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New Delhi, Nov 3: Reacting to Kamal Haasan's allegations that 'right-wing Hindus' have started employing terrorism to propagate their 'communal agenda', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday compared the actor to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed. "There has been a tendency in this country we have seen in the past decade how Sonia Gandhi-Rahul Gandhi led Congress party drew a strategy

The brother of the young physiotherapist Nirbhaya who died in a hospital after a brutal gang-rape in Delhi in 2012, is now a pilot. And their mother thanks Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for making the family's dream come true. "Aman (name changed) is a pilot now because of Rahul Gandhi," said Asha Devi, who fought for years to get justice for her daughter. The brutality of the crime against

Ahmedabad, Nov 2: Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, who has been critical of the ruling BJP in the state, today said he has no plans as of now to join the Congress or any other party. At the same time, Mevani said he is ready to hold talks with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to know the party's stand on various demands of the Dalit community. "I want to make it clear that neither have I

Kangra, Nov 2: The Congress, by promising “zero tolerance” of corruption when its own Chief Minister in Himachal Pradesh was facing allegations of graft, had become a “laughing club,“ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. It was time to rid the “Devbhoomi”, [land of the Gods], of monsters, he said at an election rally in Kangra. Chief Minister Virabhadra Singh, Mr. Modi pointed out, was

Rae Bareli (UP), Nov 2: Around 80 people were rushed to the NTPC Hospital in Rae Bareli, most of whom were discharged after first-aid. The toll in the massive explosion in a boiler at the state-run power giant NTPC’s Unchahar plant here has risen to 26, a senior official said on Thursday. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has taken a break from his ongoing ‘Navsarjan Yatra’ in poll-bound

New Delhi, Nov 1: The price of cooking gas was hiked by Rs 4.50 per cylinder on Wednesday, the 19th increase in rates since July 2016 when the government decided to eliminate subsidy on it by raising prices every month. Also, the price of jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price has been increased by 2% on firming international rates, the fourth straight increase in rates since August

New Delhi, Nov 1: In a significant development, the Election Commission on Wednesday pressed for a life ban on convicted MPs and MLAs from contesting polls. According to news agency, the poll panel made this submission before the Supreme Court during a hearing. The Election Commission said it favours barring convicted MLAs, MPs for life. BJP leader Ashwani Upadhyay had filed a PIL seeking a

Gujarat, Nov 1: “The entire country will shout and say ease of doing business is absent, you have destroyed it, your demonetisation and GST have ruined it,” said the Congress vice president. Demonetisation and GST have ruined the ease of doing business, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, seizing on a World Bank report that India had jumped 30 places on the ‘ease of doing

New Delhi, Nov 1: Efficient management of time and speedy decision-making have been the focus of President Ram Nath Kovind who completed 100 days in office today, according to officials of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Kovind, who took over on July 25 as the 14th president, has also sought to reach out to the states, which form a crucial part of the federal structure of the country, by undertaking

New Delhi, Oct 31: Minister for Human Resource and Development Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday approved reservation for the Other Backward Castes(OBCs) students in NCERT conducted talent search examination. The HRD Minister took to Twitter to share the information. The second stage (national level) of National Talent Search Examination(NTSE) will now include quotas for OBCs, which is an addition to