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Srinagar, Sep 14: These are unprecedented times. Generations of people of Jammu and Kashmir had not seen the kind of devastation that the floods of September second week have wrought on the Himalayan state. The deluge has left a trail of destruction in almost every district of this already vexed state. The flood havoc has left the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley equally ruined. A week of

Mumbai, Sep 13: Openly expressing his desire to become the Chief Minister for the first time from a public platform, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today asked the electors to give him a chance and assured they would not regret. Uddhav, whose relation with BJP is under strain over seat-sharing for the assembly poll, also sought to assert the pre-eminence of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra politics vis

Mumbai, Sep 13: Citing a recent court verdict, Shiv Sena on Saturday said, "excessive lust leads to divorce" and asked the constituents of 'Mahayuti' alliance to exercise restraint while demanding extra share during seat allocation talks. "Allies in the coalition must dream of a victory. For this, all parties must give up the lust for more seats. To say we will stay in the coalition only if we get

New Delhi, Sep 13: After a gap of 18 years, BJP's student wing Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad today swept Delhi University students' union elections, trouncing Congress' NSUI to bag all four positions and credited the triumph to "Modi wave". The ABVP won posts of president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary by comfortable margins, bettering last year's performance when it had lost

Srinagar, Sept 13: When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir. Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost their belongings and their weapons were damaged or left useless after water entered their camps across the Kashmir Valley. Hundreds of AK rifles

Srinagar, Sep 13: Fourteen children who died at a hospital here are among the 43 people found dead in the Kashmir Valley as the flood waters receded in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said Saturday. Officials Saturday said the 14 children had died in the government-run G.B. Pant Hospital here. The hospital and other major hospitals in the city, including the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) and the

New Delhi, Sep 13: Polling for three Lok Sabha and 33 assembly constituencies across nine states, which is being seen as yet another major test of the Narendra Modi government's popularity since it assumed power in May, began on Saturday. The three Lok Sabha bypolls are in Gujarat's Vadodara, Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri and Telangana's Medak while 11 assembly constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh, nine

New Delhi, Sep 12: Assembly elections in 288 seats in Maharashtra and 90 seats in Haryana will be held on October 15 and counting will take place on October 19, Election Commission announced today. Giving details of the election schedule, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said apart from these states, byelections will be conducted on the same day for five assembly seats in five states

New Delhi, Sep 12: The Supreme Court Friday permitted Italian marine Massimilano Latorre to go back home to Italy for his treatment for four months.The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said the order would be effective only after the Italian marine has filed an "unequivocal and unambigous undertaking" on his return to India upon the completion of four months. Latorre is accused

Kapurthala, Sep 12: The first high speed train with a speed of 160 kilometer per hour will run on Delhi-Agra section in November this year as the first rake of fourteen coaches of the train is all set to be rolled out in November. Shells of the first rake of high speed coaches had been manufactured and the work was going on at fast pace to roll out the first rake by the end of October this year so