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New Delhi, Mar 29: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi again, going into rhyme over the series of leaks, including CBSE board papers, to say that the "chowkidar" was weak. Using Twitter as his platform to attack the government, as he has been doing with clockwork regularity lately, he also used the hashtag BasEkAurSaal, a reference to the government

Hyderabad, Mar 29: A Hyderabad-bound Indigo plane suffered a tyre-burst while landing here late on Wednesday, giving 77 persons on board anxious moments. The airline said the plane landed safely. Indigo 7117, an ATR-72 twin-turboprop, took off from Tirupati Airport around 8.50 p.m. and landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at around 10 p.m. When the flight was landing, one of the tyres

New Delhi, Mar 28: The Indian government plans to sell 76 per cent stake in Air India, according to the preliminary information memorandum released on Wednesday on strategic disinvestment of the national carrier. The civil aviation ministry has sought expression of interest (EoI) for the stake sale in the loss-making carrier and two of its subsidiaries. According to the memorandum, the government

New Delhi, Mar 28: The Central Board of Secondary Education has cancelled board examinations for mathematics paper of Class X and economics paper for Class XII. A notification in this regard was issued by the board on Wednesday, following reports about the leakage of the question papers of the two subjects. The board said that it will re-conduct the examinations for the two subjects and the dates

New Delhi, Mar 28: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday derided the media for allegedly stirring hate against him with their "cunning twisting of facts" and said he was honoured they made their livelihood spinning lies about him. Gandhi cited a recent sting operation by the portal 'Cobrapost', allegedly revealing that 17 media firms were ready to push communal reports for cash without even

New Delhi, Mar 28: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking a re-investigation into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao, which heard the matter, dismissed the petition filed by Mumbai-based Pankaj Phadnis from Abhinav Bharat. The apex court, which reserved its verdict on March 6, had made it clear that it would not go by "sentiments

Mumbai, Mar 27: The Punjab National Bank (PNB) refused to provide information to an RTI query about Nirav Modi, the prime accused in the multi-crore PNB scam. In an RTI, activist Anil Galgali sought information on the total amount of loan, the procedure applied for sanction of the loans, and the resolution in the Board of Directors of the bank in which the loan was approved. In a response to the

New Delhi, Mar 27: The Election Commission this evening set up a committee of senior officials to probe the leak of the poll schedule for Karnataka before it was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner earlier today. The committee, which has been asked to submit its report within a week, would also suggest steps needed to prevent any such eventuality in future. In a statement, the poll

New Delhi, Mar 27: The BJP on Tuesday told the Election Commission of India (ECI) that its IT cell chief Amit Malviya’s tweet on the Karnataka Assembly election dates before the poll panel’s announcement was based on a news channel’s report and a state Congress office-bearer had also tweeted about it. A party delegation led by Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi visited the Commission after Chief

Chandigarh, Mar 27: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday assured the families of 39 Indians killed in Iraq that the bodies would be brought to India by next week, a relative of one of the deceased said. "We were assured all kind of assistance, including the possibility of a government job to the next of kin," Davinder Singh, younger brother of Gobinder Singh, who was among those