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Bilaspur, May 16: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi came as “Ganga’s son” in 2014 but will go as an “agent in Rafale” after the ongoing elections. “I want to ask Narendra Modi whether he took brokerage in Rafale deal or not. He can debate with Sidhu anywhere in the country. Rahul ji is a big thing. He is a cannon and I am AK-47,” Sidhu said while addressing an

New Delhi, May 16: Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman's MiG-21 Bison squadron has come out with new shoulder patches with titles 'Falcon Slayers' and 'AMRAAM Dodgers' in a tribute to his bravery in shooting down an F-16 jet of Pakistan during an aerial combat on February 27, officials said. The new patches brought out by the 51 Squadron of IAF depict a MiG21 in the foreground along with a red

New Delhi, May 16: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj May 15 said the BJP has already crossed the majority mark after sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls and appealed to voters here to re-elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a record margin. Flagging off a motorcycle rally of women, Swaraj said the "relationship between you and Modi has become more strong...like a family in the past five years"

Kolkata, May 15: BJP youth wing activist Priyanka Sharma, who walked out of jail on Wednesday after being arrested for posting a morphed picture of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook, said she would not apologise. "I don't have any regrets. I have not done anything for which I will have to apologise," Sharma told a press conference at the BJP office here. She was released at 9

Varanasi, May 15: Union minister Piyush Goyal Tuesday urged the Election Commission to take strong action against the West Bengal government for the violence during BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata. After violence and arson marred BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata, a party delegation, including Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, rushed to the EC

New Delhi, May 15: Air India is investigating a senior captain for alleged sexual harassment after a woman pilot complained against him to the management, a spokesperson of the state-run carrier said. The spokesperson said the woman pilot in her complaint to the management said the senior caption asked her several "inappropriate questions". "The instructor reportedly suggested the two to have

New Delhi, May 14: Violent clashes broke out between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers at BJP chief Amit Shah’s mega road show in Kolkata on Tuesday. The unprecedented chaos erupted after sticks were hurled at Shah’s convoy. “A scuffle between the Left and BJP student activists in front of the Calcutta University building on College Street led to the violence,”

Mumbai, May 14: Jet Airways on Tuesday said its CEO Vinay Dube has resigned from the company due to personal reasons. This is the second high profile exit in as many days at the grounded Jet Airways after Deputy CEO Amit Agarwal put in his papers on Monday. In a filing to stock exchanges, the airline said Dube has "resigned from the services of the company with immediate effect due to personal

New Delhi, May 14: A retired Delhi Police personnel cast his vote on Sunday hours after cremating his son that morning. Inder Singh, 62, retired as an assistant sub inspector (ASI) of Delhi Police in 2016. His 35-year-old son Sunil Kumar died on Saturday night. Sunil was being treated for a critical spinal injury at a hospital in Delhi's Vasant Kunj after he fell off a moving tractor on April 10

Bengaluru, May 14: Grounded carrier Jet Airways' deputy chief executive and chief financial officer (CFO) Amit Agarwal has resigned, the airline said on Tuesday. Agarwal's resignation is effective from May 13, it said. "We wish to inform that Amit Agarwal, the deputy chief executive officer and CFO of the company, has resigned from service due to personal reasons, with effect from May 13," Jet