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Lucknow, Mar 8: Samajwadi Party's Agra candidate Sarika Singh Baghel was stripped of the party ticket because of her husband Devendra Baghel's undoing. In a video grab with a local news channel, Devendra was seen using unsavoury words against none other that the SP chief. Expectedly, the clipping reached the party headquarters and Sarika lost her ticket. Devendra was sacked from the party. The

New Delhi, Mar 7: Congress today sought to make an issue of Narendra Modi not giving an appointment to Arvind Kejriwal by accusing the Gujarat Chief Minister of dishonouring the tradition of the state of welcoming guests. “In our culture, guest is god. Kejriwal has been a guest of Gujarat and it is a tradition of the state that whoever is the chief minister, meets leaders and chief ministers from

New Delhi, Mar 7: A naval officer has been killed in an accident on board in yet to be operational warship, in a sensation new twist to Navy's ongoing tryst with accidents. Sources said a commander rank officer of the Kolkata class destroyer was killed around 1pm on Friday in the accident. Sources said he was killed because of possible malfunctioning of the firefighting system in the engine room

Ahmedabad, Mar 7: An FIR was lodged against AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct by using loud speaker at a public meeting at Gandhidham in Kutch district of Gujarat on Thursday, police said. "Kejriwal addressed a public rally today at Rishabh Circle of Gandhidham where he used loudspeaker without Election Commission's permission. This is a breach of Model

Gurgaon, Mar 7: According to reports, Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s wife delivered a baby girl at Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon, India, early on Tuesday morning. Afghan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, quoted by India media agencies said, “The baby girl was born around 9.30 am on Tuesday. Both the mother and her baby daughter are doing quite well.” Abdali further

Chennai, Mar 7: Miffed over ruling AIADMK’s “approach” in finalising seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, CPI (M) and CPI on Thursday called off their month-old alliance with the Jayalalitha-led party. The leaders of the two Left parties went into a huddle in Chennai in the wake of dilly dallying by AIADMK to reach a consensus on the seat allotment issue and decided to end

Chennai, Mar 7: None of India's 700 universities and 35,539 colleges has made it to the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released on Thursday. This means that academics don't think too highly of the capabilities and work of our higher educational institutions. The ranking, drawn on the findings of an invitation-only academic opinion survey, is based on the

New Delhi, Mar 6: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today opposed the party's proposed merger or alliance with BSR Congress of which the 'tainted' mining barons, the Reddy brothers of Bellary, are a part and has written to the party president in this regard. In a letter to Rajnath Singh, she said such 'tainted' leaders should not be allowed to be associated with the party and vehemently opposed the

New Delhi, Mar 6: AAP leader Manish Sisodia today accused Gujarat Police of spying on him, a day after party leader Arvind Kejriwal was detained in Gujarat while on a tour to inspect “development” in Narendra Modi's state. Sisodia, who along with Kejriwal is on a four-day visit to Gujarat, alleged that police was troubling, questioning and threatening people he had met last evening. "Day 2 in

New Delhi, Mar 6: Delhi has been pegged as the most unsafe city in the country, for the second time in a row, by women travellers, a recent survey has found. "Delhi retained its notorious reputation as the most unsafe city amongst the top 10 Indian cities polled with 95 per cent respondents expressing the opinion as opposed to 84 per cent in 2013" according to a survey by travel portal Trip