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New Delhi, May 23: Major Leetul Gogoi, in the eye of a storm after he controversially decided to truss up a civilian on his jeep's bonnet as a "human shield" to rescue over a dozen security and election personnel from a stone-pelting mob in Jammu & Kashmir in April, has been awarded by Army chief General Bipin Rawat. The award of the chief of army staff commendation card, which is just a notch

Lucknow, May 22: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today accused the previous governments in the state of discriminating on the basis of caste and religion and said that secularism does not mean being obsessed towards one particular faith. Adityanath also claimed that due to vote-bank politics, patriots like Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan and Abdul Hamid did not find their due

New Delhi, May 22: Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports are the most accessible among the facilities in six metros of the country while the national capital find a place at the bottom only. A study 'Benchmarking of Accessibility and Connectivity of Indian Airports' by New Delhi-based School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) showed that the two south Indian airports are in first two positions compared

Chennai, May 22: Members of a fringe pro-Tamil outfit on Monday burnt an effigy of actor Rajinikanth, opposing his entry into politics. With the 'Tamizhar Munnetra Padai' planning to picket the actor's house at Poes Garden, security was stepped up there. The slogan-raising activists burnt an effigy of the actor at the busy Cathedral Road, police said, adding that scores of members of the outfit

Chennai, May 22: Security forces were deployed near Tamil actor Rajinikanth's residence since Monday morning after Thamizhar Munnetra Padai, a pro-Tamil group, was planning to stage protest near actor's house. Cadres of various pro-Tamil organisations including TMP and Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam were protesting against Rajinikanth's plan to entering Tamil Nadu politics. Thamizhar Munnetra Padai

New Delhi, May 22: Union minister Arun Jaitley today filed a fresh civil defamation suit of Rs 10 crore against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal whose lawyer allegedly used an objectionable word against him in court last week. Jaitley, who holds the twin portfolios of Finance and Defence, filed the fresh suit after Kejriwal's counsel Ram Jethmalani allegedly abused him in open court during the

New Delhi, May 22: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife today appeared in a special court here in connection with a nearly Rs 10 crore disproportionate assets case and sought bail. However, the judge posted the matter for argument to May 29 after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought time to file a reply to the bail pleas by Singh, his wife Pratibha and the

New Delhi, May 22: United States President Donald Trump, during his speech at the Arab-Islamic-US summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, acknowledged that India is a victim of terrorism and said that every country must ensure that terrorists don't find sanctuaries within their borders. "India, Russia, China, and Australia have all been victims" of terrorism, Trump said, adding that the countries, as well

Pelling (Sikkim), May 21: "Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours and Kashmiriyat is also ours," Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today, asserting that the Modi government will find a "permanent solution" to the Kashmir problem.The home minister's assertion came amid continued unrest in the Kashmir valley. Addressing a public reception here in this tiny northeastern state, Singh accused

New Delhi, May 21: A number of large foreign funds, managing trillions of dollars of investor assets globally, have flagged 'persisting religious conflicts' and 'Kashmir dispute' as potential risks to their investments in India, saying such "tensions" could destabilise the Indian economy. JPMorgan, one of the largest wealth managers in the world with asset under management of over USD 1.7 trillion