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New Delhi, Jan 30: As former Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan targeted Rahul Gandhi, Congress today rallied behind him, dismissing as "completely baseless" the allegations of his interference in the work of Environment Ministry and accused her of having "ulterior motives". Jairam Ramesh, who was Natarajan's immediate predecessor in the Ministry, said her allegations against Gandhi were "not just

New Delhi, Jan 30: To successfully implement e-governance, the country must think about 'mobiles first' and give importance to mobile governance, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday. Addressing the 18th National Conference on e-Governance through Twitter, Modi said: "I urge you to explore ways to provide as many services as possible through mobiles. Let us bring the world into our mobile

New Delhi, Jan 30: Senior party leader Jayanthi quit Congress on Friday after launching a fierce attack on Rahul Gandhi. In a letter to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi she said after she was unceremoniously removed as Minister of Environment in December 2013, Rahul Gandhi’s office planted negative stories about her. Talking about her resignation, Natarajan wrote, "The next day my resignation

New Delhi, Jan 30: A criminal complaint was today filed in a Delhi court seeking action against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal for exhorting voters in his election speeches to take bribes from BJP and Congress but vote for his party. The complaint filed in the court at Tis Hazari by Arun Kumar, a practicing lawyer, accused Kejriwal of deliberately abetting bribery. Kumar alleged that Kejriwal, despite

New Delhi, Jan 30: As the going gets tough for the BJP in Delhi Assembly polls, party chief Amit Shah engaged his leaders in plain speak at a review meeting on Thursday and directed them to go all out against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal. To thwart Kejriwal’s ambition of becoming chief minister again, Shah has roped in 120 MPs to micromanage all 70 constituencies. The MPs will have

Jan 29: The Tamil Nadu government will soon be taking an action against IAS officer C.Umashankar, who is seeking legal options to challenge the government's directive that stops him from preaching Christianity. When approached, a senior government official stated that many government officials had demanded Umashankar's suspension following the issue. However, the government wanted to give him some

New Delhi, Jan 29: S Jaishankar today took charge as Foreign Secretary, replacing Sujatha Singh whose tenure was abruptly "curtailed" late last night. "Government's priorities are my priorities," said Jaishankar, a 1977-batch IFS officer, describing his new position as an "honour and a big responsibility". Singh was not present when Jaishankar took charge at the South Block office. He will have a

New Delhi, Jan 29: In a clear signal to global investors that India has moved to a fair and transparent tax regime, the government on Wednesday revoked the former United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s decision to challenge in the Supreme Court a Bombay High Court ruling in favour of Vodafone. The decision not only gave the world’s second largest telecom firm a relief of Rs 3,200 crore in

Ralegan Siddhi (Maha), Jan 28: Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare today attacked the Narendra Modi government for its 'failure' to bring back black money stashed in tax havens abroad and said people will teach it a lesson for the "fraud" perpetrated on them. The 77-year-old Gandhian also refused to be drawn into the subject of political slugfest going on between his two former proteges-- Aam

Allahabad, Jan 28: The death sentence of Surender Koli, convicted in 2006 Nithari serial killings case, was today commuted to life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court on the ground of "inordinate delay" in deciding his mercy petition. A Division Bench comprising chief justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P K S Baghel held that execution of Koli's death sentence would be "unconstitutional in