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New Delhi, Apr 2: Sending out a message to the misguided youth of Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "40 years of bloodshed" has not benefitted anyone and that they should choose tourism over terrorism to ensure the state's development and well-being. He again invoked former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's slogan of 'Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat, Insaniyat (Kashmirism, democracy

Bengaluru, Apr 2: Former Union finance and home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday the Congress lacks the organizational structure to take on the widespread and deep-rooted BJP and RSS. He said the BJP and RSS today have the structure and reach which the Congress had from the 1950s to the '70s. "Over the past 20 years, the Congress organizational structure has weakened. We need to build it in

Chenani (J&K), Apr 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the country's longest road tunnel that links Kashmir Valley with Jammu by an all-weather route and reduces the distance by 31 kms.\ The 9-km long 'Chenani–Nashri Tunnel', built at the cost of Rs 2,500 crore, was dedicated to the nation by the Prime Minister here in presence of Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra and Chief

New Delhi, Apr 2: Front pages of newspapers seldom break news these days. Very often, the reader wakes up to a politician's beaming smile, not news. Want to listen to some music while driving? Switch the stereo on and it's quite likely you have to make do with a political party's jingle. And watching television before elections essentially means staring at competing visions of political parties

Allahabad, Apr 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today assured Chief Justice J S Khehar that his government will make all efforts to back his resolve to reduce burden on the judiciary and pendency of cases. "I assure the chief justice that government will back his 'sankalp' (resolve) to bring down the burden on the judiciary and reduce pendency of cases," he said in his address at the

New Delhi, Apr 2: To check counterfeiting, the government plans to change security features of higher denomination banknotes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 every 3-4 years in accordance with global standards. The move comes in the wake of recovery of a large amount of fake Indian currency notes in last four months after demonetisation. The issue was discussed threadbare at a high-level meeting on Thursday

New Delhi, Apr 2: India and Malaysia on Saturday agreed to strengthen their strategic partnership for mounting an effective response to common challenges of terrorism and extremism during the talks Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with his Malayasian counterpart Najib Razad. The wide-ranging talks also encompassed trade ties. The two Prime Ministers held restricted as well as delegation-level

New Delhi, Apr 1: Weeks after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office ordered a crackdown on shell companies used to launder money, the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday carried out nationwide searches across 100 locations targeting nearly 300 shell companies. Sources said Saturday's operation across more than a dozen states was a direct fallout of the coordinated action against these firms

New Delhi, Apr 1: Annoyed at being ridiculed in Parliament by the BJP's Manohar Parrikar, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today called the Goa chief minister ''power hungry'' and a ''cheat''. Parrikar yesterday sarcastically thanked Digvijaya+ for enabling him to become Goa chief minister last month. He was implying that the Congress leader didn't try hard enough to form a government in Goa

New Delhi, Apr 1: Emerging markets face newer challenges in the form of inward looking policies of protectionism and increased geopolitical tension, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today as he pegged India's GDP growth at 7.7 per cent in 2018. Speaking at the second annual meeting of the New Development Bank (NDB) here, Jaitley said global growth is moving upwards and is expected to improve