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New Delhi, Apr 3: The Supreme Court today allowed Gujarat government to accept the offer of Director General of Police P P Pandey, who is on extension till April 30 this year, to relinquish his office forthwith. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and D Y Chandrachud recorded the submission of Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Gujarat, that the top police officer has himself

New Delhi, Apr 3: Shares of Infosys fell by over 1.00 per cent today after fresh row erupted between the founders and the Board of the company over the pay hike to Chief Operating Officer U B Pravin Rao. The shares of Infosys slipped by 0.94 per cent to Rs 1,011.25 apiece in early trade on the BSE. At NSE, shares of the company went down by 1.15 per cent to Rs 1,010.45. Infosys founder N R

New Delhi, Apr 3: The government is mulling bringing legislative changes to remove the monthly ceiling of Rs 10,000 on the maintenance paid by children to parents. It also plans to introduce a rating mechanism for organisations providing home care services to the elderly. If the proposed amendments to the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (MWPSC) Act come through, the

Srinagar, Apr 3: A soldier was arrested on Monday morning at Srinagar airport, after two grenades were found in his baggage. According to a media report, police said the jawan was about to board a flight to Delhi when a check revealed that he was carrying grenades. The jawan serves near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, where 19 Indian soldiers were killed by

Bengaluru, Apr 2: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today reiterated the state's inability to release Cauvery water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, and said that there was no sufficient water in the state's reservoirs at present. An official delegation from Tamil Nadu had yesterday held meetings with Karnataka Chief Secretary Subhash Khuntia and other state government officials here, with a

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