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Panaji, Mar 18: BJP's Pramod Sawant willl be the new chief minister of Goa, party sources said Monday. Two MLAs from the BJP alliance partners will be made deputy chief ministers as part of the compromise reached with allies, they said. The BJP managed to break the deadlock in Goa, offering key allies their pound of flesh, by accepting their demand for deputy CM's posts. Sawant is now Speaker of

New Delhi, Mar 18: Racing against time to meet the Supreme Court's deadline, Reliance Communications (RCom) has paid Rs 458.77 crore of dues to Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson, according to sources. Failure to cough up the dues would have meant that RCom Chairman Anil Ambani would have faced a 3-month jail term. Observing there was a 'wilful default', the Supreme Court last month held

Ahmedabad, Mar 18: Addressing 1,500 core members of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), its convener Hardik Patel on Sunday said, "I could have never joined the BJP, given the fact that it killed 14 youths from the (Patidar) community during the quota agitation, booked me in two sedition cases and kept me in jail for nine months. My joining the BJP would have been like treason against the

Panaji, Mar 18: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who died after a long illness, would be accorded state funeral with full military honours on Monday, according to the home ministry. Parrikar, 63, who had also been the defence minister, died on Sunday at his private residence in Dona Paula near the state capital after battling a pancreatic ailment since February last year. MHA Joint Secretary S

Jammu, Mar 18: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday announced that his son, Omar Abdullah, will be the party's chief ministerial candidate. Kick-starting the party's campaign for the Lok Sabha polls here, the party chief said he will represent Jammu and Kashmir in Parliament. "I will not be the chief minister. The chief minister will be Omar Abdullah as he is young. I am old and

Lucknow, Mar 17: In an indication of bitterness creeping in their relations, Congress, apparently returning the favour, on Sunday said that it would not field candidates against members of Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav's family and BSP supremo Mayawati in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. UP Congress president Raj Babbar told reporters here that the grand old party would also not

Srinagar, Mar 17: Former Kashmiri bureaucrat Shah Faesal launched his political outfit "Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement" at an event in Srinagar on Sunday. The 2010 batch civil services exam topper resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in January this, saying Muslims had been reduced to second-class citizens. Mr Faesal had also hit out at the centre, accusing it of subverting

New Delhi, Mar 17: State-owned telecom firm BSNL will approach National Company Law Tribunal (NCLAT) this week to recover dues of about Rs 700 crore from Reliance Communications (RCom), according to official sources. Earlier, debt-ridden RCom in its plea before the NCLAT said that it wants to voluntarily go back into the insolvency process, as it will help selling its assets in a time-bound manner

Panaji, Mar 17: MLAs and core committee members of Goa BJP on Saturday met to discuss the political situation rising out of the health condition of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. The health of Parrikar, who is suffering from a pancreatic ailment, had deteriorated earlier in the day sparking hectic political activities across parties in the coastal state. Dayanand Mandrekar, of BJP said "had

New Delhi, Mar 17: The BJP is set to drop sitting MP from Patna Sahib Shatrughan Sinha and he is likely to be replaced by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, sources said Saturday. Prasad's name was discussed in the BJP's central election committee which was attended by party chief Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shatrughan Sinha has been critical of the party's top leadership on