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Bengaluru, Oct 9: Union home minister Rajnath Singh said Indian soldiers along the India-Pakistan border had been neutralizing at least five-six terrorists every day and that he has asked them to give a befitting reply if Pakistan opened fire. Singh said on Sunday he had ordered Indian soldiers not to fire at their Pakistani counterparts first, but give them a befitting reply by "firing countless

New Delhi, Oct 9: The Supreme Court has brought back the November 2016 ban on sale of firecrackers in the Delhi-NCR region. “Let's try out at least one Diwali without firecrackers,” the top court observed on Monday, suspending the sale of firecrackers in the region. A bench headed by Justice A.K. Sikri said the apex court’s September 12 order temporarily lifting the stay and permitting sale of

New Delhi, Oct 9: Words such as 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' in names of universities--Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University--do not reflect their secular character and should be dropped, a UGC panel has recommended. The panel was formed to probe the alleged irregularities in 10 central universities and the recommendations have been made in the audit report of AMU. Centrally funded

New Delhi, Oct 9: The Gujarat high court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a Special Investigation Team court in the 2002 Godhra train burning case on Monday, more than two years after the completion of hearings on the matter. The judgement will be delivered by a bench of justice Anant Dave and justice GR Udhwani at about 11am. Here’s

New Delhi, Oct 9: Around 54,000 petrol pumps all over India will go on a day long strike on October 13 in support of their long-pending demands, a petrol pump operators association official said here on Saturday. Federation Of Maharashtra Petrol Dealers Association (Fampeda) President Uday Lodh said that a decision on the issue was taken at the first joint meeting of United Petroleum Front, an

Ahmedabad, Oct 8: The Gujarat high court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a special SIT court in the 2002 Godhra train coach burning case. Coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express, in which 59 people, mostly ‘kar sevaks’ returning from Ayodhya were travelling, was burnt on February 27, 2002 at the Godhra station, triggering riots in the

New Delhi, Oct 8: BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday said that “politics of violence” is in the nature of the communists as he lashed out at the CPI(M) over the political violence in Kerala. Addressing the Delhi leg of the ‘Jan Raksha Yatra’, the BJP’s ongoing campaign to highlight “left atrocities” in Kerala, Mr. Shah asserted that no amount of intimidation can stop the lotus (BJP’s symbol) from

New Delhi, Oct 7: At least 54,000 petrol pumps across India will remain closed for 24 hours on October 13. The strike by petrol pump dealers has been called over various demands. However, All India Petroleum Dealers Association President Ajay Bansal told ANI that they will go on indefinite strike from October 27. "If we don't get appropriate response from oil companies, then we will go on

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan features in the list of probables for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, The Wall Street Journal has reported. He is one of the six economists on the list of probable winners complied by Clarivate Analytics, a company that does academic and scientific research and maintains a list of dozens of possible Nobel Prize winners based on research citations. The entry

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7: The CPI in Kerala today said the party was not averse to joining hands with the Congress to take on the BJP. CPI state secretary Kannam Rajendran, however, said the stand on an electoral alliance would be clear only after its 23rd party congress next year. The CPI is of the opinion that all democratic forces in the country, including the Congress, have to move together