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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

New Delhi, October 20: Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended the flying licence of beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines for failing to come up with a viable plan for its financial and operational revival and resolve the impasse with its employees over payment of their salary dues. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the Scheduled Operator Permit of Kingfisher Airlines

New Delhi, October 20: A day after BJP MP Ram Jethmalani claimed that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is also in favour of projecting Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party in 2014, the organisation has reiterated the known position that it was for the BJP to decide on the issue. The RSS chief told television channels he has nothing to say on the subject and it was for Mr