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Tirumala (AP), September 9: Against the backdrop of disruptions in the monsoon session of Parliament, President Pranab Mukherkjee today said the possibility of early polls depended on the behaviour of political leaders and parties. "It is not a question of what I forsee...This is a question of how leaders will behave, members will behave and parties will behave," he told reporters when asked about

New Delhi, September 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assets worth around Rs 10.73 crore, double that of last year, but a number of his cabinet colleagues are much richer than him. Among the richer cabinet ministers are Praful Patel with assets of approximately Rs 52 crore and Sharad Pawar with property worth around Rs 22 crore, according to the updated list of assets of the ministers posted

New Delhi, September 9: Prepaid mobile customers will not have international calling facilities, soon, unless they make a request for availing such a benefit. As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) latest direction to telecom companies, if pre-paid customers wanted the ISD facilities then they should give explicit consent for availing them. “Inform all pre-paid subscribers having

New Delhi, September 9: The father of India’s ‘White Revolution’ Dr Verghese Kurien passed away early on Sunday morning at Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital in neighbouring Nadiad town due to age-related problems, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) sources said. He was 90 years old and is survived by wife and daughter. Dr Kurien, who took India from being a milk-deficient

New Delhi, September 8: The advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Air India touched down at Delhi's IGI Airport today, ending an over four-year wait of the struggling national carrier to add this next-generation airplane in its fleet. The plane, painted in red and yellow livery of Air India, landed at the main runway of the airport at 1705 hours and was given water-cannon salute as it taxied to the

Mumbai, September 8: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Saturday claimed that if he was given charge of the Indian Army, he would solve all problems and set things right in the country within a month. In the second of his four-part interview published in party mouthpiece 'Dopaharka Saamna' Saturday, Thackeray also warned that he would not "spare" Muslim fundamentalists who fomented trouble in the

Ahmedabad, Sepetmber 8: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has decided to embark on a month-long yatra from September 11 in poll-bound Gujarat, which will cover major parts of the state. Interestingly, the name of Modi's yatra is Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra, which will begin on the day when spiritual leader Swami Vivekanada made his historic speech at the Chicago Conference of World Religions

Bhubaneswar, September 8: Congress leader Jadgish Tytler, who is the party's in-charge of Odisha, has been booked for criminal conspiracy for the clashes that broke out outside the state Assembly during a protest by Congress workers in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. Several protesters as well as 60 police personnel were injured in these clashes. And a woman cop was beaten up by a mob on the rampage. So

Ahmedabad, September 8: Former chief minister Keshubhai Patel in his blog on Friday referred to chief minister Narendra Modi as a 'crime manager.' Reacting to the remarks of the Supreme Court that the Gujarat government was adopting adversarial attitude in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, Patel said that instead of getting to the bottom of the fake encounter, Modi was trying to create

New Delhi, September 7: As turmoil-ridden monsoon session of Parliament ended, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on Friday hit out at BJP for "total negation" of democracy and asked people to stand up against such attitude of disruption, warning that it would be a "grave violation" of parliamentary politics. He maintained that the CAG report on coal block allocation should have been discussed in