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Ahmedabad, Dec 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said "rashtrabhakti" motivated him and his government to help people of various faiths, including Christians, and dubbed as "fatwa" a letter issued by Gandhinagar archbishop. The prime minister was referring to the letter issued last month by Thomas Macwan, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, in which he had appealed to Christians

Dharampur (Guj), Dec 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday slammed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's expected elevation as party president, dubbing it as "Aurangzebi raj". Without referring to the National Herald case, in which Rahul had got bail, Modi, addressing a campaign rally in Valsad district of Gujarat, said, "Congress has gone bankrupt, as it is going to make a person who is out

New Delhi, Dec 4: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today filed his nomination papers for the party's chief post. The 47-year-old Gandhi scion is likely to emerge as the lone candidate in the fray and decks have been cleared for his election as the Congress president, succeeding his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has held the post for 19 years in a row now. Today is the last date for filing

Lucknow, Dec 3: The BJP won 14 of the 16 mayoral seats in the recently held Uttar Pradesh civic elections. A close analysis of the results show that the saffron party's sweep was confined to the big cities and it, in fact, fared poorly in the smaller districts and towns, where independents reigned supreme. The BJP failed to open its account in as many as 36 districts, while many of its nominees

Bharuch, Dec 3: The Prime Minister is slated to address two more rallies in Surendranagar and Rajkot later in the day. Sharpening his attack on the Congress in poll-bound Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the opposition party of seeking to divide society on the basis of caste and religion. Resuming his campaign in his home state, where the first phase of Assembly elections is

Ayodhya, Dec 3: They are packing their bags, and moving away from the city that was once a hotbed of strife. Ayodhya has little to offer students and young job-seekers, who would rather see development than religious conflict. Aman Kumar Singh, a first year B.Com student from Ayodhya, which is at the centre of the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple dispute, believed parties in India had abandoned the

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 3: Ockhi, the cyclonic storm over Lakshadweep, continued to spell death and misery in Kerala on Saturday even as the official figure of fishermen rescued from the sea in joint operations of the Indian Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard crossed 400. Seven people, including five fishermen, brought to the shore by rescue teams were reported dead on Friday, taking the toll in the

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 2: The leader of the opposition in the Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare cyclone Ockhi, which wrecked havoc in the state, Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep in the last two days, as a national disaster. In a letter to Modi, he requested that immediate central government assistance be provided in these places to

Surat, Dec 2: In a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his predecessor Manmohan Singh on Saturday said Modi failed to understand the "pains" of his note ban and GST decisions were going to unleash on the people of his own home state. Calling demonetisation an "uninformed, half-baked crusade" and GST a "badly designed and hastily implemented" measure, Singh also lamented the "low-level

Lucknow, Dec 2: Questioning the magnitude of the Bharatiya Janata Party's win in Uttar Pradesh civic body polls, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday claimed that the party had performed well only on seats where EVMs were used for polling. "BJP has only won 15% seats in ballot paper areas and 46% in EVM areas," Mr. Yadav said on Twitter. Mr. Yadav did not elaborate or provide data for