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New Delhi/Merignac, Oct 9: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that India will have to retaliate if someone tries to "destabilise" the country. While talking about the induction of Rafale fighter jet and its significance, Singh told agency, "I want to specify that we are doing it for Army, Navy and Air Force. The motive behind enhancing the capability is self-defence and not for

Jalna, Oct 9: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday hit out at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat for his statement that mob lynching was a western concept and it should not be used to defame India. Addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in Nagpur, Bhagwat said lynching is a "western construct" and should not be used in the Indian context to

New Delhi, Oct 9: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over its treatment of farmers, alleging that the Yogi Adityanath dispensation remembers them only in advertisements. Her attack on the UP government came over a media report that in separate incidents, two farmers from Mahoba and Hamirpur allegedly committed suicide over debt issues.

New Delhi, Oct 9: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday made a strong pitch for a Ram temple in Ayodhya and demanded enactment of a special law to facilitate its construction, while he justified his decision to ally with the BJP for the October 21 Maharashtra assembly elections. Making a slew of announcements ahead of the polling, he said the Shiv Sena is committed to providing reservation

Merignac, Oct 8: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday formally received the Indian Air Force’s first Rafale fighter jet from a series of 36 such aircraft purchased from France. Mr. Singh attended the handover ceremony along with his French counterpart Florence Parly at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France. https://t.co/jloWmyErWg — Rajnath Singh (

Pune, Oct 8: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the RSS is firm on its vision that "Bharat is a Hindu Rashtra", and Hindus need to unite if they want to be heard by the world. Addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, he said all Indians working for the nation's glory and enhancing its peace are "Hindus". "The

Kozhikode, Oct 8: Jolly Shaju, who was arrested for allegedly poisoning to death six members of her family, over a period of 14 years in Kerala's Koodathayi village in Kozhikode district, has admitted that she killed them all, the police said on Tuesday. The six deaths in the family took place between 2002 and 2016. While the first death, which is now being suspected to be a murder, was of Jolly's

New York, Oct 8: Two Indian-origin persons have been named by American magazine Fortune in its annual list of 40 most influential and inspiring young people in business under the age of 40. Intel's Vice President of artificial intelligence software and the AI lab Arjun Bansal and fashion platform Zilingo CEO and co-founder Ankiti Bose make it to Fortune's 2019 '40 Under 40' list, the annual

Nagpur, Oct 8: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said lynching is a "western construct" and should not be used in the Indian context. According to him the word “lynching” defames India. Addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, he said the word 'lynching' does not originate from Indian ethos but comes from a

New Delhi, Oct 7: India has reportedly got first tranche of Swiss bank account details of its nationals under a new automatic information exchange pact at a time when the country is going throw massive economic crisis. India is among 75 countries with which Switzerland's Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has exchanged information on financial accounts within the framework of global standards on