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Tehran, Jun 26: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani today said his country is in a "fight" with the US, a day after protesters angered by Iran's tanking economy confronted police in front of parliament. In a televised speech, Rouhani blamed the US for Iran's woes and said the US is trying to damage the country by creating "an economic war." "The US cannot defeat our nation, our enemies are not able

Lucknow, Jun 26: Former VHP leader Pravin Togadia on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for doing “nothing so far” for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, saying he had not even found time for a darshan of Ram lala there. "The Prime Minister doesn’t have time to come to Ayodhya and have a darshan of Ram lala but has time to visit mosques in foreign countries," the Hindutva

New Delhi, Jun 26: A Delhi court has rejected a man's plea to set aside an order directing him to pay Rs 15,000 as monthly maintenance to his estranged wife and son in a domestic violence case, saying a man is duty bound to maintain his family. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar II upheld a magisterial court order directing the man to pay Rs 10,000 to his wife and Rs 5,000 for his son's

Bengaluru, Jun 26: Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya has made his letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modipublic, saying he was "making every effort" to settle his dues but he had been made the "Poster Boy" of bank default and a lightning rod for public anger. "I wrote letters to both the PM and the Finance Minister on 15th April 2016 and am making these letters public to put things in the right

New Delhi, Jun 26: Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family on the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India was "turned into a jail for the selfish personal interests" of that family. Addressing a meeting organised by the BJP to mark the Emergency anniversary, Modi said the day needs to be observed to re-dedicate oneself to protection of the

New Delhi, Jun 26: Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family on the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India was "turned into a jail for the selfish personal interests" of that family. Addressing a meeting organised by the BJP to mark the Emergency anniversary, Modi said the day needs to be observed to re-dedicate oneself to protection of the

Guwahati, Jun 26: The police in Nagaon district of Assam have arrested eight persons for assaulting and confining a Muslim man and a Hindu woman for their alleged relationship. This was the third case of immoral policing in Assam since April 8 when a Garo tribal woman was “taught a lesson” for riding pillion on a Muslim man’s motorcycle at Paikan in western Assam’s Goalpara district bordering

Mumbai, Jun 26: Slamming the BJP for pulling out of the alliance government in Jammu and Kashmir, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said people are tired of the party's "conspiracies" and that it needs lessons in speaking the truth. It also accused the BJP of again starting "election politics" in the northern state. It was the BJP's proposal to ally with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the first

London, Jun 26: India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia. The only western

New Delhi, Jun 25: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" statements in the media, three days after his retirement as a Supreme Court Judge, saying such comments are liable to be "deprecated" and "cannot be tolerated" by lawyers. Justice Chelameswar, who demitted office on June 22, had disapproved of the Centre's