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Kolkata, September 28: Congress has criticised Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today for her 'personal attack' on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said such 'impulsiveness' violated political decorum. "We have noted with dismay that the West Bengal Chief Minister has indulged in a personal attack on the Prime Minister and even described him as not being a grassroots leader besides

New Delhi, September 28: Panchayat leaders from Jammu and Kashmir met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday to demand safety and empowerment while the Youth Congress launched an agitation in the state to highlight their cause, setting the stage for a faceoff between Congress and its J&K partner, National Conference. The Congress support for panchayat leaders in J&K came barely two days after Rahul flagged the

Kolkata/New Delhi, September 27: Congress on Thursday hit out at former ally and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for her 'personal attack' on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and mimicking him, saying such 'impulsiveness' violated political decorum. "We have noted with dismay that the West Bengal chief minister has indulged in a personal attack on the Prime Minister and even described him

Kolkata, September 27: Hundreds of Muslims today held protests against an anti-Islam video and tried to march to the American Center here, which closed down for the second half of the day. The protestors, belonging to Muslim organisations, including the All-Bengal Minorities Youth Federation, demanding an apology from the US, broke barricades and tried to approach the highly-fortified American

New Delhi, September 27: A Delhi court on Thursday asked police to lodge an FIR against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly branding Bihar natives as infiltrators in Mumbai and threatening them to throw out of the state. Metropolitan magistrate Neeraj Gaur's order came on a complaint by advocate Prem Shankar Sharma who said Thackeray's August 31 remarks, terming Bihar

New Delhi, September 27: The Supreme Court today rejected CBI's plea to cancel the bail granted to former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, but agreed to transfer the trial from Gujarat to Mumbai. "We are against the plea for the cancellation of the bail and the petition is dismissed," a bench comprising justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai said. "We

Imphal, September 27: At a time when militants have stepped up attacks on security forces in Manipur, 114 militants belonging to different groups laid down arms before chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh at the headquarters of Inspector General Assam Rifles ( South) at Mantripukhri here on Wednesday. The rebels were from UNLF, PLA, KCP, KYKL, Prepak, KNLF, UPPK, UNPC and PULF. Addressing the biggest

New Delhi, September 27: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has praised former RSS chief K Sudarshan in an article prominently displayed in the September 22 issue of its bi-weekly mouthpiece Dawat and mourned his death. Sudarshan died in Raipur on September 15. In the section Khabar-O-Nazar (News and Views), Dawat chief editor Parwaaz Rahmani recounted how Sudarshan wanted to visit Bhopal's Tajul Masjid

Surajkund (Haryana), September 26: With Trinamool Congress walking out of the ruling UPA and NCP threatening to follow suit, BJP top brass on Wednesday asked party leaders to stand united and remain battle-ready as the prospects of early polls loom large in the current political scenario. In his inaugural address at BJP national executive here, party president Nitin Gadkari asked his party to

New Delhi, September 26: An estimated 36,000 tonnes of grain has gone bad at the various storage facilities of the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) since 2008, enough to feed 80 million people at a per capita consumption of 440 grams, fresh data reveals. Ironically, the maximum wastage is accounted for in Punjab, otherwise known as India's bread basket, where 19,290 tonnes have rotted during the