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Islamabad/New Delhi, Apr 14: India today demanded from Pakistan a certified copy of the charge-sheet as well as the judgement in the death sentence of its national Kulbhushan Jadhav and sought consular access to him. Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad Gautam Bambawale met Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua in connection with the case of Jadhav, who has been given death sentence by a

Malda (WB), Apr 14: Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar today said India was trying to secure justice for Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court. "Injustice has been meted out to him (Jadhav). A kangaroo court has slapped this charge. In spite of all these, we are trying to secure justice for him. We are eager for his return," he told a

Lucknow, Apr 14: BSP supremo Mayawati today said she has no reservations in shaking hands with other parties in her struggle against the BJP on the issue of EVM tampering in the recent Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. "The BSP now has no reservations in taking the help of anti-BJP parties in its fight against EVM tampering and the BJP as it is the democracy which comes first

Dehradun, Apr 14: The ruling BJP and the main opposition party Congress are on a collision course in Uttarakhand after the later said that the national song 'Vande Matram' will not be sung at the party's official programmes for one month "come what may". According to media report, the announcement was made by the state unit of Congress in response to Uttarakhand Education Minister Dhan Singh Rawat

New Delhi, Apr 13: The Aam Aadmi Party was in for a rude jolt on Thursday when it lost its sitting seat in Delhi to BJP in an Assembly bypoll, that too by losing deposit, just before a crucial civic polls in the capital. BJP's Manjinder Singh Sirsa won the Rajouri Garden seat by a margin of 14,652 with Congress' Meenakshi Chandela, a sitting councillor from the area, came second pushing AAP's

Meerut, Apr 13: A group of men belonging to the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a Gorakhpur-headquartered party whose leader is UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, allegedly barged into a house in Meerut and dragged out a consenting couple, parading them in broad daylight to a local police station. The men, who said they found the lovers in a "compromising position", alleged that the man, a Muzaffarnagar

New Delhi, Apr 13: Key opposition parties, led by Congress, sought President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention on what they alleged was rising intolerance and authoritarianism under the BJP government. With former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in front, the delegation met the President just after the budget session of Parliament drew to a close on Wednesday. Among the complaints

New Delhi, Apr 12: Major opposition parties today met President Pranab Mukherjee and put forth their concern over recent incidents of violence, including attacks by cow vigilantes, and efforts to "muzzle voices of dissent". A delegation of leaders of various political parties, led by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, called on the President at the

New Delhi, Apr 12: Parliament today strongly condemned a statement by a BJP youth wing leader announcing a Rs 11 lakh bounty to anyone who beheads West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, with the Centre saying the state government was "free to take legal action" against him. The issue was raised in both the Houses by Trinamool Congress members, with all major political parties and the

New Delhi, Apr 12: India's state-owned fuel retailers plan to implement daily revision of fuel price in five cities from May 1 ahead of a nationwide roll out of the scheme, industry sources said. To begin with, daily revision of fuel prices will be implemented in Puducherry and Vizag in southern India, Udaipur in the West, Jamshedpur in the East and Chandigarh in the North, they said. State