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New Delhi, November 26: The BJP's top leadership will meet today to discuss growing rebellion in the party, a day after it suspended Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani for his vocal dissent, first on party president Nitin Gadkari's continuance and then on the issue of the appointment of the new CBI chief. At the meeting of the party's Parliamentary Board at 4:30 pm today, BJP leaders are also

Jammu, November 26: Violating the ceasefire yet again, Pakistan troops targeted 10 Indian forward posts by firing over 6000 rounds from heavy weaponry along the Indo-Pak border in Poonch district. The firing on Sunday night, which was the heaviest this year, came ahead of the ninth anniversary of the Indo-Pak ceasefire agreement on Monday. The Indo-Pak border truce came into force on November 26

Mumbai, November 26: Mumbai paused in its busy tracks Monday to remember the 166 people who fell to the indiscriminate bullets of 10 Pakistani terrorists during a 60-hour siege, India's most wounding terrorist attack, that began this day four years ago. Brief commemoration events were held at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, Oberoi Trident, Leopold Cafe and Nariman House

New Delhi, November 26: The storm over FDI in retail rocked Parliament for the third day in a row with a determined Opposition adamant on a discussion on the issue under a rule that entails voting. While Lok Sabha could not transact any official business because of uproar over FDI issue, the Upper House was stalled by UPA ally Samajwadi Party over the issue of reservation for SCs/STs in government

New Delhi, November 26: Cracking the whip, Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday suspended a defiant Ram Jethmalani from the party with immediate effect for daring it to act against him on the CBI chief's appointment issue, saying it was "gross indiscipline". A meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Board has been convened on Monday at 4.30 PM to take a call on his expulsion, party

New Delhi, November 26: Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal will today formally launch his political party, Aam Aadmi Party, from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. "Today is a big day. History in the making. Aam Aadmi comes together to directly jump in politics to throw out this corrupt political system," Mr Kejriwal tweeted today. He had announced the name of his party on Saturday. The date of

Bhubaneswar, November 25: Ridiculing Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday accused the activist-turned-politician of adopting Congress party's theme to name his political outfit. "It reflects the intellectual bankruptcy of Kejriwal," Singh told reporters in Bhubaneswar, while replying a question on the use of word "Aam Aadmi". "Let Mr Kejriwal first

Mumbai, November 25: Security has been tightened all across the city on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 terror attack, police said on Sunday. The lone caught 26/11 terrorist, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, was executed at Yerawada prison in Pune on November 21. The security has also been tightened after the Pakistan Taliban said they would attack Indian targets to avenge the ‘killing’ of

Mumbai, November 25: Mumbai terror attack conspirator David Headley, who had surveyed most of the 26/11 targets, had also conducted a recce of Bal Thackeray's heavily-guarded residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra in 2008, and found that Shiv Sena chief was a "sitting duck". In his soon-to-be-released book, 'Headley and I', about filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul's unusual friendship with

Chandigarh, November 25: The Congress on Saturday played down launching of a political outfit by Arvind Kejriwal saying there were 1453 political parties registered in India and one more would strengthen the democratic fabric. "If a person or group of people have decided to float a political party, it is their right," senior Congress leader and information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari