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New Delhi, Dec 28: Congress today questioned the timing of Narendra Modi's expression of "pain" and "anguish" over 2002 Gujarat riots, accusing him of doing it as part of an "image makeover" before the Lok Sabha elections. "This is just an attempt of an image makeover," party general secretary Ambika Soni told reporters here. "I do not want to cast any aspersions...but the question does come up to

New Delhi, Dec 28: After taking oath as the seventh Chief Minister of Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal said “The struggle was to give power to the people of Delhi.” In his first speech as the Chief Minister, Mr. Kejriwal said “We don’t have solutions to all problems. We don’t have a magic wand to solve problems immediately.” Mr. Kejriwal also added that the fight is very long and said

New Delhi, Dec 28: Around 1,600 Delhi Police personnel will keep tight vigil at Ramlila Ground on Saturday where Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal will be sworn in as seventh chief minister of the national capital. The security wing will secure the stage where Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Kejriwal and six other ministers, only the

Raigarh, Dec 28: A BJP leader was axed to death by his neighbour in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district on Friday, police said. The 45-year-old Jeevanram Gabhel, former chief of Kharsiya mandal unit of the ruling party, was killed allegedly by Mukesh Gabhel (18) at village Tiur in Kharsiya area, Raigarh Superintendent of Police Rahul Bhagat said tonight. The incident took place when the accused, the

New Delhi, Dec 27: Chief Minister designate Arvind Kejriwal today questioned the move by the Centre to hike CNG prices when a new government was to assume power in Delhi in two days' time even as he suggested that autorickshaw fares in the national capital may be revised as a result of the steep increase. He said he would examine the files and also ask the Centre about the reason for its haste in

Dec 27: With air travellers increasingly feeling like packed sardines, flying has become a contact sport. Flying airplanes can be a bruising experience these days. Rory Rowland said he was rudely rebuffed after he asked the person in front of him not to recline his seat on a red-eye flight. When he later got up to use the bathroom, and the other passenger had fallen asleep, “I hip-checked his seat

Lucknow, Dec 27: Amid a raging controversy over child deaths in the relief camps for people displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots in September, the Uttar Pradesh government has admitted for the first time that 34 children below the age of 15 died in the aftermath of the clashes. This was concluded by a fact-finding committee of the state government, which has contradicted Chief Minister Akhilesh

Panaji, Dec 26: At least six Goans on an average are changing their nationality daily to become Portuguese since the last five years, according to the records available with the Election Commission of India (ECI) here. The data at ECI Goa office, where the Portuguese embassy is situated, a total of 11,500 Goans have surrendered their Indian passport to obtain Portuguese passport between January 31

Ahmedabad, Dec 26: Narendra Modi gets clean chit in 2002 Gulbarg society case as metropolitan magistrate rejects Zakia Jafri's plea against SIT's clean chit. A magistrate court in Ahmedabad pronounced its order on Zakia Jafri's petition against Special Investigation Team (SIT) closure report that gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in 2002 Gujarat riots. Magistrate

Ranchi, Dec 26: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said the party is not blindly supporting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the formation of next government in Delhi, and called for a programme or a committee to look into the coordination between the two parties. “It is unfortunate but true that the voters in Delhi against the Congress. We did not get the mandate as it was against us