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New Delhi, August 21: The Indian government is planning to take the help of the United States in tracking the origins of offensive web content used to scare North-East people across India. Reports said New Delhi will seek the help of the US' Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to track specific content hosted on American servers. The decision to seek US help came after it was

Ahmedabad, August 21: Thousands of poor voters of Gujarat surged towards Congress camps for distributing forms for dirt-cheap urban housing — a promise the Congress has made only to women in a determined bid to prevent chief minister Narendra Modi from winning his third successive state election. The scheme targets lower and lower-middle income groups in the cities and towns of Gujarat and gave a

Mumbai, August 21: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said that Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) proposed rally on Tuesday to protest the Azad Maidan violence was a political ploy by Raj Thackeray to hijack the Hindutva agenda from Shiv Sena. The MNS will hold demonstrations to protest the violence against police force and innocent people at Azad Maidan last week. Chavan indicated that

Barabanki, August 20: In comments that can stoke a fresh controversy, Union minister Beni Prasad Verma today said the next Lok Sabha elections will see a direct fight between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. A day after he said that the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was "dreaming" of becoming Prime Minister, Verma today said that parties like Samajwadi Party do not have all India presence and hence

New Delhi, August 20: The Centre on Monday blamed social networking sites of not co-operating with the government in removing the objectionable content spreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the Indians from the Northeast. Government sources have said that websites such as Google and Facebook are not cooperating in the matter citing international laws. They also say that Twitter

New Delhi, August 20: Union minister for Steel Beni Prasad Verma on Monday stoked a controversy with his comment that price rise was beneficial for farmers. The opposition pounced on his remark accusing the government of being part of the "mehengai mafia" (price rise mafia). The minister made the remark on Sunday while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Barabanki, near Lucknow

New Delhi, August 20: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a telephonic conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik took up the issue of social media-networking sites being misused by elements in Pakistan to circulate false pictures and reports in a bid to create communal strife in India. Responding to Shinde’s claims, Malik said that so far India has not given any evidence on

New Delhi, August 20: Expressing her “deep pain” at the ethnic violence in Assam, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday condemned the subsequent mistreatment faced by people from north-east in some states and called for strict action against the guilty. Speaking at the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award ceremony here, she said the present conditions prevailing in the country were linked to

New Delhi, August 20: As the nation celebrates Eid on Monday, riot-hit Assam is on high alert. Security has been stepped up across the state, especially in the sensitive districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang that witnessed a spate of clashes between the Bodo tribal groups and Muslims at the end of last month. While the actual reason for the sudden breakout of violence in the lower regions of

New Delhi, August 20: India has blamed Pakistan for posting threatening messages on the Internet that triggered a mass exodus from Bangalore and Mumbai by migrants fleeing to their homes in the northeast. "Our agencies have discovered that bulk of these messages have been uploaded on various websites in Pakistan," Home Secretary R.K. Singh told reporters on Saturday. "This is a first of its kind