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New Delhi, Oct 27: In one of his sharpest attacks yet on Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh said his successor’s rule has not been good for India as he “failed” the electorate and led a government that was “mostly silent” on incidents of communal violence, mob lynching and cow vigilantism. Singh, while speaking at the launch of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s new book, alleged

Gurgaon, Oct 27: Unable to repay a loan of Rs. 40 lakh, a man murdered his business partner in Gurgaon and later killed his wife after she backtracked on her promise to commit suicide together, police said Friday. The accused Harnek Singh had taken a loan from Jaskaran Singh but despite repeated reminders, refused to pay him back, they said. Fed up, Jaskaran landed at the his business partner's

Srinagar, Oct 26: An Army jawan died at a hospital in Srinagar on Friday after he sustained head injuries during stone-pelting by a group of youths, an official said. "Sepoy Rajendra Singh was part of a quick reaction team which was providing security to a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) convoy on Thursday. At around 1800 hrs, when the convoy was passing through the Anantnag bypass tri-junction

New Delhi, Oct 26: At least eight people were killed and three injured in an explosion that occurred in a firecracker factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun city Friday, PTI reported. “At around 4.00 pm, there was an explosion in a licensed firecracker factory in Rasulpur village under Civil Lines police station,” Badaun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ashok Kumar said. “Seven persons died on the

Islamabad, Oct 26: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit China next week, authorities said Thursday, as the former cricketer mounts a desperate search for funds to prop up the nation’s dire finances. The confirmation of Khan’s first visit to China as premier comes days after Pakistan secured $6 billion dollars in funding from Saudi Arabia to help stave off a widening balance of payment

Newsroom, Oct 26: Former Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta, who emboldened a wave of womenin India to tell their #MeToo stories, has now been accused of rape by item girl and former Bigg Boss contestant Rakhi Sawant. Addressing a press conference, Rakhi said she was raped several times by Tanushree Dutta. “I am too embarrassed to say this but I was raped twelve years ago,” she stated. “Being a

Islamabad, Oct 26: Promising that all corrupt leaders will go to jail, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that no politicians and officials who have put Pakistan into the debt trap through their corrupt practices will get protection from any legislation like the defunct National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The controversial NRO was promulgated in October 2007 by the government of then

Chandigarh, Oct 26: A 13-year old boy of class 7 of a government school in Chandigarh attempted to rape a class 1 student of the same school in the washroom, school authorities said. The principal of the government school where the incident took place got the medical examination of the girl at the civil hospital after the victim’s parents brought the matter to the notice of the school authorities

Addis Ababa, Oct 26: Ethiopia on Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time, further increasing female representation in the government of Africa's second most populous nation. In a unanimous vote, Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde, 68, to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned in unclear circumstances. Ethiopia's reformist

Oct 26: Google Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on Thursday the company had fired 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. Pichai sent an email to Google employees in response to a New York Times story that was published earlier in the day. The report said the search engine giant protected three senior executives from allegations of sexual misconduct by offering them