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Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 18: Former UN diplomat and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has rejected an online petition campaign projecting him as UPA's Prime Ministerial candidate in the run-up to general elections 2019. In his face book post, Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram constituency, wanted the people behind the campaign to withdraw the same. "I was both surprised and touched by the Change.org

Meerut, Mar 18: Two low intensity blast took place in Agra early on Saturday morning. No injury or loss of life was reported because of the explosions. According to officials both the blasts happened at 6:45 a.m. near Agra Cant railway station. While the first blast took place at the dumping ground near the railway track, the other one happened in a house in the nearby slum. The blasts took place

New Delhi, Mar 18: Vice-chairman of the special investigation team (SIT) on black money, Justice Arijit Pasayat, said on Friday that after demonetisation, the Centre has collected around Rs 6,000 crore as tax on unexplained cash deposits so far, and the amount could go up. Tax authorities sought explanation from individuals, who deposited substantial amount of cash after demonetisation of Rs 500

Lucknow, Mar 17: Suspense remained on BJP's chief ministerial pick in Uttar Pradesh as newly-elected MLAs were all set to meet here tomorrow to elect the leader, with Union Minister Manoj Sinha among the frontrunners. "The new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh along with his Cabinet colleagues would take oath on March 19 at 5.00 PM at Kanshiram Smriti Upvan," Governor Ram Naik said in a statement in

Dehradun, Mar 17: Trivendra Singh Rawat was today unanimously elected the leader of Uttarakhand BJP legislature party, paving the way for the former RSS man's swearing in tomorrow as the new Chief Minister of the state. Announcing this after the legislature party meeting at a hotel here, BJP'scentral observer for the election Narendra Singh Tomar said Rawat's name was proposed by Prakash Pant and

New Delhi, Mar 17: Compliance professionals the world over believe that bribery and corruption risks are likely to persist this year, showed a joint study from Kroll and the Ethisphere Institute. More than one-third (35 per cent) of all risk and compliance professionals surveyed expect their organisation's bribery and corruption risks to increase in 2017, and more than half (57 per cent) expect

Panaji, Mar 17: Facing flak for his handling of the Goa polls, AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh today said his proposal for a pre-poll alliance with Goa Forward was "sabotaged" by his own party leaders. He said had the alliance with Goa Forward gone through, the Congress would have got majority in the state and that it was unfair to now make him a "villain". "As a strategy I had proposed a

Chennai, Mar 17: A slipper was hurled at BJP's Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Shipping Pon. Radhakrishnan while he was visiting the house of Jawaharlal Nehru University Dalit scholar J. Muthukrishnan at Salem in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. Muthukrishnan had allegedly committed suicide on Monday. Radhakrishnan was in Salem to pay his last tributes to the deceased student. The body of

Mumbai, Mar 17: It was a call from BJP chief Amit Shah to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on March 11 evening which set off a flurry of activities that culminated in the party mobilising support of a motley group of MLAs who had contested against it and won. Amid the jubilation following the party's resounding victories in UP and Uttarakhand, the wily BJP boss wanted to have a shot at government

New Delhi, Mar 17: Electronic voting machines have passed legal scrutiny in the past, the Election Commission underlined on Thursday, even as the BSP?prepared to move court challenging the credibility of the devices. The poll panel noted that five high courts — Madras, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala and Bombay — have in the past held that EVMs used to conduct elections were “credible, reliable and