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New Delhi, Nov 2: Union Minister VK Singh today triggered a controversy when he said the "mental state" of the ex-serviceman who committed alleged suicide over OROP needs to be probed before drawing conclusions about his extreme action. "He has committed suicide. No one knows the reason behind it. OROP is being shown as the reason. What his mental state was we do not know. Let it be probed first

Bhopal/Kolkata, Nov 2: The war of words over the killing of eight SIMI activists in Bhopal after the jail-break escalated today with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging "political vendetta" and that many questions remained unanswered while the BJP hit back at Congress. The lawyer representing the families of the eight activists, meanwhile, claimed that all the deceased sustained

New Delhi, Nov 2: An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme, triggering a political row with Rahul Gandhi and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia rushing to hospital where they were prevented from seeing the body. The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal from Haryana's Bhiwani district ended his life yesterday by consuming poison on the

New Delhi, Nov 2: If Pakistan inflicts injuries on India, the costs are going to be far heavier for them, Union Minister Arun Jaitley has said, asserting that there is a shift in India's approach towards dealing with cross-border tensions as it has "suffered enough in silence" for Pakistan's terror export. He also lashed out Pakistan for consistently violating the 2003 ceasefires saying the "de

New Delhi, Nov 2: An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme (OROP) here, police said today. The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in New Delhi area yesterday evening. Police said he along with some other ex-servicemen was in the process of submitting a memorandum to the Defence Ministry over

Jammu, Nov 1: The BSF on Tuesday said it destroyed 14 posts of Pakistani Rangers in retaliatory action along the International Border (IB) in the Ramgarh and Arnia sectors of Jammu frontier. Eight people, mostly children and women, were killed and 22 injured when Pakistan troops resorted to heavy shelling on border hamlets and military posts with 82 and 120 mm mortar bombs along the IB and LoC in

New Delhi, Nov 1: Amidst a raging controversy over killing of eight SIMI activists who had fled from a jail, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said raising doubts and questioning the police should stop as no conclusion should be drawn on the basis of videos only. Rijiju said facts will come out soon and decried the "habit" of raising doubts and questioning the authorities and police in such

Jammu, Nov 1: Eight people were killed and 22 injured when Pakistan troops heavily shelled border hamlets and posts with mortar bombs along the International Border (IB) and the LoC in Samba, Jammu, Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir today. Two women were killed and 13 others injured during shelling with 82 and 120 mm mortar bombs in Rajouri, Jammu, Poonch districts. Army sources

London/ New Delhi, Nov 1: British defence major Rolls Royce made 'secret payments' of around 10 million pounds to an Indian defence agent that may have helped the company to win a big contract for engines on Hawk aircrafts used by the Indian Air Force, a media report said today. The person who is alleged to have received the secret payment of over 10 million pounds was arms dealer Sudhir Choudhrie

New Delhi, Oct 31: Congress and other opposition parties today demanded a judicial probe into the killing of 8 alleged SIMI members in an encounter near Bhopal, while BJP accused them of undermining the morale of security forces by raising questions over its authenticity. Congress and CPI-M sought a judicial probe so people get to know the truth, but the BJP accused the Congress of coming in