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Patna, Sep 14: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday took a dig at BJP over naming Narendra Modi as prime ministerial candidate, saying the party was on a path of destruction and claimed JD(U)'s decision of severing ties with it three months back has been vindicated. "Vinash Kale vipreet buddhi (taking wrong decisions when on path of destruction)," Kumar told reporters here. Kumar, who was

New Delhi, Sep 14: BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Balbir Punj today met a sulking L K Advani to discuss the elevation of Narendra Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate, a move the party patriarch is opposed to. Irked over Modi being made the Prime Ministerial candidate, Advani had written a scathing letter to BJP President Rajnath Singh expressing disappointment over his style of

Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: At least 14 Maoists were killed in a fierce gun battle with police in Odisha's Malkangiri district Saturday, an official said. The gun battle, which lasted for several minutes, took place in a forest close to the border with Chhattisgarh. A police team led by District Superintendent of Police Akhileswar Singh, which included personnel from the district voluntary force, raided

Lucknow, Sep 14: The brutality with which people were massacred in west UP clashes has shaken even the doctors at Muzaffarnagar district hospital who performed the postmortem of victims. The tales told by the doctors are horrific: a woman dismembered into two parts, charred bodies whose sex could not be ascertained and a ten-year-old kid whose head was smashed. A 12-member team of doctors has been

New Delhi, Sep 13: The BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday announced that Gujarat Chief Minister and campaign committee chief Narendra Modi would be the prime ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The meeting was attended by the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, senior BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Murli

Bishkek, Sep 13: Pakistan has informed India that it has appointed a new prosecutor to probe the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and will send a Judicial Commission to the country on September 23 to cross-examine witnesses in the case, meeting India's demand for progress in the investigations. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said he was told about Pakistan's decision during an informal

New Delhi, Sept 13: A judge will announce today whether four men should hang for fatally raping a young woman on a bus last December, in one of the biggest tests in years of India's paradoxical attitude towards the death penalty. Indian judges hand down on average 130 death sentences every year, but India has executed just three people in the past 17 years. Despite its apparent reluctance to carry

New Delhi, Sep 13: The fate of four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case will be known on Friday with a Delhi court set to pronounce the much-awaited order on whether their offence falls in the “rarest of rare” category warranting death sentence. While the victim’s family demands nothing less than capital punishment, the convicts -- Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur (28), Pawan Gupta (19)

London, Sep 13: The exodus from Bangladeshis into India has for the first time been termed by the United Nations as "the single largest bilateral stock of international migrants" in the eastern hemisphere and also in the developing world. Data revealed on Thursday by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) shows that in 2013, India was home to 3.2 million Bangladeshi residents

New Delhi, Sep 12: President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday approved Congress president Sonia Gandhi's pet food security bill, making it a law. "The National Food Security Bill, 2013 has received the assent of the President of India," said a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Lok Sabha passed the bill Aug 26 while the Rajya Sabha cleared it Sep 2. The bill was introduced in parliament in