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Hyderabad, May 30: The federal front being mooted as an alternative to ruling NDA by JDU president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is a "tried, tested and failed" front, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said. "First of all, we are seeing what is happening in Bihar. Once again, Bihar is pushed back to 'jungle raj'. There is widespread criticism. None of these leaders

New Delhi, May 29: Union Ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Birender Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi are among the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on June 11. Naidu, Singh, Sitharaman, Goyal and Naqvi will be its candidates from Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharshtra and Jharkhand, a party statement said. Others fielded by the

Dehradun, May 29: Five more people were killed over the last 24 hours in Uttarakhand, as heavy rains triggered by a series of cloudbursts hit Tehri and Uttarkashi districts. Uttarkashi's Chinyalisaur area reported four fresh deaths. The toll in cloudburst now stands at six. Four persons, including three women, were swept in incidents of mudslide when a series of cloudbursts hit several villages in

New Delhi, May 29: Union Minister V K Singh today claimed the attack on African nationals in the national capital was a "minor scuffle" which was "blown up" by the media. "Had detailed discussion with Delhi Police and found that media blowing up minor scuffle as attack on African nationals in Rajpur Khurd," Singh, who is the junior minister in External Affairs Ministry, said and questioned the

New Delhi, May 29: Amid fresh cases of assault on African nationals and outrage by envoys of African countries over killing of a Congolese youth, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to ensure safety of the community and strict action against the guilty. The government has also decided to transport the Congolese

New Delhi, May 28: Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram is Congress nominee from Maharashtra for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha while senior leaders Kapil Sibal and Jairam Ramesh have been named from Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka respectively. Others nominated in the polls include Oscar Fernandes from Karnataka, Congress general secretary Ambika Soni from Punjab, Chaya Verma from

Islamabad, May 28: The India-backed Chabahar Port in Iran is not a rival to Pakistan's Gwadar Port, which is being modernised by China, the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan said today, adding, the agreement to develop Chabahar was not limited to India and Afghanistan. Mehdi Honerdoost, speaking to Pakistan 's Dawn Online in Islamabad, said the offer to cooperate on the Chabahar Port was first given

New Delhi, May 28: In its largest-ever recall, Maruti Suzuki called back over 77,000 of its top selling cars — Baleno and Swift DZire — for faulty airbag controllers and fuel filters. Maruti Suzuki India said in a statement it was recalling 75,419 Baleno cars, both petrol and diesel versions manufactured between August 3, 2015 and May 17, 2016, to upgrade the airbag controller software. Of these

New Delhi, May 27: BJP president Amit Shah steered clear of controversial issues like Ram temple and uniform civil code on Friday as he indicated that the party will fight the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls on development plank which, he insisted, has been the Modi government’s agenda. With RSS affiliates Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal raising the pitch for Ram temple construction, an issue

Washington, May 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the issue of reappointment of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan was an administrative subject and it should not be an issue of interest of the media, in his first comments in the wake of continuing attack on the top economist in recent months. "I don't think this administrative subject should be an issue of interest to the media," Modi said.