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Raipur, Mar 11: At least 20 security personnel were today feared killed or seriously injured in a Naxal ambush in a dense forest in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district. Chhattisgarh's Additional Director General (Intelligence) Mukesh Gupta said a joint team of CRPF and state police was attacked by a large group of Naxalites at the 'Jeeram Nullah' under the Tongapal Police Station area of the district.

New Delhi, Mar 11: After ordering disqualification of MPs and MLAs immediately after conviction for heinous offences, the Supreme Court on Monday took a second big step towards cleansing the political process by directing that trial proceedings in cases of corruption and serious crimes against elected representatives must be completed within a year. The apex court's July 10, 2013 judgment had

New Delhi, Mar 10: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released the fourth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Among the 60 candidates announced today is journalist Ashish Khaitan from New Delhi constituency. Former Tehelka journalist Khaitan is the founder of news portal gulail.com that had levelled charges against Narendra Modi over alleged illegal surveillance of woman by the

New Delhi, Mar 10: Journalists must do more research and verify information before filing stories, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday. "In your anxiety to break news, I think research suffers...Media must pay more attention to research and verification," he said at an event organised by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists in New Delhi. He noted that in today's world, journalism is

Lucknow, Mar 10: Amid reports of differences in the BJP over giving tickets to top leaders, sitting Lucknow MP Lalji Tondon today said he was ready to leave his seat for party's PM candidate Narendra Modi but appeared reluctant to extend the same favour to Rajnath Singh. "Contesting election is not the aim of my life. If Modi, whose name came to me from media, contests from here I will do whatever

New Delhi, Mar 10: Indian politicians are expected to spend around $5 billion on campaigning for elections next month - a sum second only to the most expensive U.S. presidential campaign of all time - in a splurge that could give India's floundering economy a temporary boost. India's campaign spend, which can include cash stuffed in envelopes as well as multi-million-dollar ad campaigns, has been

New Delhi, Mar 10: Facing the heat of a CBI probe in an alleged bribery scandal, British firm Rolls Royce has written to the state-owned HAL that it was ready to return Rs 18 crore paid by it to its commission agents to the government. The Defence Ministry ordered a CBI probe into Rolls Royce's alleged hiring of middlemen in contracts worth around Rs 10,000 crore for supplying aircraft engines to

New Delhi, Mar 9: Discounted fares have helped airlines bring in new flyers this lean travel season and get assured seat fills. There is a strong demand on the key leisure destinations like Goa and Kerala, say airline officials, and bookings have more than doubled in recent days. "Such offers add to the abysmally small flyer base in the country. The lower the fares, wider is the flyer-base. When a

Visakhapatnam, Mar 9: One worker was killed and three others seriously injured in an accident at the Ship Building Center on the premises of the Eastern Naval Command on Saturday, where indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant was built, and its two follow-on nuclear submarines are being built. This is the third accident involving the Indian Navy in the last two weeks. The deceased was identified

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 8: BSP MP Kadir Rana, two party MLAs and former UP minister Saeed-uz-Zama of Congress are among 10 persons chargesheeted by the SIT probing the Muzaffarnagar riots for provoking communal tension with inflammatory speeches during a Muslim community panchayat. The charge sheet was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Narender Kumar by the Special Investigation team