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New Delhi, May 12: Ruling out a mid-term poll, the Congress on Saturday reacted to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that the Lok Sabha polls would be advanced, and said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II will complete its full term. "I have not gone through the statement given by Banerjee, but one thing is clear the UPA -II will complete its term and elections will be held

New Delhi, May 12: With the agitation by Air India pilots entering the fifth day today, the national carrier cancelled 16 flights from here and Mumbai even as senior pilots sought the Prime Minister's intervention to end the impasse. "16 of our flights originating from Delhi and Mumbai have been cancelled," an AI spokesperson said. Supporting the agitation, senior pilots wrote a letter to the

Lucknow, May 12: In a decision of far-reaching political consequences, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Friday scrapped 26 programmes and schemes of the Mayawati regime, replaced the Ambedkar Gram Sabha Vikas Yojana (AGSVY) with a project named after the Samajwadi Party ideologue, Ram Manohar Lohia, and ended the quota system in government contracts. All these populist measures were launched by

Mumbai, May 12: If a wife is accustomed to a particular lifestyle, it is difficult for her to adjust in bad times, the Bombay high court said on Friday while hearing a plea for enhancement of maintenance. A division bench of Justice P B Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta was hearing a petition filed by film producer Gaurang Doshi's wife Madhuri challenging the family court's June 16, 2010, order on

New Delhi, May 12: Two eminent scholars have resigned their positions as advisers to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) after a furore in Parliament led Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to withdraw a book on the Constitution because it contained a cartoon some legislators said was offensive. Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, both eminent political

Jammu, May 11: Ahead of the annual Amarnath Yatra that begins on June 4, the Bajrang Dal on Thursday said it will send its team to the cave shrine on May 13 to assess the ground situation and take stock of preparatory measures. "We will send a team of 100 activists of Bajrang Dal to Baltal base camp to assess the ground situation and state of route to cave shrine of Amarnath in South Kashmir

New Delhi, May 11: Crisis-ridden Air India has stopped booking for all flights to North America and Europe till next Tuesday (May 15) as the striking pilots of the erstwhile AI did not resume work despite a clear Delhi high court order. While the airline had asked the 293 pilots who had reported sick till Wednesday night to report to work by 10 am on Thursday, 12 more members of the Indian Pilots

Mumbai, May 11: The Reserve Bank of India ordered exporters to convert half of their foreign exchange earnings kept in bank accounts into Indian rupee to prop up the worst-performing BRICS currency, a day after it closed at a record low, prompting fears of a further slide. But the relief lasted only a few hours before the rupee resumed its decline since the order could bring in just about $3

New Delhi, May 11: In its closure report filed in the Zakia Jafri case, the R.K. Raghavan-led Special Investigation Team says Ms. Jafri's husband and former MP Ehsan Jafri was killed because he provoked a “violent mob” that had assembled “to take revenge of Godhra incident from the Muslims.” Ehsan Jafri fired at the mob and “the provoked mob stormed the society and set it on fire.” Around 70

Ahmedabad, May 10: Zakia Jaffery, wife of Congress leader Ehsaan Jaffrey slain in post-Godhra riots, today moved a court seeking documents from SIT related to the probe carried out by the agency, based on her complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others, with regards to the 2002 violence. In an application to the metropolitan court here, Zakia's lawyer Sadik Sheikh demanded 18