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Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 13: Kerala Assembly on Friday witnessed unprecedented and ugly scenes as Finance Minister K.M. Mani, facing allegations in the bar bribery issue, presented the state budget amdist stiff resistance by LDF-led Opposition who tried all means to thwart his attempt. The protest siege of LDF and Yuva Morcha activists outside the Assembly also turned violent. The protesters hurled

Colombo, Mar 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flew into the Sri Lankan capital in the early hours for a historic visit during which he is expected to hold talks with the country's top leadership. Modi was received by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe at the airport after he arrived in Colombo for a two-day visit at 5.25 A.M. following an overnight journey from Port Louis in

Mumbai, Mar 12: Continuing its diatribe against ally BJP, the Shiv Sena today said it abstained from voting for the "anti-farmer" Land Acquisition Bill in Lok Sabha because it did not want to be the part of the "sin" of deceiving farmers by snatching their land without their consent. "They (the BJP) had to work hard to get the Bill passed in Lok Sabha despite having the requisite numbers. We stood

New Delhi, Mar 12: Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi will today take out a march from the AICC headquarters here to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former Prime Minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case. Gandhi, CWC members, party MPs as also other office bearers are meeting at 24 Akbar Road here following which the Congress

New Delhi, Mar 12: A leaked audio tape purportedly showing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal discussing his plans to poach six Congress MLAs to form government last year comes as the latest addition to the raging infighting in the party. Former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg on Wednesday said the conversation played out between Kejriwal and him, while claiming that he was not behind the leak.

New Delhi, March 11: The Congress on Wednesday strongly defended former prime minister Manmohan Singh following his being summoned in a coal block-allocation case and expressed confidence that the process of "allocating 15 percent share" to Hindalco will be found to be above board. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, however, said Manmohan Singh was paying for the "sins" of the Congress

Washington, March 11: British-based filmmaker Leslee Udwin says the Indian government should hang its head in shame for banning her documentary on the December 16, 2012 fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old Delhi woman. India banned the BBC documentary - "India's Daughter" - on the rape of the woman who has come to be known as Nirbhaya or the Fearless, following an uproar over convicted rapist Mukesh

New Delhi, March 11: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others were today summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar summoned the six accused on April 8 for the

New Delhi, Mar 10: Facing flak for amending UPA's land acquisition law, government today reached out to allies and Opposition promising to bring 11 official amendments in the bill introduced in Lok Sabha to take concerns on board. "Government has decided to bring 11 official amendments such as limiting the industrial corridor to one kilometre on both the sides of the highways and railway lines

Ghaziabad, Mar 10: Amid the raging controversy over release of a Kashmiri separatist leader, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asserted that his government's top priority was national security and not the continuance of the government in the state where BJP is an alliance partner. His remarks come a day after the Prime Minister made it clear in Parliament that release of separatist leader