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Patna, Jun 24: Adhering to his stand on supporting the NDA's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the JD(U) took the decision after considering all aspects and the election for the top office should not be a matter of confrontation. He said his party had always taken independent decisions, including backing the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee, who

Srinagar, Jun 23: Two persons were arrested in the wee hours today in connection with the lynching of a police officer by an irate mob outside Jamia Masjid in downtown area. "Two persons have been arrested so far and a third has been identified. All of them (involved in lynching of the officer) will face the law," DGP S P Vaid told reporters on sidelines of the wreath laying ceremony of slain

Srinagar, Jun 23: A police official was beaten to death by an irate mob at Srinagar Jamia Majid (grand Mosque) after they assumed he had fired at a group of people who caught him clicking pictures near a mosque in downtown area of Srinagar, injuring three. The people were busy with special Shab-e-Qadr prayers inside grand mosque at the times of incident around 2am on Thursday-Friday night

New Delhi, Jun 23: NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind today filed his nomination papers in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a battery of NDA chief ministers and party leaders. BJP President Amit Shah and party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were present during the filing of nominations. All chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and its allies except Manohar

Jammu, Jun 22: Pakistani troops today carried out an attack 600 metres inside the Indian territory in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, killing two jawans and losing one of their men in the retaliatory action. One of the attacker was injured in the Indian retaliatory action and his body was extricated under the cover of heavy firing by the Pakistani troops from their posts across the LoC, an

Mumbai, Jun 22: Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu today said seeking loan waiver has become a "fashion" now but it is not the final solution and should be considered in extreme situations. Farmers in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha recently protested over various issues concerning them, including the demand for waiving off their loans

Chennai, Jun 22: Robert Payas, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who has been behind bars for more than 26 years, submitted a request for mercy killing to the prison authorities on Wednesday. Payas was sentenced to life imprisonment but although the state government decided to release all seven convicts in the case, the remission process was blocked by the Supreme Court. Payas, who

Srinagar, Jun 22: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including an ultra involved in a series of killings, were gunned down in the wee hours today in an encounter that lasted for over six hours in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Majid Dar, one of the slain militants, was involved in a number of killings including that of sarpanch of Kakapora and district president of Pulwama, a police official

Ahmedabad, Jun21: "Amit Shah has shed his body weight by doing yoga, but has increased his political weight substantially, giving tension to many." The politically-fraught comment on the BJP national president came from yoga guru Ramdev on the International Day of Yoga, which saw nearly three lakh people turning up to stretch, turn and twist their bodies. Shah, along with Gujarat Chief Minister

Shimla, Jun 21: BJP's Kusum Sadret was on Tuesday elected the Shimla Municipal Corporation Mayor and party colleague Rakesh Sharma her deputy, a first for the state's opposition party in three decades, an officer said. Urban Development Department Director DK Gupta, who conducted the election proceedings, confirmed the election of Sadret and Sharma to the top MC posts. The party bagged 17 of the