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New Delhi, Oct 18: A local RSS leader was shot dead near his house in Ludhiana on Tuesday. The two bike-borne assailants with their faces covered fled the scene after committing the crime. Ravinder Gosain, 58, was the mukhya shikshak of RSS’s Mohan shakha for many years. He was also mandal pradhan of a local BJP unit. His son Deepak Kumar said: “My father was sitting outside and getting ready to

New Delhi, Oct 17: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today took a dig at the BJP and the government over the latter extending legal help to party chief Amit Shah's son in a defamation case he has filed against a news website over a report about his financial dealings. "State legal help for Shah-Zada! Why this, why this Kolaveri Da?," he tweeted. He also tagged a news report entitled "Jay Amit

Kolkata, Oct 17: The value of declared assets of BJP has increased from Rs 122.93 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 893.88 crore in 2015-16 while that of Congress has risen from Rs 167.35 crore to Rs 758.79 crore, according to the NGOs Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Election Watch. The value of assets of Trinamool Congress has seen a jump from Rs 0.25 crore to Rs 44.99 crore during this 11-year

Lucknow, Oct 17: The Taj Mahal was made by the blood and sweat of “Bharat Mata’s sons” and its protection was the responsibility of the Uttar Pradesh government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday. Announcing that he would visit Agra on October 26 to review tourism schemes, the Chief Ninister said the Taj Mahal was a historical monument regardless of the emperor who built it. There was

Rampur, Oct 17: Monuments such as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Parliament House and the Red Fort should be demolished as they too are "symbols of slavery" just as the Taj Mahal, Samajwadi Party general secretary Azam Khan has said. The SP MLA's remarks last night came in response to BJP MLA Sangeet Som's comments questioning the Taj Mahal's place in India's heritage. Som had said history would be

Lucknow, Oct 17: Regardless of who built it, the Taj Mahal was a historical monument and its protection was the responsibility of the Uttar Pradesh government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today and announced that he would be visiting Agra next week to review tourism schemes. The chief minister’s comments come a day after his colleague, BJP MLA Sangeet Som, questioned the Taj Mahal’s place

Ranchi, Oct 17: An 11-year-old girl in BJP-ruled Jharkhand’s Simdega district has died of starvation last fortnight, after her family was struck off the government welfare rolls for not linking their ration card with Aadhaar. Santoshi Kumari died on September 28 after starving for four days, her mother Koili Devi told activists. The family had not received any ration since February but subsisted

Kolkata, Oct 17: Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Monday condemned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sangeet Som's remarks on Taj Mahal, saying that it's BJP's agenda to destroy India's culture and heritage. "It's BJP's systematic political agenda to finish India's culture and heritage. It's condemnable" Mamta said. Taking a pot shot at Uttar Pradesh government for renaming

New Delhi, Oct 17: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that ninety percent of the IAS officers "do not work" and said at times he feels development was "stuck up at the Secretariat". On the bureaucrats' alleged "objection" to the regularisation of contractual workers, Kejriwal said if Delhi had full statehood, his government would regularise all the contractual employees within 24

Washington, Aug 17: More than four-fifths of Indian citizens trust their government, but interestingly, a majority of Indians also support military rule and autocracy, a latest Pew survey said on Monday. “In India, where the economy has grown on average by 6.9 percent since 2012, 85 per cent (of people) trust their national government," Pew Research said in a report based on its survey on