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New Delhi, Jul 27: Political blame game has begun over the violence in Saharanpur with Congress accusing the UP government of "administrative lapse" while BJP alleged that Samajwadi Party was indulging in "vote-bank politics". Reacting to the charges, Samajwadi Party said there was an effort to "disrupt peace in the state" and that there was "no place for communalism, anti-social elements". SP

Chandigarh, Jul 27: Veteran BJP leader Kaptan Singh Solanki was sworn-in as the new governor of Haryana on Sunday. Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana high court Ashutosh Mohunta administered the oath of office and secrecy to 75-year-old Solanki at the premises of Raj Bhawan here. Solanki, a BJP Rajya Sabha member and a RSS leader, took oath in Hindi. He has become the 16th governor of the

Srinagar, Jul 26: A policeman was killed and four others injured in a grenade attack by militants in Sopore town of Baramulla district in Kashmir early today, police said. "Around 0230AM, militants hurled a grenade and fired at a police party near main Chowk at Sopore when miscreants were pelting stones at police," police spokesman said. He said five policemen sustained injuries in the militant

Washington, Jul 26: Unconvinced by India's line that it will not sign the Trade Facilitation Agreement at World Trade Organisation (WTO) unless its food security concerns are addressed, a large block of global powers have joined hands against New Delhi in Geneva where negotiations on this matter are going on. In two separate statements the European Union and an Australia-led group of more than two

Sitapur (U.P.)/New Delhi, Jul 26: Seven Indian Air Force personnel were killed in a crash of a Dhruv helicopter flying from Bareilly to Allahabad in Sitapur on Friday. The pilot had given a Mayday call (emergency call) but lost radio and radar contact soon after, an Air Force spokesperson said in Delhi. The advanced light helicopter had on board two pilots — a wing commander and a squadron leader

New Delhi, Jul 25: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was moving fast on bringing back the ill-gotten money stashed away by Indians in tax havens abroad. "I can assure that you don't have to wait for long to see that we have brought back the black money," the finance minister said in the Lok Sabha during his reply to the debate on the national budget

New Delhi, July 25: About 150 UPSC aspirants were detained Friday while they were trying to march towards parliament, police said. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants were detained outside the Central Secretariat Metro station in central Delhi Friday. Civil services aspirants have been demanding the scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), calling it discriminatory for

New Delhi, Jul 24: India has rescued 58 Indian nurses from violence-hit Iraq in an “extremely difficult” operation, days after rescuing 46 Indian nurses who were in the control of the Sunni jihadists in Tikrit. Indian external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the 58 nurses were “brought out through the land route” in batches over the last three weeks. The rescue operation was

Hyderabad, Jul 24: Telangana BJP leader K Laxman on Thursday flayed the TRS government's decision to appoint tennis star Sania Mirza as brand ambassador of the newly carved-out state, terming her as "daughter-in-law" of Pakistan and questioning her credentials for the honour. Sania was born in Maharashtra and settled in Hyderabad only later and, hence, is a "non-local", he told reporters here and

Tiruchi, Jul 24: Renowned Tamil scholar, writer and former Principal of Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchi, C. Nainar Mohamed passed away at his daughter’s residence at Texas in USA on Wednesday night. He was 85. Popularly known as ‘Perum Pulavar’, a title conferred on him by late Kundrakudi Adigalar, Nainar Mohamed served as the Head of the Department of Tamil of Jamal Mohamed College for a record 32