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Ranibandh/Raghunathpur, May 8: "Narendra Modi should get a tight slap of democracy," a furious TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday, hitting back at the prime minister for alleging repeatedly that her government is run by extortionist syndicates. She also questioned the BJP's nationalistic and patriotic claims, saying it was an "RSS man" who killed Mahatma Gandhi. "I do not bow my head in

Lahore, May 8: At least nine persons, including five police personnel, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a major Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Lahore on Wednesday as the country marks the fasting month of Ramzan, officials said. The blast took place around 8:45 am (local time) outside Gate number 2 of the Data Darbar shrine, the largest Sufi shrine in South Asia, where the

Yangon, May 7: Two Reuters journalists who were under detention in Myanmar for more than 500 days after their conviction of breaking the Official Secrets Act on May 7, 2019 walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon, witnesses said. Wa Lone (33) and Kyaw Soe Oo (29) were convicted in September last and sentenced to seven years in jail. They were attested in December 2017. The case raised

New Delhi, May 7: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday attacked the BJP government, alleging that the country's economy and security have been run into the ground in the last five years. In a series of tweets, he listed the "failures" of the government since 2014 and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot escape the pitfalls. "The plot and more has been lost under the Modi govt

New Delhi, May 7: Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a day after a panel of judges dismissed a sexual harassment complaint against the chief justice, carrying placards demanding a new and impartial investigation. A former court assistant accused chief justice Ranjan Gogoi of having made unwanted sexual advances last year, the most high-profile case in a wave of

New York, May 7: Mahatma Gandhi, whose principles of non-violence inspired world leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, should be honoured this year with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award in the US, as the world commemorates his 150th birth anniversary, an influential American lawmaker has said. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from New York, who in September

United Nations, May 7: India and nations like Germany, Brazil and Japan are "absolutely needed" as permanent members of a reformed and enlarged UN Security Council to better reflect contemporary realities and the addition of these key members to the UN high-table is among France's "strategic" priorities, the French envoy to the UN has said. "In terms of policy, France and Germany have strong

May 7: Attacking the Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his 'Bhrashtachari number 1' remark on late Rajiv Gandhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that Modi has lost his mental balance and needs medical treatment as he gets to sleep for only a few hours. The response from Baghel came after he was asked to react on Modi's 'Bhrashtachari number 1' remark on late Rajiv Gandhi. "Rajiv

New Delhi, May 6: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday rejected a plea seeking to prepone the poll timing to 5 am instead of 7 am in view of Ramadan. On Thursday, the Supreme Court had directed the petitioner to present the case before the poll body. Rejecting the plea, the poll body said it does not think altering the timing for polls is feasible for the remaining three phases of the general

New Delhi, May 6: In remarks that could spark a row, Shiromani Akali Dal national spokesman Manjinder Singh Sirsa Sunday said former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was “India’s biggest mob lyncher”. Endorsing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “bhrashtachari no. 1” against the late premier, Sirsa said Gandhi was the only prime minister in the world who “organised mob lynching against a particular