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New Delhi, November 6: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday met Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and urged him to await the verdict of Indian courts on the two Italian Marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala. The Italian prime minister requested a brief interaction with Khurshid on the margins of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Phnom Penh, the

New Delhi, November 6: Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani launched a scathing attack on Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday, openly challenging his continuance as party president. Calling for his immediate resignation, Jethmalani claimed that several top leaders in the party are against Nitin Gadkari continuing as party president in the wake of corruption charges against him. He named Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant

New Delhi, November 6: The Army troops deployed along the China border from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh in northeast have reported more than 100 sightings of " Unidentified Flying Objects" (UFOs) in the last three months. Agencies including the Army, DRDO, NTRO and the ITBP have not yet been able to identify these luminous flying objects. The 14 Corps, which looks after

Mumbai, November 6: Trustees of Mumbai's Haji Ali dargah, the iconic Sufi shrine visited by thousands every year and immortalised in the movies, have barred the entry of women. The Haji Ali Dargah Trust says it's "un-Islamic under the Sharia" for women to visit graves and its decision is final. The trust says women are free to be within thedargah's compound but cannot enter the sanctum sanctorum

New Delhi, November 6: Indians may hate them, but Barack Obama's anti-outsourcing ads are helping him win swing states like Ohio which will determine the US presidency. Over the past few months the US president has released waves of advertisements against his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. These have claimed "Romney outsourced call center jobs to India" and was a "pioneer in outsourcing". Fact

Bhopal, November 5: Hoping to stave off another controversy, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari Monday denied he had compared the intelligence quotient (IQ) level of Swami Vivekananda to that of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim. Cornered by reporters ovee his speech in Bhopal, Gadkari said: "I did not make any comparison between Swami Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim... I said if one used one's intelligence

New Delhi, November 5: Senior BJP leader and top lawyerMahesh Jethmalani has resigned as member of the national executive committee of the party, and has linked his resignation to the continuance of Nitin Gadkari as the party president. In a direct letter written to Nitin Gadkari, Mahesh Jethmalani has said that it is morally and intellectually inappropriate for him to be in the national executive

New Delhi, November 5: The university system was not producing "well-educated" graduates to meet needs of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the "guise" of training, Minister of State for Higher Education Shashi Tharoor on Monday said. He also said that the national education policy in the past has been out of step with the times. "The major problem remains

New Delhi, November 5: Amidst a row over CAG audit of Reliance Industries' KG-D6 gas field spendings, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily today said audit is a contractual obligation and the company will abide by it. "I have already gone on record to say that it is a contractual relationship between the government and the respective contracting parties... Audit (of spending on oil and gas fields)

Lucknow, November 5: In a major relief for former UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati, the Allahabad High Court today dismissed petitions against her in the Taj Corridor case. The Lucknow bench of the court also dismissed the petitions against her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui. Passing the order, the bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Ashwani Kumar Singh said all