was making an

New Delhi, Aug 6: An Air India aircraft had to be grounded on Monday evening due to the presence of a large number of unwelcome guests who posed a serious threat to the plane — scores of rats. Rats were observed when the Airbus A-321, flying as AI 021, landed at IGI airport from Kolkata. The crew observed many rats running around in the rear half of the aircraft cabin. As soon as all the

New Delhi, Aug 6: Leading from the front, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday advanced to the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s podium along with other party MPs demanding a debate on increasing incidents of communal clashes in the country. As soon as the House met, the Opposition parties led by the Congress raised slogans demanding a debate on the communal riots in Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi, Aug 6: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who had stormed the Well in Lok Sabha demanding a debate on communal tension, today charged the Narendra Modi government with not allowing discussion in Parliament where he said only one man's voice is heard. "We are not being allowed to speak in Parliament. We are asking for discussion. There is a mentality in the government that discussion

New Delhi, Aug 6: Plans by the government to allow more foreign investment in the country's still-small insurance sector has hit snags in parliament, testing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign promise to push through reforms to revive the economy. Over the past week, the government has twice sought to introduce legislation in the upper house of parliament permitting 49 percent foreign

New Delhi, Aug 6: An Air India plane took off for Tunisia on Wednesday to bring back about 200 Indians struck in strife-torn Libya. A Boeing 777-LR is flying to Djerba to bring back these passengers. It will be an eight-hour long flight and will return tomorrow morning carrying the stranded Indians. Air India has been sending special flights to war-torn areas of Iraq and Libya regularly.

New Delhi, Aug 5: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take a decision on dissolution of Delhi Assembly "one way or another" within five weeks, questioning it for continuing to keep the house in suspended animation when no party is coming forward to form the government. "One party says it does not want to form government. Other says it cannot. Third party has no strength. In a situation

New Delhi, August 5: The Opposition on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being sufficiently effusive in extending greetings to the nation on the festival of Eid, even as he has visited temples across the country, more recently the Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal on Monday. While TMC raised the issue of the PM not extending greetings on EId, the Congress was upset over the