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Mumbai, September 8: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Saturday claimed that if he was given charge of the Indian Army, he would solve all problems and set things right in the country within a month. In the second of his four-part interview published in party mouthpiece 'Dopaharka Saamna' Saturday, Thackeray also warned that he would not "spare" Muslim fundamentalists who fomented trouble in the

Ahmedabad, Sepetmber 8: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has decided to embark on a month-long yatra from September 11 in poll-bound Gujarat, which will cover major parts of the state. Interestingly, the name of Modi's yatra is Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra, which will begin on the day when spiritual leader Swami Vivekanada made his historic speech at the Chicago Conference of World Religions

Bhubaneswar, September 8: Congress leader Jadgish Tytler, who is the party's in-charge of Odisha, has been booked for criminal conspiracy for the clashes that broke out outside the state Assembly during a protest by Congress workers in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. Several protesters as well as 60 police personnel were injured in these clashes. And a woman cop was beaten up by a mob on the rampage. So

Ahmedabad, September 8: Former chief minister Keshubhai Patel in his blog on Friday referred to chief minister Narendra Modi as a 'crime manager.' Reacting to the remarks of the Supreme Court that the Gujarat government was adopting adversarial attitude in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, Patel said that instead of getting to the bottom of the fake encounter, Modi was trying to create

New Delhi, September 7: As turmoil-ridden monsoon session of Parliament ended, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on Friday hit out at BJP for "total negation" of democracy and asked people to stand up against such attitude of disruption, warning that it would be a "grave violation" of parliamentary politics. He maintained that the CAG report on coal block allocation should have been discussed in

New Delhi, September 7: Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy today ruled out an immediate hike in fuel prices, saying there is no such plan. Mr Reddy spoke to the media at an Indian Oil event in New Delhi. Sources have informed NDTV that the hike in all fuel prices has been deferred by a week. "It is my duty as a minister to bring out the facts in front of the Cabinet Committee of Political affairs…don’t

New Delhi, September 7: A hike of Rs 5 per litre in petrol price is likely to be announced in the next 24 to 48 hours. According to official sources, the Oil Ministry may allow the oil manufacturing companies to announce the hike. According to Oil Ministry sources, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Finance Ministry are on board for the price hike. Sources also said that though the Cabinet

New Delhi, September 6: Samajwadi Party and Shiv Sena on Thursday thwarted an attempt in the Rajya Sabha to take up for passage the contentious Bill providing for quota in promotion for SCs and STs in government jobs. The Constitution Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the House on Wednesday amid commotion and scuffle between members of SP and BSP in the House, could not be taken up even as

New Delhi, September 6: Cyber-space has become another tool in the hands of terrorists who post "motivated rumours" in social networking sites thereby creating a new challenge to the security forces in the country, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said here today. "There is increasing evidence of resort taken by terrorists to the cyber-space domain. The recent incident in Bengaluru in

New Delhi, September 6: The Washington Post has denied it has offered an apology for an article which described Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh as "a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government".India bureau chief of Washington Post, Simon Denyer said that he stands by the article."Absolutely not, there has been no apology, and I stand by the article, and the