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New Delhi, Oct 28: Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who is currently in the custody of Enforcement Directorate in the INX Media case, was taken to AIIMS on Monday after he complained of stomach ache and other related issues. Sources said Chidambaram was taken to the RML Hospital in the morning but was later shifted to the All India Institute of Medical

Kochi, Oct 28: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a heavy rainfall warning for several places in Kerala and Mahe in view of the Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr, which lay over east-central Arabian Sea early this morning. The IMD warned the fishermen and said, 'Sea condition is very likely to be phenomenal over the central Arabian Sea around the system centre. Fishermen are

Oct 28: The Shiv Sena on Monday borrowed an iconic dialogue from Hindi blockbuster movie 'Sholay' to target the Centre over the economic slowdown, seeking to know why there was so much "silence" in markets on the occasion of Diwali and wondered if worse days were ahead. "...Itna sannata kyun hai bhai?" (why is there so much silence) is the question resonating everywhere on "silence" over the

New Delhi, Oct 28: The air quality in Delhi and Noida deteriorated to the "very poor" level after Diwali celebration. The overall air quality index stood at 306 and 356 in Delhi and Noida. Extremely poor pollution levels were predicted in Delhi due to firecracker emissions, unfavourable weather and a significant spike in stubble burning in neighbouring states. In Gurugram, the air quality index

Tiruchirappall, Oct 28: Efforts to rescue a three-year-old boy trapped in a borewell near here for over 48 hours continued on Sunday with officials saying the child has fainted but was breathing. They said that a rig, which could drill up to 100 feet, has been pressed into service to make a hole parallel to the borewell about three meters away. After completion of the drilling a tunnel-like

Srinagar, Oct 27: The shutdown in Kashmir, following the abrogation of Article 370, has crippled the valley's economy as the business community has suffered losses amounting to over Rs 10,000 crore in three months, a trade body said here. The deadlock in Kashmir, after the Centre announced the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, completed 84 days on Sunday with the valley in shutdown as the

New Delhi: As the country is celebrating Diwali today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitched the idea of "Festival Tourism" and said that we must try to popularise our festivals and invite people from other states and countries to join the festivities. Speaking on 58th edition of his monthly radio program 'Mann ki Baat', he said: "Festival tourism has its own exciting attractions globally

Mumbai: While the ally Shiv Sena is demanding equal share in power, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday stressed that the BJP was the single largest party, and said the "BJP-led alliance" will provide a stable government. The process of government formation will start after Diwali, Fadnavis said, addressing party workers at a Diwali gathering here. With the BJP's tally reduced

Lucknow, Oct 26: Kiran Tiwari, wife of slain Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari, on Saturday alleged that police had not provided her husband with enough security and demanded that the accused in the murder">murder case should be hanged to death. She also accused the government of "trying to silence her". Addressing a press conference here, she alleged that "negligence by police" led to death

Mumbai, Oct 26: Taking a cue from Uddhav Thackeray's renewed assertion for equal sharing of power with the BJP, which failed to register desired performance in the Maharashtra assembly polls, newly-elected MLAs of Shiv Sena on Saturday demanded that Aaditya Thackeray be made the chief minister in the next government. The results of recently-concluded polls saw the ruling BJP losing 17 seats from