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Bihar, October 22: Putting a lid on the controversy arising out of the perception that Bihar BJP leaders were 'unwelcome' in Gujarat, chief minister Narendra Modi telephoned state party president C P Thakur, inviting him and other leaders to his state to campaign for the party. "Modiji telephoned me yesterday (Sunday) to say that an unnecessary confusion has been created by the perception that

Gandhinagar, October 22: Ending a ten-year boycott of Gujarat after the 2002 riots, Britain today made its first engagement with the state when High Commissioner James Bevan met Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bevan drove in to the state Secretariat complex here at about 11 AM to meet Modi with a small delegation. "The meeting continued for about 50 minutes," official sources said. After the meeting

New Delhi, October 22: Journalist Syed Mohammad Ahmed Kazmi, who was released on bail after seven months in the Israeli diplomat car attack case on Friday, has claimed that he was framed because he use to regularly make phone calls on Iranian numbers for official purposes. "I was picked up because I use to call Iran every day for journalistic purposes. They needed a scapegoat living in the Lodhi

Muzaffarnagar, October 22: Muzaffarnagar: In his tirade against mobile phones, BSP leader Rajpal Saini stirred yet another mobile controversy and went a step too far by saying that women and children don't need mobiles. "There is no need to give phones to women and children. It distracts them and is useless. Why do women need phones? My mother, wife and sister never had mobile phones. They

New Delhi, October 21: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal today dared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for a public debate and said India Against Corruption will answer questions raised against it only after Congress leadership and Robert Vadra come clean on charges of corruption. A day after Congress leader

New Delhi, October 21: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has suggested that there was evidence against the kin of former Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K Advani on alleged corruption and wrong-doing but Congress will never use that to embarrass them. Singh also rejected as "hollow" and "media hype" the allegations of "nexus" among Sonia Gandhi's son-law Robert Vadra, DLF and

Thiruvananthapuram, October 21: Members of Parliament A. Sampath and M.P. Achuthan have demanded action against the CISF personnel at the Thiruvananthapuram airport and the crew of the Air India Express flight that was diverted from Nedumbassery on Friday for illegal detention and harassment of passengers including women and children. Addressing reporters here on Saturday, they said the unsavoury

Ahmedabad, October 21: Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has complained that the G.T. Nanavati- Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission, probing the 2002 train carnage and post-Godhra communal riots, is creating “impediments” in his bid to inspect some official documents. (Mr. Bhatt had alleged complicity on the part of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the State-wide riots.) “Disappointed ”

New Delhi, October 20: Stepping up his attack against Arvind Kejriwal, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh posed a number of questions to him raising doubts about offshore funding of his NGO and asking why he never raised issue of corruption in BJP-ruled states. A day after shooting off a letter to Kejriwal in which the Congress leader described him as a "self-serving ambitious megalomaniac

Dudu, October 20: Millions across the country may soon get benefits of various government schemes such as cooking gas subsidies and old age pension with the launch of the much-awaited Aadhaar-enabled direct cash transfer system here. Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched the much touted payment mechanism which is aimed at checking corruption and pilferage in the