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New Delhi, Mar 3: Backing former Telecom Minister A. Raja’s plea to be summoned as a witness before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, the BJP on Sunday said a meeting of the panel should be called at the earliest to take a final call on summoning the “key player” in the 2G scam. Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who is a member of the JPC, has written to panel chairman P.C. Chako asking him to

New Delhi, Mar 3: Against the backdrop of a growing chorus for making him the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today lashed out at the "commission-seeking" Congress-led UPA government which is destroying the nation like a termite and dubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "night watchman" for the Gandhi family. Modi was scheduled to speak on good

Paradip (Odisha), Mar 3: A day after three anti-Posco activists were killed while allegedly making bombs, tension gripped the proposed plant site in Jagtsinghpur district today as police recovered the bodies and materials used for making the explosives. Three persons were killed and another was critically injured in the blast when members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) were making crude

Bidar Mar 4: Asaduddin Owaisi, the Member of Parliament from Hyderabad and president of All-India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) was taken into custody by the Humnabad police on Saturday night reportedly for violation of election code of conduct. Owaisi was taken into custody at the RTO?checkpost on the National Highway 9, near Humnabad when he was coming from Basava Kalyan after attending a

New Delhi, Mar 3: Diesel price for bulk consumers like Railways has been hiked by almost a rupee per litre, while the price of cooking gas (LPG) is cut by Rs 37.50 a cylinder that consumers buy beyond their quota of subsidised bottles. Neither the retail prices of diesel sold through petrol pumps nor rates for subsidised LPG cylinders has been changed. The government had in January allowed state

Lucknow, Mar 3: In a bid to re-affirm his commitment to the Muslim cause and allay fears of having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the backdrop of his recent statement in the Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh has pulled out all stops to woo the minority community ahead of next year’s general election. While reiterating his stand on the implementation of the Sachar

New Delhi, Mar 2: A parliamentary committee has endorsed the government's decision not to treat "marital rape" as a sexual offence in the recently-promulgated anti-rape ordinance, agreeing that it could destroy the institution of marriage. However, the panel was silent on rape in live-in relationships, with many members of the view that treating it differently from other sexual offences was not

Shillong, Mar 2: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked the entire northeast India and adjoining Bangladesh Saturday morning. No casualties were reported, officials said.According to a seismologist here, the quake was felt around 7.01 a.m. in most parts of the northeast region and neighbouring Bangladesh, and its epicentre lay along the India-Bangladesh border."The exact epicentre

New Delhi, Mar 2: Finance Minister P Chidambaram has appealed to people not to buy so much gold, a day after his 2013-14 Budget surprised traders by keeping gold import duty unchanged at 6 per cent. But Chidambaram, who is trying to rein in imports by the world’s biggest bullion buyer to curb a record current account deficit, told CNBC television on Friday that the duty was not yet high enough to

New Delhi, Mar 1: Petrol price was on Friday hiked by Rs 1.40 per litre, the second big increase in rates in as many weeks.A rise in international oil prices and depreciation in rupee have necessitated a Rs 1.40 per litre increase in price of petrol with effect from midnight tonight, said a statement by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).The hike is excluding local sales tax or VAT and the actual