Chennai: The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and the BJP Tuesday sealed an alliance for the coming Lok Sabha elections under which the saffron party would contest five seats in the state. The announcement was made by AIADMK coordinator and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and Union Minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal, party election in-charge for Tamil Nadu, who described it as a “mega
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New Delhi, Feb 19: In a significant development, France will be moving a proposal at the UN in a "couple of days" to ban Masood Azhar, chief of the UN-proscribed JeM which has claimed responsibility of the Pulwama terror strike that left 40 CRPF personnel dead, French sources said on Tuesday. This will be the second time France will be party to such a proposal at the UN. In 2017, the US, supported
Raipur, Feb 19: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said Tuesday that in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, India should "fight a war" against Pakistan to teach it a lesson. He also said India should extend all kind of help to the separatist movement in Balochistan, a southwestern province of Pakistan. "A befitting reply has to be given to Pakistan and terrorists. First of all, we have to break Pakistan
Varanasi, Feb 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday invoked Sant Ravidas, a mystic poet of the Bhakti Movement, on his birth anniversary to urge people to end caste discrimination and identify those who promote it for "self interest". PM Modi said caste discrimination is an impediment in achieving social harmony. "Guruji (Sant Ravidas) had said that there should be no discrimination on the
Feb 19: The Pakistan Army and its espionage agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, were involved in the car bomb attack that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead, a top Army official said on Tuesday, also sending out the message that anyone picking up the gun in Kashmir would be eliminated unless he surrenders. The Jaish-e-Mohammad leadership in Kashmir was eliminated within 100
New Delhi, Feb 19: The dreaded architect of some of the most gruesome terror attacks in India, Maulana Masood Azhar, was a "easy man" to handle in custody and he got shaken up on the first "slap" from an army jawan prompting him to blurt out details of his movements, says a former police officer who interrogated him after his arrest in 1994. Azhar, who had used a Portuguese passport to enter India
New Delhi, Feb 19: First Investigation Report (FIR) was filed against student leader Shehla Rashid on Monday after she tweeted information about Kashmiri girls in Dehradun that the police said was false. On Saturday -- February 16 -- Shehla Rashid wrote in a tweet that between 15 and 20 Kashmiri girls were trapped in a Dehradun hostel for hours, and that an angry mob was demanding they be expelled
New Delhi, Feb 19: Pakistan has failed to satisfy minimum due process in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case and is using the Indian, detained on alleged grounds of terrorism, as a propaganda tool, India said at the latest hearing at the International Court of Justice on Monday. "Pakistan's story is solely based on rhetoric and not facts," said counsel Harish Salve, arguing India's case. He demanded India
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 18: The Kerala High Court on Monday initiated contempt proceedings against Youth Congress president Dean Kuriakose and two others for calling a flash hartal to protest against the twin murders of party workers in Kasaragod district. Observing that the hartal by the Youth Congress amounted to the contempt of court, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and
New Delhi, Feb 18: Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad, who was suspended by the ruling BJP for anti-party activities, joined the Congress on Monday. Azad, a former India cricketer and a member of the 1983 World Cup winning team met Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the morning and was inducted into the party. "Today in front of Rahul Gandhi I joined the Congress, I felicitated him in traditional Mithila