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Muzaffarnagar, Jun 21: Married for the compensation, these women were rejected when the state did not pay A lie floated by a junior Minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has created serious trouble for many women among the riot-affected Muslim families in Muzaffarnagar. They have been thrown out by their husbands, who have accused them of hiding compensation money that they

Bangalore, Jun 20: With the NDA government's move to ease out several UPA appointed governors coming under opposition attack, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said all political appointees should resign voluntarily in the interest of the "system". "....it will be in the interest of the system that all the political appointees, they resign voluntarily. I'm using the term all

Chennai, Jun 20: Terming the Centre's move on use of Hindi as being "against letter and spirit" of the law, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to suitably modify the instructions to ensure that English was the language of communication on social media. The Chief Minister said she had learnt that two office memoranda issued by the Union Home Ministry

Bangalore, Jun 20: The onion price in Bangalore has gone up by nearly Rs. 10 a kilo in the wholesale market over the last fortnight and is likely to increase further, according to onion traders at the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC). The retail price of good quality onion, which was in the range of Rs. 10 to Rs. 15 a kilo, is now above Rs. 25. The increase, they say, is due to a

New Delhi, June 19: India Thursday said the 40 Indian workers abducted in Iraq were safe and told the distraught families that the "very best" efforts were on to have them freed. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a delegation of families of seven of the abducted men that all 40 workers were safe but did not disclose where they were being held. The government was making all possible

Raipur, Jun 19: Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt has resigned, official sources said Thursday, even as the BJP denied that governors appointed by the previous government had been told to go. A day after Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi quit, Dutt submitted his resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday, the sources in the Raj Bhavan at Raipur told IANS. But it was not immediately clear

New Delhi, Jun 19: Despite the Centre’s “nudge” to quit, some of the governors appointed by the UPA regime have put up a stiff resistance, indicating that they are ready for a confrontation with the Narendra Modi-led establishment. Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan said he was not considering stepping down from office while confirming that he received calls from the home secretary seeking

Bihar, Jun 18: Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday announced his party’s support to JD(U) candidates in the Bihar Rajya Sabha elections. On June 15, 2014, he had said he would decide on extending support to the JD(U) in the Rajya Sabha bypolls only after consulting RJD party legislators and well-wishers. “Nitish Kumar had telephoned me yesterday (Saturday) to seek support for

New Delhi, Jun 18: Even as Delhi continues to operate without an elected government, AAP MLAs on Tuesday said they have been approached by the BJP to break away from the party and help BJP form the government. Five AAP MLAs told Newsline that they were contacted either over the phone or through intermediaries and had been promised financial incentives for breaking away from the party. In May, AAP

Hazaribagh, Jun 17: BJP veteran L K Advani today met party colleague Yashwant Sinha in jail here and asked him to secure bail and lead the party in the Jharkhand Assembly elections later this year, describing him as the "right person" for the chief minister's post. 86-year-old Advani drove to the Hazaribagh Central Jail to meet Sinha, who was arrested two weeks back for ordering BJP workers to tie