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New Delhi, Mar 7: Accusing the government of manipulating institutions to "save" Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said it has spoken of investigating the media over the theft of Rafale documents but has not probed those involved in the "scam of over ₹30,000 crore". Investigate everyone but probe Modi as well, Mr. Gandhi told a press

Lahore, Mar 7: Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday refused to be relocated to a hospital for treatment despite requests by his family members, saying he prefers an "honourable death" over kneeling to "politics being done" by the government in the name of his treatment. Sharif, 69, is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case at the Kot

New Delhi, Mar 7: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the government assertions in the Supreme Court about stolen Rafale files only underlined their authenticity and demanded a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fighter jets deal. “In the papers, it is clearly said that parallel negotiations were being done by Prime Minister Modi. The Prime Minister has

New Delhi, Mar 6: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the issue of going for negotiation and appointment of negotiators to resolve the vexed Ayodhya dispute involving Ram temple and Babri Masjid. A five-judge Constitution bench presided over by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi sought to brush aside the reservations expressed by Uttar Pradesh and Hindu sides, barring 'Nirmohi Akhara', on

New Delhi, Mar 6: The Centre on Wednesday told the court that documents related to Rafale that have appeared in the media and cited by petitioners seeking a recall of the December 14 ruling giving a clean chit to the government on the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets were privileged documents stolen from the Defence Ministry. Referring to the dissent note by the three members of India

New Delhi/Singapore, Mar 6: High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in northeastern Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit the Islamist group's training camp on the site and killed a large number of militants. The images produced by Planet Labs Inc, a San Francisco-based private

New Delhi, Mar 6: A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday commenced hearing on the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case. The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will decide whether the case can be adjudicated through mediation. The other judges of the bench are Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer. The

New York/New Delhi, Mar 6: Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani jumped six positions to rank 13th on Forbes World's Billionaire list released on Tuesday that was again topped by Jeff Bezos. E-commerce colossus Amazon founder Bezos, 55, remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, as his riches swelled by USD 19 billion in one year and is now worth USD 131 billion, Forbes

Melbourne, Mar 6: A 32-year-old Indian-origin woman dentist has been found dead with stab wounds in Australia, days after she went missing from Sydney's busiest area under mysterious circumstances, police said on Wednesday. Preethi Reddy's body was found stuffed in a suitcase in her car parked in an eastern Sydney street, New South Wales Police said. Her ex-boyfriend has also died in a road

New Delhi, Mar 6: India has given proof to the US about the use of F-16 fighters and AMRAAM beyond visual range air-to-air missile by Pakistan during its unsuccessful aerial raid targeting four Indian military installations on February 27, official sources said Tuesday. They said India was confident that Washington was carrying out a thorough investigation into use of the US-manufactured fighter