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New Delhi, Mar 14: A high-level committee of JNU has recommended rustication of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and two other students for their alleged role in a controversial event last month at which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised. Sources, however, said a decision on the recommendation by the panel will be taken by Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar and Chief

Mumbai, Mar 14: Rebuffing RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's suggestion, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has said he will not chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' even if a knife is put to his throat. Owaisi's assertion days after Bhagwat said the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India drew sharp condemnation from both the RSS and the BJP today while he stood by his statement made at a

Mumbai, Mar 14: Even as the issue of abortion remains a sensitive one, a latest global report showed that 70 per cent respondents in India support abortion and said it should be permitted under any circumstances. "Seven in 10 (70 per cent) of Indian respondents say abortion should be permitted whenever a woman decides to have one, while 30 per cent said it should be done under certain

New Delhi, Mar 14: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has been issued a notice by the Ethics Committee of Parliament chaired BJP veteran L K Advani seeking his response on allegations related to declaration of his citizenship in the United Kingdom. “We will deal with it,” Mr. Gandhi said on Monday to queries by reporters while the Congress reacted sharply, accusing the government of trying to

Patna, Mar 14: Taking a dig at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), which has announced a new uniform for its members, former union minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said that they have now become ultra-modern. “RSS has gone from half pant to full pant, now they have become up-to-date,” the RJD leader from Bihar said. In an indirect jibe to the Hindu nationalist organisation for its influence in the

Nagaur (Rajasthan), Mar 13: In a veiled reference to the recent Jat agitation, RSS today disapproved of reservation demands by the "affluent" sections and favoured a study to ascertain whether the deserving backward classes are actually getting the quota benefits. Pitching for social harmony, the Sangh fountainhead said members of the "Hindu community are responsible" for caste-based

Srinagar, March 13: After frequent incursions in Ladakh area, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops have been spotted at forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) on the Pakistani side of Kashmir, ringing alarm bells in the security grid. The Army has spotted presence of senior PLA officials at the forward posts opposite Nowgam sector in North Kashmir after which some intercepts of

New Delhi, Mar 13: Government and RBI were today on the same page cautioning against overstating bad loan crisis in banks lest it hampers the lending operations, while markets regulator Sebi barred wilful defaulters from raising public funds and taking control of listed firms, as a controversy raged over massive default by Vijay Mallya. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan

New Delhi, March 12: Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today kicked a row after he sought to draw a parallel between RSS and terrorist outfit ISIS, evoking sharp responses from the Hindutva outfit and BJP, which demanded an apology from him. "So, we oppose organisations like ISIS, the way we oppose RSS. If those among us in Islam too do wrong things, they are no way less than RSS," the Leader of

New Delhi, Mar 12: Cracking its whip on 'wilful loan defaulters', markets regulator Sebi has decided to bar them from raising public funds through stocks and bonds as also from taking board positions at listed companies -- a move that would disqualify beleaguered Vijay Mallya from various posts. Besides, Sebi has also decided to bar such defaulters from setting up market intermediaries such as