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Ahmedabad, Feb 28: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi once again fumbled with historical facts when he said that Bhagat Singh had spent a long time incarcerated on the Andaman islands. In fact, it was Veer Savarkar who was imprisoned in the jail on the Andamans. Bhagat Singh and his friends were lodged in jails around Delhi. After their arrest on April 8, 1929 from the Central Legislative

New Delhi, Feb 28: The Aam Aadmi Party Thursday announced its second list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections, deciding to pit Raj Mohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, against sitting Congress parliamentarian Sandeep Dikshit. In the list of 30 candidates, former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajan Sushant will contest from Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district. Sushant, a parliamentarian

New Delhi, Feb 27: A police team led by Lucknow Superintendent of Police Habibul Hassan reached Sahara Shahar on Thursday evening to enforce the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court. Hassan told a media agency that the order Apex Court’s order would be complied with by March 4. In the meanwhile, Sahara Chief Subrata Roy moved to Supreme Court seeking cancellation of non-bailable

New Delhi, Feb 27: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he does not appreciate the "impotent" remark made by Union ministerSalman Khurshid against Narendra Modi in the context of the 2002 Gujarat riots. "I do not appreciate this kind of comment...the kind of language," Gandhi said disapproving Khurshid's remark. The Congress leader was speaking to reporters at the AICC

New Delhi, Feb 27: After staying release of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court today restrained the Tamil Nadu government from letting out four more convicts in the case. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam directed the state government to maintain status quo and said it will hear on March 6 the Centre's plea against the state government's decision to

Srinagar, Feb 27: A trooper shot dead five of his colleagues and then turned the gun on himself in north's Kashmir Ganderbal district, sources said Thursday. An inquiry into the incident has been ordered. Police sources said that an angry trooper of the Rashtriya Rifles went berserk inside the Safapora (Manasbal) camp in the district, 35 km from here, following a heated argument with his

New Delhi, Feb 26: Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi today resigned taking "moral responsibility" over the spate of mishaps involving naval warships in the last seven months. Joshi, who had about 15 months more left in service, submitted his resignation hours after submarine INS Sindhuratna had a mishap in which seven sailors were taken seriously ill and two officers were missing. The Defence Ministry

New Delhi, Feb 26: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a non bailable arrest warrant against Sahara chief Subrata Roy for his failure to appear before it in connection with the case in which his two companies have been directed to refund Rs 20,000 crore to investors. "We had already declined yesterday Roy's plea seeking exemption from personal appearance. He has not appeared even today and we

New Delhi, Feb 26:The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Wednesday said it is looking for options for an alliance and the "option of BJP is open". "We are looking for alternate alliance partners as there is a deadlock with existing allies," LJP leader Chirag Paswan said after a meeting of the party's parliamentary board. LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan, Chirag's father, added: "We have kept the option of BJP

Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 26: Seven Navy personnel were today injured and two officers unaccounted for in a mishap on board Russian-origin Kilo Class submarine INS Sindhuratna, 80 kms off the Mumbai coast. Dense smoke filled the cabin of the submarine in the morning when Commodore Commanding Submarine (COMCOS), Western Command, was carrying out an inspection before it was to be cleared for operational