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Ahmedabad, Aug 26: Hardik Patel, spearheading the agitation to demand OBC reservation for the Patel community in Gujarat, has called for a state-wide bandh on Wednesday. Patel was briefly detained on Tuesday evening by Gujarat Police for launching a hunger strike without prior permission before being released. He also urged his community members to maintain peace as several parts of the state

New Delhi, Aug 25: Riding high over its hat-trick of wins in a series of civic polls in Bengaluru, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, BJP today hit out at Congress saying people's mandate was against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi's "anti-poor, anti-development and negative" politics. Top party leaders led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed their happiness over the series of victories with Modi calling

Bhagalpur (Bihar), Aug 25: A day after two of its allies said seat sharing in Bihar must conclude within a week, a BJP leader announced on Tuesday that his party will contest 170 of the 243 assembly seats. "The BJP will contest nearly 170 seats, there is no question of anything less than that," Ashwani Kumar Choubey, an MP and a former minister, said here. Choubey was replying to statements from

Ahmedabad, Aug 25: In a mega show of strength for their demand of inclusion in OBC category for reservation, the Patel community today warned that if they are not made eligible for quota, the BJP government in Gujarat will face consequences in 2017 polls. After the rally, the Patel community's young leader Hardik Patel, who is spearheading the agitation, said he will sit on a hunger strike at the

Mumbai, Aug 25: Overlooking global cues, Indian share markets opened higher on Tuesday, a day after the mayhem in the global financial markets and a crash in China spooked a key Mumbai index into shedding some 1,625 points, or nearly 6 percent. The sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 25,916.26 points, against the previous close at 25,741.56 points, and a few

Nashik, Aug 24: After the theft of 700 kg of onion from a Mumbai shop, robbers have now decamped with about 2,000 kg of the pricey kitchen staple from the godown of a Nashik farmer. Abasaheb Pawar, a farmer from Pimparkhed village in Nandgaon taluka, yesterday lodged a complaint that 20 quintal stock of onions stored in his 'kanda chawl' (storing place) was stolen, Nandgaon Police said today. A

Hamburg, Aug 24: A UN tribunal today asked both India and Italy to "suspend" all court proceedings involving two Italian marines charged with killing of two Indian fishermen in 2012 and also refrain from initiating new ones that might "aggravate or extend" the dispute. Hearing Italy's appeal in the case, the President of the International Tribunal on Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Vladimir Golitsyn asked

Mumbai, Aug 24: In the worst-ever carnage in stock market, benchmark Sensex today crashed by 1,624.51 points and nearly Rs 7 lakh crore got wiped out from the investors' wealth as rout in Chinese stocks triggered a global sell-off. The intra-day fall was even larger at 1,741.35 points -- the third biggest ever and highest in over seven years since January 21, 2008, even as Finance Minister Arun

Mumbai, Aug 24: In a stock market bloodbath, benchmark Sensex today crashed over 1,200 points -- biggest in over seven years -- amid a global rout, while more than Rs 3 lakh crore got wiped out of the investors' wealth. The BSE 30-share index was trading 1,205.7 points down at 26,160.37, while the broader Nifty index of NSE was down 353.35 points at 7,946.60. The overall investors' wealth

Lucknow/Srinagar/New Delhi, Aug 23: The cancellation of the NSA-level talks by Pakistan is "unfortunate", Union home minister Rajnath Singh said in Lucknow on Sunday and made it clear that the possibility of any future dialogue will depend on the neighbour. He underlined that India stands for dialogue and cordial relationship with Pakistan, a day after the talks between NSA Ajit Doval and his