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New Delhi, September 27: A Delhi court on Thursday asked police to lodge an FIR against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly branding Bihar natives as infiltrators in Mumbai and threatening them to throw out of the state. Metropolitan magistrate Neeraj Gaur's order came on a complaint by advocate Prem Shankar Sharma who said Thackeray's August 31 remarks, terming Bihar

New Delhi, September 27: The Supreme Court today rejected CBI's plea to cancel the bail granted to former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, but agreed to transfer the trial from Gujarat to Mumbai. "We are against the plea for the cancellation of the bail and the petition is dismissed," a bench comprising justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai said. "We

Imphal, September 27: At a time when militants have stepped up attacks on security forces in Manipur, 114 militants belonging to different groups laid down arms before chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh at the headquarters of Inspector General Assam Rifles ( South) at Mantripukhri here on Wednesday. The rebels were from UNLF, PLA, KCP, KYKL, Prepak, KNLF, UPPK, UNPC and PULF. Addressing the biggest

New Delhi, September 27: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has praised former RSS chief K Sudarshan in an article prominently displayed in the September 22 issue of its bi-weekly mouthpiece Dawat and mourned his death. Sudarshan died in Raipur on September 15. In the section Khabar-O-Nazar (News and Views), Dawat chief editor Parwaaz Rahmani recounted how Sudarshan wanted to visit Bhopal's Tajul Masjid

Surajkund (Haryana), September 26: With Trinamool Congress walking out of the ruling UPA and NCP threatening to follow suit, BJP top brass on Wednesday asked party leaders to stand united and remain battle-ready as the prospects of early polls loom large in the current political scenario. In his inaugural address at BJP national executive here, party president Nitin Gadkari asked his party to

New Delhi, September 26: An estimated 36,000 tonnes of grain has gone bad at the various storage facilities of the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) since 2008, enough to feed 80 million people at a per capita consumption of 440 grams, fresh data reveals. Ironically, the maximum wastage is accounted for in Punjab, otherwise known as India's bread basket, where 19,290 tonnes have rotted during the

New Delhi, September 26: The former President, Pratibha Patil, whose foreign tours and post-retirement housing plans generated controversies towards the end of her tenure, is attracting fresh criticism for dispatching gifts received while in office to a museum run by her son. According to an answer provided by Rashtrapati Bhavan to a Right to Information query by activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal

Guwahati, September 26: Eighteen people have died in Assam as flood situation in the state has worsened. More than half the state, 2000 villages in 16 out of 27 districts, are reeling under flood water and more than 17 lakh people have been displaced. The swollen Brahmaputra river continues to rise, flooding more areas of the state. The deluge has brought with it misery and colossal losses with

Ahmedabad, September 26: Gujarat 'encounter cop' Tarun Barot has been arrested in Sadiq Jamal case in Gujarat. Barot, currently a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Mehsana District was on the radar of CBI for the last six months. Gujarat Police had claimed Sadiq is a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror suspect who was on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi. A CBI officer probing the Sadiq

Chennai, September 26: Ahead of the Union cabinet reshuffle, the DMK, a key member of the ruling UPA, has declined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's offer of two cabinet or a few minister of state berths for the party. The PM on Tuesday despatched minister of state in the PMO V Narayanasamy to meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi and make the offer. But senior DMK leaders said Karunanidhi conveyed to the