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Muzaffarnagar (UP), Oct 31: Eight persons have been arrested and cases registered against 15 people in connection with fresh communal violence in Muzaffarnagar. Eight persons have been arrested and cases registered against 15 people in connection with fresh communal violence in Budhana area of Muzaffarnagar district where paramilitary forces are patrolling tense areas. Three persons were killed

New Delhi, Oct 30: Amid efforts to form a Third Front, several regional parties including Left, JD(U), AIADMK, BJD and UPA ally NCP on Wednesday came together at a convention in New Delhi with their leaders pitching for unity among them to defeat the "threat" from fascist and communal forces". JD(U) leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar appeared to target BJP's prime ministerial candidate

New Delhi, Oct 30: Under attack from the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Wednesday urged secular parties to close ranks to battle "communal forces". Speaking here at a Left-sponsored convention called with the 2014 Lok Sabha election in mind, Nitish Kumar said there was an attempt across the country to create communal tensions. "There is a clear attempt

Patna, Oct 30: The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is holding its rally here amid tight security Wednesday, barely three days after a string of explosions here left six dead and over 80 injured. The serial blasts in Patna took place Sunday before Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was to address a rally at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan. Thousands of cadres

Chennai, Oct 30: Southern Railways has announced special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers in view of Deepavali. Chennai Central–Bangalore–Chennai Central special trains: Train number 06013 Chennai Central–Bangalore City Special will leave Chennai Central at 11 p.m. from November 1 to 5 and arrive at Bangalore City at 4.50 a.m. the next day. Train number 06014 Banaglore City–Chennai

Patna, Oct 30: The police on Wednesday arrested a third suspect in the Patna serial blasts case from Motihari in Bihar’s East Champaran district. The suspect has been identified as Tabish, a resident of Motihari. Based on the inputs received from the investigating agencies, the Motihari police traced and detained him. He has been handed over to the Patna police,” the East Champaran police told The

Rajgir (Bihar), Oct 29: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today hit back at Narendra Modi, comparing him to Hitler and said his desperate dream to unfurl national flag at Red Fort would remain unfulfilled. Days after Modi launched an no-holds barred attack on him in a Patna rally, he rejected the accusation that he had "betrayed and backstabbed" socialist stalwarts like Jaiprakash Narayan and Ram

Patna, Oct 29: People gather very close to an unexploded bomb, hidden beneath newspapers before it was defused by officials outside the venue of a political rally in Patna, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Two bombs were found in and around Patna's Gandhi Maidan Tuesday, on a day when union Home Secretary Anil Goswami visited the spot that saw a string of explosions the previous day, police said. One

New Delhi, Oct 29: Wary of cyber snooping, the government could ban e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo for official communications by December this year in a move to safeguard its critical and sensitive data. The government is expected to route all its official communication through the official website NIC's email service. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) is

Mumbai, Oct 29: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised its policy interest rate for the second time in as many months on Tuesday, warning that inflation is likely to remain elevated for the rest of the fiscal year, and rolled back an emergency measure put in place to support the slumping rupee. The RBI lifted its policy repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 7.75 percent, in line with the