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New Delhi, Apr 20: BJP president Amit Shah has reassured senior party leader LK Advani that the party supports him even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to put Advani, 89, Murli Manohar Joshi, 83, and Uma Bharti, 57, on trial after restoring the criminal conspiracy charges against them. "The party is with you," a news channel quoted Amit Shah as saying. The report also said that

New Delhi, Apr 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with senior ministerial colleagues here, hours after the Supreme Court ordered restoring of criminal conspiracy charge against top BJP leaders L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti in the Babri Masjid demolition case. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Information and

Mumbai, Apr 20: Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad allegedly had a heated argument with cops over "non- functioning" of ATMs at Latur in Marathwada region, police said. Videos of the alleged heated argument between Gaikwad, his supporters and police personnel at Latur in Marathwada region, have gone viral on social media. In the visuals, Gaikwad is purportedly seen arguing with a police officer, during

New Delhi, Apr 19: Signalling AAP's willingness to join opposition in the fight against BJP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday had a breakfast meeting with Kerala Chief Minister and senior CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan here where he called for an alliance of "all good people". Kejriwal went to Kerala House this morning for a breakfast meeting with Vijayan, a senior CPI(M) Polit

New Delhi, Apr 19: BSF on Wednesday dismissed Constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, whose video post on poor food being served to security personnel deployed on Line of Control (LoC) went viral, citing gross indiscipline. The action against Yadav came after a Court of Inquiry (CoI) found Yadav guilty of violation of service rules by taking his grievances to public domain rather than raising it with his

New Delhi, Apr 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that those who had looted the poor and the middle classes in the past will have to return what they had looted. "Indeed. There is no place for corruption in India. Those who looted the poor and middle classes will have to return what they have looted," Modi said on Twitter in response to a tweet by a follower. Modi's remarks came on a day liquor

Chennai, Apr 19: In a dramatic development, the AIADMK (Amma) faction on Tuesday decided to “de-link” the party and the government from deputy general secretary T T V Dhinakaran and his family. The decision, taken at a meeting chaired by CM K Palaniswami, came a few hours after leader of the AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) faction and former CM?O Panneerselvam ruled out a merger if jailed AIADMK

New Delhi, Apr 18: Indian Meteorological Department on Tuesday predicted normal southwest monsoon in 2017 when rainfall for the entire country in the whole season (June-September) would be 96% of the long term average. According to the April forecast from the met department, there is 38% probability of the monsoon being near normal. “The monsoon seasonal rainfall is likely to be 96% of the long

Chennai, Apr 18: Chief Minister K Palaniswami has stressed for unity in taking the ruling AIADMK and its government forward, senior party leader K A Sengottaiyan said today, as informal meetings continued over a possible merger between the rival factions. A day after several ministers discussed the modalities of a merger, placing the focus on redeeming the party's frozen 'Two Leaves' symbol

New Delhi, Apr 18: The Congress on Monday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of making ‘disparaging, distatateful and dishonourable’ remarks against country’s women on his website and demanded an apology from him. The party also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah should ask Adiyanath not to make such remarks in the future. Talking to