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Srinagar, Jan 15: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has requested External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to re-issue visa to a woman Maroofa Jan (a Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) resident, who got married to a Kashmiri 20 years ago and has two sons. President of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was reacting to a tweet that requested her intervention, following which she asked

New Delhi, Jan 15: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for receiving the Philip Kotler Presidential award, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he wants to "congratulate" him on winning "the world famous" prize that has no jury and has never been given out before. Gandhi's jibe comes a day after Modi received the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award here. The award

Lucknow, Jan 15: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Tuesday appealed to workers of her party and the Samajwadi Party to forget their past differences. On Saturday, the BSP and the SP announced an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections to unitedly fight the BJP. "Forget past differences and ensure victory of all joint candidates of the SP and the BSP. This will be my

Washington, Jan 15: Ivanka Trump will help manage the Trump administration’s selection of a US candidate for the position of World Bank Group president, a White House official said on Monday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not public, dismissed a report in the Financial Times that floated Ivanka’s name as a possible candidate and was repeated by several

Allahabad, Jan 15: The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets underway on Tuesday, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating to bathe in the sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela. Organisers are expecting the enormous spiritual festival in Allahabad to attract more than 100 million devotees over the next 48 days, with seas of pilgrims camped by the riverside. The ancient city in

Dubai, Jan 15: Etihad Airways, which owns 24 percent of debt-laden company Jet AirwaysNSE 5.20 %, plans to increase its stake in the Indian airline, a source close to the Abu Dhabi carrier told news agency. Shares in India's Jet Airways jumped over 18 percent on Monday after CNBC TV18 reported earlier on Monday that founder and chairman Naresh Goyal was likely to step down from the board and give

New Delhi, Jan 14: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against the Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) December 20 notification allowing ten agencies to monitor any computer resource. The apex court said that it will examine the issue and sought the Centre's reply within six weeks. On December 20, the MHA had issued the notification

Bulandshahr, Jan 14: The Bulandshahr district administration on Monday invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against three people arrested in connection with the alleged cow slaughtering incident in Siyana tehsil last month, officials said. Cattle carcasses were found strewn in the fields outside village Mahaw in Siyana on December 3 after which a mob went on the rampage, attacking the local

Lahore, Jan 14: A Pakistani university will celebrate Sisters’ Day on February 14 to promote “Islamic traditions”, according to the vice chancellor. Female students can be gifted scarves and Abayahs (clothes) as decided by Vice Chancellor Zafar Iqbal Randhawa of the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad and other decision makers, Dawn news reported. The vice chancellor believes it was

New Delhi, Jan 14: The Delhi Police Monday filed its charge sheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case lodged in 2016. The Delhi Police also charged former students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event organised on JNU campus on February 9, 2016, to