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New Delhi, Nov 7: Prime Minister Modi announced a special package of Rs 80,000 crore to Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar on Saturday. He was speaking at a public rally at Sher-e- Kashmir Cricket Stadium. Details of the speech which is in progress is awaited. The Prime Minister, after addressing the rally, is scheduled to inaugurate 450 megawatt Baglihar Phase II power project in Ramban district on

New Delhi, Nov 7: The government hiked excise duty on petrol by Rs 1.60 per litre and the same on diesel by 40 paisa a litre to mop up additional revenue to meet budgetary targets. The basic excise duty on unbranded or normal petrol was increased from Rs 5.46 per litre to Rs 7.06 a litre, according to a CBEC notification. After including additional and special excise duty, the total levy on petrol

New Delhi, Nov 7: An exit poll on NDTV channel Friday predicted an edge for the BJP-led alliance in the Bihar Assembly elections giving it 120 to 130 seats in the 243 member House. The rival JD(U)-led Grand Alliance has been projected to get between 105 and 115 seats. The poll showed that the NDA led in three phases--second, third and fourth while the other grouping led in the remaining two phases

New Delhi, Nov 6: Greenpeace India today claimed that its registration as a society has been cancelled by Registrar of Societies in Tamil Nadu and said the government's "clumsy" tactics to suppress free speech was turning into a national and international embarrassment. The NGO said the fresh notice of cancellation of its registration was an extension of the "deep intolerance" for differing

New Delhi, Nov 6: Amid a debate on intolerance in the country, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said people with petty minds divide the society through language, colour or creed and called for making the world one family. He said that the diversity of India was its strength and "we consider it as an issue of celebration rather than a problem that the outsiders consider". "People with petty

New Delhi, Nov 6: In the midst of alleged intolerance in the country, former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday expressed his sorrow over the way NDA government handled the raging issue. In last couple of weeks more than 40 filmmakers, writers and intellectuals returned their national award in protest against the growing violence and intolerance allegedly instigated by the rightwing groups

New Delhi, Nov 6: After being on the run for the past 27 years, underworld don Chhota Rajan was deported here early today from Indonesia by a joint team headed by CBI officials for facing trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling against him in Delhi and Mumbai. One of India's most wanted criminals, the 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was

New Delhi, Nov 5: The bitterly fought Bihar assembly elections will see a close outcome, with exit polls at the end of staggered election on Thursday divided on the possible winner. While Today's Chanakya gave 155 of the 243 seats to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its three allies, NewsX-CNX said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and its two allies would get 135 seats

Patna, Nov 5: Around 56 percent of the 1.55 crore electorate voted till late afternoon on Thursday in the fifth and final round of the staggered assembly elections in Bihar, officials said. Eight voters were injured when central paramilitary forces resorted to baton charge at polling booths in Araria and Katihar districts. Four voters were injured at a polling booth in Jokihat assembly

New Delhi, Nov 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched three gold-related schemes, including a coin engraved with the images of national emblem Ashok Chakra and Mahatma Gandhi on its two sides, in a bid to put some 20,000 tonnes of idle gold into productive use. The other two schemes launched here are the gold monetisation scheme to convert jewellery and other yellow metal assets with