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New Delhi, Jan 5: Former Defence Minister A.K. Antony's driver on Friday committed suicide at the official residence of the senior Congress leader here, police said. Police said the deceased, Sanjay Singh, 35, a native of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, worked as driver of A.K. Antony and his family. Singh was found hanging from a ceiling fan in the servant quarter of the Jantar Mantar Road residence

Burhanpur, Jan 5: Caste violence of Maharashtra, which erupted in Bhima-Koregaon of the state, spread on Thursday to neighbouring Madhya Pradesh where more than 10 buses and other vehicles were set ablaze during a bandh called by two Dalit organisations, police said. The vandalism and arson was reported from Burhanpur district in the state where two organisations were taking out rallies during the

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5: Veteran CPI(M) leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has lavished praise on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for putting up a "tough" resistance against "imperialist" America better than the Communist-ruled China. Addressing a CPI(M) district committee meet at Kozhikode on Wednesday, he said North Korea was showcasing a better example in defending "imperialist

New Delhi, Jan 5: A day after he was denied permission to hold a rally in Mumbai, newly-elected Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani launched a scathing attacked at the Centre saying he was being targetted. Mevani also asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clear his stand on the recent violence in Maharashtra. "Not even a single word of my speech was inflammatory, I am just being targetted. No part of my

Over a billion Indian citizens may be vulnerable to identity theft and intrusions of privacy after a newspaper sting uncovered a security breach in the country's vast biometric database, which contains the personal data of almost every citizen. The Tribune newspaper said its reporters were able to access names, email addresses, phone numbers and postal codes by typing in 12-digit unique

Panaji, Jan 5: The Shiv Sena has hit out at Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for his remarks on sharing river Mahadayi water with neighbouring states, including Karnataka. Sena's Goa spokesperson Rakhi Prabhudesai-Naik on Thursday said, "The chief minister's agreement to give river Mahadayi water to Karnataka was a shocking move for the coastal state, which trusted Parrikar's leadership." "To

New Delhi, Jan 4: A Delhi court today declared beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a FERA violation case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Shehrawat passed the order after noting that Mallya failed to appear before it despite repeated summonses. "In view that Vijay Mallya failed to appear before this court within 30 days, and no representation was

Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting shouted at his mother. The video begins with Jadhav thanking the Indian and Pakistani governments for arranging a meeting with his mother and wife. “My mother was very happy

Islamabad, Jan 4: Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav purportedly confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting yelled at his mother. However, the veracity of the video which was released by the Pakistan Foreign Office could not be ascertained. The video

Mumbai, Jan 4: The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district. Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in attacks by protesters across