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Patna, Jun 12: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have resolved one crisis on Tuesday by convincing LK Advani to withdraw his resignation from key party positions, but is now bracing for another trouble. With Advani relenting on letting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi continue as the head of the election campaign committee, apparently at the behest of the RSS, the JD(U) has been forced to

New Delhi, Jun 12: India is in talks with overseas explorers to buy as much as 20 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily said on Tuesday, but expressed concern over increasing landing cost of LNG. “India has now become the fifth largest importer of LNG after Japan, South Korea, the UK and Spain and accounts for 5.5 per cent of the total trade,” he said

New Delhi, Jun 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is hardening its stand on LK Advani, but the party patriarch and his camp are not giving up the fight. BJP President Rajnath Singh will be in Banswara in Rajasthan, his absence from the capital at the time of a crisis seems to be intended to send out the message that it is business as usual in the BJP. Speaking to the media, Rajnath Singh

New Delhi, Jun 11: V C Shukla, a former union minister and Congress veteran from Chhattisgarh, died today in a Gurgaon hospital after battling injuries sustained in a deadly naxal attack on a convoy of party leaders a fortnight ago. Shukla (84) died at 14:38 hours, said Yatin Mehta, Chairman of Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology in the Medanta Medicity Hospital in nearby Gurgaon. He

New Delhi, Jun 11: BJP President Rajnath Singh today denied reports that the party was under pressure from the RSS over the crisis triggered by the resignation of senior leader L K Advani from all party positions. Speaking to reporters here he said that news stories which suggested this were baseless. "I want to make one thing clear that on some channels news has been telecast that RSS has said

New Delhi, Jun 11: By resigning from all party posts and indicating that he is more acceptable to the NDA than Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP patriarch L K Advani has sought to halt in its tracks any more moves in the party featuring Modi. Following Advani's shock decision, JD (U) leaders said the NDA was on ventilator support and indicated that it would be difficult for the party to

Mumbai, Jun 11: India's rupee slid to a record low against the dollar yesterday as dealers moved into the US currency following robust US jobs data and growing concern about the South Asian nation's struggling economy. The partially convertible Indian currency ended the day at a new low of 58.15 to the dollar yesterday afternoon, sweeping past its previous low of 57.32 rupees hit on June 28. "This

New Delhi, Jun 9: The Central Information Commission has directed the Health Ministry to make public expenses incurred on the treatment of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee within 15 days. While hearing a petition of an RTI applicant who sought details of funds spent on treatment of the 88-year-old ailing BJP leader, Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra said the cost incurred

Panaji, Jun 9: Narendra Modi has been declared the Chairman of the BJP's campaign committee for 2014 general elections. This was announced by the BJP President, Rajnath Singh, at the end of the two-day executive committee meeting in Goa. "I have declared Narendra Modi Chairman of the BJP election campaign," Rajnath said today. "Whatever was done was done on the basis of consensus. Every party sees

New Delhi, Jun 9: A sum of over Rs 642 crore has been incurred on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's air travels abroad in the last nine years. This information has been made public by the PMO as part of obligations under the mandatory proactive disclosure clause of the Right to Information Act. The information reveals that Singh undertook 67 travels since 2004 when he took over as PM, of which bills