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New Delhi, Oct 16: Former Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested on Wednesday by a three-member team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after an hour-long interrogation. The ED team arrived at Tihar jail on Wednesday morning to interrogate former union minister P Chidambaram in connection with the INX Media money laundering case, before taking a final call on his arrest. Nalini and Karti

Charki Dadri/Kurukshetra (Haryana), Oct 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India would not allow its water to flow to Pakistan. At the same time, he said he was happy the Kartarpur corridor project, linking India with the historic Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan where the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev died, is about to be completed. “For 70 years, the water which belongs to

Mumbai, Oct 16: A depositor of scam-hit PMC Bank allegedly committed suicide here, while another died of a heart attack a few hours after taking part in a protest by bank customers seeking their money back. Dr Nivedita Bijlani (39), who allegedly ended life on Monday evening, and Sanjay Gulati (51) who died of a heart attack on the same day, had deposits of over Rs 90 lakh each with the Punjab &

Rampur, Oct 16: Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan turned emotional and broke down into tears while addressing an election rally in Rampur, stating that he has been now been accused of stealing goats and hens. Khan was addressing an election rally here on Monday for upcoming by-polls. “I have been slammed with IPC 307 (attempt to murder). My self-respect proved too costly for me, my

New Delhi, Oct 15: A team of three ED (Enforcement Directorate) officers will grill former Union Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar Jail on Wednesday morning in connection with INX media money laundering case. This came after a special court here allowed the law enforcement agency to interrogate Chidambaram for 30 minutes in connection with the matter. Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar allowed the

New Delhi, Oct 15: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "loudspeaker" of certain industrialists, and said his strategy was like that of a pickpocket who diverts people's attention before stealing. Addressing an election rally in Yavatmal district ahead of the October 21 Maharashtra Assembly polls, Rahul Gandhi said the prime minister speaks of the moon and

Thane, Oct 15: AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has said Bharat is "not a Hindu Rashtra" and they will also not let it become so. His comments came after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat last week said the Sangh is firm on its vision that "Bharat is a Hindu Rashtra". Addressing an election rally on Monday night in Kalyan town of Maharashtra's Thane district for party candidate Aiaz Moulavi, Owaisi said a

Oct 15: A 51-year-old man, who had Rs 90 lakh in the crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, died of cardiac arrest on Monday within hours of taking part in a protest rally led by depositors against the strict restrictions on the withdrawal of money from the bank. A former Jet Airways staff, Sanjay Gulati, had already lost his job earlier this year following the grounding of the

Gurgaon, Oct 15: The abrogation of Article 370 provisions is a "decisive battle" waged by the Narendra Modi government to end years of proxy war and terrorism from Pakistan and the step will bring ever-lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. Attending the 35th Raising Day celebrations of the counter-terror force NSG as the chief guest here, Shah said the

New York, Oct 15: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer, said on Monday that the Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem. "The economy is doing very badly in my view," he told a press conference at the Massachusetts Institute of