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New Delhi, April 25: BJP Parliamentary Party today decided to rake up the Bofors pay-offs issue in Parliament in wake of fresh allegations that the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have soft-pedalled the probe to protect Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley spoke during the Parliamentary Party meeting about the allegations related to the

New Delhi, April 25: It's a shocking revelation in this day and age. Not just Indian men, but even adolescents - in the 15-19 age group - feel that wife beating is justified. Unicef's "Global Report Card on Adolescents 2012", says that 57% of adolescent boys in India think a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife. Over half of the Indian adolescent girls, or around 53% think that a

New Delhi, April 25: The whistleblower in the Bofors case has made his identity known after 25 long years. In an exclusive interview, former Swedish Police chief Sten Lindstrom has owned up being the 'Swedish Deep Throat' in the illegal payoffs case that once rocked both India and Sweden. Now a quarter of a century later, investigations lie buried, despite coming tantalizingly close to blowing the

New Delhi, April 25: The price of diesel may go up as the government has agreed to make the prices “market determined.” The announcement came on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha in the form of a written reply by Minister of State Namo Narain Meena. The minister, however, said the government did not propose to deregulate prices of cooking gas. “(The) government has, in principle, agreed to make prices of

New Delhi, April 24: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Tuesday pitched for Vice President Hamid Ansari for the post of Indian president. “Vice President Ansari should be made the president,” Lalu Prasad told reporters outside parliament. “(A.P.J. Abdul) Kalam has been president once, so the vice president should now be the president,” he said. Former president Kalam's name has featured

Washington, April 24: The lack of US condemnation of India's latest missile test demonstrates that the Washington appreciates India's need to meet the emerging strategic challenge posed by rising China, according to two US scholars. It also shows "US is comfortable with Indian progress in the nuclear and missile fields", Lisa Curtis, senior research fellow for South Asia, and Baker Spring

New Delhi, April 24: NRI kids Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) Bhattacharya on Tuesday finally return to their family in India after a Norwegian court ruled that their custody should be handed over to their uncle. The flight carrying the NRI kids landed at the New Delhi airport on Tuesday morning. This brings to an end a family tragedy that grabbed headlines in India, disrupted ties between New

New Delhi, April 24: India has finally decided to cut down on brain drain that is crippling its medical sector. Now, US-bound doctors for higher medical studies will have to sign a bond with the ministry and honour the document by returning home after finishing their courses. Union health Ghulam Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the US is insisting on a government No Objection Certificate (NOC) for every

New Delhi, April 24: The leading fertiliser producing cooperative in the country, Kribhco, is under a cloud following a controversial joint venture takeover of an ailing fertiliser plant at Shahjanpur in Uttar Pradesh at an inflated cost. Kribhco, a multi state co-operative society under the administrative control of the Union Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers, purchased the ailing Oswal

New Delhi, April 24: Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and Delhi Police were involved in a conspiracy of "terrifying proportions" during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, CBI has told a trial court. Sajjan Kumar and five others, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial for killing six people in the Delhi cantonment area during the riots. The trial