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Jaipur, Aug 19: World's shortest woman Jyoti Amge today released the biggest book measuring 30x24 feet written by a Jain Muni at a function here. The religious book written by Jain Muni Shri Tarun Sagar titled 'Kadve Pravachan' weighs 2,000 kg. "A very happy moment that world's shortest woman is releasing the world's biggest book," Amge, whose height is little below 25 inches, said on the occasion

New Delhi, Aug 19: Unemployment among Muslims is going down, marking an encouraging trend to gladden the champions of inclusive growth. The unemployment rate for the community declined from 2.3% in 2004-05 to 1.9% in 2009-10 in rural areas and from 4.1% to 3.2% in urban areas. However, a vast majority of Muslims in both rural and urban areas are not part of the organized workforce compared to

New Delhi, Aug 18: From an expert bomb maker to a small time shopkeeper selling perfumes near Muridkee in Pakistan, Abdul Karim Tunda has claimed that top LeT commander and Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi calls the shots in the terror outfit. A composed 70-year-old Tunda, whom the security agencies term as a walking encyclopedia of Lashker-e-Taiba's(LeT) pan-India operations, spoke

New Delhi, Aug 18: Ashok Khemka, the IAS officer who hit the headlines last year over his challenging action concerning a land deal involving Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, has said that cancellation of mutation of the Rs.58-crore deal between Vadra's company with realty giant DLF was not based on mere supposition and "the truth had to be established" through investigation. In an

Mumbai, Aug 18: Battling difficult conditions, rescuers from Indian Navy extricated body of one more victim from the submarine INS Sindhurakshak late this evening, taking the total number of bodies recovered so far to six, naval sources said. The rescue team had yesterday extricated badly charred bodies of five of the 18 personnel trapped in the craft after gruelling efforts as naval authorities

Rohtas, Aug 18: A Dalit man was stoned to death and at least 40 others, including old women and children, seriously injured on the Independence Day for defying a diktat and unfurling the national flag at the site of a temple in Baddi village in Bihar's Rohtas district, 160 km from Patna. The upper-caste men attacked the Dalits after they allegedly defied a diktat not to unfurl the flag in front of

New Delhi, Aug 18: The Bharatiya Janata Party national campaign committee is meeting in New Delhi on Sunday to discuss the election strategy for states Assembly polls later in 2013 and the Lok Sabha. BJP's poll panel chief and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the first meeting which will start at 11 am. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her Rajya Sabha

Lucknow, Aug 17: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has asked the BJP to act tough on leaders who criticise Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In his parleys with leaders of the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), RSS points-person for BJP, Suresh Soni said Friday that the environment in the country was by far the best for the BJP to make a comeback. "One has to realise

New Delhi, Aug 17: Kashmir's eminent cardiologist Dr Sheikh Jalal-ud-Din, who was critically injured in an attack by suspected militants on July 18, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) in New Delhi on Saturday morning. Dr Jalal-ud-Din, 64, was the former director of the valley’s premiere hospital Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (Skims). He was shot in the head

Rajkot, Aug 17: Slogans of "Maruti Go Back" rented the air as nearly 5,000 farmers and their families marked the Independence Day by organizing a massive protest against India's leading carmaker in Dalod village near Hansalpur, where the company is setting up its Rs 4,000 crore plant. The agitation was held just a day after Narendra Modi government's climb-down by excluding 36 of the total 44