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New Delhi, Jul 19: Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he will not attend a meeting of the selection committee for appointment of Lokpal till the time the leader of the single largest opposition party is accorded a full-fledged member of the panel. The meeting is scheduled for this evening. Kharge had on earlier occasions

New Delhi, Jul 19: The Centre on Thursday condemned the recent incidents of mob lynching and said it has advised the states to take stringent action against the culprits and asked social media service providers to install checks to stop the spread of rumours and fake news. Home Minister Rajnath condemned the incidents and made a statement in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour while responding to

New Delhi, Jul 19: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the BJP government over proposed changes to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, saying they will render the law useless. The proposed amendments, circulated among Members of Parliament, seek to do away with the parity given to information commissions with the Election Commission in terms of salary, allowances and conditions of

Noida, Jul 19: The death toll has risen to nine and several are feared trapped under the rubble of two adjacent buildings which collapsed in Greater Noida on the outskirts of the National Capital. Rescue teams at the site discovered the ninth body early on Thursday. A six-floor under-construction building crashed on a five-storey building next to it, bringing it down as well, in Shahberi village

Amritsar, July 19: The Border Security Force (BSF) 73 Battalion gunned down a Pakistani infiltrator, who was trying to cross over into the Indian side of the border in Punjab. The incident took place last night in Amritsar's Ajnala. The security forces are further investigating the matter. In March, another Pakistani national was shot dead by the BSF near the India-Pakistan border in Gurdaspur

New Delhi, Jul 19: A day after Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan accepted Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi Government, MP JC Diwakar Reddy has decided not to attend the session as he is "fed up" of his party and the Centre. "I am not going to attend the Parliament session. You can say that I violated the party whip instructions. I am fed up with Centre and

Guwahati, Jul 18: Nineteen Assam government officers, including the daughter of BJP MP R P Sharma, were arrested today as their handwriting did not match with that in their answer sheets in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) examination held in 2016, police said. The Dibrugarh Police, which is probing the cash-for-job scam in the APSC, had summoned the 19 officers of the Assam Civil

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Supreme Court today said women have the constitutional right to enter Sabarimala temple in Kerala and pray like men without being discriminated against. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is hearing a petition challenging the decision of the Devaswom board banning entry of women of age group 10-50 years, said that even if there was no

New Delhi, Jul 18: As many as 1,10,333 cases of rape were registered in the country between 2014-16, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said today. Rijiju said in Rajya Sabha that 38,947 cases of rape were registered in 2016, 34,651 cases of rape were registered in 2015 and 36,735 cases of rape were registered in 2014. Altogether 3,38,954 cases of crime against women were registered in 2016, as many as 3

Shimla, Jul 18: A MiG-21 fighter jet crashed in a village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, killing the pilot. The fighter jet crashed in Mehra Palli village under the Jawali police station, Kangra Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh Patial said. The SP said that he and other officials were on their way to the spot. The aircraft had taken off from the Pathankot air base in