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New Delhi, Apr 24: In the wake of the current turbulent atmosphere in the Valley, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to discuss the situation and possibly formulate a solution. Besides her meeting with the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister will also meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Upon Mufti's invitation, Prime Minister Modi

New Delhi, Apr 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for conducting simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies and shifting to a January- December fiscal year. Addressing the Niti Aayog Governing Council's third meeting, which was attended by several state chief ministers, Modi said for long, India had suffered from economic and political mismanagement. "Because of

New Delhi, Apr 23: Three men transporting buffaloes were allegedly attacked by members of animal rights group PFA (People for Animals) on Saturday night in south Delhi's Kalkaji area. The three men were injured and were admitted to the AIIMS Trauma Centre. They were discharged shortly after medical attention. Two FIRs were registered; one against the three men for cruelty towards animals and the

New Delhi, Apr 23: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were among those who skipped Niti Aayog's Governing Council meet here today. The third meeting of the council began at Rashtrapati Bhawan with the main agenda of deliberating on the 15-year Vision Document to accelerate the country's economic development. "West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata

New Delhi, Apr 23: Voting began this morning for the Delhi municipal polls to 272 wards in which the ruling BJP is locked in a triangular battle with the Congress and the AAP. More than 1.3 crore people are eligible to vote in the civic elections, spread over 13,000 polling stations across the national capital. Both the BJP and the Congress have exuded confidence about winning the electoral battle

Indore, Apr 23: The flight is about to land; all passengers are strapped in; and the national anthem starts playing on the plane's PA system. Do the passengers stand up to show respect, or remain strapped in as per flight rules? This unlikeliest of dilemmas did play out — on a SpiceJet flight from Tirupati to Hyderabad on April 18, prompting a passenger to file a complaint with the airline. The

New Delhi, Apr 22: Grabbing eyeballs with their novel way of protest, Tamil Nadu farmers today drank urine in another desperate bid to draw the government's attention towards their plight. Over the last 39 days, they have shaved half of their moustache and head, kept mice and snakes in their mouth, conducted mock funerals, flogged themselves and carried skulls of other farmers, who had committed

New Delhi, Apr 22: Commenting on Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad`s statement that Muslims do not vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), despite the government giving them `proper sanctity`, party leader Subramanian Swamy termed it correct. Swamy said, "He is correct and that is the correct constitutional procedure because once the election has taken place and you have got a mandate, then we

New Delhi, Apr 22: A day after being expelled for 'anti-party activities` by Congress, Barkha Shukla Singh on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The former Delhi Commission for Women chief met BJP`s national vice president and Delhi in-charge Shyam Jaju at 1 pm. She was expelled from the Congress on Friday for six years for undertaking “anti-party activities”. On Thursday, she had

Chennai, Apr 22: setting the stage for a unified AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, the two rival factions in the party are said to have agreed upon a deal to reinstate rebel leader O Panneerselvam as the chief minister while current CM E K Palaniswami will take charge as the organisation’s general secretary in place of the jailed V K Sasikala. “The merger deal has been sealed and formal talks will begin now