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New Delhi, Jun 8: Innovative methods like transfer of funds through the RTGS banking system and concealment of currency wads inside car bonnets were detected by Election Commission (EC) as it took steps to curb the use of black money during the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls. The poll panel's election expenditure monitoring wing, under its Director General (Expenditure) PK Dash, seized total cash

Greater Noida, Jun 8: Four persons were on Sunday detained for questioning in connection with the murder of BJP leader and Dadri Nagar Panchayat Chairman Geeta Pandit’s husband Vijay Pandit in Dadri area here even as police clamped prohibitory orders in Gautam Budh Nagar district. Pandit was shot dead by four assailants last night following which his supporters torched 16 vehicles near Dadri

Greater Noida, Jun 8: BJP leader and Dadri Nagar Panchayat Chairman Geeta Pandit's husband Vijay Pandit(37) was shot dead allegedly by four unidentified persons in Dadri area on Saturday night, after which a mob set ablaze 16 vehicles near a police station in protest. The assailants came on two motorcycles and held the pistol at Pandit's temple and mouth and shot him dead when he was returning

New Delhi, Jun 7: In remarks that could spell controversy for Congress, AICC secretary Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday said "even Narendra Modi would have badly lost in the Lok Sabha elections had he contested on a Congress ticket." Nirupam, who lost from the Mumbai North constituency, told reporters that despite several decisions taken by it for the welfare of the people, a severe anti-incumbency wave

New Delhi, Jun 7: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has spoken his silence on the reports of rifts with second-in-command Yogendra Yadav. On Saturday, the former Delhi Chief Minister tweeted, "Yog yadav is a v dear friend and a v valued colleague. Had long discussion with him." "Yog yadav has raised some imp issues. All of us will work on it," he added. Clearing air about the former party

Mumbai, Jun 7: The late BJP leader Gopinath Munde had struggled within the party and even wanted to leave it, BJP MLC Pandurang Phundkar on Friday claimed in the Legislative Council here. Munde faced struggles at every step. He was (once) about to leave BJP. I opposed it. He faced humiliation many times but dedicated his life to the party," Phundkar said. "Congress had offered him two ministerial

New Delhi, Jun 7: In a first ever visit by China after the Narendra Modi government assumed office, the former's Foreign Minister will be arriving in New Delhi on Sunday. A seven-member Chinese delegation led by Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. The Chinese delegation will also meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during their visit. Apart from

New Delhi, Jun 6: Differences within the top leaders of the AAP came to the fore as senior leader Yogendra Yadav has charged the party with falling "prey to personality cult" and that decisions taken reflected the wishes of party chief Arvind Kejriwal. "There is a widespread perception among the workers and sympathisers as well as external observers that the party is falling prey to the disease of

New Delhi, June 6: Congress spokesperson Shashi Tharoor, who has come under fire from party leaders for praising Narendra Modi, today got a piece of advice from party general secretary Digvijay Singh "not to jump to conclusions". "Modi Avtar 2? Let's not jump to conclusions but wait and watch," Digvijay Singh said on Twitter today. The party had yesterday distanced itself from Tharoor's praise of

Islamabad, Jun 6: Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif is "not too happy" with the way India handled his visit to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, a media report claimed today quoting an unnamed leader of the ruling PML-N party. A senior PML-N member told Dawn News that Sharif felt belittled when there was no joint press conference after the one-on-one