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New Delhi, September 10: Carrying further its reservations over Narendra Modi, the Janata Dal (United), which runs a coalition with BJP in BIhar, has decided to contest assembly elections in Gujarat on its own. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, whose antipathy to Modi is well-known, will also campaign for the JD(U) candidates in Gujarat, where elections are due this year end. Giving indications

Kudankulam, September 10: Police today fired teargas shells to disperse anti-nuclear protesters, who again tried to lay seige to the nuclear power plant here demanding a halt to the loading of enriched uranium in the reactor. Defying prohibitory orders, the protesters refused to disperse from the sea shores, 500 metres away from the Kudankulam Nulcear Power project, despite repeated pleas by top

Bhubaneswar, September 10: Public transport was hit in Odisha on Monday and trains stranded as the opposition Congress called for a dawn-to-dusk shutdown to protest police excesses on its workers during a party rally here last week, officials said. Public transport was badly affected in several towns as many buses and taxis went off the roads. Trains were stranded at different railway stations as

Mumbai, September 10: A Kanpur-based cartoonist, Aseem Trivedi, was remanded to police custody till September 16 by a Mumbai court on Sunday for allegedly posting seditious content on his website. His website has also been blocked. His arrest gas been criticised by voices from across the board. The Chairman of the Press Council of India, Markandey Katju, compared the arrest to Nazi war criminals.

Patna, September 9: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Sunday said Bal Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray were originally Bihari, and that they were "infiltrators" in Maharashtra. "Thackeray's family are originally from Bihar and now settled in Maharashtra. They are infiltrators in Mumbai, they should leave Maharashtra as soon as possible," Lalu told newspersons here while reacting

New Delhi, September 9: A day after India Against Corruption started a survey on forming a political party, some prominent members and volunteers of erstwhile Team Anna today urged Anna Hazare to delink himself from Arvind Kejriwal and revive the "apolitical" anti-graft movement. The appeal to Hazare came after a meeting of IAC volunteers, who were opposed to the movement taking a political plunge

New Delhi, September 9: In the wake of panic among people from northeast in various parts of the country last month, the government was planning to block micro-blogging site Twitter in eight states as the content on it was thought to be one of the main reasons for triggering exodus. The department of electronics and IT wanted to block Twitter and asked experts how and whether it could be done

Tirumala (AP), September 9: Against the backdrop of disruptions in the monsoon session of Parliament, President Pranab Mukherkjee today said the possibility of early polls depended on the behaviour of political leaders and parties. "It is not a question of what I forsee...This is a question of how leaders will behave, members will behave and parties will behave," he told reporters when asked about

New Delhi, September 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assets worth around Rs 10.73 crore, double that of last year, but a number of his cabinet colleagues are much richer than him. Among the richer cabinet ministers are Praful Patel with assets of approximately Rs 52 crore and Sharad Pawar with property worth around Rs 22 crore, according to the updated list of assets of the ministers posted

New Delhi, September 9: Prepaid mobile customers will not have international calling facilities, soon, unless they make a request for availing such a benefit. As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) latest direction to telecom companies, if pre-paid customers wanted the ISD facilities then they should give explicit consent for availing them. “Inform all pre-paid subscribers having