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New Delhi, Aug 3: Breaking her silence, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said she had not made any request to the British government for issue of travel documents to controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi and asserted that all allegations against her were "baseless and unfounded". Swaraj managed to speak a few sentences in the Rajya Sabha amid slogan-shouting by Congress members

New Delhi, Aug 3: Supreme Court on Monday said that prima facie comdemnation of Justice Markandey Katju by parliament for describing Mahatma Gandhi as a British agent and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as a Japanese agent did not violate his right to free speech and expression or in any way dent his reputation. An apex court bench, headed by Justice T.S. Thakur, while agreeing to further hear the

New Delhi, Aug 3: Hoping to end the deadlock in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for an all-party meeting on Monday after the Congress chose to skip the meet called last week. The BJP and Congress had Sunday launched fresh attacks against each other with union minister Arun Jaitely accusing the Congress of having "obstructionist tendencies" and the main opposition blaming

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 2: A three-year-old baby girl, who was declared brain dead, today became the youngest organ donor in Kerala after her liver, kidneys and cornea were harvested by doctors at a hospital here. The toddler, who was suffering from a disease fainted while playing in front of her house and was rushed to hospital on Friday. Her condition deteriorated and she was declared brain dead

New Delhi, Aug 2: Slamming a "confused and afraid" Congress for disrupting the ongoing monsoon session of parliament, the BJP on Sunday said party president Sonia Gandhi will have to take the blame if the session was washed out. Arguing that the government was willing to hold a debate on issues agitating the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman said the opposition party

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 2: Unfazed by criticism, former union minister Shashi Tharoor today opposed death penalty even for terrorists saying it was an "obsolete practice" and they should instead be put behind bars for the rest of their lives without parole. "Terrorists should be put behind bars throughout their life without parole. In earlier days, there was a belief that if a person murders

New Delhi, Aug 2: The welfare of minorities in Pakistan, including Hindus, will be monitored closely and issues taken up at appropriate meetings, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said. Swaraj also assured taking up with Pakistan the difficulties faced by Hindus there in getting their marriages registered. These assurances was given by Swaraj to Rajya Sabha BJP MP from Punjab Avinash Rai

New Delhi, Aug 2: Involvement of community elders, monitoring of radical social media platforms and real-time sharing of information are a few steps government plans to take to prevent youths getting attracted to radical ideologies, such as that propagated by ISIS. A high-level meeting on Saturday, chaired by Union Home Secretary LC Goyal, formalised a strategy to neutralise extremist ideologies

New Delhi, Aug 2: The depression created from cyclone Komen, which has been hovering over Bangladesh, has triggered heavy rain in India’s northeastern and eastern states, flooding large swathes of West Bengal and killing 20 people in Manipur. Odisha, West Bengal and Manipur were hit hardest by the heavy rains that began late on Friday. In Manipur, at least 20 people were killed and several houses

New Delhi, Aug 1: BJP today fired yet another salvo at Congress over the issue of 'Hindu terrorism' as it raked up reported comments of Rahul Gandhi in 2010 when he had said radicalised Hindu groups might be bigger threat than the local support for terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit back at Congress after Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha