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Lucknow, Oct 14: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-led seers on Monday demanded that they be allowed to light “thousands of lamps” and do puja at the disputed site in Ayodhya on October 27, Diwali. Divisional Commissioner (DC) Manoj Mishra has, however, reportedly denied them permission. A delegation of seers from Ayodhya and VHP spokesperson Sharad Sharma met the DC and handed him a memorandum

New York, Oct 9: Leading American multinational corporation Halliburton will pay USD 275,000 to two of its Muslim employees of Indian and Syrian-origins who were subjected to religious discrimination and accused of having links with terrorists by the company's employees. The Houston-based company, one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry with over 55,000

Led by Amazon and Flipkart, e-tailers in India achieved a record $3 billion (nearly Rs 19,000 crore) of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) in the first six days of the festive sale from September 29-October 4, a new report said on Tuesday. Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon dominated 90 per cent of the market share during the six-day sale event, said Bengaluru-based research firm RedSeer Consultancy

Tehran, Oct 9: Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium on Thursday for the first time in decades after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy. Iran has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for around 40 years, with clerics arguing they must be shielded from the masculine atmosphere and sight of semi-clad men

New Delhi, Oct 9: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over its treatment of farmers, alleging that the Yogi Adityanath dispensation remembers them only in advertisements. Her attack on the UP government came over a media report that in separate incidents, two farmers from Mahoba and Hamirpur allegedly committed suicide over debt issues.

Washington, Oct 9: Samuel Little's depravity is matched only by his prodigious memory. Little, a California inmate considered by the FBI to be the most prolific serial killer in US history, has confessed to 93 slayings committed across the country between 1970 and 2005, recounting the crimes with astonishing, near-photographic detail. He even drew colour portraits of dozens of the women he

New Delhi, Oct 9: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday made a strong pitch for a Ram temple in Ayodhya and demanded enactment of a special law to facilitate its construction, while he justified his decision to ally with the BJP for the October 21 Maharashtra assembly elections. Making a slew of announcements ahead of the polling, he said the Shiv Sena is committed to providing reservation

Washington, Oct 9: As the global economy is witnessing "synchronised slowdown", the effect is "more pronounced" this year in some of the largest emerging market economies like India, said the new International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva. Georgieva pointed out that the widespread deceleration means that growth in 2019-20 will fall to its "lowest rate" since the

Merignac, Oct 8: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday formally received the Indian Air Force’s first Rafale fighter jet from a series of 36 such aircraft purchased from France. Mr. Singh attended the handover ceremony along with his French counterpart Florence Parly at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France. https://t.co/jloWmyErWg — Rajnath Singh (

Kabul, Oct 8: The leader of al-Qaeda’s South Asian branch was killed in a U.S.-Afghan joint raid in southern Afghanistan in September, Afghan officials confirmed on October 8. Asim Umar, who led al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) from its inception in 2014, was killed during a raid September 23 on a Taliban compound in the Musa Qala district of Helmand Province. Afghanistan’s National