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New Delhi, Aug 8: President Pranab Mukherjee was satisfied with the “evidence” provided by the Narendra Modi-led Centre against Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal to sack her. The President has jotted down in his own hand that he was satisfied with the evidence provided by the government. He got a legal opinion and had also asked his aide to speak to the 87-year-old Beniwal to consider her response

Jaipur, Aug 7: Condemning the sacking of Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal, Rajasthan Congress today said her removal is "unconstitutional" and has been done due to "political vendetta". In a statement issued here, Rajasthan PCC president Sachin Pilot said Beniwal has a special image in Indian politics as a former Cabinet minister and Deputy Chief Minister with the previous Congress government in the

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.