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New Delhi, Jun 26: Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family on the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India was "turned into a jail for the selfish personal interests" of that family. Addressing a meeting organised by the BJP to mark the Emergency anniversary, Modi said the day needs to be observed to re-dedicate oneself to protection of the

New Delhi, Jun 26: Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family on the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India was "turned into a jail for the selfish personal interests" of that family. Addressing a meeting organised by the BJP to mark the Emergency anniversary, Modi said the day needs to be observed to re-dedicate oneself to protection of the

Guwahati, Jun 26: The police in Nagaon district of Assam have arrested eight persons for assaulting and confining a Muslim man and a Hindu woman for their alleged relationship. This was the third case of immoral policing in Assam since April 8 when a Garo tribal woman was “taught a lesson” for riding pillion on a Muslim man’s motorcycle at Paikan in western Assam’s Goalpara district bordering

Mumbai, Jun 26: Slamming the BJP for pulling out of the alliance government in Jammu and Kashmir, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said people are tired of the party's "conspiracies" and that it needs lessons in speaking the truth. It also accused the BJP of again starting "election politics" in the northern state. It was the BJP's proposal to ally with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the first

London, Jun 26: India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia. The only western

New Delhi, Jun 25: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" statements in the media, three days after his retirement as a Supreme Court Judge, saying such comments are liable to be "deprecated" and "cannot be tolerated" by lawyers. Justice Chelameswar, who demitted office on June 22, had disapproved of the Centre's

New Delhi, Jun 25: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" statements in the media, three days after his retirement as a Supreme Court Judge, saying such comments are liable to be "deprecated" and "cannot be tolerated" by lawyers. Justice Chelameswar, who demitted office on June 22, had disapproved of the Centre's

Istanbul, Jun 25: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said Monday, extending his 15-year grip on power as the opposition complained bitterly about the conduct of the vote count. Turkish voters had for the first time cast ballots for both president and parliament in the snap elections, with Erdogan looking for a first round

Mumbai, Jun 25: The Southwest Monsoon picked up momentum in Mumbai, bringing heavy showers that claimed three lives in the city and adjoining Thane, officials said today. Heavy rains lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the night and continued this morning, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus causing inconvenience to office-goers

Mumbai, Jun 24: Indian cricket skipper Virat Kohli and his wife actor Anushka Sharma have been served a legal notice by the person who she scolded for throwing garbage on the road recently. The video of the incident, recorded by Kohli, had gone viral. According to media reports, Arhhan Singh sent legal notice to Anushka and Virat on Saturday, for “shaming” him on social media in front of millions