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Mumbai, Sep 23: A fortnight after openly voicing his desire to become Chief Minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today said he has no such ambition. "Today people from the Varkari Samaj have come to my house to bless me and support Shiv Sena for the upcoming Assembly polls. The love that I have been showered with is enough for me. I do not aspire to become the CM of Maharashtra," Thackeray

Mumbai, Sep 23: After hurtling to the brink over weeks, political alliances between the ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena appeared to be pulling back from total break-down, according to party officials. Partners in both groupings have narrowed down their sharp differences over the number of seats each wanted to contest in the Oct 15

Mumbai, Sep 23: Senior Shiv Sena leaders today held talks with BJP aiming to end the deadlock on seat sharing that is threatening to disintegrate their 25-year-old alliance ahead of the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly elections. Sena group leader in Assembly Subhash Desai, party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut arrived at the BJP office -- Vasant Smriti Bhavan-- in Dadar in central

New Delhi, Sep 22: Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi pelted stones atAllahabad MP Shyama Charan Gupta's residence here on Monday after he criticized Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi for commenting that her son should be the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Varun's supporters also burnt Gupta's effigy in front of his house. "An MP should not

Bangalore, Sep 22: India's spacecraft Monday entered the Martian sphere of influence on way to the red planet's orbit early Wednesday, while cruising in the sun's orbit. "Our navigators' calculation shows that our Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has entered the gravitational sphere of influence of Mars around 9 a.m.," a senior Indian space agency official said here. The 475 kg (dry mass) spacecraft

Mumbai, Sep 21: Driving a hard bargain with BJP over seat sharing in Maharashtra assembly polls, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi that after 2002 Gujarat riots his father Bal Thackeray had prevailed on L K Advani not to remove Modi as Chief Minister. Asserting that the alliance should stay "as it is for Hindutva", Uddhav said, "Everyone knows how

New Delhi, Sep 21: India is working on a proposal for Visa on Arrival (VoA) facility for US tourists, one of the big-ticket announcements expected to be made during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high-profile visit to the US beginning September 26. The Ministry of Home Affairs is working overtime to finish the work on the VoA proposal to finalise it in time for the Prime Minister's visit

New Delhi, Sep 21: The proposal to replace Planning Commission with a new body, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is "still under consideration" of the central government. In reply to an RTI query, the Planning Commission said the final decision, as and when it is taken, on its replacement will be put in public domain. The Planning Commission was asked to provide detail of its meetings

New Delhi, Sep 21: Delhi legislator Vinod Kumar Binny was today booked for allegedly levelling false charges at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Alka Lamba. In her complaint, Lamba has alleged that Binny, the Lakshmi Nagar MLA, had falsely alleged on social media that she was running a sex racket at her house. "Binny posted a comment on his social networking account that in a police raid at my house

New Delhi, Sep 21: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday claimed that India is capable of destroying Pakistan but does not want a war. He also termed Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's statement on Kashmir as 'immature'. “India is capable of finishing off Pakistan but we do not want a war,” Swamy said on Bilawal Bhutto's statement on Kashmir. Swamy's reaction came soon after