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New Delhi, Nov 11: In a new twist in the Sunanda Pushkar death mystery, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has concluded that she did not die from radioactive poisoning. 51-year-old Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was found dead at the Leela Hotel in Delhi in January 2014. Initially her death was considered as suicide but earlier this year the Delhi Police claimed that Pushkar

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 11: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Finance Minister KM Mani in the wake of the High Court observations against him in the bar bribery case. Talking to reporters soon after receiving the resignation letters of Mani and that of government chief whip, Thomas Unniyadan, Chandy said "Mani has taken the decision to resign on his own."

New Delhi, Nov 10: Over 2,000 ex-servicemen protesting against the government's "diluted" one-pension-one rank scheme today returned their medals in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, the organizations spearheading the movement claimed today as they hit back at Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for his "unlike soldiers behaviour" remark aimed at them. Colonel (retd) Anil Kaul, spokesman of the protesters

Patna, Nov 10: Though the official announcement is awaited, JD(U) Nitish Kumar in all likelihood would take oath as the new chief minister of Bihar on November 20. "People are busy with Diwali and after that comes the Chhath festival which ends on November 18. So oath of the new government in all likelihood will be administered after Chhath," state JD(U) President Basistha Narayan Singh told PTI

Patna, Nov 10: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha today reacted sharply to party colleague Kailash Vijayvargiya's dog analogy on him even as more disgruntled voices emerged from within BJP over its massive defeat in Bihar polls. "People want my reaction to Vijayvargiya's remark. My reaction to small or big flies in any party is "Haathi chale Bihar,....bhaunken hazaar" (many bark but the caravan

New Delhi, Nov 10: War veterans will start returning their medals from today to protest the government notification on implementation of 'one rank-one pension', which they have rejected, and hit back at Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for his comments that not all their demands can be met. "We have one and only demand and that is OROP. It was the government who inserted provisions that has made

Chennai/Hyderabad: Nov 10: Ten people died in rains that tormented Tamil Nadu, as the deep depression hit the land North of Puducherry on Monday night. The depression gathered force over the Bay of Bengal and brought heavy rain before hitting the coast, resulting in heavy floods and winds of 70 kmph. Fierce winds uprooted several hundred trees and damaged highway roads. The wind uprooted hundreds

Patna, Nov 9: Former chief minister and HAM president Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday blamed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP president Amit Shah for the debacle of the BJP-led alliance in Bihar. "Bhagwat's statement on review of reservation for Dalits and OBCs harmed the NDA's prospects as it was made one of the main issues by the Grand Alliance," Manjhi told the media here. Manjhi said the issue of

New Delhi, Nov 9: In further rumblings within BJP over its big loss in Bihar, party MP Hukumdev Narayan Yadav today said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's quota comments "agitated" backward castes who rallied around the grand alliance and asserted that many who voted for the Modi government are not RSS supporters. A five-time Lok Sabha MP from Bihar with socialist background, Yadav said Bhagwat's

New Delhi, Nov 9: BJP's Parliamentary Board, its top decision-making body, will meet today to analyse its rout in Bihar assembly polls, a second humiliating defeat in a row for the party after Delhi assembly election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend the meet in which almost all top party leaders, including its chief Amit Shah, will be present. More than the defeat, it is its scale