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Srinagar, Jan 11: As suspense over formation of new government in Jammu and Kashmir continued, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti was on Sunday visited by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for mourning but the meetings were seen with political significance. The meetings took place even as BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh expressed confidence that the

New Delhi, Jan 10: Reviving the 2012 troop movement controversy, Congress leader Manish Tewari has said that a media report about two key army units moving towards Delhi without notifying the then UPA government was "unfortunate but true". Union minister and former Army Chief V K Singh, who had in 2012 dismissed the report, today slammed the Congress leader for his remark, saying "He (Tewari) has

London, Jan 10: A British website, set up to catalogue the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, has released what it claims are eyewitness accounts of the day he was reportedly killed in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945. The latest set of documents quote several people who were reportedly involved in the matter related to the accident as well as two British intelligence reports that

Vijayawada, Jan 10: Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was not the Bharatiya Janata Party’s enemy No. 1 but rival No. 1. “In politics, there is no enmity. Political parities are just rivals, and the differences are only ideological. Both the Centre and State governments should play like Team India towards winning the match i.e

New Delhi, Jan 10: India is running out of patience and may defer resumption of its stalled dialogue with Pakistan, which is yet to act against any of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror plotters behind the recent attack on the Pathankot Air Force base in Punjab. If Pakistan does not act over the weekend on the information provided by India on the terror plot, New Delhi may defer Foreign Secretary S

New Delhi/Bhopal, Jan 10: An Odisha MP sitting on a midnight dharna and passengers venting anger at Madhya Pradesh PWD Minister Sartaj Singh accused of using his influence to reschedule a flight set the Delhi airport on the boil. The airport witnessed high drama on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday with Bhubhaneswar-bound passengers protesting against Air India for rescheduling their

Srinagar/ New Delhi, Jan 9: Jammu and Kashmir was all set to come under a brief spell of Governor's rule with the process of new government formation following the death of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed taking some time. The President is understood to have cleared the recommendation of the Union Home Ministry for imposing Governor's rule on the basis of a recommendation from Governor N N

New Delhi, Jan 9: Amid reports that the odd-even scheme may be extended, Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai today asserted that the government has no intention to take the road-rationing experiment beyond January 15. The pilot plan for cutting vehicular emission was launched on January 1. Rai said that some confusion is also being spread that the plan was illegally imposed by the government, and

Islamabad, Jan 9: Amidst of uncertainty in the wake of the Pathankot terror attack, Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said Foreign Secretary-level talks with India are scheduled to take place on January 15, 2016. In reply to a question in the National Assembly, Pakistan's Parliament, Mr. Aziz on Friday said Pakistan and India’s Foreign Secretaries are scheduled

Srinagar, Jan 9: Allies PDP and BJP today dismissed speculation about any differences or new conditions between them over formation of new government in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of death of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. "There are certainly no conditions from our side and there was no meeting of our leaders on government formation. "We respect the right of the bereaved family of Mufti