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New Delhi, Jun 11: Accusing ruling BJP of having "reaped benefits" of communal polarisation in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress today said the government should now focus on good governance and deliver on promises. Resuming the debate in Rajya Sabha on Motion of Thanks on President's Address, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said there was a "deliberate" communal polarisation on the ground by

New Delhi, Jun 11: Government today asserted that the appointment of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag as next Army Chief is final as opposition Congress raked up a controversy involving minister and former Army Chief Gen V K Singh and demanded his resignation. "As far as government is concerned, appointment (of Lt Gen Suhag as Army Chief) is final and government stands by it," Defence Minister Arun

New Delhi, Jun 11: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has written to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi expressing satisfaction over his meeting with him recently and said he was looking forward to working with him in "harmony on all unsettled matters". In a letter which was delivered to the Prime Minister's Office over the weekend, Sharif, who was among the leaders from the neighbouring

New York, Jun 11: A US federal court in Brooklyn has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Sikh rights organisation accusing Congress party president Sonia Gandhi of shielding party leaders allegedly involved in violence against Sikhs in November 1984. US district judge Brian M. Cogan Monday granted Gandhi's motion to dismiss the case filed by New York based Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) for lack of subject

New Delhi, Jun 10: All ministers in the Narendra Modi government will have to submit details of their assets, liabilities and business interests to the Prime Minister within two months. They have also been directed to sever all connections, short of divesting themselves of ownership, with the conduct and management of any business in which they had interests before being appointed minister. This

Bangalore, Jun 10: AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi has stuck to his stand of giving opportunities to young leaders and bid goodbye to old-timers in elections. The party has chosen M?V?Rajeev Gowda over one of its oldest leaders and former union minister S?M?Krishna as its candidate for the Raj­ya Sabha elections from the State. Gowda, 50, teaches economics at Indian Institute of Management

New Delhi, June 9: A Pakistani hardliner has held Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his new security team responsible for massive terror attack on Karachi Airport, which left around 30 people dead. Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the chief of banned outfit Jama'at-ud-Da'wah turning to micro-blogging site Twitter claimed, "#KarachiAirport is an attack on Pakistan. Modi's new security team is behind

Chennai, Jun 9: Adopting a conciliatory tone, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to find a "permanent solution" to the problem of Tamil Nadu fishermen being detained by the Sri Lankan navy for crossing the international maritime boundary. Her letter, which did not have the aggressive tone that marked most of her communications with Manmohan Singh

Vijayawada, Jun 8: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of new Andhra Pradesh at a function at Nagarjuna Nagar, 18 kms from here today. Governor E S L Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Chandrababu at 7:27 PM, the auspicious "muhurtam" set for the occasion. Several Union ministers, Chief Ministers of various states and

New Delhi, Jun 8: Innovative methods like transfer of funds through the RTGS banking system and concealment of currency wads inside car bonnets were detected by Election Commission (EC) as it took steps to curb the use of black money during the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls. The poll panel's election expenditure monitoring wing, under its Director General (Expenditure) PK Dash, seized total cash