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New Delhi, September 11: Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Monday courted controversy saying that while the internet was a great medium, most children were watching pornography on it and that it was being used to spread "disaffection" among people. "What kids see on the internet is mostly pornography and that is dangerous. The internet is being used as a platform for

New Delhi, September 11: A lawyer on Monday told the Supreme Court that a 2011 rape and wrongful confinement case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad High Court was filed at the instance of Akhilesh Yadav, the current Uttar Pradesh chief minister. An apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar was told this by counsel Kamini Jaiswal in the course of the hearing

New Delhi, September 10: In the past seven years, the Congress has been the top earner among all political parties with Rs 2008 crore. It is followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Rs 994 crore. These are the figures which have been released by the political watchdog, Election Watch, on the basis of donations received and income of all parties. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is

New Delhi, September 10: Carrying further its reservations over Narendra Modi, the Janata Dal (United), which runs a coalition with BJP in BIhar, has decided to contest assembly elections in Gujarat on its own. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, whose antipathy to Modi is well-known, will also campaign for the JD(U) candidates in Gujarat, where elections are due this year end. Giving indications

Kudankulam, September 10: Police today fired teargas shells to disperse anti-nuclear protesters, who again tried to lay seige to the nuclear power plant here demanding a halt to the loading of enriched uranium in the reactor. Defying prohibitory orders, the protesters refused to disperse from the sea shores, 500 metres away from the Kudankulam Nulcear Power project, despite repeated pleas by top

Bhubaneswar, September 10: Public transport was hit in Odisha on Monday and trains stranded as the opposition Congress called for a dawn-to-dusk shutdown to protest police excesses on its workers during a party rally here last week, officials said. Public transport was badly affected in several towns as many buses and taxis went off the roads. Trains were stranded at different railway stations as

Mumbai, September 10: A Kanpur-based cartoonist, Aseem Trivedi, was remanded to police custody till September 16 by a Mumbai court on Sunday for allegedly posting seditious content on his website. His website has also been blocked. His arrest gas been criticised by voices from across the board. The Chairman of the Press Council of India, Markandey Katju, compared the arrest to Nazi war criminals.

Patna, September 9: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Sunday said Bal Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray were originally Bihari, and that they were "infiltrators" in Maharashtra. "Thackeray's family are originally from Bihar and now settled in Maharashtra. They are infiltrators in Mumbai, they should leave Maharashtra as soon as possible," Lalu told newspersons here while reacting

New Delhi, September 9: A day after India Against Corruption started a survey on forming a political party, some prominent members and volunteers of erstwhile Team Anna today urged Anna Hazare to delink himself from Arvind Kejriwal and revive the "apolitical" anti-graft movement. The appeal to Hazare came after a meeting of IAC volunteers, who were opposed to the movement taking a political plunge

New Delhi, September 9: In the wake of panic among people from northeast in various parts of the country last month, the government was planning to block micro-blogging site Twitter in eight states as the content on it was thought to be one of the main reasons for triggering exodus. The department of electronics and IT wanted to block Twitter and asked experts how and whether it could be done