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New Delhi, Nov 23: The image of him embracing Lalu Prasad Yadav having gone viral, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today sought to defend his anti-graft credentials saying it was the RJD chief who "pulled and hugged him", and it did not amount to an "alliance". Kejriwal said that AAP worked "against BJP" during the Bihar assembly polls and supported the chief ministerial candidature of Nitish

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak today jointly inaugurated the over USD 1.1 million 'Torana Gate' built by India and said it was not merely a piece of art on stone but connecting of two nations. Modi, who held talks with Najib earlier in the day, inaugurated the gate at the Little India enclave in Brickfields here. The gateway

New Delhi, Nov 23: An Aam Aadmi Party MLA was today booked for allegedly misbehaving with a police official on duty in northeast Delhi's Rohtash Nagar area, a charge denied by the legislator. According to the police, legislator Sarita Singh's driver allegedly hit the police official's motorbike while reversing his car. The officer, identified as assistant sub-inspector Om Pal, was deployed in

New Delhi, Nov 22: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced that his government will organise 'Car-Free Day' across the national capital on January 22, saying he will also cycle to his office that day. Addressing a gathering at an event of 'Car-Free Day' held on the road stretch between Dwarka Sector 3-13 and Sector 7-9, Kejriwal said his government vows to take Car-Free Day from being

Patna, Nov 20: Nitish Kumar today took oath as Bihar Chief Minister along with 28 ministers, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad's two sons Tejaswi and Tej Pratap, as the grand alliance government of RJD-JD(U)-Congress was sworn in at a mega ceremony attended by several top leaders from non-BJP parties. Besides Nitish, 12 members each from RJD and JD(U) and four from Congress were administered oath as

Patna, Nov 20: A staggering 200,000 people, including nine chief ministers and a galaxy of national leaders ranged against the BJP, will attend on Friday the swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar as Bihar's chief minister for a fifth term in office here. Unprecedented security cover has been put in place in Bihar capital for the swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar, who will head the first JD-U-RJD

Bihar, Nov 20: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has turned his oath-taking ceremony into a national convention of anti-BJP forces. Though the gathering is not homogenous and unlikely to become a precursor of an anti-Modi grand alliance at national level, it will certainly open up possibilities of new alliances in states and some understanding at the national level. “This would be a grand event

Karnal, Nov 19: Haryana's cow protection law has come into force with effect from today after President Pranab Mukherjee's assent, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here while praising three Muslim legislators for supporting the Bill in the Assembly. With the issuance of notification of the Bill today, cow slaughter in Haryana will now attract a rigorous imprisonment ranging from three years

New Delhi, Nov 19: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the country's economic policy has "no sense of direction" after the Modi government decided to scrap the Planning Commission. Singh also dismissed as "malicious" propaganda that no development had taken place during previous Congress regimes. "Economic policy has no sense of direction and this is largely because Planning

New Delhi, Nov 19: Even as a heated debate on "rising intolerance" continues in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that one of India's "tremendous social strengths" is its pluralism. "India has tremendous social strengths, including pluralism..." Modi writes in a column in an upcoming, special issue of The Economist magazine. The cover story of the 30th edition issue of the magazine is