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Mangaluru, Sept 26: Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah will hold a meeting of party senior leaders in Mangaluru on October 4. The coastal city has become a political hotbed with the recent communal incidents. According to sources, Mr. Shah will review the progress of various organisational programmes suggested by him during his last visit to the State in August. The meeting is

Mangaluru, Sept 26: Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah will hold a meeting of party senior leaders in Mangaluru on October 4. The coastal city has become a political hotbed with the recent communal incidents. According to sources, Mr. Shah will review the progress of various organisational programmes suggested by him during his last visit to the State in August. The meeting is

Mumbai, Sept 26: The rupee struggled at a fresh 6-month low of 65.28 - down 18 paise - against the dollar today, faced with heavy demand for the American currency from importers and banks, as foreign capital rushed out. A firm dollar, dealers said, against global currencies overseas and domestic equities hitting a soft patch in early trade weighed. Yesterday, the rupee had plunged 31 paise to

United Nations, Sept 26: India today slammed Pakistan for using a "fake picture" in the UN General Assembly to push a "completely false narrative", a day after its Permanent Representative presented an image of a girl from Gaza as a victim of pellet guns in Kashmir. Exercising her right to reply hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj blasted Pakistan for its support to terrorism

Mumbai, Sept 26: Suggesting that each India and the US conduct pre-emptive strikes inside Pakistan to destroy its nuclear websites (the place weapons have both already been saved or are being made), former US Senator Larry Pressler informed on Monday that Donald Trump might turn into one of the best American president but for India as he had lately put Pakistan on discover for harbouring

New Delhi, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today constituted a five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC) which will analyse economic and other issues, an official announcement said. Headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, the EAC includes NITI Aayog's Principal Advisor Ratan Watal as its member and economists Surjit Bhalla, Rathin Roy and Ashima Goyal as part-time members. "The five

Chandigarh, Sept 25: Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, challenging a special CBI court's verdict sentencing him to 20 years in prison for raping two disciples. The CBI court in Panchkula on August 28 had sentenced Ram Rahim to 20 years in prison after his conviction. "We have filed an appeal today in the Punjab and Haryana High

New Delhi, Sept 25: The ED today attached assets worth Rs 1.16 crore of Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, and a firm allegedly linked to him in connection with its money laundering probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal. The agency said it has issued a provisional attachment order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) attaching assets "of Karti in the form of

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Income Tax sleuths, searching former chief minister S M Krishna’s son-in-law V G Siddharth’s house and business establishments in Bengaluru and elsewhere in the state and country, have reportedly unearthed Rs 650 crore worth of unaccounted assets. Siddharth is the chairman and managing director of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd and also has other business interests in financial

Kolkata, Sept 25: Mukul Roy, once a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has announced that he will resign from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party. He added that he will resign from Rajya Sabha after the festival of Durga Puja comes to a close. Roy said, "With a heavy heart, I quit from the party." He added that he will provide his reasons only when he resigns after the Durga