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New Delhi, June 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today disapproved of party MP Subramanian Swamy's attacks on RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and some top finance ministry officials saying they are "inappropriate". Calling Rajan "no less patriotic", he virtually ticked off Swamy saying "if anybody considers himself above the system then it is wrong". The Prime Minister's comments assume significance

New Delhi, Jun 27: India on Monday joined an exclusive club of countries controlling exports in missile technology, just a day after decrying its exclusion from the Nuclear Supplies Group or NSG, which governs international nuclear fuel and technology. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar signed onto the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) aimed at preventing the unchecked proliferation of missiles

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 27: Kozhikode-based JDT Islam orphanage and group of institutions have come forward to bear the expenses on treatment and education of the Kerala student ragged by seniors at a nursing college at Kalaburagi, Karnataka. Three senior students of the Al-Qamar College of Nursing, also from Kerala, have been arrested for allegedly forcing the victim to drink toilet cleaner at

New Delhi, Jun 27: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday clearly accused Pakistan of trying to destabilise India, a day after militants ambushed a CRPF convoy in Kashmir killing 8 personnel, and said a central team will look into possible lapses which may have led to the incident. He also said security forces have "standing orders" not to fire the first bullet, but "not count bullets while

New Delhi, Jun 26: Amid the debate on ways to check rising pendency in courts, new data say out of the over 2.20 crore cases awaiting disposal across the country, the next date of hearing has not been fixed for over 14 per cent of them. This means that the courts have not yet decided on when these 31,45,059 cases will be taken up for the next hearing. According to the data available on the

Beijing, Jun 26: India needs over USD 1.5 trillion in investment in the next 10 years to bridge infrastructure gap as the government intends to connect seven hundred thousand villages with roads by 2019 as part of a massive modernisation plan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. "We have been able to sustain growth in the phase of global slowdown essentially on the strength of the

Srinagar, Jun 25: In the deadliest attack on security forces in recent years, eight CRPF personnel were killed and 21 others critically wounded when terrorists rained bullets on a bus carrying them at Pampore, near here, in what appeared to be a Fidayeen attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba. "First hand impression of the bodies of terrorists is that both appear to be Pakistanis, definietly from

Hyderabad, Jun 25: Noted scientist and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member M R Srinivasan today said the Centre's push to gain Nuclear Suppliers Group membership was "unnecessary, unwarranted and ill-advised", a day after India failed in its bid to clinch membership of the 48-member club. The AEC, a body under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), would have advised the government to desist

Srinagar, Jun 25: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has won the bypoll for the Anantnag Assembly constituency. Mehbooba beat her nearest rival Hilal Ahmad Shah of the Congress by over 12,000 votes. National Conference candidate Iftikhar Misger was a distant third, polling 2,702 votes only, District Election officials said. This will be Mehbooba's fourth term in the Assembly. 57-year

Seoul, Jun 24: At the end of its two-day plenary here, the NSG today declared its "firm support" for the "full, complete and effective" implementation of the NPT as the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime, a clear indication that no exception will be made in the case of India. The statement by the 48-nation grouping, however, said that it will continue to have discussions on