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New Delhi, Mar 24: The BJP has made a significant gain of 11 additional seats while the Congress made an overall loss of four in the biennial elections to 58 Rajya Sabha seats, consolidating the saffron party's position in the House and leaving its main rival far behind. Its 28 candidates emerged victorious in the polls held yesterday against 17 retiring members, while the Congress won only 10

London, Mar 24: Mohammed bin Salman told The Washington Post: My relationship with Special Adviser to President Trump, Jared Kushner, is part of the official relationship between our countries. Saudi Arabia does not use Special Adviser to the President to promote Saudi interests. In his interview with the Washington Post Mohammed bin Salman added “my visit to the US is in part to attract

New York, Mar 24: Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceXand electric carmaker Tesla Inc disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users. "Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?" a user tweeted to Tesla Chief Executive Musk. His response: "I didn't realize there was one. Will do

New Delhi, Mar 23: AAP MLAs on Friday claimed that Delhi government officers did not take their phone calls after the EC had disqualified them for holding office-of-profit, but asserted that the development work in their areas will speed up now after the Delhi high court provided them a breather. The court set aside the election commission's decision to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs in the office-of

Tel Aviv, Mar 23: The direct maiden flight of Air India to Tel Aviv from New Delhi arrived here yesterday, heralding a new chapter in the India-Israel ties and ending a decades-old overfly ban by Saudi Arabia. Flight AI 139 landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport at 2215 (Israeli time). "This is really a historical moment...We are in a new era. I am sure that we will see many more Indian tourists

New Delhi, Mar 23: In a big victory for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Delhi High Court today set aside the recommendations of the Election Commission of India (EC) to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs for allegedly holding office of profit. The HC said the disqualification of AAP MLAs was bad in law, and therefore remanded their plea back to the EC which will hear it afresh. The court further said there was

Los Angeles, Mar 23: A former Playboy model apologised to First Lady Melania Trump for a 10-month affair she claims she had with President Donald Trump that started with him offering her money after the first time they had sex. During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that aired last night, McDougal said Trump tried to pay her after their first sexual tryst at a bungalow at the Beverly Hills

New Delhi, Mar 23: The Delhi High Court today granted bail to Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, in the INX Media corruption case. Karti was arrested on February 28 by the CBI on his return from the United Kingdom, and his 12-day judicial custody was to expire tomorrow in the case. Justice S P Garg directed him to furnish a surety of Rs 10 lakh and imposed additional

New Delhi, Mar 23: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said the BJP's "lying factory" was at work again, stymieing a media story on Cambridge Analytica allegedly being paid to sabotage the Congress by spinning "fake news" of the party working with the data firm instead. Picking up from where he left off yesterday, Gandhi today again accused the BJP of making the real news "vanish" by accusing

New Delhi, Mar 23: The CBI has booked a Hyderabad-based construction and infrastructure company for allegedly defrauding a consortium of eight banks to the tune of over Rs 1,394 crore, officials said on Thursday. Totem Infrastructure Ltd, which worked as a sub-contractor for several major infrastructure companies, and its promoters Tottempudi Salalith and Tottempudi Kavita were named in a CBI FIR