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New Delhi, Oct 25: Large personal electronic devices (PED) like laptops may soon be disallowed from check-in bags because of fears that their battery fire would go undetected, leading to possible catastrophes. In hand bags, on the other hand, cabin crew are now trained to handle PED fires as soon as anyone notices smoke emitting from the bag they are kept in. Just last week, a mobile phone caught

New Delhi, Oct 24: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today urged the Delhi High Court to stop journalist Arnab Goswami and his news channel Republic TV from "misreporting" his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death, saying his "right to be left alone" and "right to silence" must be respected. The submission was made before Justice Manmohan, who reserved the verdict on Tharoor's plea seeking to restrain Goswami and

Ayodhya, Oct 24: The controversy over Taj Mahal refuses to die down any time soon, and now BJP leader Vinay Katiyar has asked the authorities to rename the iconic historic monument located in Agra as Taj Mandir. The firebrand BJP MP on Tuesday said that nothing is wrong in it as the whole compound belongs to Lord Shiva. It was a temple earlier, Katiyar added. Katiyar made these remarks after some

New Delhi, Oct 24: Stepping up his attack against the government over GST, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today took the Gabbar Singh analogy further by referencing the Bollywood villain's dialogue to say it was a tax that coveted people's earnings. Gandhi, who had yesterday described the goods and services tax as "Gabbar Singh Tax" during a rally in Gujarat, today recalled a much quoted

Greater Noida, Oct 24: The government is considering building 50 more ITBP posts along the India-China border, making troops learn how to speak basic Chinese (Mandarin) and using technology to ensure a round-the-year temperature of 20 degree Celsius in all its high-altitude bases, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday. Addressing jawans and officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

New Delhi, Oct 24: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid Yousuf in connection with a 2011 terror funding case in Kashmir. An NIA spokesman said that 42-year-old Yousuf, at present working in the Jammu and Kashmir government's agricultural department, was summoned to the headquarters on Tuesday after which he was placed

Kozhikode, Oct 24: The Kerala State Haj Committee has objected to several new provisions including reduction in pilgrim quota for the Haj Committee of India (HCoI) to 70% in the draft proposed by the Ministry of Minority Affairs. At a meeting here on Monday, the State Haj committee chaired by Haj Minister K.T. Jaleel urged the HCoI to increase the existing quota for Haj committee to 80% from the

New Delhi, Oct 24: A C-130 transport aircraft with special forces commandos and 17 other frontline fighters from Indian Air Force's inventory touched down on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway on Tuesday morning, in it's exercise to use highways as landing strips. A patch of Lucknow-Agra Expressway doubled up as a landing strip on Tuesday, a part of the government's plan to identify and develop a number

New Delhi, Oct 23: Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana was on Monday appointed the special director of the CBI. Asthana, a 1984-batch IPS officer, had been serving in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as additional director. He is among seven other senior police officers of the 1984 batch promoted on Monday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, according to a notification by

Ahmedabad, Oct 23: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday gave a new meaning to the acronym for Goods and Services Tax (GST), calling it a Gabbar Singh Tax, based on the famous character in Bollywood flick of 1980s Sholay. “The GST is nothing but a Gabbar Singh Tax. It has destroyed scores of small businessman. Now, you will have to change this GST. You will have to simplify it. Else, the