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Chandigarh, May 22: Three Haryana Civil Service officers and 10 DSP rank officers were suspended today, a week after a government-appointed Committee report found "deliberate negligence" on part of 90 officials, including IAS and IPS officers, during the Jat quota agitation in February. The three civil service officers who have been suspended are Sub Divisional Magistrate (Jhajjar) Pankaj Setia

New Delhi, May 21: Security officials were sent into a tizzy after they received a call from a man, who claimed to have planted bombs at the residences of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this afternoon. The call later turned out to be hoax. A senior police official said the call was received around 12.30 PM at the control room of the National Investigation

New Delhi, May 21: Seeking to lift the party's morale after the electoral debacle, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today asserted that "no failure is permanent". "A success achieved by discarding basic principles does not stay for long. If one sticks to principles, no failure is permanent," she said addressing party workers at a programme to commemorate the 25th death anniversary of her husband

Guwahati, May 21: Sealing of the borders with Bangladesh will be completed in two year's time to put an end to infiltration, Assam's Chief Minister-to-be Sarbananda Sonowal said today. A product of the student movement of the 80s during the anti-foreigners agitation, Sonowal, who steered the BJP to victory in the elections, has put the issue of infiltration and attempts to check them as his

Lahore, May 21: LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and six others accused in the 2008 Mumbai attack case will be individually charged for the abetment to murder of each of the 166 people who died in the carnage, a Pakistani anti-terrorism court ruled on Saturday. "The seven suspects will be charged individually for the abetment to murder of each victim of Mumbai attack case," a senior

New Delhi, May 20: Amid questions over Rahul Gandhi's leadership after poll debacle, Congress today signalled that the national leadership is not washing off its hands even as it insisted that the party Vice President took no decision on his own and that he would be "more active" in the future. After senior leader Digvijay Singh stirred the hornet's nest by talking about the need for "major

Kolkata, May 20: Mamata Banerjee was today unanimously elected as the leader of the Trinamool Congress legislature party at its meeting here. TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee, who was re-elected from Behala Paschim seat, proposed her name which was seconded by all the newly-elected MLAs of the party. Banerjee later met Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi at Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the

United Nations, May 20: Nearly 40 million Indians will be at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, with people in Mumbai and Kolkata having the maximum exposure to coastal flooding in the future due to rapid urbanisation and economic growth, according to a UN environment report. The Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6): Regional Assessments said that the worst impacts of climate change are

New Delhi, May 19: Scripting history, the BJP today stormed to power in Assam bagging a government in the north east for the first time dethroning Congress which also lost Kerala while Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee retained power in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal with spectacular victories. The Congress could take solace only in Puducherry where it managed to get a simple majority along with DMK to

New Delhi, May 19: Buoyed by the victory in Assam, BJP today said the people have rejected the "opportunistic" and "obstructionist" politics of Congress and have put their stamp on Modi Government's performance. The party leadership also thanked the people of Assam and credited the victory there and increased vote share in other states to party workers, state leaders and Prime Minister Narendra