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New Delhi, November 10: BJP President Nitin Gadkari today faced a fresh attack with party national executive member Jagadish Shettigar demanding that he should step down from the top post in the wake of charges of dubious funding of his Purti Group. "Gadkari is also a swayamsewak (RSS worker) whose dharma (principle) is to protect the interest of the country first and then protect the interest of

London, November 10: Hence proved! A US scientist has finally proven the mathematical relation - discussed by great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan with his mentor G H Hardy in one of his last letters. Ramanujan, the young genius who died at the age of 32, often managed to leap from insight to insight without formally proving the logical steps in between. Now proof has been found for a

New Delhi, November 10: BJP's Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalanicame under attack from his party leaders as well as from the Congress after his controversial statement that Lord Ram was a "bad husband". Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh took the lead in attacking the veteran lawyer, asking what Jethmalani thought about his party colleague and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In

Barabanki/ Lucknow, November 9: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav kicked up a row with his remark that rural women will not benefit from the Women Reservation Bill because they are not as attractive as those from the affluent class. Mulayam, whose party is in power in Uttar Pradesh and is an outside supporter of UPA government, made the comment while articulating his opposition to the

Bangalore, November 9: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal revealed names of a few Swiss bank account holders from India on Friday. In a press note he alleged that in July 2011, Indian Government received a list of 700 people having bank accounts in HSBC, Geneva. The list contained the bank balances these people held in 2006. India Against Corruption members managed to access a few – not all

New Delhi, November 9: In an apparent move to send out a message of austerity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi today took a bus ride along with other leaders to Surajkund in Haryana where the party is having a brain storming meeting. However, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not go to Surajkund by bus due to security reasons. Union ministers and top Congress leaders will attend

Mumbai, November 9: Diageo Plc was close to a deal for a stake in liquor baron Vijay Mallya's United Spirits Ltd after months of talks, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, with a deal likely to be announced as soon as Friday. Diageo and United Spirits, which has a market value of $3.2 billion, were expected to sign a deal term sheet soon, the sources said, declining to be named

Ahmedabad, November 9: Sabarmati Central Jail authorities have decided not to send police officers accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to Mumbai for trial despite an order to produce them in court on November 9. The authorities have cited administrative reasons to keep the accused in Ahmedabad, but the real reason could be a threat to their lives by a banned Islamic outfit. The

Ahmedabad, November 9: Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia has compared chief minister Narendra Modi to a monkey, prompting the ruling BJP to file a complaint against him with the Election Commission. Modhwadia also went on to equate Manmohan Singh with a lion and said that a monkey sitting on the top of a tree is trying to challenge the lion, hinting at the chief minister without taking his

Dharmapuri, November 9: Angered by a man committing suicide over his daughter marrying a Dalit boy, a crowd of caste Hindus torched 285 huts in three Dalit colonies in the district, but there were no casualties as all the people had fled to neighouring areas, police said. They said the crowd first targetted Natham, the boy's village and two other Dalit colonies Kondampatty and Anna Nagar on