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New Delhi, Oct 6: The Supreme Court today asked some searching questions on a plea seeking reopening of the investigation into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. After a brief hearing, a bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao appointed senior advocate and former additional solicitor general Amrender Sharan as amicus curiae to assist the court in the matter. During the hearing

Chennai, Oct 6: Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala was granted parole for five days on Friday to meet her ailing husband Natarajan who recently underwent a liver and kidney transplant. Sasikala had sought parole for 15 days to meet her 74-year-old estranged husband who was a bureaucrat in the Tamil Nadu government during Jayalalithaa's earlier tenures. Natarajan – who joined AIADMK when MGR was

New Delhi, Oct 6: Five Air Force personnel and two Armymen were killed on Friday when an IAF helicopter ferrying kerosene cans burst into flames in Tawang area of Arunachal Pradesh. The mishap happened at an altitude of 17,000 feet when the Mi-17 V5 chopper crew were getting ready to drop kerosene supply at a forward location. While jerry cans of kerosene were being offloaded, the net holding the

New Delhi, Oct 6: A day after Panchkula Police Commissioner AS Chawla said that Honeypreet is not co-operating in the ongoing interrogation, the Dera Sacha Sauda supporters in police custody on Friday claimed that Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s ‘adopted’ daughter had masterminded the August 25 violence in Panchkula. According to the media reports, Honeypreet alias Priyanka Taneja had chaired a meeting

New Delhi, Oct 6: China has maintained a sizeable presence of its troops near the site of the Doka La standoff with India and has even started widening an existing road which is around 12 kilometres from the site of the conflict. Sources said that China has been slowly increasing its troop level in Doka La which could further escalate the current situation as India has reasons to be concerned over

New Delhi, Oct 6: The all powerful GST Council will meet on Friday and is likely to decide on providing some relief to exporters in terms of faster refunds as well as compliance. The full fledged meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is also likely to assess the improvements in the GST Network's functioning, officials said. This will be the 22nd meeting of the Council. Officials in

United Nations, Oct 5: India has called for a closer and real-time intelligence sharing, coordination of operations and technical assistance to address the increasing challenges posed by transnational crime organisations. Despite the development of an expanding body of international treaties and conventions, designed to address the entire range of trans-border crimes, the challenge appears to only

New Delhi, Oct 5: Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani on Thursday emerged as India's wealthiest for the 10th straight year as his net worth swelled to $38 billion (nearly Rs 2.5 lakh crore) while the wealth of 100 richest rose by 26 percent despite economic hiccups. Wipro's Azim Premji was the distant second with a net worth of $19 billion, moving up two places from last year, while Sun Pharma

New Delhi, Oct 5: The Indian Air Force is capable of countering China and ready to take on the challenge of a two-front war, Air Chief B S Dhanoa said today. Addressing a press conference here on the eve of Air Force Day, the Air Chief Marshal said his force is ready for a full spectrum operation but added that any decision on surgical strike involving the IAF has to be taken by the government.

Ahmedabad, Oct 5: The Gujarat High Court today rejected Zakia Jafri's plea challenging a lower court order upholding SIT's clean chit to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others on allegations of larger conspiracy in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots. The high court, however, allowed Zakia to approach higher forums for further investigation in the case. Zakia, the wife of slain former