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Raipur, June 29: Twenty naxalites were killed and six CRPF jawans injured after a fierce overnight encounter in the jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh. The encounter, which took place in the jungles of Silger, a "liberated" Maoist zone between the naxal hotbed of Jagargunda and Basaguda in Dantewada, was launched last night by the CRPF from three directions. Two Maoists have also been arrested

New Delhi, June 29: BJP today expressed disappointment at the cut of just Rs 2.46 per litre in price of petrol and demanded that it should be slashed by Rs 7.50, the amount by which it was hiked recently. "When the international price of petroleum was $120 per barrel, the government increased the prices here in domestic market but when prices went down to $80 they continued with the earlier prices

New Delhi, June 29: Taking charge of the Finance portfolio after the resignation of Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has kindled hopes of a rethink on the controversial tax measures the departing Minister leaves behind. While the Finance Ministry maintained on Thursday that there were no plans to defer the roll-out of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) beyond April 1, 2013, it

New Delhi, June 29: Oil companies have cut petrol prices by Rs. 2.46 per litre, starting midnight. The cut is based on global crude prices and the exchange rate of the rupee vs the dollar. The reduction in price varies from Rs. 2.46 per litre to Rs. 3.22 per litre, depending upon local taxes in different states. Petrol now costs Rs. 67.78 a litre in Delhi and 73.35 per litre in Mumbai. In other

Phulbani, Odisha, June 28: Twenty-five persons allegedly involved in the Kandhamal communal riots in Odisha in 2008 were acquitted by a local court on Wednesday due to lack of proper evidence against them. Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track) B N Mishra acquitted 25 persons who were booked on charges of rioting and arson. According to the prosecution, one Chitrasen Digal of Kakadabadi village

New Delhi, June 28: UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee and NDA candidate P.A. Sangma on Thursday filed their nomination papers for the July 19 presidential elections in the presence of a host of leaders from both the sides. Pranab Mukherjee was accompanied by prominent leaders in the UPA and other parties including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Mr. Mukherjee handed

Ahmedabad, June 28: Narendra Modi is likely to be in Delhi today to stand by PA Sangma as he files his nomination papers for President of India. Mr Sangma is the candidate of Mr Modi's party, the BJP. Back home, in Gujarat, new posters critical of Mr Modi have appeared in Rajkot, 200 kilometres from the state capital of Gandhinagar. The Gujarat chief minister is lampooned - his face has been

Wagah, June 28: After spending 31 years in Pakistani jail, Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh today walked free and crossed over to his home country to an emotional renunion with his family. 69-year-old Singh, who released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail this morning, crossed to the Indian side at Wagah border where he was welcomed with garlands and red shawls by his family and villagers, after

New Delhi, June 28: Alarmed over the state of economy and low morale of India Inc, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked the finance ministry officials to take steps to “reverse the climate of pessimism and give a push to sagging economy.” Addressing a meeting of the senior officials of the ministry and policy makers for the first time after taking charge of the finance ministry, Singh

New Delhi, June 28: Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday and submitted his report on party’s humiliating rout in recent Andhra Pradesh by-polls. Chiranjeevi met Sonia at her 10 Janpath residence with his report, as the party began the process to analyse the reasons for its decimation at the hands of rebel Jaganmohan Reddy’ YSR Congress. According to