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Pune, Dec 23: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said party leadership should own up to defeat and failures, adding that nobody is willing to take responsibility of failure, unlike success. The cryptic remark of the Union Minister came after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost three 'Hindi heartland' states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh — in the recently-concluded Assembly

Ahmedabad, Dec 23: A mid-air medical emergency on board an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai to Myanmar's Yangon forced the aircraft to divert to the city airport in Ahmedabad today. The aircraft contacted the Ahmedabad Air Traffic Control (ATC) this afternoon after a five-year-old British national on board the flight developed medical complications, the airport authorities said in the statement

New Delhi, Dec 22: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested James Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in Augusta Westland VVIP Chopper deal case. The designated Special court allowed the probing agency to interrogate Michel inside the court room for 15 minutes after the agency sought his custodial interrogation. The Central probe agency arrested Michel under Prevention of Money

Kathmandu, Dec 22: Twenty-three people died while 14 others sustained injuries when a college bus carrying students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged into a gorge in western Nepal, police said on Saturday. The rescuers have recovered 19 male bodies and four female from the incident site, Kathmandu post reported. The injured are receiving treatment at the Kohalpur Medical

Sharjah, Dec 21: Ibrahim Al Jarwan, member of the Arab Union for Space and Astronomy Sciences, AUAS, said that on Saturday, December 22, 2018, the Sun will be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere, which occurs when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. Al Jarwan added that either December 20, 21, 22 or 23, will be the longest midnight of the

Dec 21: A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of “21 cows”. MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly constituency in Bulandshahr, also said only the people have the power to remove a chief

Kolkata, Dec 21: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Friday quashed a single bench order that had allowed BJP’s ‘Rath Yatra’ in West Bengal and asked it to hear the case afresh to consider intelligence inputs by state agencies. The single-judge bench of Tapabrata Chakraborty was asked to dispose the matter expeditiously after considering whether there were adequate materials to arrive at

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Saying that flawed implementation of GST regime and ill-effects of demonetisation will remain in the people’s mind for a long period, Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the two processes initiated by the NDA government had severely damaged the Indian economy and they will be major factors influencing the outcome of the 2019 Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Dec 21: The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed the plea by Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of National Herald, challenging the Centre's order to vacate the premises in the national capital. Justice Sunil Gaur said AJL will have to vacate the premises at ITO here within two weeks after which proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971

Lucknow, Dec 21: The debate over Lord Hanuman continued on Friday, with a Uttar Pradesh minister claiming that the Hindu deity belonged to the Jat community. "Jats are descendants of Lord Hanuman. Hanumanji was a Jat," Uttar Pradesh Religious Affairs Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told news agency. His remarks follow those of his party colleague and MLC Bukkal Nawab, who on Thursday said Lord