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Kolkata, Jan 31: Angry over disparaging comments made by some politicians recently directed at them, representative bodies of sex workers and trans-genders have approached the West Bengal Human Rights Commissions (WBHRC) seeking its intervention as their "human rights were violated". Members of the city-based NGO Durbar Mahila Samanway Committee - a leading body of sex workers in the state - and

Indore, Jan 31: A team of National Investigative Agency (NIA) officers accompanied by terror suspect Lokesh Sharma reached Mhow on Tuesday and quizzed his cousin Jitendra Sharma, who is the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha office bearer. The Bhopal NIA special court on Monday sent Lokesh Sharma to ten days remand in connection with late RSS functionary Sunil Joshi's murder case. The NIA team reached

New Delhi, Jan 31: On a day when newly elected BJP president Rajnath Singh advised party people to refrain from making public statements, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue M G Vaidya revisited embarrassing old wounds by claiming that former chief Nitin Gadkari was a victim of an “internal political conspiracy”. “There seems to be an internal political conspiracy over the turn of events

Chennai, Jan 30: Miscreants Wednesday attacked with petrol bombs a Tamil Nadu theatre that planned to screen actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan's film "Vishwaroopam", police said. "Some miscreants attacked a theatre. However, nobody was injured," a police official told IANS over phone from Ramanathapuram district, where the incident took place. Ramanathapuram is about 310 km from here. A few movie

Bangalore, Jan 30: Even as the Karnataka Janata Paksha State president and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was busy with his efforts to destabilise the Bharatiya Janata Party government through the resignations of the rebel MLAs on Tuesday, his own political outfit plunged into chaos for a brief period following reports of an internal crisis. The confusion started with the circulation of

Bangalore, Jan 29: In a double jolt to B S Yeddyurappa, Assembly Speaker today put on hold resignations of 12 ruling BJP MLAs loyal to him, even as Karnataka Janata Party's former founder removed the former Chief Minister from the party's Presidentship. The rebel MLAs identified with Yeddyurappa submitted their resignation letters in person to Speaker K G Bopaiah, quitting their assembly

New Delhi, Jan 29: In a major policy shift that would bring relief to fuel consumers and the economy but shake up the domestic oil retail market, the finance ministry has asked petroleum ministry to price motor and kitchen fuels at export parity. The directive, if accepted by the petroleum ministry, could reduce fuel prices by some 10% or more and bring down the government's oil subsidy by Rs 18

New Delhi, Jan 29: The Supreme Court on Monday, while hearing a plea from Tamil Nadu for water release by Karnataka from the Cauvery river to save its wilting paddy crop, said drinking water requirement must get priority over irrigation needs of a state. A bench of Justices R M Lodha and J Chelameswar observed that some out-of-box thinking was required to find a solution to the vexed issue of

New Delhi, Jan 29: The Janata Dal (U) is upset over the possibility of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) giving Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a crucial role in national politics. JD(U) leaders, however, have taken a cautious approach to developments in the BJP including Modi’s meeting with BJP chief Rajnath Singh and the statement of former finance minister Yashwant Sinha supporting Modi as

Bay of Bengal, Jan 28: After a smooth countdown at 1.40 pm on Sunday, India's missile, named BO5, emerged effortlessly breaking the balmy waters of the Bay of Bengal. The missile was launched from an approximate depth of about 50 metres, simulating exactly the conditions as would prevail during an operational launch from India's indigenously made nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant. The missile