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New Delhi, August 26: Anti-graft activist Kiran Bedi on Sunday appeared to be breaking ranks with erstwhile Team Anna by skipping a protest against corruption over differences on targeting the BJP, saying they cannot forget the support from the opposition party in some ways on the Lokpal Bill. She also said that Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption cannot become the alternative to existing

New Delhi, August 26: Activist Arvind Kejriwal and hundreds of erstwhile Team Anna supporters were detained on Sunday when they marched to the residences of the Prime Minister and the chiefs of the Congress and the BJP on the issue of coal block allocation with police using teargas and water cannons to disperse them. Mr. Kejriwal was detained for the second time on Sunday as he was picked up from

Kolkata, August 26: Even as she claimed that no government in the world had ushered in so much development as her administration since it came to power last year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday continued her tirade against a section of the media and said the police would register cases against “those who are spreading lies.” It was spreading canards against her government

New Delhi, August 26: Erstwhile Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal and five others on Sunday assembled in front of the residences of the Prime Minister and Congress and BJP party presidents for a protest on the coal block allocation issue but were detained. All the six — Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai, Kumar Vishas, Sanjay Singh and another person — were later released from custody after being

New Delhi, August 25: Five people were killed in fresh violence in Chirang district of Assam on Saturday. Curfew has been imposed in the district to curb further clashes between Bodo tribals and Muslim settlers. The neighbouring district of Kokrajhar has been put on high alert following the latest violence. Earlier, Bodoland Peoples' Front MLA, Pradeep Brahma, was arrested on Thursday for his

Balasore (Odisha), August 25: India's nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km was today successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range near here as part of user trial by the army. "The flight test of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted around 1100 hrs from a mobile launcher from ITR's launch complex-III at Chandipur," defence sources said

New Delhi, August 25: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has refuted charges that the Centre is censoring Internet, in the wake of its move to check objectionable content on the social media. “There is no censorship at all. We decided on taking action because there were pictures of Myammar etc online, which were disturbing the atmosphere here in India. We are not taking action against other

New Delhi, August 25: Heavy rains on Friday lashed the national capital, bringing down the temperature but Delhiites had to face troubles while commuting due to waterlogged roads and traffic jams. The city received 10.9 mm rains between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm which brought the mercury below normal levels, MET officials said. The maximum was recorded at 30.7 degree Celsius, three points below the

New Delhi, August 24: The government on Friday rejected the CAG report on allocation of coal blocks in which it has indicated a Rs 1.85 lakh crore ($37 billion) loss to the exchequer, saying the notion of presumptive loss is flawed. "If the coal is not being mined, there is no question of gain or loss... the notion of this presumptive loss is flawed," finance minister PChidambaram said at a joint

New Delhi, August 24: The government stepped up its efforts to stop what it feels is an online campaign of misinformation and rumour mongering in the wake of lower Assam riots and ordered blocking of 16 Twitter accounts, including two belonging to journalists, considered sympathetic to the right in India. The department of telecommunications (DoT) ordered blocking of the accounts on August 20. The